Lower School Faculty

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It Takes a Village to Raise a Child – African Proverb

Students in grades K-5 attend school all day every day. Each week, they have eight teachers that work with them in a rich curriculum that is differentiated for the individual learner so that each child feels challenged, but not overwhelmed and never bored. The teachers are as nurturing as they are exciting for Oak Hill’s inquisitive Lower School student body. The Lower School curriculum includes:

Language Arts
Mathematics
History
Science
Foreign Language – Spanish, Mandarin, and French
Art
Music
Library
Media
Public Speaking
Physical Education
Character Education

For an Oak Hill student in grades K-5, every day of the week is dynamic. Every subject is integrated into the next to reinforce learning and to inspire students to comprehend their studies at a profound level. Oak Hill K-5 students spend most of the morning focused on academic work and most of the afternoon involved in stimulating activities with specialists. Working independently or in small groups, students are active participants in their education.

The Lower School faculty develops community though academic work and other daily classroom activities that honor, model and reinforce: respect, inclusion, problem solving, conflict resolution, empathy, and collaboration. Students learn to examine and self-evaluate their work and growth. The faculty emphasizes the skills and processes of thinking, reasoning, analyzing, problem solving, inquiry, research, and decision making.

Student explorations include reading, writing, speaking, simulations, literature studies, interviews, community service, field trips, guest speakers, reading and creating maps, life experience, investigations, time lines, role play, dramatic play, structured discussions, artistic representations, cooking and other projects.

Oak Hill’s classrooms, school garden, pond, pastures, meadows and woodlands facilitate a deep and broad understanding and regard for the natural world. Students and teachers work together to explore scientific concepts, develop sound processes and skills in an environment of inquisitive investigation. Lower School students acquire a familiar relationship with their world and learn to take an active and responsible role in their environment.

Invariably, the richness of the Oak Hill Lower School program is fortified by a communicative, caring, and experienced faculty who put the individual needs of each student in mind with every programmatic decision they make.