About Watchung
Watchung School serves over 400 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Watchung School has a long tradition of excellence serving a highly diverse population of students. To best prepare our students for these ever-evolving times, Watchung School integrates its curricula with the methods of problem-based learning. The science curriculum offers hands-on activities including weekly lessons in a state-of-the-art STEAM lab and greenhouse. The Watchung Greenhouse has a Hydroponics system, which is a powerful addition to our magnet theme. Students learn about this process of growing plants without soil, which is environmentally friendly and increasingly important to our sustainability. The core curriculum at Watchung School infuses problem-based learning activities at all grade levels to ensure students are learning to think critically and be problem solvers.
Vision Statement
Watchung School students will graduate equipped with skills to be independent life-long learners. Students will demonstrate compassion for others and their environment through an understanding about the interdependence of all living things. Students will be critical thinkers, problem solvers and curious about how things work.
Watchung School Core Values
Be a Problem Solver
- We are curious.
- We are critical thinkers.
- We are risk takers.
Be Respectful
- We are compassionate.
- We are listeners.
- We are accountable.
Be Independent
- We are passionate about our interests/talents.
- We are developing the skills needed to obtain our goals.
- We strive to be life-long learners.
OVERARCHING GOALS:
· Ensure students are able to develop the skills necessary to achieve grade level standards
· Cultivate an equitable, welcoming, safe, healthy and inclusive school community where students will embody positive character traits within the school setting and the community at large
· Engage all students to establish and achieve personal goals
· Establish effective communication, engagement and involvement of students and families