Explore the Middle School
Through a variety of offerings and opportunities, TSA students graduate from our school confident of their own abilities, articulate in the communication of their knowledge and their needs, effective as team members and empowered to take responsibility and leadership within their communities.
The Sharon Academy Middle School
The Old Sharon School House
79 VT RTE 132
Sharon, Vermont.
With about 36 students, grades 7-8, TSA’s Middle School is a lively, nurturing, and academically rigorous academy that seeks to “nurture intelligent, independent, and creative thinking in a small school community, awakening students to their immense potential and the difference they can make in the world”.
TSA Middle School is where…
You will be known
| Meet the Middle School Teachers |
Our classes are intentionally small. With only 9-15 students in each class, teachers work hard to know each student as a whole person. Additionally, each student is assigned an advisor who is their advocate in areas academic, social, and emotional.
7th and 8th grade students rotate throughout the year in mixed groupings that are reshuffled every six weeks to reinforce the school’s one-community ethos. In addition, whole-school community-building projects and activities are common.
You will be valued
TSA strives to provide a physically, socially, and emotionally safe environment for learning. Teaching students how to respect each other, show compassion, and cooperate is a part of the daily curriculum. Developing respect, compassion, and cooperation is an important focus of every school day.
In order to give back to our community, to develop a sense of one’s self worth and significance to the world, and to foster the value of hard work and service, all students are required to complete 40 hours of community service as a graduation requirement.
You will be challenged
Our highly integrated curriculum stresses depth of knowledge over breadth and explores six themes over the two years of middle school. Each theme is examined through the disciplines of social studies, science, art, and language arts. A few examples of our themes include: Food and Hunger, Energy, and Human Rights. Whether exploring the world on field trips or stretching minds in classes students are pushed to leave their comfort zones and discover their leadership abilities. To learn more about this curriculum and the power of thematic learning, please click here.
The Middle School Circus has become our signature annual event for encouraging creativity and constructive risk-taking, hallmarks of how TSA challenges our students. For two weeks each year, a visiting performance artist works with the middle school students to produce and perform an all-school circus. The regular school schedule is altered, and everyone commits their time and energy to learning circus skills, writing scripts, acting, singing, arranging music, advertising, designing props, and creating sideshow games to entertain the over 600 people who come to this event every year. To learn more about the Circus, please click here.
…students are known, valued and challenged.
By the time our students complete their time at the Middle School they are prepared for one of the most gratifying events of their lives: graduation. Every graduating 8th grader gives a speech at the graduation ceremony. Preparing and delivering a commentary to family, teachers and staff and classmates on how they’ve transformed over the years is a capstone to their intellectual growth and emotional maturation.