Holy Family Catholic Schools, preK through high school, are committed to providing academic rigor through a comprehensive curriculum. Our elementary curriculum guide was developed to provide a brief overview of the curriculum for grades preK-5. The elementary curriculum reflects Holy Family Catholic School’s high expectations for each student, and incorporates the Archdiocese of Dubuque’s grade level expectations. Curriculum development is a crucial component of the educational process as we prepare students to think critically and creatively.

The elementary curriculum guide will provide you with information on Religion, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Art, Music, and Physical Education as well as our philosophy of gifted education and special needs.

The course selection guides for middle school and high school provide brief overviews of the courses being offered at the middle and high school levels.

At all class levels, technology is a key component. The Holy Family Catholic Schools mission for technology is to provide an integrated, evolving tool and resource that facilitates thinking, creativity, communications and problem solving for all students, faculty and staff. The purpose of technology in our schools and classrooms is not to teach students how to use computers, but to use technology to enhance the teaching of core curriculum. Holy Family Catholic Schools have adopted the National Education Technology Standards for Students (NET-S) which challenges schools to move beyond teaching hardware and software. The NET-S have defined six standard areas for technology:

1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and Collaboration

3. Research and Information Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

5. Digital Citizenship

6. Technology Operations and Concepts

Using these six standards as a guide, Holy Family has set the goal of moving away from lab-based technology instruction to classroom integration of technology with the use of lap tops on mobile carts.