Catholic Liberal Arts Education in the English Schooling Tradition
The Gilbertine Academy | Calgary
High School Programme
A Full-Time Programme on the University Model “All education is to be founded on Revealed Truth… to fit men for this world while it train[s] them for another.” - St. John Henry Newman
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ilbertine Academy provides an integrated liberal arts curriculum rooted in the context of the academic and liturgical patrimony of the Anglo Church in Communion with Rome. Our programme fosters “concrete support” (The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium) for families by providing students with the academic rigour and intellectual and moral dispositions
needed for excellence. At The Gilbertine Academy, students learn that they are made for the stars but firmly rooted in the soil. They are pilgrims in this world, serving the common good of the society in which they journey, but also recognise that they are sojourning citizens of the City of God travelling to their homeland, a better country (Heb 11:16).
Gilbertine Academy's programme meets and exceeds all outcomes for the Alberta Programs of Study and the Alberta High School Diploma requirements.
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A university-model education. Students will
Gilbertine Academy seeks to fulfill his call by preserving and transmitting the synthesis of faith and culture developed in our Anglo-Canadian heritage through a curriculum rich in Sacred Worship, Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Music, and Sacred Art.
attend four days of classes in person and spend one day studying at home, with opportunities for one-on-one and small group tutoring during teachers’ office hours.
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A day marked by the liturgical life of the Church. Each school day, students attend Mass, learn to •
pray Mattins and Evensong, and live out the cycle of liturgical seasons through feasts and fasts. Chanted and sung liturgy throughout the day goes beyond a mere class of religion, cultivating a daily experience of the beauty of Christian Faith, Hope, and Love.
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A unique expression of the revitalisation of Catholic culture. In Anglicanorum Coetibus,
Virtue Programme. Students are trained in the moral
life via the Education in Virtue programme developed by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, and based on St. Thomas Aquinas’ teachings on the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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Instruction in Ecclesiastical Latin. Holy House Edmonton is the only Alberta High school to require ecclesiastical Latin, which is incorporated in prayers, daily greetings, and classroom cultural language.
Pope Benedict XVI called for the traditions of the Catholic Church preserved in the Church of England to be returned in order to support the life of the universal church. The
“A liberal education… brings the mind into form.” -St. John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
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All classes are led by qualified, Catholic teachers who annually take an Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium.
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Enrichment opportunities, including Schola Naturalis, an outdoor education spiritual retreat.
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A low-technology environment.
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Strong school culture, including uniforms, a house system, and school feast days and traditions celebrated across the Kalendarium (school calendar).
Collaboration with Gilbertine Institute campuses across Alberta in multi-campus cultural events offers opportunities to develop friendships and share learning.
“A liberal education… is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.” - St. John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
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Social 20-1 Perspectives on Nationalism. Students will study nationalism through an examination of the Great Books covering texts from the Reformation through to the French Revolution.
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ELA 10-1, 20-1, & 30-1 (English Language Arts) Students will achieve the outcomes at these levels through direct encounters with the Great Books in literature and other texts which reflect the historical period being studied. Other levels of English may be offered.
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Latin 10 & 20 Students will achieve outcomes via Lingua Latina & Cambridge Latin, with supplemental ecclesiastical and classical texts.
$4675 (Net cost: $2322.50 after tax refund) -Includes all textbooks as well as enrichment activities
Courses offered: In 2026-2027 we will satisfy the outcomes for: •
Science 9 Students will follow the Gr. 9 Science programme and will be introduced to 20 level sciences.
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Science 10 Students will be prepared to branch out into 20-level sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology).
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Chemistry 20 & Chemistry 30 - other levels of Science may be offered.
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Math 9 & 10C - other levels of Math may be offered.
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Choral Music 10/20/30
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Math 20-1 & 30-1 - other levels of Math may be offered.
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Fine Arts 10/20/30
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Social 10-1 Perspectives on Globalisation. Students will study globalisation through an examination of the spread of Christianity in the Medieval Period.
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PE 10/20/30
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Religious Ethics 20
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Possibly other courses at the 20 & 30 level.
“The whole fruit of their [educational] endeavors should consist in the testimony of God and a good conscience. Thus they will be inwardly calm and at peace and neither stirred by praise of flatterers nor stung by the follies of unlearned mockers of learning.” -St. Thomas More, Letter to William Gonell
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