Home School Resource Program

 

Mission: To market our curriculum, enrichment, arts, and athletics programs to home school families in South Palm Beach County (Lake Worth to Boca Raton).

 

History: Saint Joseph's Episcopal School is in its fifty-first year of providing an excellent academic, athletic, and artistic experience for our students and the community. We are able to provide an outstanding educational setting, programs, and materials for our students. We accomplish this with the support of our Board of Trustees, parents, faculty, and the community.

As a result of our successful community outreach efforts, we discovered that we can enhance the home school curriculum currently being used by area home school students (ages Pre-K to 8th grade). Our curriculum, enrichment, arts, and athletic programs are unparalleled, and we invite home school families to enhance their current educational objectives by joining us for some or all of these programs at Saint Joseph's.

Saint Joseph's curriculum and campus is designed to provide an academically stimulating environment that honors individual learning styles and promotes social and emotional intelligence.

 

Curriculum and Programs:

The following programs and opportunities are available at Saint Joseph's:

ENRICHMENT:

Saint Joseph's strives to provide enrichment programs to our students outside the classroom. Some of the activities include:

• Junior Kindergarten/Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten - Tiny Tots Etiquette, Karate, Tennis, and Baton.
  
  
• Lower School - Actors Workshop is a program for students that teaches them to read, memorize, and present a monologue, Mind Lab is a program for students using specially selected strategy games from around the world designed to help develop critical thinking skills, life skills, and personal qualities, Lacrosse, Baton, Karate, Tennis, and Tournament Level Tennis.
  
  
• Middle School - Karate, Tennis, and Tournament Level Tennis.
  
  

THE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS:

Saint Joseph's provides a vivid and stimulating arts program touching on all mediums - visual arts, music, and drama.

• Visual Arts, Pre-K - the curriculum developed for art provides the students with many ideas for creative activities that are introduced to the children as fun, hands-on learning experiences. Each activity gives students the opportunity to work independently while improving certain skills that are vital to preschool children's development. Some examples include working/kneading clay or model magic, scissor safety, painting, manipulatives, and more.
  
  
• Visual Arts, Junior Kindergarten - the fine arts program teaches art concepts and skills through an experience based approach. Students will be introduced to elements and principals of design. We cover differences in shapes and forms, differences in light (tints) and dark (shades), lines, primary /secondary / tertiary colors, texture, balance, symmetry, and space.
  
  
• Elementary School - Students are exposed to famous works and styles of art to develop an art vocabulary, while also honing their skills and techniques with a variety of art materials. Creativity and self-expression are encouraged.
  
  
• Middle School - Students express themselves through art while honing their skills and techniques with a variety of art materials. Good craftsmanship, art history, culture, creative expression, and aesthetic perception are covered.
  
  
• Private Music Lessons, Pre-K, JK and Elementary - Students are introduced to concepts that most schools wait until the students are much older, including the basics of reading music, counting rhythms, note identification, choreography, singing, music thereoy, introduction to instruments, performing etiquette, and much more. All piano and singing books that are used are in alignment with the well known, local performing arts schools. All lessons are taught privately through scheduled sessions agreed upon with the parent and teacher.
  
  
• Drama, Middle School - The drama curriculum focuses on performance goals in addition to an annual school play. Specific learning objectives including stage terms, use of props, scene presentation, characterization, poise in body and voice in public speaking, and much more.
  
  

ATHLETICS:

Saint Joseph's believes that athletics provides important opportunities to teach students the value of team work, school pride, self-discipline, healthy competition, and time management.

• Sports Program - A training atmosphere is created in which each player is able to achieve success. A competitive environment will be provided that will be inclusive of every student who desires to play the sport, regardless of athletic ability or knowledge of the game. Each player will thereby develop according to his/her technical and tactical abilities, and be nurtured to reach his/her fullest potential. Athletic instruction will be given in a caring environment so high self-esteem, positive attitudes, and good sportsmanship will be the focus. Competitive sports offered include Flag Football- Boys, Volleyball- Girls, Basketball- Boys and Girls, Soccer- Boys and Girls, Softball- Girls, Baseball- Boys, Tennis- Boys and Girls, Lacrosse- Boys.

CURRICULUM GUIDANCE:

Our Head of School, Tami Pleasanton, is available to offer curriculum guidance and student study support programs to assist students in achieving a top notch, advanced curriculum. Mrs. Pleasanton has published a book entitled the Study Skills Tool Kit, which is an interactive workbook that helps students learn to better manage time, study more efficiently, and handle stress that comes with everyday school and life situations. Mrs. Pleasanton will use this publication to assist parents and students by teaching methods and processes in which to strengthen study habits.

SUMMER CAMP:

Our Arts and Athletics Summer Camp is an exciting annual program that exposes children to a wide variety of performance and athletic opportunities. Children experience and participate in lacrosse, soccer, basketball, tennis, flag football, karate, music, drama, volleyball, dance, arts and crafts, and other activity-based events. The Arts and Athletics Summer Camp serves students ages 5-12 and runs from 8:00 to 4:00 pm daily for 8 weeks during the summer.

Accreditation:
  The Florida Council of Independent Schools
  Florida Kindergarten Council

Tuition and Fees:
$50 registration/application fee (student application, admission form, and a copy of the medicals are required).
Regular school day special classes (art, physical education, music, library, etc.) are $10 a session (most sessions are 45 minutes)
Invoice is sent to families at the end of the month for the classes attended.

Academy of the Arts:
Middle School has drama on Tuesdays for the first half of the school year and stage craft class for the second half of the school year on Thursdays.

Priviate or Semi-Private Music Lessons:
Lessons are available in piano, strings, guitar, and voice.
Fee paid directly to instructor.

Afterschool Enrichment Classes:
Programs include karate, tennis, baton, lacrosse, mind lab, etc.
Programs fill quickly and fees are listed individually for programs.

To Enroll or for More Information:
Saint Joseph's Episcopal School
Mary Aperavich, Director of Admissions & Enrollment
(561) 732-2045 or Maperavich@sjsonline.org