Admission season for independent schools is well underway. While families look forward to campus tours and face-to-face interviews during a school search, COVID-19 health and safety modifications require these activities to look a little different this year.
What to Expect During the Pine Crest School Virtual Admission Process
Topics: Lower School, Upper School, Admission, Middle School, 2020
Using Summertime to Prepare Your Child for Pre-Kindergarten
Setting your child up for success begins with you! As a parent, you are your child’s very first teacher. School readiness is not just about learning the ABCs and 123s—young children need to learn skills such as: listening to a set of instructions, following multi-step directions, becoming comfortable with routines, sitting quietly for whole group instruction, keeping hands to themselves, and self-regulation.
Topics: Lower School, Pre-kindergarten, Pine Crest School, Fine Motor Skills
Planning Your Admission Visit to Pine Crest School
An important part of applying for admission to an independent school is getting to know the school and assessing if it is right for your family.
Topics: Lower School, Upper School, Admission, Pre-kindergarten, Middle School, Pine Crest School, Pine Crest Summer
How Students Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset
At Pine Crest School, we believe our students must learn to be as agile and adaptable as possible.
High-brain human traits such as global understanding and empathy, deep thinking and learning, and complex problem-solving mindset through collaboration will distinguish our students and set them up for success.
Topics: Alumni Newsletter, Lower School, Upper School, Student Life, Middle School, Design Thinking, Pine Crest School, Entrepreneurship
Why Parents and Campers Choose Pine Crest Summer
Topics: Lower School, Fine Arts, Middle School, Robotics, Campus Safety, Pine Crest School, Computer Science, Music, Science, STEM, Digital Media Production, Pine Crest Summer
Summer Fun at Pine Crest’s Traditional Day Camp
As one of South Florida’s longest running summer programs, Pine Crest Summer offers campers ages 4 to 14 a fun and safe environment to play and learn.
Pine Crest Summer offers over 50 camps across our campuses in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale - camps in the arts, sports, academics, and signature programs like traditional day camp.
One of our most loved programs, traditional day camp combines all of the elements of summer from swimming, playing games, and making crafts.
What parents love about traditional day camp is the opportunity to pair it with tennis lessons or Elevate, an academic camp geared towards our youngest campers in kindergarten through grade 5. Elevate serves as both a review and extension of grade-level skills based on the needs of the students.
Topics: Lower School, Middle School, Campus Safety, Pine Crest School, Pine Crest Summer
Four Reasons to Attend Pine Crest Fine Arts Camp this Summer
Do you have a budding artist at home? Does your child sing into a hairbrush, put on shows in the living room, or spend hours editing footage he or she filmed on a cell phone?
Topics: Lower School, Fine Arts, Middle School, 2019, Pine Crest School, Music, Digital Media Production, Pine Crest Summer
The Evolution of Music Education: 14 Years of Musical Growth
Topics: Lower School, Upper School, Faculty, Admission, Middle School, 2019, Pine Crest Fund, Pine Crest School, Music, Pine Crest Summer
Top Tools for Techy Tots: Computer Science & Robotics in the Pre-Primary Classroom
Today’s pre-primary aged students are presented with a variety of different tech tools, many of which we use at Pine Crest School.
Topics: Lower School, Innovation, Faculty, Pre-kindergarten, Innovation Institute, 2019, Robotics, Pine Crest School, Computer Science
Pine Crest Summer: Registration Open for Summer Fun and Learning
The Pine Crest Summer team has assembled spectacular opportunities for students to enjoy during the summer months!
Camp favorites, including fine arts and band, general and specialty sports, and robotics and STEM, are being offered on the Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale campuses.
Panther Campers for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students is back on our Boca Raton campus, and our day camp, which takes place on the Fort Lauderdale campus and attracts students from around the world, returns for the 61st year!
Topics: Lower School, Middle School, 2019, Pine Crest Summer
Building Teamwork and Imaginative Thinking through Competitive Robotics
Pine Crest formed the School’s first-ever Lower and Middle School FIRSTⓇ LEGO LeagueⓇ (FLL) competitive teams four years ago, and since then, the Panthers have formed eight teams who have made their mark on the South Florida region.
Topics: Lower School, Innovation, Student Life, Middle School, Innovation Institute, 2019, Academics, Robotics
Five Tips To Building Resilience in Young Coders
Topics: Lower School, Innovation, Faculty, Innovation Institute
Experiencing 14 Years of Dance at Pine Crest School
By Emily Roy ’20
Dance is one of seven Fine Arts offerings at Pine Crest School. From pre-kindergarten through grade twelve, students are exposed to different forms of dance that increase in difficulty over time.
Topics: 2018, Lower School, Upper School, Student Life, Pre-kindergarten, Fine Arts, Middle School, Dance, Pine Crest Summer
Topics: 2018, Lower School, Upper School, Student Life, Admission, Pre-kindergarten, Middle School
Why You Should Invest in Pre-Kindergarten
Topics: 2018, Lower School, Admission, Pre-kindergarten
Why We Teach Computer Science in Pre-Kindergarten at Pine Crest School
When you think of a pre-kindergarten curriculum, subjects that may come to mind are reading, writing, and math. However, in 2015 as part of the 2014-19 Strategic Plan, Pine Crest School launched a new computer science program that started with our pre-kindergarteners on both our Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale campuses.
Topics: Lower School, Innovation, Student Life, Admission