We strive to incorporate the 4 C's - Competency, Compassion, Creativity, and Collaboration: Competency is reflected in problem solving as students are encouraged to dive deep into concepts with student led inquiry using critical thinking. The purpose of education is to provide wings to students, encouraging them to try, and providing a safe place to fail and try again. Compassion is developing Godly character by practicing empathy, love, and serving others. While focusing on real world problem solving, using STEAM principles, we are able to engage students in ministry and missions, as they love and serve in their community and the world. Creativity is important as we reflect His Image, so it is at the core of innovation and invention. As students ask big questions, we encourage innovation and invention to address inquiry. We call upon science, technology, design and math to create solutions to these authentic questions. Collaboration is practiced as we work together to refine social and emotional skills, while accomplishing the common goal. We are part of the body of Christ and as such, we live to love and serve others. Being in community is the purpose of our God, and we are blessed to learn together and lead together.
Challenger School has been inspiring children to achieve since 1963. Challenger School Sunnyvale is a Sunnyvale private school with unmatched academic results. Challenger students typically score in the top 10% nationally on the Iowa Assessment. Start early and start right. Explore our preschool curriculum. We offer preschool year-round from as early as 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Our preschool programs are a surprisingly affordable alternative to daycare and can fit with your schedule. Children 2 years and 9 months or older are eligible for our preschool programs. Our Sunnyvale campus offers elementary school for kindergarten through eighth grade. Schedule a tour today to discover the Challenger difference. Conveniently located in Sunnyvale, CA.
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Lower School is a private school for Transitional Kindergarten through Grade 5 in Sunnyvale. Set in a region built on curiosity and innovation, expert teachers guide our Cognia-accredited, spiraling liberal arts and sciences curriculum, building real depth of understanding. Elementary School students take on responsibility for their own learning each year, growing steadily more confident and self-directed. That growth is celebrated inside a warm, unpretentious environment where fearless thinkers are cultivated.
At SPHDS we recognize that each student is unique, therefore we are committed to work with each of our children as individuals to foster self-esteem and to deepen their sense of personal and communal responsibility. We are proud of our students that start to learn Hebrew language in the earliest grades. Our goal is to provide them with a high degree of bilingualism, providing enriched learning experience in Jewish history, culture and religion.
1 maintain a safe, caring, and nurturing setting for learning and growth,. 2 design an academic program that is suited to each child's individual developmental stage, 3 provide inquiry based learning that inspires the hearts and minds of students, 4 promote assimilation and practice of values such as cooperation, generosity, self discipline, consideration and responsibility, 5 build a sense of community through students' involvement in community service projects, 6 integrate into the curriculum a variety of technologies for use in a rapidly changing society, 7 extend respect of the child, family, community to the environment with an understanding of ecology and 8 offer a complete academic program to all children without discrimination on the basis of color, ethnic background, national origin, race, religion or gender.
