Co-Curricular
God’s word teaches that each child is a unique creation of God, valuable in His sight, and created in His image. If a Christian school is to educate the whole person, and if it desires to be more than just an academically excellent institution in a Christian setting, then it must be certain that its mission and every practical outworking of that mission is consistent with a Biblical understanding of the learner, the teacher, of knowledge, and of the whole created order.
Because he is created in God’s image, the student is rational (created to gain understanding through many levels of thinking), BUT he is much more than a “platonic” mind in an insignificant physical body. The learner is also:
- physical (created with a body whose training is just as important as her mind)
- emotional (created with a wide range of emotions which also require training)
- social (created to live in interaction with and service to others)
- religious (created to respond to God)
- dominion-bearing (called by God to “fill the earth and subdue it”)
- creative (created to reform the culture by problem-solving and applying new ideas)
- moral (created to respond in obedience to God)
- aesthetic (created to respond to creation with awe and wonder)
The Co-Curricular program at KDS is primary, not secondary, in importance in the development of the child. It stands with, not below, the “academic” curriculum. Students participate in Art, Foreign Language (Spanish), Vocal and Instrumental Music, Physical Education, and Library classes.