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Innovative Technology, Advanced Phonics and Band Among Fresh Offerings at Everest Academy

Interactive projectors plus advanced grammar and phonics comprise some fresh factors toward education for leadership at Everest Academy this school year. The Lemont Catholic school is welcoming 51 new students as well as further enriched academics for the 2012-13 school year, with a total enrollment of 144 students and more innovative programs.  

Everest embraces aspects of the classical approach to education, while maintaining the Integral Formation® method. This method provides a well-rounded and balanced education focusing on the students’ intellectual, character, spiritual and leadership development, with an emphasis on service to others from preschool through eighth-grade. According to Everest principal, Ms. Christine Gamache, the curriculum has been improved further this year, incorporating a new grammar program for kindergarten through eighth grade, and an explicit phonics program for lower school. In addition, writing skills are a major focus incorporating techniques progressively from grade to grade.

"Everest strives to provide an environment that cultivates an appreciation for order, beauty and the excellence we seek to instill in our students,” according to Ms. Gamache. In order to do this, administration and faculty have been busy over the summer preparing the building and classrooms for the influx of new and returning students. The building, which was just completed in 2009, has been decorated anew for returning grades and to accommodate an additional Kindergarten class. Projectors with interactive capability have been added to many classrooms.