Overview - Explorers

At The Wilberforce School, we call our youngest students “Explorers.”  Explorers One is our Junior Kindergarten program, and is open to older four year olds and young five year olds.  Explorers Two is our Kindergarten program, and is open to older five year olds and young six year olds.*

Explorers are adventurers on a mission; they are people who examine carefully, investigate, probe, and discover.  At TWS, we believe these young years are years ripe for exploring. 

The years before Class One are precious. During these years, we want to equip our students for academic success and to introduce them to a lifetime of joyful discovery and rich learning within a context of Christian devotion and worldview. 

*Please Note: We want each child to thrive at Wilberforce.  We make each child’s placement decision on a case-by-case basis (based on age, testing, and other factors).  Students entering Explorers One and Two must turn four or five (respectively) before September 1, and we pay particularly close attention to children whose dates of birth fall in or near the summer months.  Our curriculum is an accelerated curriculum that is one grade level ahead in most subject areas.  Most children benefit by having more time to develop and mature before entering Class One.  Being relatively young may not be a critical issue at the Explorers level, but when a child reaches Class One and above, the age disparity can be much more pronounced as these children begin to work at a higher level of academic difficulty alongside classmates who are as much as a year older.