Aldersgate Christian Preschool is nondenominational Christian preschool operated as a mission of the Aldersgate United Methodist Church. We are located on a spacious campus across the street from the Newport Way Library in Bellevue. ACP is staffed by dedicated teachers with extensive professional training and/or experience. ACP classes offer each child optimum learning enrichment within a nurturing, Christian environment.
Philosophy and Goals
At Aldersgate Christian Preschool we believe in the education of the whole child. The ACP staff strives to promote each child’s positive self-concept, to teach group responsibility and sharing skills, and to offer opportunities, which will enhance each child’s educational, spiritual, emotional, and physical growth. The Aldersgate Christian Preschool staff is committed:
- To nurture each child in developing and/or maintaining a positive self-concept as a child of God.
- To offer all children sound educational and social opportunities at an age appropriate level.
- To use positive reinforcement to create a warm, friendly, and well-managed learning and social environment.
- To promote and stress Christian values throughout the teaching and management of our program.
- To maintain a loving Preschool environment, that stimulates educational growth, offers a variety of learning activities, enhances social awareness and responsibilities, provides positive individual and group interaction, and promotes self-assurance.
All classes at Aldersgate Christian Preschool are planned and taught following the belief that we are all God’s children. We believe that a child’s religious education begins in the home with the parents and is nurtured through family participation in church. The staff of Aldersgate Christian Preschool nurtures and supports the belief in Jesus Christ as God’s son by providing a warm, caring preschool program, which fosters Christian values
and beliefs.
Unlike the public schools, classes at Aldersgate Christian Preschool can celebrate the Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter. In addition we celebrate the traditional and patriotic holidays such as Halloween/All Saints Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Valentine’s Day, Presidents’ Day, and St. Patrick’s Day.
All Preschool classes are curriculum based emphasizing the developmental needs of the whole child: social, mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. The children participate in a variety of activities during their day, including circle time, concept/story time, music, art, snack and freeplay, both indoor and outdoor. Preschool classes for two-year-olds and three-year-olds are two days a week. Four-year-olds have the option of a two-day or three-day per week program. All of our ACP teachers have extensive experience working with preschool age children and/or degrees in education and early childhood education.
The staff at ACP welcomes your visits to see our facilities and program. Tours maybe scheduled between 9:45 and 10:30 AM Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays by calling the ACP office at 425-562-0433.
