Membership benefits

PNS provides children the opportunity to:

• Learn through a play-based environment
• Develop skills and self-mastery needed for kindergarten at their own pace
• Learn to respect each other
• Treat each other with kindness
• Create first friendships
• Be supported within a large, caring community
• Play in the best play yard in town!

 

PNS provides adults the opportunity to:

• Gain a deeper understanding of child development
• Become a more informed and effective parent
• Build lifelong friendships
• Share the highs and lows of parenting in a safe, understanding environment

 

Membership requirements

All families are expected to fulfill their annual membership requirements:

• Work in the classroom one morning per week, under the direction of a credentialed teacher. Workday parents arrive at 9:00am to help the teachers in the day’s preparation and stay until 12:45pm to assist with daily housekeeping and clean-up.
• Attend parent education classes, parent meetings, and potlucks (usually one to two evenings per month).
• Participate in two 4-hour maintenance days on the weekend (one per semester) to help with the general upkeep of our school
• Complete a Membership Job to help with the administrative part of running the school (sample jobs include food shopping, newsletter, fundraising, finance, etc.) 
• Participate in our Fall Carnival and Spring fundraising events (nine hours in the fall, three hours in the spring).
• Payment of tuition
• Submission of emergency information forms before the start of school
• Submission of health forms prior to the start of school (as required by Licensing)