As a school which values time outside the classroom as much as time sitting in seats, Sophia Academy takes advantage of the fact that our World-Class city of Philadelphia is full of historical sites, science museums, cultural oddities, and musical performances.
Whether watching Hamilton! with hundreds of high schoolers from across the city or viewing Egyptian mummies with a small class of four, Sophia students enhance their learning with real-world opportunities. We believe that we learn the past best by stepping into the past as archeologists, or medieval monks, or ancient Greek poets. We learn science best by becoming scientists exploring questions that confuses us. We learn math best by using it to design scale models of actual venues.
A favorite field trip is always our visit to the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians. There, students view the odd and the macabre. It is a great introduction to their study of Edgar Allen Poe’s writing, a unit they complete with a visit to the house where Poe penned “The Raven.”
