Catholic Liberal Arts Education in the English Schooling Tradition
Holy House of Our Lady & St. Benedict | Edmonton
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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oly House Edmonton High School 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 Holy House, 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).
Holy House Edmonton High School’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
House seeks to fulfill his call by preserving and transmitting the synthesis of faith and culture developed in our AngloCanadian heritage through a curriculum rich in Sacred Worship, Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Music, and Sacred Art.
A day marked by the liturgical life of the • Church. Each school day, students attend Mass, learn to
Virtue Programme. Students are trained in the moral life via the Education in Virtue program 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
attend two days of classes in person and spend three days studying at home, with opportunities for one-on-one and small group tutoring during teachers’ office hours.
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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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House Edmonton is the only Alberta High school to require ecclesiastical Latin, which is incorporated in prayers, daily greetings, and classroom cultural language.
A unique expression of the revitalisation of Catholic culture. In Anglicanorum Coetibus,
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. Holy
“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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ELA 10-1 (English Language Arts) Students will achieve 10-1 outcomes through direct encounters with the best of medieval literature and later texts which reflect on the period.
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Religion 15 Students will satisfy this Alberta requirement in line with the teachings of the Magisterium.
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Latin 10 & 20 Students will achieve outcomes via Lingua Latina, with supplemental ecclesiastical and classical texts.
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Choral Music 10
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PE 10
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Fine Arts 10
$2950 (Net cost: $1475 after tax refund) -Includes all textbooks as well as enrichment activities
Courses offered: In 2026-2027 we will satisfy the outcomes for: •
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Science 10 Students will be prepared to branch out into 20-level physics, chemistry, and biology. Math 9 & 10C Students will be offered top stream math, but Holy House will also support parent choice for Math 9, 10-3 or other courses with an on-call tutor or assistance arranging other tutoring. Social 10-1 Perspectives on Globalisation. Students will study globalisation through an examination of the spread of Christianity in the Medieval Period.
“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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