lower school (k-2)

Thank you for taking the time to browse our website and to learn more about St. James’ and what we value as a school.

At St. James’ we hope to inspire and nurture our students to become people who think critically and act compassionately.

Above all else, we hope we hope to inspire in children a curiosity and a yearning to learn every day. We maintain high academic standards throughout the school and recognize the many different ways children learn. Our classrooms in the Lower Elementary at St. James’ are joyful, rigorous, creative, and instruction is based on using what we know to be best practices for young children. Teachers use whole class instruction, small group lessons and individual instruction depending on content and the understanding of the subject matter at hand.   Additionally, our core curriculum and core beliefs describe the many ways we encourage children to be the best they can be and how we integrate subjects in meaningful ways. We foster in children a sense of individuality and simultaneously help them learn to be a part of a larger community, too.

But truly, at the heart of our program, is the wonderfully warm and caring relationship that teachers and students form with each other.  Our teachers set high standards for themselves and their students, yet maintain a safe environment enabling children to feel comfortable in learning from their mistakes. In each classroom in the Lower School we strive to build self-confident, self-reliant and self-disciplined students.

From the moment the children arrive, we work in partnership with our parents to create a safe and stimulating environment for their children. We help children express, their own ideas; we give them tools to build skills in navigating childhood social relationships.

I hope you will visit our campus so that you can see the power of our incredible teachers at work. Please stop by my office and introduce yourself, I would love to meet you and tell you more about St. James’.

Warmly,

Adriane Rothstein
Lower Elementary Director/Admissions
(213) 382-2315 x223
arothstein@sjsla.org