Our faculty follow a Charlotte Mason-inspired pedagogy. Our educational philosophy asserts that children are naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, loving, thoughtfully-prepared environment. Our approach values the human spirit and the development of the whole child- spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and cognitive. We put an emphasis on nature, art, music, and language learning.
PCS Learning Method
The teacher is the guide in the classroom.
The children learn through play-based engagement, both teacher-led and free play.
The monthly lessons are built around multiple themes: nation of the month, Fruit of the Spirit of the month, artist of the month, music of the month.
The weekly lessons are built around letter recognition and phonemic awareness and include: letter of the week, literature of the week, nursery rhyme of the week, Scripture verse of the week, character of the week, and math lesson of the week.
The students are presented with a rich academic curriculum and are affirmed as they engage in the curriculum at their own pace and level of ability/ interest.
The teacher will encourage collaboration, cooperation, and support among students towards each other.
The classroom setting is prepared with multi-sensory materials for independent and small group group exploration.
The student reinforces his/her own learning by repetition of work and thereby fosters an internal feeling of success and accomplishment.
PCS Curriculum
Our core educational program includes all academic subjects plus a weekly time of chapel developed around the nine Fruit of the Spirit led by Eternity’s senior pastor, Brett Deal. As Eternity is an international congregation, we seek to incorporate other cultures and languages in our curriculum through a variety of means. We offer bi-monthly instruction in Capoeira (a form of martial art developed in Brazil), bi-weekly dance instruction (by Elegance in Motion), we teach basic Portuguese throughout the year, and we have monthly mission focus countries to help broaden our student’s geographic and cultural knowledge as well as foster a love and prayer life for Image Bearers who look and live differently than we do.