Avery and Adele describe Country Day School's approach to raising confident, kind kids. The school teaches character traits like empathy and leadership alongside academics, with 4th graders showing what the lower-school program builds. Both emphasize helping students understand themselves and the world so they can make a positive impact.
Bravery and hardworking. Over here, do your best. We wrote down things that you should follow to help you be a better person in general. We wrote things that you should believe and like to believe in yourself, be who you are.
I think one of the beautiful things about the Country Day experience is that we don't only value the academic side of the child but also the whole person. And so So there's a very intentional curriculum that's built around things like building kindness, empathy, leadership, etc. And in your 4th graders, you see the sort of culmination of that lower school experience.
Most girls think that boys are disgusting. I'm just gonna say it. But they're— we're all one community, and if we act as separate groups, then it's not gonna really get us anywhere.
You want your child to to be somebody who has an understanding of themselves, has an understanding of the larger world, and has the skill set to go out there and leave the world a better place than they found it. And I think at Country Day, you see kids develop those skills, develop those insights, and go out into the world and really leave a huge positive impact.
Country Day really helps you believe in yourself. That's just the bottom line. So, yeah.
