• Bodily Pursuits (formerly Physical Education)
• Foreign Languages and Cultures
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Veterinary Sciences
• The Natural, Physical and Veterinary Sciences
• History and the Social Sciences
• English Language and Literature
• Music and the Arts—Performing, Visual and Otherwise
• Religious and Theological Studies

Academics

Curriculum Each student must take a full academic course load each term and must complete courses in the following areas: humanities, mathematics, science, the arts, foreign language, and religion.

All students participate in a residential life curriculum. The curriculum is comprehensive and varies with the needs, interests, and abilities of each student. Regular and advanced sections of approximately12 students each foster a classroom atmosphere that is lively, personal, and stimulating. Additional help is available for those who find a subject troublesome.

‘Sanus mens in corpore sano’—more than empty words for the wise Ancients. In keeping with St. Giles’s goal to emulate classical Greek education in a Progressive Calvinist environment, the physical education program has been re-focused in recent years to emphasize “traditional” sports, as well as the tight social networks that develop around them. Thus, our boys not only compete across the State—and the Nation—in everyday American sports like cricket, rugby and fencing, but they also spend 3-5 hours per week ensuring that the corpore sano is not neglected.

Bodily Pursuits include:

· Freestyle wrestling

· Greco-Roman wrestling

· Judo

· Bareknuckle boxing

· Medicine ball drills

· Other incredible feats of strength!

“Let the tournament begin!” intones a sober but enthusiastic Mr. Lee as Willie McCollough and Hans Overbeck take their bamboo staffs and proceed onto the mat. Once again, St. Giles’ premier immigrant has upped the ante in progressive language education, and as the boys fight to the first knockout, fluent Japanese can be heard spewing from their battered headgear in between the lethal thrashes of the budokan. Kudos again, Mr. Lee!

This is but one example of a curriculum that recognizes that the world does not end beyond Coppedgely Hall—or even the fishery. Thus, St. Giles teaches the boys about foreign cultures and languages in much the same way that the Communists taught swimming: total immersion.

Un pocito de idiomas y culturas:

· Espanol II: The German-Argentinean Perspective

· Je Me Souviens: French for New Englanders

· Hai IV: Advanced Japanese

· “The Mix”: Basic Thai (Term I), Croatian (II) and Urdu (summer)

· Bambara, Wolof, and Fulani : The Dark Languages of West Africa (taught by Dr. Mkebi)

· ESL III

· Conversational Portguese : Let's Meet the Kitchen Staff!

10 PRINT “COMPUTER SCIENCE IS THE COOLEST DEPARTMENT”

20 GOTO 10

Naturally, students at St. Giles get beyond the BASIC-s! ; )

Still, the history of this noble, timeless pursuit is not ignored. From a first-year’s sweat-soaked stack of punchcards, to the proud wave of a bloody but functional cybernetic finger at graduation, Sharpies will be sure to master technology before it masters the rest of the world.

Department “outputs”:

· LOGO: More Than Shapes

· COBOL II: The Forgotten Years

· C+++

· Linux for Dummies

· Computer “Science” III

· The Code: Computational Genomics (by appointment only)

Predestination is fundamental to our faith, and mathematics only further reinforces the divine relationships that run throughout our Universe, assuming, of course, Newtonian Calculus in a Euclidian space. Traditional parents will be happy to know that Lobachewski geometric principals are given the solid drubbing they deserve.

The proof is left for the student in such classes as:

· Math I

· Math II (Geometry)

· Math III

· Math Team (formerly “Math-tastic!”)

· The New Math : Visualizing the Process

· Calculus for the Diverse

In tradition with the beginnings of Saint Giles, the school has always found a place for Dr. Ethan Sharp’s passion for animals. A self-taught veterinarian, Dr. Sharp was an intimate friend of man and beast and sought the continual union and betterment of them both. Although eventually prevented from practicing by the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine, the County Police of New Rotterdam, and wrist restraints, Dr. Sharp always found time to help a troubled creature. Even if that creature did not need help, or desire it, or even if the beast belonged to a neighbor. Dr. Sharp always gave. Land boundaries, common decency and state law never prevented him from caring for the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and lots of bull-cows. In accordance with the school’s charter, the veterinary sciences continue to hold a light for many students with a curiosity of animals, a suggested base-knowledge of some science, and a delight for hay-filled wooden structures.

