The More Classical Curriculum
is a Catholic classical education programme created to help families form children in wisdom, virtue, and faith from the earliest years through to the threshold of adulthood.
Designed for students aged five to eighteen, the curriculum is rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition and shaped by the classical stages of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. Students first encounter the essential knowledge, language, stories, and ideas of a subject; they then learn to analyse, question, and connect what they have studied; finally, they are guided to express their understanding with clarity, discernment, and conviction.
Our approach is intentionally cumulative. Our four-year history cycle provides the chronological framework for an integrated classical education. Students journey from the ancient world through the medieval, early modern, and modern periods, revisiting each era with increasing depth as they mature. History serves as the organising thread, connecting geography, literature, science, music, and the visual arts to the people, places, discoveries, and ideas being studied. By encountering subjects within their historical context, students see knowledge as an interconnected whole rather than a collection of isolated disciplines. Each cycle strengthens chronology, cultural literacy, historical understanding, and appreciation for the development of Christian civilisation.
We have been deeply influenced by the Catholic Education philosophy of John Senior and the Classical Catholic Philosophy of St Thomas More. For this reason, truth, beauty, and goodness are not decorative additions to our curriculum. They are at its heart. We want students to see the world in wonder and marvel at it, recognising truth through careful study, encountering beauty through literature, art, music, nature, and worship, and to pursue goodness through the formation of virtue.
Our Mission and Vision
The More Classical Curriculum exists to help Catholic families provide their children with a rigorous, beautiful, and distinctly classical education rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition.
We believe that education is not merely the transfer of information, nor simply preparation for examinations or employment. Its purpose is the formation of the whole person: to train the mind to recognise truth, cultivate the imagination to delight in beauty, strengthen the will to choose the good, and ultimately help the student grow in wisdom and virtue.
Parents are the first and primary educators of their children. Our mission is therefore to place excellent resources in the hands of families, giving them a coherent educational path from childhood to young adulthood while preserving the richness, flexibility, and intimacy of education within the home.
Our curriculum is shaped by the classical conviction that knowledge is ordered and interconnected. History, literature, theology, philosophy, language, mathematics, science, music, and the arts are not isolated subjects. Together, they reveal different aspects of a single reality created and sustained by God. Because all truth ultimately belongs to Him, the life of faith is not an addition to education but the principle that gives every discipline its proper place and purpose.
Through the stages of the Trivium—Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric—students progressively learn to know, understand, judge, and communicate. In the Grammar years, they encounter the great stories, facts, language, and cultural inheritance upon which later learning depends. In the Logic years, they learn to ask why, recognise relationships, distinguish sound reasoning from error, and evaluate evidence. In the Rhetoric years, they learn to synthesise what they know, form mature judgements, and communicate truth persuasively, confidently, and charitably.
Throughout every stage, we seek to place students in conversation with the great inheritance of Christian civilisation: Sacred Scripture, the writings of the saints and Church Fathers, great literature, primary historical sources, enduring works of philosophy, sacred and classical art, and the careful study of the natural world.
Our vision is for students who are not passive consumers of information but attentive readers, thoughtful questioners, independent thinkers, eloquent speakers, and joyful seekers of wisdom. We want them to know what they believe, understand why they believe it, recognise falsehood without becoming cynical, and defend truth without abandoning charity.
We also hope to recover education as a shared family pursuit. The home can become a place of prayer, reading, discussion, beautiful music and art, intellectual curiosity, and the cultivation of virtue—a place where parents and children grow together in wisdom.
Ultimately, our aim extends beyond academic excellence. We hope to help form young people whose loves are rightly ordered: who love God above all things, pursue truth, delight in beauty, choose the good, serve their neighbour, and use their gifts for their families, the Church, and the common good.
Our highest hope is simple: to help families educate for wisdom and virtue, and help you raise saints.