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Students at The Haverford School recently connected with people from around the world – all without leaving campus.
Lower School
In Haverford's Lower School, a pre-kindergarten-fifth grade elementary school, your family will be part of a community that strives each and every day to understand your son’s abilities, strengths, and areas of development.
Our best for boys approach to learning, including sensory-rich lessons, open classroom spaces, and twice-daily recesses, celebrates boys’ innate need for movement and activity, resulting in more focused and engaged learning. Through an emphasis on reading and writing, expressive language, fine motor development, and physical, social, and emotional growth, a Haverford boy becomes his best self.
Learn more about our research-based approach to teaching reading: watch this Facebook live video of a kindergarten structured literacy lesson or read Head of Lower School Dr. Greenblatt's op-ed in the Inquirer about the science of reading.
Meet Fisher, fourth grade
Lower School Happenings
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Students at The Haverford School led multiple service programs supporting area organizations throughout the winter, including an all-school day of service and celebration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Why aren’t our children learning to read? At its debut, the Common Core gave hope that we could improve the reading, writing, and math outcomes of American children being outpaced by their international peers. Read more about the science of reading in this opinion piece by Dr. Pam Greenblatt, Head of Lower School and Nichole Pugliese, Director of the Enrichment and Learning Center >
![Philadelphia Inquirer: Director of Diversity and Inclusion Brendon Jobs]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1575388141/haverfordschool/ijmsnbehf4ve69fzilju/BrendonJobs.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1575388141/haverfordschool/ijmsnbehf4ve69fzilju/BrendonJobs.jpg","width":432}])
Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Antiracist’ made me, a black educator, change my definition of racism | Perspective. Read Brendon Jobs' Opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer >
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"What do we do with the plastic we've already collected from the oceans?" "How much research did it take both of you to make that magazine?" Fifth-grade science students asked questions as part of a live onscreen spot during yesterday's live GeoChallenge mapping event with Alex Tait, a National Geographic geographer.