Middle School

At a time when adolescents are developing a sense of self and discovering possibilities, we empower them to explore, create, reflect, and connect.

Middle Schoolers flourish when they are found and seen by others in a culture that holds them to high standards, surrounds them with positive relationships, and offers lots of variety, activity, and relevance. That is how students find themselves in these formative years, and that is what the Middle School delivers at AES.

middle school kids interacting with each other

Middle Schoolers bring a lot of ‘WOWs’ to the dinner table. Learning should be one of them.

Middle School students will face high stakes opportunities and challenges in the years ahead. However, now we want them to discover what it is like to be alive at school. Alive with questions. Alive with chatter. Alive with languages that inspire them to travel. Alive on the pitch or the court with new levels of skill and intensity. Alive in makerspaces that draw out of the student's new ideas and inventions.

It is their time to fall into the story and discover what learning has to offer and how they do it best. Our program fills our students' days with challenges, action, relationships, high expectations, and high support, setting their course for years to come. It is the right foundation at the right time for the right reasons.

We believe that guiding a child through Middle School is a joint venture between families, teachers, and students. Communication with families is key.

Middle School Highlights

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Makerspace

Experiential Learning - WOW

Arts

Athletics & Activities

Service

Middle School Program

All students are known, respected and challenged.

Students need the gifts of time and activity. They need to digest and apply their expanding knowledge and awareness of the world.

At AES, the course schedule repeats every 8 days, and they focus on just four 85-minute classes each day in a rotating block schedule.

We want students to go deep, to lose themselves in a few subjects each day instead of tying themselves to transitions and to the clock. We give them a wider space for discovering themselves and their subjects.

Our students have a variety of elective choices in addition to year-long classes, including visual and performing arts, robotics, Model UN, and more.

Please consult the Middle School Handbook for more details about our learning opportunities.

Building Our Community

Community plays a very important role in a middle schooler's development.

At AES Middle School, we provide a sense of community in a variety of ways including Middle School assemblies, MS Forts and Fort Frenzy, grade level assemblies, clubs and afterschool activities and our Advisory program.

Advisory is a small group of 6-8 students that meet with a teacher twice a week to connect and work on service activities.

This same group also meet twice a week to participate in "Free Uninterrupted Reading" (FUR). As a group they develop a greater love for reading and are given the opportunity to participate in the "MS Big Read" which coincides with our visiting author.

English as an Additional Language ( EAL ) Support

We offer English as an Additional Language (EAL) support in Grades 6 - 8. New students in Grades 7 and 8 require a minimum level of English proficiency in order to access the curriculum, and this is assessed online during the application process.

Students who need English language support receive it in their regular academic classes and in English Language Development (ELD) classes where they receive focused language instruction and support.

AES is a community of learning, helping each other and caring for one another. The middle school has incredible drama, art and dance programs. Amazing classes and all types of electives. All the teachers support us, show us how to figure out solutions to our problems and how to live a good and moral life. Middle school is welcoming and accepts all kids and encourages them to be their true self. Thank you to everyone in our middle school for making it the way it is.

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Middle School

At a time when adolescents are developing a sense of self and discovering possibilities, we empower them to explore, create, reflect, and connect.

Middle Schoolers bring a lot of ‘WOWs’ to the dinner table. Learning should be one of them.

Middle School Highlights

Middle School Program

All students are known, respected and challenged.

Building Our Community

English as an Additional Language ( EAL ) Support

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