LINDISFARNE HALL
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“Children come into the world with a natural appetite for all the material of knowledge; for interest in the heroic past and in the age of myths; for a desire to know about everything that moves and lives; about strange places and strange growing things; … “
1. Phonics-based Reading Instruction
Traditional Phonics instruction forms the backbone of our spelling programs, learning-to-read programs, and reading fluency curriculum. A primary focus in the 1st – 3rd grades, phonics study also continues in the 4th – 6th grades in order to ensure life-long skills in word-decoding.
2. Classic Children’s Books
“To introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child’s connection must always be with good books, the best that we can find. Imagination does not stir at the much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.”- Charlotte Mason
3. Short & Varied Lessons
Focused attention at short, varied lessons keeps students’ minds fresh.
It is no secret how children are wired. The younger a child is, the shorter his attention span is. The more he thinks with his brain, the more he desires to create with his fingers. At Lindisfarne Hall, our daily schedules are designed with primary-school aged children in mind. Younger children have shorter lessons and tasks are varied to keep the excitement of learning fresh. Everyone is actively engaged and looking forward to what comes next!
It all starts with Mother Goose!
“College English teachers faced with freshmen who hate literature, think their job is somehow to convert them ….”
“But the fault was back in high school where they should have loved Shakespeare. But, the high school teacher found his freshmen coming up from elementary school with no desire to read Shakespeare because they had not first loved Stevenson. And the grade school teacher found his students coming up from home without Mother Goose.
And more important still, the love of literature at any stage supposes love of life grounded in acute sensation and deep emotion.”
-JOHN SENIOR RESTORATION OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE
4. Math Made Understandable
Our math program emphasizes both computational strength and conceptual understanding. This means that children learn their facts and figures, and also learn the “why” and “how” of math concepts using manipulatives.
5. Bible Stories Everyday
“Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, the knowledge of man, and the knowledge of the universe, the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.” -Charlotte Mason
6. God’s World Appreciated in Science
“Let them once get touch with Nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life.”
Our primary-school science program is designed to foster a child’s interest in the natural world. Nature study, lovely books, and interesting experiments, compose a wonder-filled science experience. Some of the topics covered in the primary grades are: nocturnal animals, animals of the meadow, forest, and pond, birds, trees, plants, insects, simple machines, geology, space, cells, tissues, and organs, systems of the human body, and simple hygiene. Students go on nature walks, care for a garden, make nature crafts, and participate in a weekly STEM challenge.
7. History brought Alive with Stories
“Here, too, is a subject which should be to the child an inexhaustible storehouse of ideas, should enrich the chambers of his [mind] with a thousand tableaux, pathetic and heroic, and should form in him, insensibly, principles whereby he will hereafter judge of the behaviour of nations, and will rule his own conduct as one of a nation. This is what the study of history should do for the child.”
1st-4th graders study history using “living” books that capture their imaginations as they learn about the famous men and events of the past. Our primary school students also study geography and learn folk songs from around the world.
8. Good Habits
Because “the habits of the child produce the character of the man” we spend a good amount of time helping our students to develop the habits of attention, punctuality, courtesy, remembering, self-mastery, obedience, neatness and order, excellence, gratitude, responsibility, perseverance, truthfulness, sweet thoughts, and good temper.
9. Memorization
Memorization plants seeds of worthy ideas deep in children’s hearts, seeds that will grow and flourish through the years. Memory work improves vocabulary, gives a feel for rhythm, meter, alliteration, and syntax, provides an avenue for recitation skills, and of course, is fun! Each year our students memorize Bible verses, beautiful passages from texts, parts of speeches, and poetry. (They also memorize important lists in various classes including U.S. presidents, the planets, times tables, books of the Bible, and more.)
10. Small Classes
We keep our primary school classes small to ensure that every child receives the personal attention and instruction he or she needs in order to have happy, safe, fulfilling, and learning-filled days.
11. Hands-On Learning & Handicrafts
“The human hand is a wonderful and exquisite instrument to be used in a hundred movements exacting delicacy, direction and force; every such movement is a cause of joy as it leads to the pleasure of execution and the triumph of success. We begin to understand this and make some efforts to train the young in the deft handling of tools and the practice of handicrafts” (Vol. 6, p. 328).
God designed children perfectly for learning, and one part of that design is through the child’s love of hands-on activities. Handwork is enjoyable and productive, and not only trains the eye and hand in coordination and dexterity, but cultivates artistic feeling and careful work. The child “practises various handicrafts that he may know the feel of wood, clay, leather, and the joy of handling tools, that is, that he may establish a due relation with materials” (Vol. 6, p. 31).
12. Play Time
“There is a danger in these days that children’s play should be crowded out … Boys and girls must have time to invent episodes, carry on adventures, live heroic lives, lay sieges and carry forts, even if the fortress be an old armchair; and in these affairs the elders must neither meddle nor make.” -Charlotte Mason
“Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, and delicious fairy tales.” -Charlotte Mason
High School
9th-12th
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“For a man to conquer himself is the
first and noblest of all victories.” -Plato
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Lindisfarne Hall
Physical Address:
2018 Hometown Rd
Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
*main access driveway is from Citrona Dr.
Mailing Address:
1830 Lake Park Dr
Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
Administrator: Mrs. Janelle Gelston (Lindisfarne.Hall@gmail.com)
Phone Number: (904)206-0962