Calendar

The Organization of Our Day

Teachers develop a classroom schedule that respects children’s natural rhythms--avoiding excessive transitions that cut into the flow of sustained play and deepened learning. Maintaining continuity and flow means:

  1. Reducing to a minimum the number of group transitions from one activity to another.

  2. Allowing significant amounts of time for uninterrupted free play and project work.

  3. Building flexibility into the classroom schedule to accommodate the extended interest of children in certain activities.

  4. Allowing for flexible teacher supervision between indoors and outdoors, enabling one teacher to facilitate small group work in the classroom while the other teacher supervises the larger group on the playground or piazza.

  5. Helping children with classroom maintenance routines to reduce prolonged cleanup times.

  6. Creating fun ways to move as a group from one activity to another, avoiding any feeling of regimentation (e.g. imitating the movement of animals as opposed to walking obediently in a straight line).

Our image of the child guides how we organize our day. As a community, we must devise schedules that respect children’s natural rhythms, avoiding excessive transitions that cut into the flow of sustained play and deepened learning. Schedules should be flexible to accommodate children’s extended interest in a certain experience.

The Organization of Our School Year

SCHOOL CLOSINGS
2011 - 2012
May 30 - June 3, 2011 Closed for Move-up Week
July 4, 2011 Closed for Independence Day
September 5, 2011 Closed for Labor Day
October 10, 2011 Closed for Fall Workshop
November 24 - 25, 2011 Closed for Thanksgiving
December 23-26, 2011 Closed for Winter Holiday
January 2, 2012 Closed for New Year's Day
January 16, 2012 Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
February 20, 2012 Closed for Spring Workshop
May 28 - June 1, 2012 Closed for Move-up Week
SPECIAL EVENTS
OctoBoo Festival

October 22, 2011
10AM - 1PM

Clairmont location in the parking lot. Enjoy games and food. Tickets will be on sale at the event. Wear your costumes! Please park at the deck.

 

Annual Auction

March 3, 2012
Emory Conference Center Hotel
5PM - 9PM

The Clifton School Annual Auction is hosted by the Parent Council.  This is a catered adult-only event. Bid on child-created art and gifts from The Clifton School community and local vendors during the live and silent auctions. The Clifton School will provide paid child care by reservation. Ticketing information will be posted at a later date.

 

PARENT COUNCIL
2011 - 2012
  Parent Council meetings are held quarterly at alternating locations. Meeting times will be announced in advance.

Inclement Weather

During inclement weather, the School will be open.  The School will be staffed by as many teachers as possible, depending on the number of employees who can overcome the weather conditions and come to work.  However, if Emory and CDC are both closed we will be closed as well.

 

  • child
    "Mimosa"
    Collage, Susanna,
    Age 4
  • child 2
    "Let me take your picture.  Hold still."
    Toddler II
  • summer camper
    "It was fun making my bowl out of clay.   I used my fork to make decorations."
    Summer Camper