A Unique and Special Preschool
    What makes PCNS a great choice for your child? It's a combination of many things working together: a highly experienced staff, our innovative child-focused curriculum, mixed age groups, sunny open classrooms and a deep love for God and his children.

Professional Teaching Staff
    Our teachers have considerable experience with three and four year olds; their combined experience totals nearly eighty years in the classroom! Our staff is passionate about fostering each child's growth. It follows then that our program is centered on individual developmental needs. We encourage the children to explore and make choices through our innovative curriculum. Equally important, our teachers excel in helping children to express their feelings and needs in words.

	Student/Teacher Ratio Our enrollment is typically 25 students per day. With four teachers, that translates to approximately a 7:1 ratio.
	Teaching Style Always positive and encouraging, our teachers help children to navigate individual developmental challenges. We also work to develop children's expressive capabilities and emotional and social well-being. We find that our team-teaching model is invaluable in providing insight to help enhance each child's developmental path.

Curriculum
    Our carefully-crafted curriculum is rooted in our philosophy of developmentally appropriate activities for children's learning and confidence. We provide an array of integrated themes throughout the year to offer children exciting, challenging and safe ways to explore their world. Recently our themes have included the Australia, birds, recycling and the books by author and illustrator Eric Carle. Each year, we also offer an art unit focusing on the individual styles of three artists. This prompts the creation of many expressive paintings and sculptures for viewing at our annual art show.

    Each child has daily opportunities for free play, both in the classroom and outside on our playground. Choices of developmentally appropriate activities are always available.

    Throughout the year, we are visited by a talented musician who lead us in song and movement, a librarian, and parents who share their unique hobbies and cultural heritage.

Environment
    Our school has two spacious sunny classrooms; within the classrooms are a small loft, a water table, a science and cooking area, a housekeeping corner, puzzle tables, floor space for group meetings, a dress up area, easels to paint on, a wood bench, and lots more. You get the idea. Our outdoor playground has an inviting structure for climbing and sliding, a large sandbox and plenty of space for running and bicycling.