Our Philosophy

Purpose and Philosophy:

Meeting House Nursery School provides the preschool child with an educationally sound program in an atmosphere of warmth, friendliness, and freedom. We offer opportunities for exploration, experimentation, and inquiry while encouraging curiosity and expression of ideas. We accept each child as an individual, helping the child grow in many dimensions.

Program Focus:

The teachers plan a program that is developmentally appropriate, focusing on the “whole child” in terms of their social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Brief definitions of these developmental areas are:

• Social: how the child interacts with other children and adults and their environment
• Emotional: how the child feels about themself and the ways the child accepts and expresses personal feelings and ideas
• Cognitive: the thinking skills that are needed to catalog new information, formulate ideas and solve problems
• Physical: the awareness and control of the physical body that the child acquires through the five senses, rest, exercise, and nutrition

Development in these four areas occurs simultaneously. Together they form the foundation for life-long human development.