The Delphian School is offering savings on their academic program over summer. This is not just any summer school or summer camp. Not only does Summer at Delphi offer academic classes to students from around the world, we also have our wildly successful English as a Second Language program during this time of year, as well as fun summer camps, projects, and quite a bit more.
With over 250 courses and classes offered every single summer, no student will ever be bored or unproductive during those hotter months. Classes include:
Mathematics
Science
Art
Music
Biology
Language Arts
Manners
Logic
To only name a few!
There are also several specialized camps. Last year we offered the ever popular horse camp, soccer camp, film camp, tennis camp, and more. Additionally, we offered activities like archery, flag football, baseball, crafts, photography, A/V, softball, yoga, pottery, etc.
If you want your child to have a summer filled with fun, academically challenging activities and friends from all around the world, find out more about Summer at Delphi by going to www.Delphian.org or giving us a call at 1-800-626-6610 (or 503-843-3521 for international callers).
The Delphian School is attended by children from many different countries, who speak a wide variety of languages. This makes our English as a Second Language program important for those who are not native English-speakers, and wish be competitive in English-speaking countries. To accomplish this, we have found it is necessary for a student to understand and speak the language, as well as have the ability to increase their vocabulary with further study of the language. This is why the first step in our ESL program is a course which improves the students’ ability to study. The course itself requires the student achieve a specific level of vocabulary, which our students attain by studying vocabulary-building reading, writing, and conversation courses. Once our student has prepared for and taken this course for effective study, their ability to learn new words in the English language increases.
Our ESL program is based on the students’ competence in the English language – not on how long they have attended classes. After they take the course on effective study, their understanding of which words to use at which moment develops through conversation, reading, writing, and dictionary use. Our goal is to teach our ESL students to apply what they have learned in class – not for them to learn something for a test and then forget it again.
The beginning ESL program is available only during our summer program. However, our summer program isn’t all ESL classes. The summer program is designed to challenge students both in and out of the classroom with academics, sports camps, weekend trips, and more. Every year, approximately 300 students attend this summer program from across the US and from other countries like Japan, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Turkey, Brazil, Philippines, Australia, South Africa, Switzerland, and Russia.
Our intermediate level ESL program is available year-round. In this program, we provide education in basic English reading, writing, culture, and conversation. Students completing the program are then placed in the same class as native English-speaking students. These students may not speak perfect English, but after our ESL program their English speaking ability is developed enough to be competitive in a class of native English speakers.
The Delphian School is Oregon’s premiere international K-12 day and boarding school. Living and studying within a close-knit community and lively campus environment, Delphi students receive highly personal attention from instructors as they progress through a challenging academic program that focuses on demonstrated competence rather than memorization of facts or time spent in class. Students learn to not only understand what they study, but also to become competent in the use of logic and reason.
As part of a student body that takes a highly active role in all school activities, students will hold positions of increasing responsibility and learn their own lessons about ethics, integrity and leadership. All these ingredients then come together to make a rich and rewarding launch into life.
The Delphian School might be considered a ‘professional’ prep school—that is, professional preparation for life. All student programs lead to the deliberate and professional pursuit of goals, whether the goal is to be a computer programmer, athlete, physicist, or writer; and whether it requires further college or professional school training or allows students to jump more directly into their field or into entrepreneurial work. Given the exponential growth in technology and the resulting demand for the ability to assimilate new knowledge, we know students need to be able to continue learning for the rest of their lives. They graduate from Delphi prepared for that future.
Students often consider The Delphian School quite a challenge, but a great deal of fun can be had amidst hard work and honest camaraderie. When this is combined with the practice and expectation of thinking for oneself and being fully responsible for one’s successes and failures, the stage is set for an extraordinary educational experience.
The school owes a debt of gratitude to American philosopher and educator L. Ron Hubbard, whose extensive writings include many treatises concerning education and career preparation, as well as the development of responsibility and ethical strength. It was through application of the ideas in these materials and the trial-by-fire of real classrooms that the philosophy of the school came to maturity.
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