The Pre-Primary program provides an environment designed to engage our youngest learners during their first school experience. With the goal of instilling a life-long love of learning, our teaching teams carefully plan classrooms that encourage exploration, problem-solving, and collaboration. Hands-on opportunities to engage with materials and a recognition that a child’s understanding of the world around them develops through play serves as the backdrop of our two-year-old program. The program values the home-school connection and emphasizes the importance of social-emotional growth. Confidence and independence are instilled as the classroom’s two teachers work as partners alongside students to guide them through learning experiences. Using thematic units to guide experiential learning, our program focuses on concept formation and language development. With opportunities to work cooperatively with others abound, students begin to demonstrate respect for themselves, others, and the environment.

Our Primary Program emphasizes the importance of early education through teaching practices focused on engaging the whole child. Students are exposed to a curriculum designed to challenge them cognitively, strengthen them physically, and respond to them socially and emotionally. The program, serving children ages three to five, acknowledges that students develop at different rates and in different ways and, as such, individualized instruction meets each student every day. A strong emphasis on developing independence, confidence in one’s abilities, a positive attitude toward learning, and appropriate prosocial behavior with adults and peers helps guide the formative years prior to kindergarten. The Primary Program emphasizes concept formation in the areas of language arts, math, science, and social studies. Students are exposed to direct instruction to begin to develop specific skills such as letter identification and number sense; however, a large focus is on the development of intellectual curiosity and imagination. Students are also provided non-instructional, play-like experiences to foster the development of academic skills. Each classroom’s two teachers act as partners to the students in their exploration of the materials provided.

Our Kindergarten program addresses the academic, social-emotional, and physical needs of 5-and 6-year-old learners. Continuing our two-teacher team model allows teachers to focus on building meaningful relationships with students and their families. A safe and nurturing environment that encourages independence, promotes positive attitudes toward learning and establishes early student skills serves as the foundation of our Kindergarten curriculum. Academic instruction is differentiated to meet each student’s needs and abilities and to instill confidence while empowering young learners to think critically. Students engage in 1:1, small, and whole group classroom activities that help to foster strong literacy skills and mathematical thinking.