NDES is restructuring the school to include a middle school, which will be introduced in August 2022...
Introducing ND Middle School
NDES is restructuring the school to include a middle school, which will be introduced in August 2022.
The middle school will honor the educational vision of the Sisters of Notre Dame to promote Catholic education and identity; embody the core values found at NDES and NDCL; meet and exceed the academic and social-emotional needs of the middle school student; prepare the middle school students for high school; and allow middle school student enrichment in both academic and special classes.
Notre Dame Middle School will feature dedicated space exclusively for its grades six, seven and eight students. The Sisters of Notre Dame have generously allowed NDES to extend the school to the third floor of the building, which will become the new home to the seventh- and eighth-grade students, as well as provide a dining room space to be used exclusively by the middle school students. The current “specials” hall will house the three sixth-grade classrooms, as well as the seventh- and eighth-grade science classroom and lab.
The middle school curriculum will continue to rigorously prepare students to be successful in high school. There will be honors classes offered in all three grades in ELA and math, as well as the opportunity to earn a high school Spanish credit. Enriched learning opportunities will be offered in academic core classes, as well as the special classes, to offer the middle school students a rich and wide variety of learning experiences.
Junior High Campus Ministry
Junior high students involved in the school’s campus ministry have found ways to serve, help build community and enjoy the process of being God’s light in the world. Whether it was reading in Liturgy, making reindeer ornaments, writing letters back and forth with pen pals, practicing and chatting with fourth-graders while doing math on Fridays, planning and running a basketball camp for the third-graders, helping put together Christmas snowmen for the bus drivers or working with the fifth-grade class to present and make pinecone turkeys with the second-graders, everyone had fun while learning about each other and what it meant to work together to build connections and to love one another through actions and interactions.
