Our Philosophy
St. Alban’s Grammar is a classical and Christian home education community that meets Fridays in Hampshire for families with children from Reception (Age 4-5) to Year 9 (Age 12). It offers a once-a-week community day using customised memory work from Claritas Classical Academy and other curricula in order to provide an academically excellent education that is distinctively classical and Christian. In addition, St. Alban’s offers conversational Latin, choral singing, martial arts, and ballet training on Friday afternoons, so that the children may participate in elevated, character-forming experiences.
As a ‘Classical’ homeschool community, we believe the chief aim of education is to train the mind, body, and soul to love the beautiful, and thus to emulate it. This is accomplished through a Languages-focused, Great Books curriculum within the framework of the medieval pedagogy of the ‘trivium”: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. Classical education also means physical training, and this we do not neglect.
At St. Alban’s, we enrich our students with the prayers, sung psalms, and great hymns of historic, orthodox Christianity. Far from a bolt-on addition to an otherwise secular education, the Christian ethos at St. Alban’s pervades all subject matters, from the power of orderly language as originated in the creation of the world, to the lawfulness of God’s character underpinning the very possibility and viability of Science, we teach that God is the foundation of all truths, without which all knowledge is but a cheap impersonation. We are spiritually and financially supported by Victory Chapel. Learn more about our church covering at victorychapel.uk.
The base curriculum at St. Alban’s is formed from Claritas, with supplemental content derived from Memoria Press and other classical sources. In Friday mornings, Community Day revolves around the Claritas memory work, whereas the afternoon session is spent practicing conversational Latin, choral singing, ballet (for girls), and martial arts (for boys).
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11 High Street, Botley SO30 2EA