Welcome to The Classes at TNPC
Registration for the 2012-2013 school year
Whether you are:
· Currently enrolled
· Currently enrolled but have dropped at least one class this past year
· New Families wanting to join us in the 2012-2013 school year
All registration begins on Monday, March 19th, 2012. Specific Registration Instructions can be found under the Classes 2012-2013 tab.
Graduation for 2013
If you have a student graduating in 2013 and have been attending our classes and wish to graduate with us next year, please contact Rhonda Helmreich at 972 713-7947 or send an email to info@greenroofcoop.com for information or to express your interest.
Conflict on May 3, 2012
Six Flags Day oftentimes falls on the day before the Arlington Book Fair. However, this year it falls on May 3rd, our last scheduled class day. We know this is a fun day for many students and so we will try to work around it. Some teachers will choose to end on April 26th. There may be work that is still due to be turned in by May 3rd. Since Six Flags doesn’t open until 11:00, some 8:00 and 8:30 classes will still meet. The students will have plenty of time to get there before it opens. Some classes may meet May 10th but possibly at a different time or in a combined class. Each teacher will work it out with his or her students.
Notice about Upper Level Science Classes
We offer physics and advanced biology each year. Advanced chemistry usually is taught every other year. So, if your student is interested in taking advanced chemistry at some point, this next year would be the time to sign up since it isn’t being taught currently. Then the following year you can sign up for physics or advanced biology.
Understanding the TNPC Core Curriculum
The Classes at TNPC have been developed to complement one another as students progress from seventh through twelfth grades. The core curriculum of history, literature, and writing, which is based primarily on Sonlight Curriculum, is designed to develop critical thinking and communication skills, while exposing students to a wide variety of worldviews and grounding them in the Christian faith.
History, literature and writing are intertwined within the TNPC core curriculum. History shares lessons from the past teaching students to analyze not just the facts, but also the decisions and worldviews behind them. Literature connects students with history on a deeper and more personal level through the great writers and thinkers of each age, whose works reflect the human condition. Finally, writing teaches students to effectively communicate their own ideas and responses to the ideas they have interacted with in history and literature.
The TNPC core curriculum, which also includes science, as a whole gradually moves students from the fact-gathering grammar phase, to the relationship-drawing logic phase, and finally to the worldview evaluating and judging phase of rhetoric. The result of this curriculum over the past eleven years has been graduates with strongly developed critical thinking and communication skills who are able to interact effectively with the world while standing firmly on the foundation of God.
Reminders:
In the event of inclement weather, we will post any information on this page. We follow the Richardson Independent School District. However, each parent must determine whether they feel it is safe for themselves or their student to drive since some families travel quite a distance. We do not want to put anyone in an uncomfortable driving condition.
Tuition
March tuition is due. Please make your check out to each teacher and turn it in on Thursday. This should be your last tuition payment. Thank you.