Come and see where wonder begins.

Join us for a morning in our Junior Kindergarten through Second Grade classrooms, where children first learn to think well, love rightly, and live wisely.

Date: Friday, October 23

Time: 8:00 AM

Place: 12855 Black Mountain Road

Meet the teachers who will know your child by name
Walk the classrooms where the first years happen
Ask us anything about Junior Kindergarten through Second Grade

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A teacher reading aloud to young students at The Cambridge School

Junior kindergarten students at work in the classroom

Young students playing outdoors at recess

Why these years matter

A child is formed before a child is informed.

Between the ages of four and eight, a child learns how to attend, how to remember, and how to belong. The loves and habits that settle in these years are the ones that stay, and a child who learns to listen at five will have little trouble learning at fifteen.

It is also the season of moral imagination, when a story is believed with the whole heart and a good character can be loved before it is understood. Cambridge meets that openness with the true, the good, and the beautiful, so that affection for them is in place long before argument is needed.

What a child learns to love at six becomes the shape of what they love at sixty.

How Cambridge forms them

A young child is a whole person, and we teach the whole of them.

Academics and character grow from the same root here, and our teachers tend both. They are guides who know each child by name, who model what they teach, and who pursue every student with patience and delight.

Language

Words worth keeping

Phonics, poetry, and memory work set good words in a young mind, where they keep company for life. Read-alouds draw children into great stories, and reading becomes something loved before it becomes a task.

Number

The order beneath things

Counting grows into pattern, and pattern into proportion. Children learn that number is a way of seeing the order beneath the world, and they find that order delightful.

Virtue

Habits that become loves

Gratitude, attentiveness, courage, and kindness are practiced daily until they become second nature. Prayer and Scripture shape the day, and home, school, and church share the work of forming each child.

Beauty

Learning with the whole body

Stories are acted out, songs are sung, and lessons are carried out of doors. Living books, music, and art, with paper and pencil close at hand, give young students things worth looking at.

Four years, one arc

From the first school morning to a confident reader.

JKJunior Kindergarten
The first school morning. Rhythm, song, and story teach a small child what it means to belong to a class and to a community.
KKindergarten
Letters and sounds become words, and numbers become quantities. Children learn to listen, to wait their turn, and to begin well.
1stFirst Grade
Reading takes hold. Handwriting, recitation, and the first long stories read aloud give a child a growing store of things to love.
2ndSecond Grade
Confidence arrives. Children read to learn, write with care, and carry their own questions forward with a good deal of wonder intact.

From our families

Hear it from parents who chose these years for their children.

Parent quote"My child is flourishing here and I see the excitement for learning in his classmates as well"

Parent quote"Our family life now has a beautiful congruence, where our children are learning a consistent worldview in school, in church, and at home"

Friday, October 23 · 8:00 AM