Diet at Delphian

A nutritious diet is essential to students around the world – and with an international student body, providing excellent nutrition to all students is vital at Delphian.  This is why we provide food that is far above the normal “cafeteria-style” food expected at any school.

Daily meals are provided by Sage Dining, a dining service which specializes not only in well-balanced menus, but in flavorful, fresh and varied meals.  Each meal is cooked from scratch – often from locally grown, organic produce.  The menus provided by this service are constantly changing and are created specifically for the Delphian community.  Each season they feature the freshest products available for that time of year, here in the Pacific Northwest.  There are vegan and vegetarian options offered at many meals and organic vegetables and greens offered at the salad bar.

Our dining facility is a place for students and faculty alike to eat and relax, while discussing classes, collaborating, or simply enjoying the view of the oak and fir forest surrounding the school.  Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served in this spacious environment.

Constantly striving to improve the quality of food we serve to our students and faculty, Delphian provides the following:

• No hydrogenated oils are used during meal preparation.
• Freshly ground sea salt is provided to season food.
• Only cage-free eggs and hormone and antibiotic-free milk are served.
• Organic peanut butter is available in the snack room.  This is peanut butter that is free from hydrogenated oils and sugar additives.
• Only hormone and anti-biotic free pork is served.
• Gourmet meat is purchased locally from Carlton Farms whenever possible.  This local farm uses no artificial ingredients, coloring, hormones or preservatives in their meat.

We provide an excellent educational environment at Delphian – and we believe that increased nutrition and healthy food will enhance our student’s experience while attending school here.  You can view the ever-changing menu provided by Sage Dinging here. (LINK: http://www.sagedining.com/menus/delphianschool )

For more information about our educational philosophy, our curriculum, and how our students experience Delphian go to www.Delphian.org.

Delphian School Art Program

At Delphian, we provide an excellent art program for our students and encourage them to learn, develop, and improve their skills in many different artistic endeavors.  Our art classes are available for students of all ages.  Children in Lower School (kindergarden through third grade) can create using ceramics, music, drama, painting, drawing, paper-mache, and printmaking.  As our students grow in age and skill, more classes and opportunities to create using music, dramatic presentation, film, paint, sculpture and more become available to them.

This summer, our students will have the opportunity to attend the “Shoot the Scene” Film Camp with Jem Schofield of theC47.  This camp will help students move through the process of shooting a scene from script to completely filmed scene.

This is just one example of the fun and educational art opportunities provided at Delphian.  Another is our award winning Varsity Jazz Choir.  Students in this choir not only learn to sing and harmonize, they learn team building and social lessons as well.

At Delphian we encourage our student to expand their knowledge and understanding of any art in which they are interested.  To this end, there is a section of the school dedicated to recording and practice rooms for any musical instrument, an expansive art room, as well as Friday Night Performance (FNP) where students gather and perform.  There is also student art on display throughout Delphian in the form of murals, paintings, sculpture, and photography.

To find out more about the Delphian art program, visit our website at www.Delphian.org.  To find out more about the Summer at Delphi, 2013, visit www.SummerAtDelphi.org.

How the Delphian Curriculum Works

At the Delphian School, we have gone beyond the average high school educational paradigms and developed a new and effective approach to education.  Our students not only learn new topics, they retain this information even after the appropriate test has been taken.

The school was developed by a group of educators who saw that conventional “good schools” were failing the many bright students who passed through their doors.  These educators formed the goal to empower their students to take responsibility for their own education – and for their own lives. 

Delphian is a unique environment which empowers students by first teaching them the basics of learning itself.  After this is done, students are actively engaged in studying at their own pace through their academic pursuits.  In order to help students retain information learned, they are encouraged to build clay models, discuss, and get involved in the practical application of what they are learning.

The ways in which the academic information students learn can be molded into real world application are as varied as our students.  For example, one student worked with others this last spring to build a new playground on the school premises.  Another student utilized the trigonometry he learned to build a skateboard.

Teachers at Delphian don’t lecture at students.  They help individual students working at their own pace to move through their studies and sort out difficulties or confusions.  Each class is relatively small as compared with your average public high school.  This ensures personalized attention for each student.

Because it is a boarding school environment, students have the opportunity to become involved in more activities than another type of school may offer.  There are many extra-curricular activities offered at the Delphian school, from art classes to choir to sports.  Students are also encouraged to pursue their own projects and to work with other students on projects.

One recent graduate said: “I never expected that I could become so capable in only four years.  For the change I went through, four years was such an incredibly small period of time.   Even though the experience is one I can’t fully put into words, I guess one of the best ways to describe it would be to say that Delphian challenged me to challenge myself – because no one else was making me do anything.  That determinism was my own.” – Ian Carberry

Another graduate said:  “Looking back on my Delphian experience, I can see that I have done some amazing things.  I never would’ve believed when I first arrived here that I could direct a play, or help plan a trip to Europe, or be able to make an entire yearbook.  I also never thought I would be able to graduate from Delphian.  I am proud to say that I have done all of these things.

“I arrived at Delphian a small boy.  I am proud to say I leave Delphian as a grown and capable person with the confidence to accomplish anything.” – Zack Bittner

Find out more about the Delphian program, and discover what our recent graduates have to say about our program at www.Delphian.org.

Delphian School Science Quote

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson