Wooster School Strength to Strength 2024-25 Notable Middle School Program Improvements for 2024-25 Early Middle School Progress At this time last year, we announced the implementation of the Early Middle School program, a cohort model designed for students who have completed either Grade 4 or Grade 5. This year, we are pleased to report that the EMS program has become a vital and positive learning community, and that students are thriving, building community, and exploring content in multiple modalities and levels of personalization. Highlights from this year have included interdisciplinary experiences such as beekeeping and Wilderness Wednesdays, while community building has occurred through the classroom jobs program, mix-it-up lunches with middle school, first chapter Fridays, SEL lessons, and much more! Students experience the best of both worlds in EMS, with aspects of the independence of middle school combined with the nurturing and self-contained aspects of an elementary school classroom. We have seen the class grow throughout the year, with several students successfully joining mid-year. Interest in Early Middle School enrollment for 2024-25 is strong. Some students who have spent the day shadowing in EMS have wanted to come back the very next day! Creation of the Upper Middle School Program at Wooster We are excited to announce the next iteration in our ongoing efforts to create the best possible Middle School at Wooster with the evolution of our 7th and 8th grades into the Upper Middle School program starting in 2024-25. As we continue to better incorporate the teaming model, sharpening our focus on meeting students where they are and helping them to go further in terms of skills and dispositions development, we see an opportunity during the last two years of our Middle School to create a learning and development experience that builds upon our Early Middle School program.
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