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Philosophy & Goals

Making the Right Choice

We understand the struggle that many parents endure as they decide on an early childhood program. Parents wonder if any institution can be trusted to care for and protect their children with the extreme care that parents themselves would.

The Early Childhood Program Overview

The Laurel Hill School’s early childhood programs are consistent with the school’s 40-plus-year tradition of providing top-quality, child-centered education, the early childhood programs offer a safe and vibrant space in which your child will flourish during the first, all-important months and years of life. Your child’s physical and nutritional health needs are always fully met at Laurel Hill. And the total environment of your child’s’s day is authentically warm, inviting and nurturing without compromise!

Prepared through the early childhood experiences at Laurel Hill, your child will be helped to establish the primary foundations of intellectual and personality development. The earliest experiences set the stage for ongoing healthy growth throughout childhood and into adolescence and adulthood. Laurel Hill is your partner in attaining the very best care for your child during these most tender and precious years.

Infancy and the early years are all about establishing selfhood and security through safe and loving bonds with others, and maximizing the capacities of all five senses to interpret the environment. Laurel Hill offers the very best in both essential domains of development – emotional and cognitive. Your child will be treasured by his or her Laurel Hill caregivers, and will always feel secure and supported by loving hands.

The early childhood programs embraces the school’s long tradition of individualized care. Current thinking in child development emphasizes that educators and caregivers must attend both to the universals of development, including major cognitive and motor milestones, and to each child’s unique pace and pattern within that framework. Our approach to each child is attuned to his or her needs – physical, intellectual and emotional. We understand the struggle that many parents endure as they decide on a preschool program. Be assured that our fully individualized program maximizes our ability to access and actualize each child’s potential.

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LHS is a recognized New York State private school, located in Suffolk County, Long Island.

 

 


 

 

Parent Bravos

Here is a small sample of some of the  beautiful comments from our Parents

From a 6th Grade Parent:

Dear Mr and Mrs Stark,
And all our wonderful LHS teachers! We want to support all parents in sending our deepest gratitude for giving our kids some sense of normalcy during these very challenging times.
It’s very important for us to know that while my husband, as many other ICU doctors and nurses, are fighting every day with this vicious disease, our children can still follow their routine, learn, and communicate with their teachers and friends. It helps us, parents, and it definitely helps kids to continue their growth as individuals.
I see excitement in (our daughter’s) eyes when she is getting ready for school in the morning, when she is running to the printer to get an assignment, or just talking to her friends during breaks.
Thank you so much to every single one of you!
 
 

From a 3YR Old Parent:

“We wanted to say thank you for accommodating the preschool families with the tuition suspension during this time.
We are also amazed (and truly grateful) that the zoom on- line learning format is continuing despite the circumstances.
I know this is not an easy time for businesses, organizations etc. If there is anything at all we can do to help the school during this time or once we return, please let us know. Maybe a fundraiser or maybe there is something we can do for our individual teachers. Just brainstorming…
Finally, some thoughts as we’ve entered week 3 of zoom/on-line learning. It’s been such a wonderful experience participating in our kids’ learning! Yes managing working from home and helping with homeschool can be exciting… but I’ve enjoyed seeing firsthand how dedicated our teachers are to not only teaching and providing additional resources to enhance learning, but also doing it with such great enthusiasm.
 There’s a great sense of community and collaboration between administration, teachers and parents, and it is evident that our main goal is how to make this experience the best it can possibly be.
How lucky are we to have such amazingly dedicated teachers in our kids’ lives! How blessed are we to be part of the
Laurel Hill family!
In the midst of chaos you have given us a sense of normalcy and we are genuinely appreciative of all your efforts.
 
 

 

 
 
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As Charles Dickens famously observed…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .
it was the season of darkness,
it was the spring of hope . . .
We at Laurel Hill live “the best of times” every day because we are blessed by the beauty, by the serene innocence, and by the precocity of our boys and girls.
We at Laurel Hill live “the best of times” every day for the blessing of totally dedicated teachers and support staff who clearly know why they selected to do what they do in career and in life and give, and give, and give tirelessly to fulfill their greatest ambitions for their children’s growth and well being.
We at Laurel Hill live “the best of times” because we are blessed to have families joined with us to support and to build – partners in turning great ideas into great accomplishments, partners ready to share their skills and to help in the work that needs to be done.
 
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
 
FROM A TEACHER….
Ms. Bond’s Zoom Classroom
Never in my teaching career would I have thought that I would need to teach elementary class via online classes. Yet, here we are in uncertain times, teaching in a media platform that is geared towards the children of this generation.
As apprehensive as I was before the first day of Zoom (I woke up a number of times during the night like it was my first day of school!), I now feel energized and excited about what we are able to do with the Zoom program. I’ve found that I’ve been able to keep most of my teaching the same as when it is a live class! In Reading, we’ve done an author study and vocabulary work in just three days! I am so proud of how much hard work my students continue to do while they are at home!
FROM A PARENT…..
I hope this email finds you well and safe. I have been thinking about you & Mr. Stark often and must first apologize for the time lapse in reaching out to express my deepest gratitude. I can’t believe that we have just completed 3 weeks of successful and engaging remote learning. Your steadfast leadership at the onset of this crisis was inspiring. As this crisis turned into a nationwide tragic pandemic, your engaging and detailed remote learning program did not waiver. In fact, it strengthened! Our children were the lucky ones to maintain a sense of normalcy with their routine schedule and engaging “live” classes with all of their treasured teachers and classmate friends.