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Now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 School Year. Visit our Admissions page to learn more and apply now to our preschool programs!


Exciting News:
We’re Expanding Our Programs!

Park West is expanding our program offerings for the 2024-2025 school year! Our play-based 4-Day and JK half-day programs will now offer two optional extensions of the day: Lunch Bunch and a full-day option.

Full-day programming will continue to honor the importance of separation and transfer of trust from parents to teachers, provide rich opportunities for optional parent involvement beyond morning assisting duties, and allow teachers to deepen their engagement with parents related to development topics and their child’s daily habits and routines.


Park West’s mission is to respect children as growing individuals, provide support and varied opportunities to further their thinking, and help them develop a love of learning. We want to meet each child, and each family, where they are, and to foster a community within which optimal growth and learning can take place.


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Our Co-op

Park West has been a parent cooperative preschool since our inception in 1971. This means that parents contribute to the overall management of school, by serving either on a committee or on the Board of Directors. Parents also have the unique opportunity to assist regularly in their child’s classroom, where they come to know the rhythms of group life, along with their child’s peers and teachers. Learn more about the Co-op in What is a Cooperative? Find out more abut the roles parents can take in Board and Committees.

 
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WHY IS PLAY IMPORTANT?

Play benefits every facet of young children's development. It is through play that children show initiative, create plans, take risks, gain confidence, negotiate to reach a consensus and try out something that may be just a glimmer of an idea. Play is how children explore the world. Literacy and numeracy, along with the arts, science and social sciences, are integrated into the classroom in meaningful ways. Under teachers’ guidance, children construct knowledge and acquire skills while engaged in play. What children get from play is so complex, so rich, so personal, so inspiring. Lucky us, here at school, we get to witness it every day.