…where they are known, seen, and valued for the schema, expertise, creativity, and deep thought they already have growing within them. Imagine moments where they can express their innermost joy, build thought connections, develop skill, and engage in robust play with friends and peers every day. Imagine a community that values the inner light everyone brings each day. This is the Lower School at Brooklyn Friends. 
Our academic program honors and centers children through a progressive approach. Our curriculum is research-based and sequenced, and contains a robust specialist program. Throughout their time in our program, students develop conceptual understanding, critical and reflective thinking, engage in multiple field trip experiences each year, and deepen their social and emotional selves and relationships.
Unique to Brooklyn Friends, our program is rooted in Quaker values and actively seeks 
to create spaces of belonging and works to disrupt inequity. Children see themselves as changemakers that actively engage the larger world around them. The thoughtfulness and richness of our Lower School foundation supports children to pursue their dreams while also preparing them for the diversity and adversity of the adult world that they will inhabit. Our colleagues deeply commit themselves to the pillars of our mission and center children at the heart of their decision making.
Subject matter in language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, Spanish, information technology, and media literacy flourishes in an environment that also prioritizes the visual and performing arts, woodworking, and physical education. Built into all of these curricula is the development of skills as a platform for positive self-esteem.
