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Grades K-12
Where Learning Comes to Life!
With small class sizes and a broad curriculum including Spanish, Latin, Shakespeare, and more, we nurture each child’s unique potential.
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About Gillingham
Imagine a school where every student — Kinderleben through Grade 12 — learns Latin or Spanish, plays a musical instrument, studies STEM, nature, and Singapore math; where their love of learning is nourished by great books and ideas in a beautiful, rich, community-oriented environment. At Gillingham Charter School, our focus is on the whole child, not just the tests.
Our Unique Approach
Gillingham offers a Relational Education that is based on the ideas of Charlotte Mason. This way of educating is deeply rooted in two primary principles:
- Children are persons and have a natural desire to learn and to live fully.
- We offer students a “banquet of learning” to put them in relationship with the vast inheritance of knowledge around them—with others, ideas, and the natural world—through rich language and real experiences.
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.
At Gillingham, students find their purpose!
Narrative Report Cards
Charlotte Mason Institute Accreditation
PA State Standard Testing
Student Led Conferences
Relational Education
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.
Living
Our curriculum is full of “living” books, “living” things, and “living” ideas that meet Pennsylvania’s state standards.
Broad
Our curriculum is also broad. Our students experience what Charlotte Mason called a banquet of learning. Students deeply
Accountable
Our curriculum and its implementation are monitored by both the Charlotte Mason Institute and Pennsylvania’s Department
Balanced Literacy
Research shows that students need a Balanced Literacy Approach to learn to read because it balances phonics
Living Books
Charlotte Mason figured out that the person’s mind needs “food” just like the person’s body needs food.
Math and Science
We also offer alternative and dynamic practices in our mathematics programs. Gillingham’s mathematics