Lower School Student Life

Amy Jones,
Lower School Principal

Here in the Lower School we strike the balance between challenging children academically and respecting their need for play and socialization. We believe each teaching environment should foster the community values of respect, responsibility, kindness and care. Lower School teachers spend time with their classes creating communities that are safe for risk taking and learning, and representative of the children who live within them. In each homeroom there are pictures of families, spaces for student work and classroom “contracts” that reflect the behavioral expectations the class has decided upon together. Parents are often at school, helping to run our community service programs, acting as the “parent reader” of the week, or helping us out in the lunchroom. We believe children learn best when their own lives are not left at the door but are an integral part of the classroom. READ MORE

“Diversity of skills and backgrounds is so important here—we want the students to become adults who will be successful in a global society. We want to teach them to ask questions and figure out ways to help themselves and society at large.”

— Laura Yee, Fourth Grade Teacher