Social Studies

Our young people study other places, cultures, and current events to learn about the world around them and to understand how the past and present are connected. Whether a trip to Historic Brattonsville for our second graders studying Colonial times, or a visit to the State House by our third graders studying South Carolina history, field trips make learning come alive.

We study other states, countries, and continents and learn about the world.

Madeline Edwards, class of 2015

Social Studies gain much attention at Spartanburg Day School each year, as second graders participate with excitement in Colonial Day. Students, teachers and parent volunteers dress in costume for the occasion, as they re-enact life in that period. Classrooms are transformed into theatre-like sets and students given the opportunity to experience a one room school house, learn Native American legends being told in the forest, learn tin-making and embroidery and practice representative music and dance. At lunch time, a Colonial feast is shared by all.