Summit Private School - from Preschool to Elementary - in Boca Raton Florida

School Children at a Monessori Day School

Upper Elementary Program

(Ages 9 to 12 years)

Elementary Students learning about Aquaponics“Adolescent Empowerment” is cultivated in this program, encouraging and nurturing the concept of individual personal responsibility on the part of each student and at the same time, aggressively fostering group cooperative skills. Involvement in community service activities and cross-age teaching further advances the cooperative skills at this level. Marked by tumultuous growth and change, students in our Upper Elementary program expand their hands-on curriculum with abstract concepts and problem solving. Significant study time is spent on field trips where students visit historic sites, ecology camps and museums. These field studies develop reasoning abilities as they study ancient lifestyles and relate them to contemporary responsibilities and events.

Learning takes on an even greater importance in upper elementary, as students at this level are tested in math homework and are advanced only upon demonstrating mastery of at least 90 percent of the subject material.

 Gatlyn Sci FairStudents are provided with unique and exciting opportunities to be “tested” on their research, writing, & communication skills as well as their science, math and entrepreneurial abilities in hands on experiences, such as participating as a delegate to the Montessori Model United Nations or building an Aquaponics farm to raise tilapia and organic vegetables in a sustainable system. We think “outside the box” when it comes to providing purposeful, educational opportunities for our students.

Throughout the day, students in our Lower and Upper Elementary Programs may be seen building time lines, recording science experiments, writing book reports and compositions, as well as solving complex mathematical problems. At other times, they may be modeling clay in the art studio, performing in a dramatic presentation or expressing themselves musically. Another group may be gathered in quiet concentration with their teacher, discussing the wonders of Ancient Egypt or perhaps resolving a situation within their classroom community.