Kindergarten

If you are interested in registering your child in kindergarten for the 2022-23 school year, refer to the Kindergarten Registration information on the EIPS website for details and a link to the online registration form. 

To register for kindergarten in the 2022-23 school year, your child must be five years old on or before Dec. 31, 2022.

Our school offers a 475 hour early childhood program. There are two ECS classes and our ECS program is a full day program with Class A operating on Mondays and Wednesdays and Class B operating on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  To meet our required hours, the two classes will also be in operation on somewhat alternating Fridays throughout the course of the year.

The goal of the ECS program is to help students develop in all areas:

               a) spiritually                b) physically             c) creatively

               d) socially                   e) emotionally           f) academically

This is achieved primarily through play (structured and unstructured) activities which integrate learning in all these areas around a monthly theme and skill development emphasis.

To help facilitate this program, the ECS teacher has an educational assistant as well as a daily parent helper who comes in for part of the day.

During the first week of school, students have a small group orientation session with their parent(s) to meet the teacher and find out what kindergarten is all about. In order to help students adapt slowly to school, ECS has a different recess time than the main school body.

Parents learn of their child(ren)'s progress through oral interviews in November and March.  A full report card is given in June.

Age Requirement:  To be admitted to Kindergarten, students are expected to have reached age 5 by December 31 of their Kindergarten year.