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Draper, UT
Newcastle Preschool Draper Utah

Parents at this school would recommend this school to other parents.

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Telephone: (801) 553-0622  · Website: www.newcastleschool.com

• Summary
• General Info
• School Philosophy
  & Day-in-the-Life
• Curriculum &
  Teaching Approach
• Quality of
  Teaching
• Home/School
  Connection
• Discipline,
  Health & Safety
• Ages, Schedule
  & Tuition
• Application &
  Admissions

General Approach to Learning

	Play-based
	Play-based with some structure
	Predominantly teacher-led instruction
	Montessori
	Waldorf
	Co-op
	Reggio-Emilia

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Director's Comments

For almost three decades, The Newcastle School has offered a comprehensive curriculum that educates the whole child, not just one part. This balanced process requires significant expertise, resources and hard work. The Newcastle preschool experience contains very deliberate doses of all the essential building blocks of Early Childhood Education. Newcastle has a time tested age-appropriate pre-kindergarten academic curriculum that includes social development, pre-reading, social studies, math and science. Newcastle is respected for it's well-structured music and creative art programs.

Social Skills & Work Habits

OVERALL RATING (5.0)
This school has increased my child's:
Ability to listen and follow directions
Ability to sit still for longer periods of time
Ability to be a part of a group of children

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Curriculum and Teaching Approach

	PLAY-BASED	PLAY-BASED WITH SOME STRUCTURE	MOSTLY TEACHER LED	NOT FORMALLY IN CURRICULUM	CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT
Language					Yes
Oral language	-		-	-
Nursery rhymes, poems, songs	-		-	-
Storybook reading	-		-	-
Emerging literacy skills	-	-		-
Cognitive Development
Math and number sense	-	-		-	Yes
Time & space	-		-	-	Yes
Sci. reasoning/physical world	-		-	-	Yes
Music	-		-	-	Yes
Visual arts	-		-	-	Yes
Physical activity	-		-	-	Yes
Other subjects taught	Computer Reading Reinforcement

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Director's Comments

Developed by Kathleen Jensen, the Newcastle curriculum is a comprehensive approach to Early Childhood Education. The school's website summarizes that curriculum. Specifics of the 3-4 Preschool and 4-5 Pre-K curriculum is covered in significant detail in the Curriculum section of that site.

The Newcastle curriculum is is a hands-on method of learning which inter-relates concepts as children gain experiences in reading, math, art, science, social studies, writing, music and creative movement. Each program has been carefully designed to teach age-appropriate and developmentally-appropriate academic and social skills. The curriculum is thematic. While children are practicing daily academic skills there is a different and interesting theme with related activities and music for every week of the year.

Newcastle teachers are trained to master the basics of the curriculum during a week long training course held during the first week of August each year. In addition, during evening training meetings held the third week of every month of the school year, all teachers are trained specifically to understand and present the following month’s lesson plans. This monthly training also includes classroom management skills development.