Lower School
Curious | Empathetic | Resourceful
A Child's natural curiosity and imagination is the starting place for all education.
Our private elementary school in Naples is a place of exploration and discovery. Seacrest classrooms are buzzing with activity as students move around the room utilizing learning centers. Students are encouraged to stretch their minds and take on intellectual challenges. Students develop important reading, writing and speaking skills. Classroom work is enhanced by work in the gardens and in the STEAM Lab.
Beyond the academic realm Seacrest Lower School students are encouraged to develop strong collaborative skills in order to work in teams and to understand their role as members of our community. Deliberately small classes help students to understand and utilize empathy, compassion, and active listening.
Hallmarks of the Lower School Experience
- Integrative Academic Experience
- Mathematics
- Humanities
- Spanish
- Service, Character, and Ethics
- Thoughtful Technology Use
- A Rich Community Experience
- Healthy Living
Integrative Academic Experience
Mathematics
Humanities
Spanish
Service, Character, and Ethics
Thoughtful Technology Use
A Rich Community Experience
Healthy Living
"Imagine a school in which children would explore, experiment, create, and discover; where children would learn to respect and help each other; where minds would be stretched and strengthened; where information would be experienced and practiced."Dr. Jane Kern, Seacrest Founder
The World is our Classroom.
Lower School is a place of exploration and discovery where love of learning and empathy take root.
Indoor and outdoor learning are balanced with field trips and experiential learning.
Cultivating a Growth Mindset
This may be hard, but I can do it
With a growth mindset our students' most basic abilities are developed through dedication and hard work–brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.
The Lower School faculty’s approach to your child’s education involves an intellectually challenging program, recognizing the individual in each student, while using techniques aimed at his or her emotional, intellectual and physical development.
Small class sizes allow students to work closely with their teachers getting the attention they deserve to discover their strengths and talents. Faculty members help develop each studen'ts potential and love for learning in a safe and academically rich school environment.
Math Mastery
In 2019 Seacrest took a deep look at how math is taught in the United States. Why do people accept that math is hard and that it's ok to be "bad at math?” Nobody accepts that for reading.
We have a full time Math coordinator with a Math Hub in our state of the art STEAM lab. Our Lower School mathematicians are immersed in problem-based learning through mathematics experiences at Seacrest. Whether counting, patterning, efficiently modeling multi-digit numbers, justifying thinking, building relationships between operations, strategically planning floor plans using formulas, applying mathematical operations to consumer math, or fluently multiplying to determine fractional equivalence, our Lower School students are growing their mathematical minds.
Much like the seasons in a year, this process happens slowly through the cultivation of foundational skills, mathematical mindset, vocabulary, number sense, perseverance, and focus. It happens over time and surprises us with its joys. Our students are becoming analytical mathematical thinkers.
The focused and coherent math program paired with the professional Lower School faculty’s expertise set firm mathematical foundations in our Lower School students over the course of the academic school year.
Our student's MAP testing scores have increased each year, with Seacrest student's performing well above the national average in Math.
Seacrest Enrichment Programs
S.E.A.
Seacrest offers an exciting afterschool program, Seacrest Enrichment Activities or S.E.A., designed to offer students meaningful and fun opportunities to learn when the school day is over. S.E.A. activities are led by faculty, professionals in the community, and our own varsity coaches. There is an activity for every grade level.
There are four sessions throughout the year, and there is a cost to enroll your student. Offerings may include: soccer, LEGO robotics, Mad Science, Yoga, Baking, Book Club and Art, Dance, Pottery, and more.
Before and Afterschool Care
7:30 to 5:30 extended hours
Early drop off is available at no cost to parents.
In addition, Seacrest has an Aftercare program for parents who may need until 5:30 p.m. to pick their child up from school. This service has a fee based on frequency of use.