Why Gillingham?

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At Gillingham, students find their purpose.

For the children’s sake, Gillingham Charter School cultivates a respectful learning organization based upon the belief that children are, foremost, persons.
The nourishment of relationships, habits, and ideas through a Relational Education not only prepares students for future education, but also fosters within them an avid desire for a life of learning, enabling them to author their own lives confidently and resiliently.
About us

Why Choose Us?

Students don’t come to Gillingham merely to hang out with friends, learn facts, pass a test, or to prepare for college. Students come to feed their minds and their souls. Here, they love to learn and they learn to live and author a full life, rich in relationships with self, others, nature, and ideas.

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Every Day We Integrate

Living Ideas, Living Books, and Living Things

We read the best, well-written books full of inspiring and engaging (thus living) ideas that are rich in vocabulary. Traditional textbooks, dry facts, and books that are “busy” with too many pictures are avoided. All students act, experiment, read the classics, sing, read and act Shakespeare, speak Spanish or Latin, paint, walk in nature, dance, type, garden, eat outside, and read orally. Students write narrations, play instruments, and do chores in their classrooms and around the schoolhouse. Upper school students compete in a sport and complete an internship program to graduate.
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