Program Overview

Curriculum Philosophy

We offer a rigorous core academic program that is project-based, developmental, and enriched with regular specialist classes. Lower School specialist classes include studio art, music, physical education, technology, library, and Spanish. Our on-staff naturalist and cooking teacher work with the classroom teachers to integrate gardening and cooking into the core curriculum.

At the Middle School level, we maintain the rigor and breadth of the Lower School curriculum while also integrating advisory groups, drama, activity groups, and such optional activities as interscholastic sports, musical groups, and student council.

Service Learning

Redwood Day School is committed to helping our students learn to contribute as responsible world citizens and members of society through our service-learning program. Our service-learning coordinator works with teachers and advisors to incorporate service-learning projects into the classroom curriculum. Service-learning projects often meld into school-wide projects in which all classes participate in different age- and curriculum-appropriate ways.

Redwood Day School has participated in the Good Cents for Oakland service learning program each year. Other service learning projects vary greatly from year to year.

Interscholastic Athletics

Middle school is a time when students are testing and expanding the limits of their cognitive, social, and physical abilities. The athletic field is a wonderful place to bring all of these developing abilities together. At RDS, students can pursue athletics in our After-School Sports Program. Student athletes of all levels of experience are welcome on our co-ed soccer, cross-country, flag football, track, and volleyball teams and the boys' and girls' basketball teams.

Technology Program

Redwood Day School's technology program is integrated throughout the curriculum with weekly computer classes for grades K-5 and laptops used on a regular basis in classrooms from 4th grade on.

Each core middle and upper school teacher maintains a classroom web page where details of their program and projected homework assignments are available.
Online calendars and weekly email newsletters keep parents informed.
The library catalog is available online.
The foreign language programs are supported with a computer-based component.

Assembly Program