· The Animal in Us and Us in the Animal : Introduction to Veterinary Sciences

· Sheep Vivisection III : The Reckoning

· Roll ‘em Up : Calf Delivery on the Modern Farm

· Bull Castration IV : Rusty Scissors, Rubber Bands and Twine

· Flevo’s Free Form Farmercize II

Many “modern” scientists would have no truck with a Van De Graaf generator powered flywheel turning an Archimedes screw. But students at St. Giles’s cannot help but get hands-on experience with these forerunners of a modern science that scoffs at its own past.

“To understand the cutting edge, you need to see the disposable razor that holds it,” suggests Mr. Reynolds, in a rare pensive moment.

The Sciences include:

· Physics IV

· Introductory Genomics

· Astronomy versus Astrology: Once and For All

· Cesium’s Dance

· Madam Curie’s Handsome Husband, Pierre

· Prostate Cancer : How to Check (open enrollment)

· Oriental Science : Powders, Creams, Explosions and Ninjas (taught by Mr. Lee)

· Calvinistic Chemistry

“Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.”

And as Ms. Briszgby would say, “those who fail certainly will!”

History classes for the upcoming academic year include:

· The 10’s through the 15’s: Those “Middle” Ages in Europe

· 1968: What a Year!

· John Calvin : Predestined Saint or Saintly Predestined

· “Living History” Workshop: Ancient Greek Culture and Practices

· Tomorrow: A History Yet Written (tentative)

“Life is but a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more; It is a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot, signifying nothing…”

All too true. Too true. Still, despite the land of shadows in which we mortals must toil, a thorough mastery of English is essential for any lad hoping to get ahead in our Great America. Thus, we at St. Giles’s push on despite The Bard’s sage words and offer a range of classes exploring the history and traditions of our great language.

Unique courses in English currently include:

· English II c

· All the “Other” Voices: The Siren Song of the Minority in 20th Century America

· French III

· Ramblin’ Man: The Road Novel (formerly “Huck Finn and Its Imitators”)

· Confederacy of Dunces: The Hot Dog as a Metaphor for The City

· Classic Native American Literature : From Tonto to Gandhi (one 3hr weekend session)

· Stirring Stories for Boys : From Swimming to Wrestling to Swimming

· ESL III

The true Renaissance Man is not simply a man of letters, highbrow facts and mathematical algorithms. Thus, at St. Giles’s, we direct our Renaissance Boys into such other intellectual pursuits as music, theater, piercing and the visual arts. In recent years, we have been fortunate enough to have had visiting lecturers, with expertise in even more avant garde pursuits, and have thus been able to further broaden the perspectives of our student body. At the heart of it all, though, is a consistent emphasis on the true joy of aesthetic beauty.

Past Music and the Arts offerings have included:

· Music II: A Confederacy of Dances

· The Baroque Experience: A Calvinist Counter-Perspective

· A Night at Flevo’s House

· Drawing III

· Theater IVc: Masochistic Self-Expression Meets Mechanical Advantage

With a unique focus on Progressive Calvinism—essentially adopting the Five Points for a modern world in which leadership from the Elect is more important than ever—the St. Giles’s Religious and Theological Studies curriculum ensures that students possess a firm grounding in the key elements of our Faith, as well as an exposure to other creeds. Naturally, in all cases, an even-handed treatment is given to competing beliefs, with an objective presentation of their compelling arguments, as well as their inevitable logical flaws and inadequacies.

The Religious and Theological Studies curriculum includes:

• Progressive Calvinism I, II, III, IV and V (Advanced Placement)
• Christianity’s Many Other Tracks
• Judaism: The Necessary Transition from a Godless Past
• Faiths of the World: Light in the Darkness Or the Highway to Hell? (formerly From Savages to the Present Day Ignorant)