School : Sparhawk School Lower School & Kindergarten

Country :

State/City : Massachusetts

Average Tuition : $11000 USD

Average Living Cost : $10000 USD

Average Housing Cost : $10000 USD

Education Level : K1-6

GPA :

Age : 2~12

Additional :

Sparhawk is the premier independent progressive day and boarding school on Boston's North Shore where the intellectual vitality of each student's educational experience is considered paramount. Valued above all else, students benefit from and have a responsibility to foster a culture of kindness.

The educators at Sparhawk School measure a child's success not solely on students' accumulations of knowledge and skills, but also on wisdom, evidence of true joy in learning, self-confidence, and the powerful ability to not only recognize and actualize opportunities, but create them.

Kindergarten:

Sparhawk's PreK & Kindergarten programs are designed to build a love & excitement for learning through academically strong experiential programming.  Our four and five year olds learn by doing in a resource rich habitat designed especially for early elementary learners.  Our weekly curriculum includes integrated arts & music programming, math, science, literacy and Mandarin Chinese as their foreign language.

Lower School:

One of the important theories that guides our curriculum development is Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.

Gardner identifies eight intelligences as follows:

• LOGICAL/MATHEMATICAL

• VISUAL/SPATIAL

• BODILY/KINESTHETIC

• VERBAL/LINGUISTIC

• MUSICAL

By pluralizing intelligence in this way, Gardner opens the definition of "smart" to allow its application to a variety of gifts, skills, and talents. Instead of asking, "Am I smart?" the question becomes "How am I smart?" Sparhawk students explore this very question reflectively through various class activities. From our human intelligence hunt to our afternoon intelligence studies, we are continuing to learn more about the ways in which we each learn.