school life

Overview
The Suzuki School is a preparatory preschool, committed to providing the very young with the best in Early Childhood education. Our belief in the innate ability and talent of every child has guided us to create an environment rich in language, discovery and stimulation. The school has two campuses located in the heart of Buckhead, which both operate from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday. The hours of 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM constitute the academic portion of the day; the hours before and after this time incorporate times of child-centered learning and play.

Our school educates and cares for children from infancy through Kindergarten. Our Infant Program is designed for babies and young toddlers.   Our Pre-Primary Program is designed for two- to three-year olds.   Our Primary Program is designed for children three years up to six years of age.

Early stimulation of a child’s brain has been shown to maximize the child’s learning potential; this is at the core of the Suzuki philosophy. We find that our students thrive when they are exposed to appropriate and stimulating materials and programs. We believe that early stimulation should start at infancy since the lessons learned at that age will shape the child’s subsequent learning ability.

Our Teachers are trained in early childhood development, and each teaching team collaborates to plan lessons and provide an enriching and stimulating experience for our students. These teams, comprised of four to seven teachers, collaborate to provide a highly interesting and stimulating learning environment for our students. Our experience has found that when a teaching team interacts with your child, each teacher can recognize and nurture something unique and valuable in your child’s developmental journey. Each team member teaches a specialized subject while collaborating with co-teachers in every other area. Our low pupil-teacher ratio enables our teachers to provide our children with sensitive, responsive care and academic preparation. Such individualized care and instruction provides a secure foundation for a child’s emotional and cognitive development and prepares each student for the educational journey ahead.

Thoughtfully designed classrooms expose children to a deep appreciation for creative endeavors, order and tranquility. Each classroom is designed to be aesthetically beautiful as well as functional. As children are exposed to beauty in color, form and context, they are imbued with an appreciation of the object. That, in turn, stimulates their perception and understanding.

Quality materials, designed to stimulate and develop physical, language and cognitive growth, are central to our program. We develop or acquire top quality educational materials from a variety of sources.

A spiral curriculum, tailored to the needs of each class level, allows our students to build and reinforce skills previously learned. Each school year the curriculum taught and materials used are tailored based on the age ranges of the children in the class level. Keeping these factors in mind, we have designed each classroom to be flexible in arrangement and usage and in the classroom’s goals and the associated curriculum for each school year.

Most of our students have been in our enriched environment since infancy. Because our Suzuki philosophy states that the teacher will be guided by the student as she or he seeks new experiences or knowledge, you will find that the materials and curricula used in the classrooms are very often more advanced than those found in more traditional environments. For example, our Kindergarten students use materials for math, handwriting and phonics which were developed for first grade classrooms; our four-year old students learn with materials developed for Kindergarten.