Academics
Lower School
To Know And Be Known
Students in the Lower School delve into a highly personalized, inquiry-based program under the tutelage of talented teachers who honor and cherish childhood. With contagious passion and meaningful incorporation of play into each lesson, Bush's Lower School faculty cultivate in each student a passion for discovery that carries them through their entire lives.
Our CEI Work - Community, Equity, and Inclusion
The four anchors that guide Lower School Community, Equity, and Inclusion (CEI) work - identity, diversity, social justice, and action - come from the Learning for Justice domains.
These anchors are implemented from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade in all of our subjects and may be seen through students sharing parts of their identity through curriculum connections, affinity groups or organic conversations during recess. Identity work is complex and ongoing; our hope is to build a toolbox for our students to explore similarities, differences, curiosities, and acts of justice.
To learn more about how our domains come alive in our classrooms, please refer to our curriculum overview.
These anchors are implemented from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade in all of our subjects and may be seen through students sharing parts of their identity through curriculum connections, affinity groups or organic conversations during recess. Identity work is complex and ongoing; our hope is to build a toolbox for our students to explore similarities, differences, curiosities, and acts of justice.
Engaged Faculty
Students in the Lower School delve into a highly personalized, inquiry-based program under the tutelage of talented teachers who honor and cherish childhood. With contagious passion and meaningful incorporation of play into each lesson, Bush's Lower School faculty cultivate in each student a passion for discovery that carries them through their entire lives.
Joyful Learning
Social, emotional, and academic growth is fostered through a curriculum that encourages skill-building. Through literacy, math, social studies, science, language, the arts, technology, and physical education, we teach critical and creative thinking, ethical judgment and action, intercultural fluency, and local and global citizenship.
GETTING TO KNOW US
Lower School at a Glance
The Bush School is an independent day school located in Seattle, WA enrolling 745 students in grades K–12. The mission of The Bush School is to spark in students of diverse backgrounds and talents a passion for learning, accomplishment, and contribution to their communities
3400 East Harrison Street, Seattle WA 98112 (206) 322-7978
The Bush School does not discriminate in matters of employment, recruitment, admissions, or administration of any of its programs on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. In addition, The Bush School does not discriminate in matters of employment on the basis of age or marital status