Programs & Ages · Infants through Elementary
At The Winter Park School, curiosity leads the way—inside the classroom and throughout our community. Children learn by asking questions, exploring ideas, creating, and discovering the world around them. Through hands-on projects, STEAM experiences, caring relationships, and meaningful connections to the people and places of Winter Park, we help children become confident thinkers, capable problem-solvers, and enthusiastic learners with a growing sense of belonging to their community.
Programs & ages
The same four steps in every room. Pick your child's age to see what "I can" means there — and what you will notice at home.
Infants · 6 weeks – 12 months
Warm, responsive care is the curriculum at this age — because a baby who feels safe explores more. Rich language, real textures, faces, songs, and time outdoors build the wiring everything else stands on.
what you may notice at home: reaching, babbling back, looking longer.
Small groups, capped by room.
Toddlers · 1 – 2 years
Toddlers are natural scientists: drop it, stack it, dump it, try again. We protect that instinct — safe risks, real materials, and teachers who narrate the experiment instead of interrupting it.
what you may hear at home: "again! again!"
Small groups, capped by room.
Twos · 2 – 3 years
"Me do it" is a curriculum requirement here, not a phase to manage. Twos take on real jobs — pouring, planting, sorting, helping — and their first tiny investigations, held gently inside routines they can trust.
what you may hear at home: "I did it myself."
Small groups, capped by room.
Early Preschool · Age 3 · The CAPE Method™ begins
Threes meet the cycle in miniature: a problem they can see or touch, a few days of investigating, something to try or make, and one honest question — did that work? The teacher holds the structure; the child does the work.
what you may hear at home: "I'll try it a different way."
A lesson from this room: The Puddle Problem · Small groups, capped by room.
Preschool, Pre-K & Kindergarten · Ages 4 – 6
This is where the cycle starts to stick. Challenges stretch over weeks. Children choose their own approaches, explain their ideas, test them, and revise them. Teachers deliberately ask more questions than they answer.
Reading, writing, math, and science are woven in because the work gives children reasons to use them. Kindergarten readiness isn't a worksheet here — it's foundations plus the confidence to ask, investigate, and persist.
a recent challenge: the Bird Feeder Challenge
Elementary · currently through 1st grade
Investigations unfold over weeks. Children plan, document, work in teams, present ideas, and revise. By now they run the cycle themselves — the teacher's job is to make the problems worthy of them.
what you may hear at home: "I have a theory about that."
A lesson from this room: The Water Question
Summer Camp ·
More time outdoors, longer builds, bigger messes, deeper investigations. The CAPE Method™ does not take the summer off — the walls do.
what you may hear at pickup: "can we finish it tomorrow?"
Session dates, eligibility and rates are published each spring.
Six weeks to six years
The sentence a child can say about themselves is the clearest measure we know of what a year has done. Here is how it changes.
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Come and see
Tour the rooms, meet the teachers, and watch the method at work — bring your child and your questions.
Every room, one method
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Family testimonials
Choosing preschool is about trust. Parents want to know their child is safe, cared for, learning, and happy while they're away. These families share what their experience has been like at The Winter Park School.
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Walk the classrooms, meet the teachers and watch a morning unfold. Tours are one family at a time, so there’s space for every question — and time for your child to explore.
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