Andover’s SHED Offers Nature-Based Pre-K, Kindergarten, Day Programming

On a typical day at SHED Children’s Campus in Andover, children all over the school’s two-acre campus might be gardening. Or climbing. Or cycling, or cooking, or discovering bugs. There really is no typical day at SHED. The preschool, Kindergarten, and after-school program on Phillips Academy campus centers its teaching around nature, using outdoor learning to cultivate children’s curiosity. SHED takes the Reggio Emilia approach to teaching, a child-centered philosophy that values a child’s natural curiosity and sees the child as an active participant in their own education, similar to a Montessori approach. Their clas

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Andover’s SHED Offers Nature-Based Pre-K, Kindergarten, Day Programming

One of the North Shore’s best kept secrets, the Andover school uses the Reggio Emilia philosophy for mindful, nature-based programming.

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