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St. Teresa School Curriculum and Resources
To ensure a top level education and positive experience for our students, St. Teresa uses the latest teaching methods:
- Rotating middle school classes emphasize an integrated curriculum that reinforces subject matter throughout all content areas
- Accelerated Reading and Mathematics programs
- Art, music, and physical education programs for all grades
- Eighth grade life skills training, focused on fostering positive decision‐making skills and self‐esteem
- Daily religious education focusing on Scriptures, Catholic teachings and values and their application in student and family life
- Classroom buddies which partner elementary students with middle school students to assist in social, religious and educational activities, bolstering self‐confidence and enhancing unity among all classes in the school
Thanks to a grant received from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation, in 2008 we opened the E.L. Wiegand Knowledge Center which includes:
- State of the art science lab with 26 laptops, promethean board, incubator, telescope, Van Da Graff Generator, all inclusive science kits for life science, physics, genetics and electronics, a hydroponics lab and microscopes
- Computer lab with 30 state‐of‐the‐art computers and software programs
- Comprehensive library with 6 computers and software programs to evaluate student reading levels and comprehension skills
- Student computers in all classrooms and audio enhancers available to enable students to hear instruction with minimal distraction
Approximately 180 students attend our school classes in Kindergarten through Eighth Grade, with a full-day Kindergarten program. St. Teresa School is accredited by the Western Catholic Education Association and Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
The school is on a traditional schedule: school opens the last week in August and closes within the first two weeks of June. Instructional hours for all classes are from 8:20 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. School uniforms are required.
Growing Together, a graded course of study from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, serves as the primary scope and sequence for St. Teresa of Avila Catholic School. The school also aligns its curriculum standards with the Nevada State Standards. Language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, religion, computers, and physical education are taught at all grade levels. This course of study is upgraded every few years.