St. Catherine Of Sienna Episcopal School
About Our School and Program
Our program will be divided into classes of two, three and four year olds that offer two, three or five day a week options. We also offer five-days-a-week classes for the four year olds and children turning five years old by December. Each class consists of a maximum of the Texas Child Care Licensing Division (depending on ages) with a teacher and a teacher’s aide.
Janie Hernandez is the Director of the school and has over twenty years experience as a childcare provider with certification as a Day School/Day Care Center director. All of our teachers and aides have extensive experience in child care, are CDA accredited, and receive ongoing training. They undergo current state and federal background checks and receive church required training entitled “Safeguarding God’s Children.”
Curriculum
Our curriculum consists of a traditional preschool program with some supplemental resources for reading and language comprehension. All groups engage in imaginative play, experiential learning opportunities and age appropriate chapel services and religious instruction.
Educational goals for our Early Pre-school children include:
- learning the alphabet,
- recognizing letters,
- learning to identify colors in English and Spanish,
- mastering counting 1-10 in English and Spanish,
- gaining an understanding of some abstract and spatial concepts
(i.e., hot-cold, over-under, etc.).
Educational goals for our Pre-school and Pre-Kindergarten children include:
- mastering simple word recognition and early reading skills,
- basic mathematical concepts,
- rudimentary ethics and manners and
- a bit of conversational Spanish.
A parents’ meeting is scheduled before the start of the school year to distribute handbooks, calendars and schedules, as well as to give everyone a tour of our facilities and a chance to meet teachers and see classrooms.