The academic program at the Queen City Prep is designed to develop the skills and habits of the mind that students will need to be successful in a rigorous high school setting and at the college level. Our teachers work collaboratively to revise and adapt a carefully designed curriculum that pushes our students to think critically and creatively. As our students gain experience with the authentic endeavors of readers, writers, public speakers, scientists, political scientists, artists, and athletes, they engage in learning that taps into young adolescents’ desire to question and explore their world. While addressing the North Carolina Standard Course of Study Curriculum Frameworks, our curriculum is designed to value the learner’s need to investigate, inquire, debate, and explore and to demonstrate new understanding through a variety of authentic performance assessments and projects. Our goal is to raise young learners who are equipped with the critical thinking skills and background knowledge to succeed when they graduate from our school and to use their knowledge to question and enhance the world around them.

As they grow and learn in 4th through 6th grade, our students and teachers work together to make connections across the subject areas, to the world around them, and to their own lives and experiences as they explore new topics, which reflects our belief in the interconnected and interrelated nature of knowledge. Our teachers collaborate frequently to explore interdisciplinary questions, themes, and projects through:

Shared Essential Questions which explore powerful topics such as What is justice?, What is the role of the individual in society? and Who am I on a cellular level? in each course.

Shared Grade Level Themes which connect learning across the subject areas such as Discovery in Grade 5 and Choices in Grade 6.

Interdisciplinary Projects: Teachers at each grade level work throughout the year to develop interdisciplinary projects in which students apply learning from multiple subjects in culminating projects.

Exhibition Nights: In the spring of each year, students at each grade level present an Exhibition Night for families and community members in which they demonstrate their learning across the subject areas.

Interdisciplinary Lessons: Teachers collaborate informally to design lessons that emphasize learning goals from other subjects. A visit to 6th grade classes might reveal students are designing original buildings to scale in Mathematics, studying earthquake patterns in Science to choose an ideal location for their buildings, and learning to speak and write persuasively in English, Science, and Social Studies in order to market their design well.

We know that adolescence is a time of challenges, so our Middle School focuses on the integration of spiritual, academic, and social skills. We are committed to educating our young people through Kingdom Education. We firmly believe that with the church, home and The daily students can fulfill God's will follows: school working together middle school schedule to be observed is as for their lives.

The Middle School day includes six fifty minute classes and a thirty minute lunch period. Students end their day with a forty minute study hall or specialty class. Our Athletic Program offers Basketball, Football, Track & Field, Volleyball, Softball, Baseball, Soccer, and Cheerleading. Our growing Fine Arts program offers Visual Arts, Chorus, Theatre, and Music.

• 8:00-8:55 - First Period
• 9:00-9:55 - Second Period
• 10:00-10:55 - Third Period
• 11:00-11:55 - Forth Period
• 12:00-12:30 - Lunch
• 12:35-1:20 - Fifth Period
  1:25-2:15 - Sixth Period
  2:20-3:00 Study Hall/Specialty Class
  
  

Queen City Prep strives to connect with the student body spiritually, emotionally, socially, and intellectually. The High School is a community of a diverse student body offering 9th through 11th grades for the 2010-11 academic year.

Queen City Prep is a Christian school where the spiritual culture is created through venues of daily Bible classes and monthly chapels.  The High School curriculum is designed to challenge the student to his/her maximum potential by focusing on core courses – English, Math, Science, History, Foreign Language, and Bible.  In addition the High School has enhanced its college preparatory curriculum with the implementation of the Career and Technical Internships Program ("CTI"), where students spend part of their school week working in a business, professional or civic environment.  Students may also take courses to become licensed or certified in certain trade or career programs.

The CTI program gives Queen City Prep students an opportunity to work closely with an adult mentor who shares their interests. Students can learn more about the things they care most about while doing meaningful work with real-world consequences. Teachers work closely with mentors to ensure that the internship develops skills from the student’s learning plan.

CTI projects engage students because the internships are based on student interest and passions. CTI projects also show students the importance of multiple areas of study; since the projects require them to make use of several Queen City Prep Learning skills.

The students of the High School are encouraged to participate in our fine arts and athletic programs. We will offer an array of art classes, along with art shows, choir tours, band, and drama. Athletically, we currently offer a Post-Graduate Boys Basketball Team and will offer more athletic programs as more students are enrolled. Fine arts and athletics offer opportunities for students to continue to build harmonious relationships with their peers.

Grades 9-12 feature a college preparatory program. Students take four subjects per semester and attend four subjects per day. We also offer a full honors track and courses in Advanced Placement.  The Academic day also allows students time to meet with their teachers should they have questions or difficulties in a particular subject area.

To earn a Queen City Prep Diploma, a student must complete 28 credits:

• English = 4
• Bible Studies = 4
• Career and Technical Internships = 2
• Mathematics = 4
• Science = 4
• Social Studies = 4
• Foreign Language = 2
• Computer Technology = 2
• Health = 1
• Art Education = 1

Queen City Prep Academy offers courses that can be completed online. What you should know is that virtual classrooms are relatively easy to navigate and contain all of the resources you need to complete your coursework on time and efficiently.

A virtual classroom is an online learning environment that contains all course materials. Virtual classrooms include email and chat rooms, so you can talk to your classmates and instructor just like you would in a real classroom. Virtual classrooms are an easier and more convenient way to attend classes, you can choose when to attend and you can complete the course from the comfort of your own home.

When you log in, you are taken to a landing page where your instructor can post announcements for all students to see. There is a section containing links to all the different pages of the virtual classroom, including lectures, assignments, tests, links, and contact information. It is a good idea to go through the virtual classroom tutorial
before starting a course to get a feel for how the technology works.

A virtual classroom is part of a learning management system, or LMS. The LMS is the software that delivers and maintains the virtual classroom. Some of the most common LMS's that high schools and colleges use are Blackboard, Moodle, and WebCT. Queen City Prep Academy uses Moodle and these software programs are essential to the existence of online classes.

Some of the benefits to virtual classrooms include:
Completion of the course at your own pace.
You can attend classes from anywhere; all you need is an internet connection
Chat room feature, which allows students to interact with each other and the instructor as if they were all physically in the same room. This provides the same kind of interaction that the students would get in a typical classroom session of the course.

Visit: www.queencityprep.org/onlinelearning to view the virtual classrooms.