Our
Early Childhood Division recognizes that a vibrant mind and a love of learning are
shaped in a child's earliest school years. Our Preschool and Prekindergarten classes celebrate the innate curiosity
and joyful imagination of our youngest students. We begin with topics
that are known and understandable to young students. We gently and
consistently guide students to accept new challenges and to develop
new understandings about the world around them with ever-growing
confidence and independence.
At St. Anne's, we want each child to feel known and included, to
know that his or her presence contributes fundamentally to our school
community. We intentionally implement a comprehensive social curriculum
throughout the Early Childhood Division. Through modeling, practice and discussion,
students learn to understand and value their own gifts and contributions
as well as those of others. The social curriculum serves as the
fabric into which all the critical, challenging academic tasks are
woven every day. When students feel safe, cared for, and valued,
they can take healthy risks required to tackle those tasks that
strengthen their cognitive abilities as well as their social and
physical abilities.
Education
in the Early Childhood Division program is centered upon each child - not each
child in isolation, but rather each child seen in relation with
other children, with the family, with the teachers, with the environment
of the school, with the community and with the wider society. Parents
are important partners in their children's education and, therefore,
in our program. Parents are an active part of their children's learning
experience and, at the same time, become actively involved in the
welfare and betterment of all children in the school.
Our
Early Childhood Division recognizes that a vibrant mind and a love of learning are
shaped in a child's earliest school years. Our Preschool and Prekindergarten classes celebrate the innate curiosity
and joyful imagination of our youngest students. We begin with topics
that are known and understandable to young students. We gently and
consistently guide students to accept new challenges and to develop
new understandings about the world around them with ever-growing
confidence and independence. 
Education
in the Early Childhood Division program is centered upon each child - not each
child in isolation, but rather each child seen in relation with
other children, with the family, with the teachers, with the environment
of the school, with the community and with the wider society. Parents
are important partners in their children's education and, therefore,
in our program. Parents are an active part of their children's learning
experience and, at the same time, become actively involved in the
welfare and betterment of all children in the school.