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The Lower School consists of :

The Kindergarten Program
The Elementary School
The Middle School

The Kindergarten Program

The Kindergarten Program offers a half-day pre-school experience for four-year-olds and a full day kindergarten program for five-year-olds. The four-year-old experience encourages children to explore through play, learn to work with groups, and master important school readiness skills such as colors, shapes, beginning handwriting, and numbers. Limited class sizes offer opportunities for small children to establish close personal relationships with their teachers.  Such relationships foster self-confidence and promote feelings of security.

For five-year-olds, the program presents a systematic phonics program for reading readiness. Listening, following directions, and getting along with others are essentials for the Kindergarten Program. Math and handwriting skills are also taught at this level. Children continue to build their social skills as they learn to work within a structured environment. The classroom program is enhanced through additional instruction in computer technology, music, library exploration, physical education, and supervised playground recreation.

The Elementary School

Our Elementary School Program, grades one through four, offers each child a background in the core academic subjects integral for success in life.  The Elementary Program emphasizes instruction in reading, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and science.  In addition to such traditional subjects, elementary students are exposed to computer technologies, music, art, Spanish and physical education.  The elementary grades foster confidence in learning for children whose families set high goals for them.  Through emphasis on teaching Christian values, we also attend to each child's development in non-academic areas so that cooperation, structured  and unstructured play, and interpersonal relations also come easily to the child.

The Middle School

The Middle School bridges the Elementary and Upper School years.  As a result, the strong academic emphasis at Westfield is combined with an emphasis on a child's acceptance of responsibility and growth in non-academic areas as well.  Students continue their pursuit of the core academic disciplines of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies begun in the Elementary School program.  Studies in music, Bible, computer, art, physical education, and foreign language are also emphasized through enrichment classes in the middle school program.  Students are introduced to higher-level cognitive processes designed to encourage them to refine their thinking and communication skills.  Students completing the middle grades at Westfield are well prepared for the demands of a college-preparatory curriculum in the Upper School.