If tuition payment is not received by June 1, 2008, you will forfeit your preschool spot for the 2008-2009 preschool year. This tuition payment is non-refundable unless your family is moving out of the metropolitan Charlotte area and 30 days notice is given. The remaining eight tuition payments are due on the 1st of each month, starting September 1, 2008.


Registration Fees are non refundable and due at registration.

			St. Stephen United Methodist Preschool Lucius Nivens, Director 704-365-4116 Registration for the 08-09 school year is Wednesday, February 13 in the gym. This registration is for children not in the program already: For church members: 9:00-9:30am Open to the public 9:45am-12pm If interested, please stop by the preschool office during preschool hours and pick up the registration forms and information. Contents Introduction Hours of Operation Immunizations Orientation Fees Scholarship Enrollment Goals of Our Curriculum Introduction St. Stephen United Methodist Preschool is self -administered by the Weekday Preschool Committee with St. Stephen United Methodist Church supplying (without financial obligation) space and utilities and the Preschool being offered as an outreach ministry to the community. The directors of the preschool are chosen by the Preschool Committee but work with the Church Council and the Educational Work Area to provide liaison between the two bodies. Hours of Operation 9am-12pm with the option of staying for lunch until 1pm. Preschool operates on the September-May schedule, excluding public school holidays stated in the handbook. Click here for the 2007 Preschool Calendar. Immunizations Children's immunization records are due at the beginning of the school year. Orientation We will have an Open House for the children prior to the beginning of school, and also a Parent Orientation one evening. Tuition, Registration Fees, and Activity Fees (2008-09) Please note that if your child is currently registered at St. Stephen Preschool, all fees and tuition payments must be paid and current before registration for the upcoming year. Tuition Fees (9am-1pm) 2 days $200.00 3 days $230.00 4 days $255.00 5 days $270.00 Transitional class (5 days) $290.00

Toddlers	4 to 1 or 8 to 2
Twos	6 to 1 or 12 to 2
Threes	8 to 1 or 16 to 2
Fours	8 to 1 or 16 to 2
Transitional	16 to 2

Goals of Our Curriculum
The most important goal of our early childhood curriculum is to help children become enthusiastic learners. Our curriculum is based on the philosophy that young children learn best by doing. Learning requires active experimenting and thinking to find out how things work and is not just repeating what someone else says. Play is the "doing" that provides the foundation for academic or "school" learning. Our curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development:

• Spiritual: To help children be aware that they are a child of God and therefore worthy of love, acceptance, and support.
• Social: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their new environment, make friends, and feel they are a part of the group.
• Emotional: To help children experience pride and self-confidence, develop independence and self control, and have a positive attitude toward life.
• Cognitive: To help children become confident learners by letting them try out their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings.
• Physical: To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.
  

For more information, call the Preschool Office at 704/365-4116.

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Last updated Friday, February 01, 2008