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Kindergarten at the Lower School provides a play-oriented, family-like environment that supports children making the transition to a longer, more structured school day. Kindergarteners are allowed to nap, and they receive extra attention, thanks to our low teacher-student ratio. These, our youngest lower school students, also enjoy a special “Big Brother/Big Sister” relationship with the fifth graders. Our oldest lower school students read to their special partners and regularly attend functions with them, thereby stimulating friendship and understanding between them.
In grades one through five, children enter into a structured classroom curriculum. The four major academic subjects—mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies—are taught within the student’s primary classroom. Students visit other teachers for instruction in physical education, Spanish, visual arts, drama, computer, music, library skills, and religion.
Boundless curiosity and energy envelop Coast Episcopal Lower School on a daily basis. Much of the spark is kindled in daily morning chapel, where students attend a service with their lower grade partners. Singing the school song and national anthem, praying the school prayer, and listening to the joys and concerns of fellow students reminds Coast Episcopal students of a greater purpose and fills them with the spirit to meet the exciting opportunities of the day ahead.
