At Mission Hill School, classrooms are multi-age, which means that most kids spend two years with the same lead teacher. Class size is small, approximately 20 children or fewer and in addition to the lead teacher, there is also a full-time assistant.

Walking into a classroom in our school is like visiting an art gallery, museum, and library all at once. What you see, hear, and touch (sometimes smell and taste too) all reflect the current school-wide curriculum theme.

Most classrooms start and end the day with classroom meeting to set the agenda and review work. Otherwise there are only brief whole-class mini-lessons; most work is done individually or in small groups. About half the day is set aside for thematic work, which may include reading and writing, research, art and construction, and practical mathematic applications. All classes set aside time for read-alouds, silent reading, and writing workshop, as well as a specific mathematics period.