BMPC Weekday School
The Weekday School has been an integral part of the Black Mountain Community since 1984. We are a half-day preschool open from 8:30am-12:30pm, serving children ages one through five for the academic year, September through May.
About Us
Through a warm accepting climate and an enriching program, we hope to give children a natural step from home to school. To achieve this, we believe that the teaching methods and techniques used must be based on a proper understanding of child development and how young children learn. Our school is committed to a program consistent with the highest standards of early childhood education in which the Christian faith is shared by children and teachers.
Our Mission
The BMPC Weekday School ministers to the young families of our community by combining Christian faith with the highest standards in early childhood education. Through our ministry each child is challenged to reach his or her highest potential as a respected and loved child of God.
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
Educational Philosphy
Black Mountain Presbyterian Church Weekday School provides a program in which Christian faith is taught and shared by children and teachers, and is consistent with the highest standards of early childhood education. The Weekday School curriculum supports the belief that children learn best through active involvement with materials and other children and adults in developmentally appropriate play. Our approach is focused on the whole child and how that child learns physically, socially, emotionally, cognitively, culturally, spiritually, and in language and literacy. We seek to integrate all the domains of development by including experiences in creative art, language and communication, dramatic play, math, science, community, self-help skills, and faith development. All of these are interrelated and progressively built into each classroom to provide an optimal experience in early childhood education.
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.”
“I don’t think any one can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.”
