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Trivium Learning Grammar Stage Fact memory: drill, chant, song and story Logic Stage Cultivation of logical and analytical abilities Rhetoric Stage Confident mastery and mature application
Program Features Latin and foreign language Music instruction Visual art
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About CCA: Our Christian forefathers long ago placed massive stone crosses, on cliffs overlooking the wild sea and realms of wilder men, that still stand, and bear enduring witness to a cross that stood one day longer ago on a hill outside Jerusalem. Covenant Classical Academy is a stone cross in our day, proclaiming the same message into all the realms of our culture – the arts, politics, business, family life and higher leaning. Our alumni will be thoughtful Christians, who have been equipped not to buy uncritically into any of the received thinking of our fallen culture, but who seek to take every thought captive to Christ, and who are succeeding. CCA offers an uncompromising academic program that is distinctively Christian in content, as well as in purpose. The curriculum seeks to interpret all subjects in the light of God’s word in Holy Scripture. The school will sustain scholastic performance at a high level by pursuing something much higher than itself: honoring Christ Jesus, Lord of Heaven and Earth, in all we do. Aiming for this loftiest of goals, CCA will routinely hit lesser targets such as high-standardized test scores, college admissions, and other conventional measures of scholastic success. The school's educational philosophy fosters disciplined, critical thinking, by leading young people in all subjects through an unfolding pattern of knowledge, leading to understanding, and then towards wisdom, following the sequence known as the medieval or classical trivium. The elementary years or so-called “grammar stage” emphasize fact memory, which young children love and at which they excel, through drill, chant, song and story – which progresses in the roughly junior high “logic” stage to cultivation of logical and analytical abilities, which students at that age naturally seek – culminating with the “rhetoric” stage goal of confident mastery and mature application. The program is language-rich, including formal study of Latin and foreign language beginning in the grammar stage. And like the liturgy that begins every school morning, CCA’s program addresses the whole man, refusing to divorce academics from the rest of life and in particular from the arts. Thus music instruction – instrumental, voice appreciation and history – begins in the grammar stage, as does visual art – realistic drawing and painting. CCA’s mature Christian orientation, in the evangelical Anglican tradition, will launch young people on a trajectory of learned reverence, reverent learning, and godly action for a lifetime – and will equip them to launch the next generation on the same path in their turn. CCA alumni will be people who instinctively begin their days on their knees before God. This is where Christian dedication begins at CCA, but not where it ends: we insist that modern life is contained by the larger context of the Christian Church’s historic faith – not vice versa. CCA opens eyes to see the world, and everything in it, with all its complexity and challenge, as a glorious cathedral, where every square inch and every split second belongs to, and speaks of, the Triune God of Scripture, and where every action is properly directed to His service. The learned reverence of the school day morning liturgy conditions students for days, that become years, of reverent learning, that continue through a lifetime of godly action. You will find CCA graduates in all walks of life – lecturing at universities, performing in concert halls, repairing airplane engines, negotiating business deals, folding laundry and wiping little noses. Whatever they are doing, the stone cross will be reflected in the picture. If you really need to find them, best to look on Sunday, where they and those who come after them will be seen in Christ’s church, engaged in what will endure as the high point of a glorious trajectory. |
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