GRADING POLICIES

PARENT/STUDENT HANDBOOK

Music:

We seek to:

1. Train the students to sing joyfully, skillfully, and with understanding to the Lord on a regular basis. 2. Instruct the students in the fundamentals of music listening, reading, writing and performing. 3. Expose students to, and equip them with, a broad range of musical genres and styles including western folk music, classical music, psalms, and hymns. 4. Enrich the teaching of Scripture through the teaching of many classic, meaningful hymns. 5. Encourage (through a variety of options) the students to select some area of music, vocal or instrumental, to pursue on their own.

Art:

We seek to:

1. Teach all our students the basic fundamentals of drawing to enable them to create adequate renderings. 2. Encourage the students to appreciate and imitate the beauty of the creation in their own works. 3. Introduce the students to masters' works of the Western culture. 4. Equip the students to knowledgeably use a variety of art media, knowledgeably, joyfully and skillfully unto the Lord. 5. Enable our students to refine their artistic abilities and become more proficient.

GRADING POLICIES

Grades at The Terra Nova School do not in any way reflect the immeasurable worth and value of each child made in God’ s image, but rather an accurate reflection of the quality of work in a given subject at a given time. At The Terra Nova School, grades serve three basic purposes:

1. To help our young students to improve

2. To determine the best placement level for a young student's academic ability

3. To provide a just and legitimate means of holding young students accountable for the quality of their work and to provide a widely understood means of communicating