Character and Curriculum
Character Development
Ambleside is committed to partnering with parents in the cultivation of the student’s growth in relationships: relationship to self, relationship with others, and relationships with knowledge and skills in the inspirational and disciplinary subjects. Below are some of the areas of growth we aim to cultivate in young persons.
Relationship to Self
- Attention
- Imagination
- Neatness and Order
- Remembering: Recollection of knowledge and facts.
- Responsibility
- Temper
- Thinking: Skill in following a line of reasoning.
- Truthfulness
Relationships to Others
- Respect toward authority.
- Appropriate responses to correction.
- Respect and value of other persons.
- Healthy conflict resolution.
- Ability to work and socialize well with others.
- Initiative in leadership and in service.
Relationship to Knowledge
- Timely and prompt habits of scholarship.
- Accurate, thorough, and neat execution of work.
- Ability to assimilate ideas from texts and retell in sequence using the author’s language and detail.
- Comprehension of texts with varying levels of difficulty; ability to synthesize in written form using author’s language and details.
- Thoughtful engagement in classroom discussions and make relevant contributions to dialogue with peers about ideas in text.
Curriculum Summary
The curriculum coursework for Ambleside School provides:
A wide and varied course of study.
An alternating plan for both the development of skills and the mastery of content.
An acquaintance with knowledge that is vital, fruitful, and interesting with its informing ideas.
Use of books characterized as “the best thought of the best writers.”
Use of materials that aid in understanding and exploration without diluting the thought of 
the discipline.