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Kuper Academy’s secondary program features sequential Middle and Senior School experiences. Middle School students in secondary I and II are housed in a separate portion of the building. Students are given special attention in order to ease the transition from elementary education to the more rigorous demands of the secondary level.
At the secondary levels, Kuper Academy is administered by the Head of School with the assistance of the Assistant Headmaster and the Dean of Student Life. Normally, there are four homeroom classes at each grade level with a maximum of twenty-five students per class.

A RICH MIDDLE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE


Kuper’s Middle School offers a rich learning experience in a safe, suburban setting.
Organized as a separate entity within the school, Middle School students are mentored by level advisers whose primary role is to help transition students into the high school experience.  

Kuper values the relationship between home and school.  In this light, all teachers, students and parents are connected interactively with the school portal.  Assignments, projects and results are posted electronically in a secure and private intranet setting.  

In addition to having access to exceptional on campus facilities, students also make use of an adjacent hockey arena as well as an indoor golf facility and city playing fields which are only a block away.

The school year traditionally commences with a Middle School retreat in the Laurentians region of Quebec where students take part in outdoor activities fostering camaraderie and offering all participants the opportunity to develop teamwork.
The regular academic day begins with a homeroom period where students are encouraged to develop important organizational skills such as: the use of a daily agenda, forward planning for homework and assignments and appropriate methods of academic discourse.

A CHALLENGING INTRODUCTION TO THE SECONDARY LEVEL

Middle school students typically follow a challenging curriculum where they are given the opportunity to follow advanced programs in mathematics and French. In addition, history, art and English courses are thematically organized as are geography and science and technology.

Spanish is taught as a third language. Information technology is incorporated in the cycle schedule introducing students to the fundamentals of word processing, research and presentation.

Not content with "textbook learning" the Academy has implemented a program of meaningful practical science. Students not only study basic scientific concepts, but understand the idea of experimentation. Students are typically given homework in all main subjects.

Projects are an integral part of the out of class commitments. Typically one and a half hours of nightly homework is expected.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS LEARN OUTSIDE THE BOX

Starting in the Middle School students enter a world where classrooms are not an isolated learning area, but part of a chain where each link develops the whole.

Since its inception, Kuper has encouraged a cross curricular approach to learning. In the morning, students may be reading Shakespeare in English and in the afternoon studying the Bard’s inspiration in history class. Why study only geography when this knowledge can cross the borders into the realm of science? In a world where people are constantly called to contribute greater and varied knowledge to their workplace, preparation must begin in the early years of high school.