Visit the Lower School (Grades PreK–4)

Campus Tours

We hope you will join us for a Lower School Campus Tour, hosted from October through December 2022 for families who are interested in applying for the 2023–2024 school year. You will be able to register for a tour through your Ravenna Account. Please create a Ravenna account by clicking the "Visit the Lower School" button.

Tours offer an overview of Nueva curriculum and program highlights, an opportunity to visit different locations around our campus, as well as speak with faculty, staff, and students.

Spaces full? Please email admissions@nuevaschool.org to be added to our waitlist.


Virtual Program Preview

Program Previews are for parents who are specifically interested in applying to the Lower School for the 2023-2024 school year. These events are an opportunity for prospective parents to learn about Social Emotional Learning, Design Thinking, and Structured Word Inquiry through the lens of Early Childhood Education. 

Registration for Program Previews through Ravenna is required for attendance. Spaces full? Please email admissions@nuevaschool.org to be added to our waitlist.

Explore Nueva Through Events (All Grades)

Upon the creation of your Ravenna account, we invite prospective families to register for Nueva events to help you learn about the Nueva community. We offer workshops and panels such as "What is Diversity at Nueva?", "Life After Nueva", and "Financial Award Workshop". Check your Ravenna Dashboard for updates.

Visit the Lower School

Virtual Program Previews 2022
 

Dates will be published on Ravenna soon.


Registration required.  

Questions? Contact us at:
admissions@nuevaschool.org

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Find out more about Nueva's Lower School

Lower School Academics
Nueva at a Glance
Tuition and Financial Awards

Recent News from the Lower School

Snapshots: Lower School

On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, the Lower School halls were alive with the sounds of music and laughter. As part of Spirit Week, students dressed in their coziest pajamas and carried beloved stuffed animals. Throughout the Hillsborough campus, Lower School students could be found doing acrobatic movements, creating innovative LED art, getting lost in the world of books, and more. Join us on a walk through the Lower School!

Snapshots: Lower School

The halls were abuzz on this week as Lower School students could be heard singing, playing, reading, and calculating! We invite you to learn more about a variety of class activities below.

Photo Walk Series: A Day in the Lower School

This Wednesday, lower school students could be seen seeking mittens in the woods, creatively imitating animals in the ballroom, measuring their teachers on the lawn, and soldering wires in the I-Lab. We invite you to learn more about a variety of lower school class activities.

Our Photo Walk Series aims to provide the community with a snapshot in time—a celebration of work being done across grade levels, content areas, and divisions.

Stop-motion Animation Project Brings Mali Empire Study to Life

In a project that combines art, movement, and theater, third grade students are telling stories of the Mali Empire through stop-motion animation, a sophisticated art form that challenges students to plan out their thoughts, work collaboratively, and use new-to-them technological tools.

Building a Present Tense of the Ohlone People

Second graders spent weeks researching the Ramaytush Ohlone to understand their culture, history, and impact on the land before culminating their learning by writing their own land acknowledgements and turning them into posters to be displayed around the Hillsborough campus. 

Fourth Graders Perform La Bohème with San Francisco Opera Singers

On Thursday, Nov. 3, melodies from the opera La Bohème reverberated through the Hillsborough mansion ballroom, as fourth graders took the stage alongside SF Opera singers for an abridged performance of Puccini’s most famous work. This performance was a showcase of one of the central themes of the lower school music program: the voice and body as musical instruments.