In an intimate and focused learning environment, students are able to realize their individual potential. Through a variety of methods and in a diversity of environments, students build upon their individual strengths. They develop skills for sound judgment and learn how to learn, developing, as they go, their own understanding of the world.

Curriculum Overview

Our curriculum provides students with age-appropriate educational and developmental experiences that encourage them to learn by making connections–between subjects, between home and school, and between each other.
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Signature Programs

Community Service Learning

Human Development 		  K-1 Model

Family Program

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Summer
Camp

The summer camp features age-appropriate activities in athletics, art, music, dramatic play, socialization, special days and field trips. Middle School students serve as Counselors-in-training.
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After-School
Classes

Recent course offerings have included four sports classes, gardening, woodworking, story time, cooking, magic, choir, arts and crafts, newspaper, karate, dance, French, and Brownie Girl Scouting.
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Daycare
 

Turning Point School offers daycare twice daily, from 7:30-8:30 a.m. and from 2:45-6:00 p.m. In the afternoon session, daycare personnel provide a safe, interactive after-school environment in which learning continues, whether it be through stimulating activities for children of Primary age, or through homework supervision for students in Levels K-1 through 8.
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Featured
Program

Community Service Learning

Each grade level has its own community service focus that ties in directly with the umbrella curriculum and developmental needs of the ages involved.

A few examples:

Primary

Collect "gently loved" books to give to children who need them.

K-1

Distribute food to homeless persons in Venice Beach.

Level 2

Visit a retirement home and spend time with elderly friends.

Level 3

Work to restore wetlands as they were when Native Americans lived there.

Level 6

Write intergenerational poetry with senior citizens.

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