In Class VII, the children are becoming teenagers who need to be really present on the earth, to know more about the world and how things work. They study health and nutrition, psychology, the Age of Discovery, the Renaissance and the Reformation, "wish, wonder and surprise" in literature and paintings, as well as chemistry, mechanics, geometry, astronomy and world geography.

In Class VIII, when the emotions are being experienced most strongly, the pupils are helped through this turbulent time with a study of the revolutions, poetry, more practical experiments in physics and chemistry, the human skeleton, the different races of the world, economic geography, Copernican astronomy and algebra.