AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL WITH A PUBLIC PURPOSE
Giving to The village school
Your gift supports core programming
Our school’s unique educational model offers students the opportunities of an independent school while serving a public mission to ensure a fine educational program for all who attend. We value having students from a wide range of backgrounds, abilities, and aptitudes—but tuition alone does not cover all of the costs of meeting the educational needs for each student. Without your gift, students’ school experience would be dramatically different. Your gift provides essential support to our school’s operating budget, impacting every student, teacher, and staff member every day.
Literacy & Social Studies
Developing strong literacy skills is critical to our students’ success in life, enabling them to seek out information, explore subjects in-depth, and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them. Our overriding goal is for our students not only to learn how to read but also to love reading! Social studies units enable our students to understand, participate in, and make informed decisions about their world as they learn foundational elements of geography, history, civics, past civilizations, and the U.S. government.
Math & Science
We value teaching math in a way that our students develop an understanding of the why, not just the how behind the scaffolding knowledge and skills they are learning. Science instruction also fuses the abstract with the concrete through engagement with the natural world and hands-on experiences that stoke our students’ curiosity, sense of wonder, and enthusiasm. Investigations, discoveries, and inventions are encouraged as part of their active learning in all subjects STEM.
Technology
Use of digital tools and equipment at the Village School has expanded the realm of possibilities for how our teachers teach and how our students learn. Innovative, interactive software and applications enable our teachers to reinforce and enhance their content, as well as motivate students and respond more effectively to their wide variety of learning abilities and styles. Students have the opportunity to be producers of content, and they have 21st century tools for creativity and innovation.
Mission
Children are at the heart of all we do. We nurture a child's curiosity, ignite enthusiasm for exploring, develop tools for inquiry, for invention, for achievement. We welcome families into a community-wide collaboration to help our children grow into their best selves - responsible citizens and stewards of the greater world, makers of the future.
