The Lower School

When children enter school, they begin the stage of academic education and industry. During this period children focus on developing the skills they need for their work in school and in life. Emotionally, they are eager to be independent of adults. Socially, they are concerned about being accepted by their peers. As they grow they enjoy assisting younger children and being leaders. Cognitively, they enjoy working on projects, following directions, enjoying games with rules; but they may have problems accepting the results when they lose and may fail to express themselves verbally and in writing.

Our Curriculum helps children to develop all these skills and more. It helps to improve their co-ordination and strength, to develop a pre defined personality and to assume responsibility for self. It also helps to increase their attention span, to speak clearly, to enjoy listening to and telling or retelling stories.

The challenge facing education is to help all students learn at higher levels now than ever before. Setting clear and high standards for all students is one way to meet this challenge. Standards must be written in clear, explicit language that reflect the content of
the subject area and is detailed enough to provide guidance to teachers, students and others who will be using them.

Our comprehensive program has essential disciplines such as: