PS 249 is a pre-k through
fifth grade elementary school on here in Brooklyn
and we want to push the kids academically but we also want
to see how they can succeed in the art how
we can help him social emotionally so we really believe
in a well-balanced education for kids
going to be many people in the school who know your
kid and who are rooting for your kid thing
I love most about the school is really put kids first
primarily because our ministration and our teachers
and our powers and every staff member truly
believes that all children can succeed
how do you say that their goal
is to make sure that every child leave
here reading they mean
it we believe that as early as Pre-K if
we give it to him a solid foundation in literacy and
math that they can achieve anything School fall
this song theme way says college
starts in kindergarten and they really mean that
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get better learn
more professionally and we don't look at it
student whether they may be an enl
student speak a different language or student with a disability we
don't look at them as deficient we know that
they can achieve as long as we do the work to
provide for them my daughter came into the school
barely reading and now it is
is probably one of the biggest highlights for me
as a parent that my five-year-olds reading books
to my two year olds and it shows are whatever the
teachers are doing they're doing a magnificent job
second grade
and kindergarten teachers are awesome
Pre-K kindergarten teachers are some of the most loving people you'll
ever meet every teacher is kind
to you and they give you the opportunity to
learn we offer regular general education
classes we offer ITT classes
we also offer on 12 11
flashlight classes enls classes and
bilingual classes we really have a lot of the Arts
in the school cuz we have Art Club
we have Debate Club we had theater
we have two Auditors
we also have two physical Edge case
teachers we have a theater teacher a music
teacher STEM Science and Spanish
in
our school in particular
and I for closing the achievement Gap has also served
at the Lighthouse for the community
and for families from all walks of life whether
you know you
speak Spanish French Creole
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and there's always translation
available one of the strengths of our school
is educating our children
who are not native speakers of English can
we really can offer a child the
right placement for whatever
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have self-contained classrooms where
the children who don't
speak English at home are
taught by an Eno teacher but
the regular curriculum so
by the time kids get to 3rd or 4th
and 5th grade they usually test out of being all services
diverse
and everyone's culture and everyone feels
accepting happy and most importantly safe because
it's not just a matter of academically
teaching them which we do very well we set them
up for success in literacy and for mathematics
and for science and social studies but also there's
like a culture of acceptance as a
picture of love we support the children we support
the parents the kids here are known as
individuals I would definitely tell parents
sending out their child here and it's really a special
place where I really think that we may all students
feel welcome and feel love like it's a big family