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Name: Canterbury School |
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Canterbury has a dress code. Kindergarten students are the exception. Lower School students (grade 1-5) can wear khaki or navy walking shorts, pants, or skirts. Jumpers can also be worn and can be any color. Shirts must be a solid color with no logo. Shirts must be tucked in, have a collar, and sleeves. Shoes can be low heeled leather or athletic shoes. Middle School students (grade 6-8) can wear any color shorts, pants, jumpers, or skirts. Shirts must have no logo and can be any color. Shirts must be tucked in, have a collar, and sleeves. Shoes can be low heeled leather or athletic shoes. For special events, students are required to wear chapel dress. |
Canterbury alumni are young, with just four classes graduated from college. However, their youth has not stopped them from establishing themselves as leaders in all areas of school and community life. In the spring of 2007 more than sixty graduates reported to the alumni office as having received one or more academic honor, civic distinction, and/or athletic award. For three years in a row, Page High School in Greensboro has bestowed the honor of class Valedictorian to a Canterbury student. |
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Canterbury was founded in 1993 to enhance the local community's educational opportunities in a creative, enduring and accessible way. Enrolling 89 students in its first year, today Canterbury has grown to an enrollment of over 360 students representing a wide array of backgrounds. The school's mission - to develop the whole child by challenging the mind and nourishing the spirit in a diverse community guided by Judeo-Christian values guides every aspect of the educational program. From the outset, Canterbury has made every effort to make its program accessible to a socially, racially and economically diverse population and is dedicated to the principle that qualified students should be able to attend the school regardless of their family's ability to pay tuition. Accordingly, Canterbury requires at least twelve percent (12%) of its tuition revenue to be set aside for financial assistance, with a future goal of raising this percentage as a result of increased endowment funding. The school's academic program echoes our strong commitment to our mission by offering students in the lower school enriched and challenging opportunities through a broad-based curriculum approach to instruction. Building on this strong foundation, middle school students are introduced to a departmentalized environment. This comprehensive approach provides students with an opportunity to refine skills developed in their earlier years. Throughout the middle school technology, art, and physical education are fully integrated into the learning experience and are requirements for graduation. Canterbury School is governed by twenty trustees, representing a wide array of personal and professional profiles. As Canterbury continues to develop programmatically, in size and in composition, we continue to be guided by the school's mission. We look forward to the future, which includes a total of nine permanent buildings to accommodate our program and grade level needs, as well as a comprehensive endowment plan to significantly fund these rising program costs. |
Consistent with the tradition and practice of the Episcopal Church, Canterbury gives a central place to both the life of reason and the life of faith. Canterbury 's philosophy is that the ideal education takes place in a faith community engaging in comprehensive and challenging search for truth. Its philosophy further holds that the school should be broadly representative of its reachable community, for a school which serves all God's children offers an enriched environment by virtue of the diversity of its students and teachers. Canterbury provides an education that is traditional in its emphasis on classical as well as contemporary knowledge and open to the use of the best techniques of pedagogy presently developed. Academically, Canterbury strives to develop in each student basic learning skills and study habits within a caring atmosphere of individual attention and encouragement. Its program seeks to promote confidence, initiative, and to stimulate a life-long interest in learning. As an Episcopal school, Canterbury teaches that knowledge and service of God and human-kind form the basis of wisdom. Canterbury believes that a complete education must combine the academic and spiritual dimensions. By challenging the mind and nourishing the spirit Canterbury seeks to create in each child an inquiring and discerning heart, the courage and will to persevere, a spirit to know and love God, and the gift of live and wonder in all of God's works. |
