Early Childhood Division - Pre-Kindergarten through Kindergarten
"Learning is child's play" is a great way to describe our approach to early childhood education. Classrooms are designed to provide opportunities for growth and learning through avenues of safe, teacher-guided exploration.
"Me, my family, my school and the world around me" are the points of concentration in early childhood --- beginning with and building on the child's innate desire to see the world with him or herself at the center. Hands-on learning is the preferred method of instruction in our early childhood division.
Primary Division - First Grade through Third Grade
By first grade, children have moved from the solitary play and parallel play seen during the early childhood years to true social interaction, or cooperative play. Our primary division teachers take full advantage of this natural progression by structuring lessons through cooperative grouping and laboratory explorations. Manipulatives are still an integral part of our teaching methodology, especially in mathematics.
St. Philip's is accredited by and is a member of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).
