The New Village School is an independent Sausalito school serving children from preschool through 8th grade with a nature-based, arts-rich, and developmentally oriented curriculum that emphasizes small class sizes, screen-free learning for younger students, and regular outdoor education.
The New Village School serves preschool through grade 8 and describes itself as a small independent school in Sausalito focused on developmentally appropriate, nature-based, and artistic education. The school emphasizes small class sizes and a screen-free approach for younger grades.
Instruction is organized around thematic multi-week "blocks," integrating academic content with art, hands-on tasks, and reflective work. The program includes sustained study in world languages, a phenomenological approach to science, social-emotional learning, and regular opportunities for reflection.
Students participate in weekly off-campus outdoor experiences through the school's "Classroom Without Walls," garden and farm activities, and multi-day overnight trips beginning in the upper elementary grades. The school also runs language, handwork, woodwork, and other skills-based classes as part of its curriculum.
Elementary teaching is organized in multi-week thematic "blocks" that integrate conceptual lessons with art, hands-on tasks, and individualized projects, and includes weekly outdoor education outings.
Kindergarten is described as a harmonious, nurturing, and rhythmical environment where children engage in music, movement, artistic work, gardening, cooking, storytelling, and free play.
Middle school emphasizes rigorous methods of scientific inquiry alongside continued language study, outdoor education, travel, and extended projects.
The Little Village emphasizes a simple, play-based daily rhythm in which children play, tend gardens, prepare meals, sing, move, make art, rest, and learn in a screen-free environment.
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