Student Life

Lower School students may participate in activities facilitated by Charlotte Country Day teachers. In addition, Coordinate Programs are offered after school for interested students.

Community Service
Service initiatives begin in the Lower School. Students learn that their small acts of kindness can make a big difference in the lives of others.

Oceanography Club
Grade-four students who choose to join this club meet regularly with teachers after school to learn about and research ocean ecosystems. The club combines social studies, science, reading, and art. The highlight is a weeklong trip in June, when students travel with parents and teachers for field study along the Outer Banks.

Parent/Child Book Club
Four book clubs involving mothers and daughters and fathers and sons are offered to students in third and fourth grades. Novels are chosen to promote conversation between parents and children, and the clubs are facilitated by the school guidance counselor.

Lower School Service Projects
Here is a look at the types of ongoing community service projects conducted in the Lower School:

• Junior kindergartners perform five times a year at a local nursing home.
• Kindergartners collect mittens and hats for the needy, and create holiday greeting cards for cancer patients.
• First-grade students write to buddies at Hidden Valley Elementary.
• Second graders make greeting cards and help deliver meals for an organization that supports shut ins.
• Third-grade students run a food drive, make pumpkin pies, decorate placemats, and make holiday crafts for various food pantries.
• Each fourth-grade class sponsors a needy family at the holidays, and select students are matched with seniors at a retirement community.
• All Lower School students collect books for Hidden Valley, make awards and banners for Special Olympics, collect card fronts for St. Jude's Ranch for Abused Children, and write cards of appreciation for the school's maintenance, cafeteria, and grounds staff.