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About
Introducing Green Vale
We are a vast campus abuzz with engaged students interacting comfortably with passionate adults.
Admissions
Getting acquainted with Green Vale
This website is just one of many ways to learn about GVS. Our Admissions team is here to help your family get to know our school and our spirit.
PN - 8 Experience
Institutionally committed to childhood and early adolescence
The Pre-Nursery through 8th Grade age spectrum fosters an intimate community where growth is both slow and magically transformative.
Academics
In a joy-filled environment, children rise easily to intellectual challenge.
Success, failure and laughter are part of life and part of Green Vale. Our students feel both supported and inspired, allowing for high levels of instructional content and achievement.
Arts and Athletics
To sing, sculpt, and score a goal: all in a day’s work
At Green Vale, we are all creative artists, musicians and multi-sport athletes. Latent talent is often revealed, but the real goal is confidence, empathy and life-long appreciation gained through exposure and participation.
Life at GVS
Within the school day and beyond, this is an active community.
Students, parents, and teachers collaborate to fill the calendar with events and activities suited to the needs and interests of Green Vale and the larger community.
Support
Learn how the Green Vale community sticks together
Through parent and alumni outreach, volunteer efforts, fundraising, and news-sharing, Green Vale supports —and is supported by —the people it connects.

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About
Introducing Green Vale
We are a vast campus abuzz with engaged students interacting comfortably with passionate adults.
Admissions
Getting acquainted with Green Vale
This website is just one of many ways to learn about GVS. Our Admissions team is here to help your family get to know our school and our spirit.
PN - 8 Experience
Institutionally committed to childhood and early adolescence
The Pre-Nursery through 8th Grade age spectrum fosters an intimate community where growth is both slow and magically transformative.
Academics
In a joy-filled environment, children rise easily to intellectual challenge.
Success, failure and laughter are part of life and part of Green Vale. Our students feel both supported and inspired, allowing for high levels of instructional content and achievement.
Arts and Athletics
To sing, sculpt, and score a goal: all in a day’s work
At Green Vale, we are all creative artists, musicians and multi-sport athletes. Latent talent is often revealed, but the real goal is confidence, empathy and life-long appreciation gained through exposure and participation.
Life at GVS
Within the school day and beyond, this is an active community.
Students, parents, and teachers collaborate to fill the calendar with events and activities suited to the needs and interests of Green Vale and the larger community.
Support
Learn how the Green Vale community sticks together
Through parent and alumni outreach, volunteer efforts, fundraising, and news-sharing, Green Vale supports —and is supported by —the people it connects.

Mrs. Flink’s Blog for Parents

Early Childhood Director Kelly Flink shares regular wisdom with parents as part of the all-important partnership between school and home. Green Vale parents know that social emotional learning and character development are best instilled when children experience continuity and reinforcement in home and school environments.

DEI Resources

With many requests for age-appropriate resources for exposing children to topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion, I will be periodically sending....

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Summer Time SEL home ideas

Summer Time SEL home ideas

A few ideas to support your childs development and learning during the summer. Downtime Builds Executive Function Skills Getting used to the rhythm and relative...

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Resilience

For many of us, the movie Karate Kid holds a special place in our growing up experience. Its central theme of resilience is one that pulls at the heart of both parents and children....

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Decision Making

Decision Making

Many parents have asked me how to foster independence and decision-making at home. Decision-making, like other social emotional skills, is a skill we need to practice throughout our lives....

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Problem Solving

Problem Solving

Problem-solving is a critical skill that children can begin to learn and practice at a young age in developmentally appropriate ways. Here are ways we foster problem-solving in the classroom...

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Self-regulation

Self-regulation

Self-regulation—the ability to manage one’s thoughts, behaviors, and feelings—is a critical indicator of future success in learning and life. Yet from a developmental....

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