From the Principal

PREPARE TO LAUNCH!

To God be the Glory!! As the school year began, we excitedly welcomed back 240 students to in-person learning. This incredible growth to our student body - the largest enrollment in eleven years - is supported by the notion that families sought out St. Philip’s School and Community Center with the direct intention to partner with them in educating their children. The school’s emphasis on a Love of God, Love of learning, Love of self, and a Love of others is resonating with many...especially, in these unprecedented times.

I am ecstatic to share that we will be launching 7th & 8th grade over the next two years, thus extending our already excellent program, and establishing a true preschool through middle school educational journey at St. Philip’s. This has been a long time coming! The middle school program will prepare our scholars to meet or exceed the highest academic standards while cultivating the strength of character necessary to change this world and enrich their communities through their actions. Our scholars will use their God-given gifts to serve with empathy, responsibility, and inspire through leadership. Students will engage in a comprehensive, intentional course of study that prepares students for a college preparatory high school.

Highlights of our future middle school program include: • 7th and 8th graders will experience a curriculum that empowers them to be courageous and collaborative servant leaders.

Scholars will interact with community partners and be immersed in an exploratory and challenging curriculum. • The expansion of our Performing and Fine Arts program will allow scholars to further develop their artistic gifts, be innovative thinkers, and

engage in active and purposeful learning. • Our Entrepreneurship and Innovation course will allow students to be curious and strategic problem solvers who test boundaries and develop solutions. • Our Leadership program will prepare students to be innovative in their thinking, Christcentered in their beliefs, and empathetic in their decisions. • As a project-based learning school, students will identify, through research, a real-world problem (local to global), developing its solution using evidence to support the claim, and present solutions.

While we don’t know all that God has prepared for this ministry, we can boldly say without a shadow of a doubt that Great things, do indeed, lie ahead for St. Philip’s and the children and families we so proudly serve.

Sincere Regards,

Kellee Murrell