Girls Preparatory School - Chattanooga, TN

Upper School

Because GPS stands among the country's leading schools in educational and technological innovation, its graduates are young women who create a more honorable, compassionate, and sustainable community. The Upper School, along with the Middle School, prepares its students by engaging their minds, stimulating their spirits, and challenging them to become effective leaders in the global community.

 

 

By expecting high standards of personal behavior, faculty and staff hope to encourage the girls to develop as individuals who will act responsibly and with compassion toward others in the world around them. GPS challenges each student to realize her intellectual, emotional, and spiritual potential by drawing together students from diverse backgrounds through shared experiences in scholarship, physical and artistic endeavors, and civic responsibility. To these ends, we offer an upper school curriculum rich in tradition and enhanced by a fully-developed elective program. By the time our girls are ready to enter college, our hope is that they have mastered the following skills:

 

 

  • To read in a discriminating manner, to read often, to enjoy the art of reading, and to know how to use what they read;
  • To write effectively, to write often, and to achieve greater understanding of themselves by translating concepts and feelings into a written form that is understood by others;
  • To speak convincingly and easily before others;
  • To solve problems critically and skillfully;
  • To think analytically, logically, and discerningly;
  • To possess knowledge deemed fundamental to an understanding of our fellow human beings, our physical environment, our past, and our cousin cultures;
  • To develop an aesthetic sensitivity;
  • To recognize and revere the astonishingly complex and critical process underlying the freely-used term “an educated person”;
  • To strive for excellence
  • To know that they are responsible to a loving God whose fundamental principles provide truth, love, and justice;
  • To build their personal system of values;
  • To learn to win and lose with grace;
  • To develop the ability to achieve common goals through corporate effort;
  • To establish and enforce a set of ethical principles and day-to-day behavior that govern their actions;
  • To face up honestly and directly to challenges;
  • To involve themselves in service to their community, their nation, and their world;
  • To value the concepts of health, fitness, stamina, and strength;
  • To realize the opportunities, frustrations, and obligations of being a young woman of the 21st century;
  • To discover how to lead and when to follow;
  • To develop a positive self-image and overcome the fear of failure.
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