The Village School is a private preschool in West Boxford, Massachusetts, offering a play-based early education program and preparation for kindergarten. The school serves Boxford, North Andover and surrounding communities and was founded in 1967.
The Village School is a private preschool located in the Second Congregational Church in West Boxford. The school serves Boxford, North Andover and surrounding communities and describes its approach as play-based and developmentally focused.
The school describes a play-based developmental curriculum aligned with Massachusetts frameworks and standards. It notes a low student-to-teacher ratio (8:1 or lower), use of the "Learning Without Tears" program, weekly Creative Movement classes, and an end-of-year portfolio of student work. Formal conferences and progress reporting are scheduled during the year, with scheduled touch-base conferences in November, a conference in March to review portfolios and progress reports, and a final report and portfolio in June.
Bridges is our Transitional Kindergarten program for children who turn 5 years old in the summer or early fall. The program offers an extension of our Pre-K learning path which will provide children more time to grow and mature cognitively, socially and physically before entering Kindergarten and the Elementary School environment.
The ultimate focus in all of our Pre-Kindergarten classes is preparation for Kindergarten. Our play based learning curriculum and activities help the children further develop the social, emotional and academic skills they will need to be successful in Elementary School and beyond.
Our Preschool programs offer families a developmentally appropriate curriculum for our youngest students, for many of whom this is their first school experience. Our Preschool Programs help children to develop social skills, confidence, independence and emerging academic skills through center and play based learning.
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