St. Mary’s Episcopal School treasures children and childhood, fosters development through play and exploration, and prepares children for success in all aspects of their education.
We believe in the whole child , learning through:
Play
Children thrive and succeed when education is based on play and exploration. By providing personalized education, we meet each child where they are, helping the whole child develop social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills.
Exploration
We foster curiosity, wonder, independence, and confidence in each of our students at St. Mary’s. Questioning, investigating, taking risks, and observing builds a child’s understanding of the world around them.
Relationships
Nature
At St. Mary’s spend time in nature to promote wellness, enhance learning, and instill a love for the natural world. Outdoor environments, as the third teacher, encourage children to explore, using all of their senses.
Play
Children thrive and succeed when education is based on play and exploration. By providing personalized education, we meet each child where they are, helping the whole child develop social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills.
Exploration
We foster curiosity, wonder, independence, and confidence in each of our students at St. Mary’s. Questioning, investigating, taking risks, and observing builds a child’s understanding of the world around them.
Relationships
Nature
At St. Mary’s spend time in nature to promote wellness, enhance learning, and instill a love for the natural world. Outdoor environments, as the third teacher, encourage children to explore, using all of their senses.
Outdoor Play
Current research validates the importance of connecting children with nature on a daily basis.
We provide hands-on learning experiences and opportunities for the children to explore, investigate, think, and play creatively while moving actively in our wonderful outdoor spaces.
Children who play outside regularly become fitter and leaner, develop a stronger immune system, have lower stress levels, have more active imaginations, play more creatively, are happier, have a greater respect for themselves and others and learn and cultivate environmental awareness and values.
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About 12 years ago, a local Girl Scout had a vision for her Gold Award project: establishing a nature trail in the woods next to St. Mary’s Episcopal School and Church. It would be a place to explore the plants, ...
Tick-Tock, telling time using a human clock. Our kindergartners quickly learned how to tell time by the hour as they took turns becoming the hands of the enormous floor clock created by their teachers. The whole body learning experience was ...
