Preschool Program
Preston Public School is proud to offer a National Association of the Education of Young Children Accredited preschool experience. Our preschool has been accredited by NAEYC the since 2024.
The Preston Preschool program focuses on 10 standards for high-quality early childhood education. We provide a safe and healthy environment for children and work with a curriculum that is appropriately challenging and developmentally sound.
The mission of our preschool experience is aiming to:
- Promote positive relationships for all children and adults to encourage each child’s sense of individual worth.
- Implement a curriculum that fosters all areas of child development: cognitive, emotional, language, physical, and social.
- Use developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches.
- Provide ongoing assessments of each child’s learning and development and communicate the child’s progress to the family.
- Promote the nutrition and health of children and protect children and staff from illness and injury.
- Employ and support a teaching staff that has the educational qualifications, knowledge, and professional commitment necessary to promote children’s learning and development and to support families’ diverse interests and needs.
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with each child’s family.
- Establish relationships with and use the resources of the community to support achievement of program goals.
- Provide a safe and healthy physical environment.
- Implement strong personnel, fiscal, and program management policies so that all children, families, and staff have high-quality experiences.
If you need more information about our preschool program, please contact our PVMS office at: 860-887-3113