Our integrated curriculum, taught by experienced faculty who know how girls think, feel, and learn, provides a foundation for academic excellence in all fields of study.
Each Primary School classroom is a small learning community in which every child is engaged cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically. Students learn in nurturing, child-friendly, technologically- infused classrooms where enrichment and acceleration are integral to the academic program, and teachers are responsive to the diverse learning styles, capabilities, and needs of the students. The Primary School environment is an inclusive, engaging, challenging and intellectually safe place for children to explore and celebrate their identities, learn, take risks, and grow to their fullest potential.
Students are exposed to a variety of academic, aesthetic, and co-curricular course offerings that connect and prepare our students for the expectations and rigors of the Middle School program and beyond.
Learn more about the Primary School curriculum below, or read the full course of study here.
Students gain the content knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to become the next generation of ethical innovators.
A love of language is the basis for all literacy learning in the Primary School.
The focus of mathematics curriculum is to develop important foundational mathematical concepts and procedures.
A balance between exploration and structure, our Kindergarten is a time of magical growth.
First grade builds on the skills of the previous year in a learning environment that reinforces the developmental shift in intellectual growth.
Second grade serves to solidify the foundational goals and accomplishments that were introduced during the early primary years.
Learning to read and then reading to learn — this adage characterizes third grade as the big transition year.
Fourth grade continues to foster independence, autonomy, responsibility, collaboration, and organization.
Fifth grade, the culmination of the Primary School experience, connects the past with the future in preparation for Middle School.
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