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We explore the great outdoors

 

Our Summer Nursery is a great way to keep busy learning, exploring and having fun year-round! Our program features play as a vehicle for learning while engaging the imaginative, growing minds of this age.

 

Specifically designed for 3-year olds, our experienced faculty guide children through a program that cultivates curiosity and builds confidence.

While the program has an outdoor focus, it also takes advantage of our indoor campus, giving children a mix of outdoor play and a break from the sun, including swimming.

Here are highlights from one week’s activities:

  • Our raised gardens were maintained by the children. Soon, we’ll be planting more starters and enjoying the sugar snap peas that will be ready to eat.
  • We don’t waste anything! A new drum deck is being installed outside and the dirt was moved to where the children could use it to dig and incorporate into their play.
  • Swimming with our experienced coaches to foster skills and enjoyment in the water.

 

Each two week session is led by our team of experienced faculty. The sessions are themed, giving faculty a vehicle for teaching pre-academic skills.

 

For example, growing tomatoes includes the study of the life cycle. Our kids observe as scientists, practice counting, and problem solve as they learn when and how to pick their crop.

 

Summertime is an active learning environment that is developmentally appropriate for toddlers. Our Nursery students love school. Joy in Learning!

 

Students may create independent studies with supervising teachers throughout their Upper School experience or, during Grade 12, they can design Capstone projects—intensive collaborations with Harley faculty and off-campus mentors—involving rigorous academic study and culminating in public presentations. They are empowered to create their own curriculum, set goals, and work on time management skills in order to accomplish their objectives.

Independent Studies run the gamut from The Psychology of Sports to Furniture Design to The Neuroimaging of Alzheimer’s Disease. Capstones, meanwhile, are as diverse as the students who pursue them: Fictional Rochester, Autobiographical Art, Biomimicry Education, Organic Fuel, and Rochester Refugees. 

Indicative of Upper School curiosity and creativity, pursuits such as these distinguish our graduates in college. Through deep dives of this sort, Harley students master more than speaking, writing, and computing: they learn to communicate, advocate, collaborate, organize, listen, and empathize. 

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In Every Issue

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Diane Donniger Award

By the Numbers

From the Archives

What’s (Who’s) New at Harley

Divisional Highlights

Alumni Profile: Vandebroek

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HAC Athletics

2021 Lives of Great Purpose Awards

1000 Words

Commencement 2022

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