Lower School
Letter from the Director
Children’s minds are naturally full of curiosity and wonder and at Palisades Episcopal School, we nurture and cultivate this innate enthusiasm for learning so that it will serve our students for their entire lives. By focusing on the art of learning and the value of character, we instill enthusiasm, responsibility, and strong moral character in our students, while equipping them to excel both academically and socially.
On any given day our campus is buzzing with laughter, singing, painting, writing, investigating with experiments and hands on learning. Classical education is separated into three learning levels called the trivium: grammar, diatetic and rhetoric. Our Lower School embraces the grammar stage by instilling wisdom and a love for learning at a very young age. Children are like sponges and should be filled to the brim with an excitement about God’s creation. Our Lower School’s role in the trivium is to provide a solid foundation that will carry over to the diatectic and rhetoric stage of our student’s learning. Our faculty and staff have a true gift of nurturing and challenging each child so they can reach their highest potential.
Our children are taught how to think instead of what to think. Through individual and small group instruction, projects and real-life experiences, we promote learning as a life long process while guiding our children on the path to becoming independent thinkers.
Helping children develop a strong moral compass to guide them through life is also a priority at Palisades Episcopal School. Children are lifted up for making the right choices and shown that their actions matter. Palisades Episcopal School is a safe, loving and challenging environment that enables a child to be who God created them to be.
I hope you will take the opportunity to see for yourself the amazing children, supportive parents, dedicated faculty and staff, and the interactive Head of School and Board of Trustees at Palisades Episcopal School. You will find yourself not wanting to leave. We hope to see you soon.
Blessings,
Cathy Corley
Lower School Director/2nd Grade Teacher