Beachbrook Nursery School

Specialties

Beachbrook is an innovative Therapeutic Program founded by Dr. Joan Prideaux, psychotherapist and educator, in 1988. Our teaching teams (head teacher and two assistants) are experienced and trained by Dr. Prideaux to integrate healing intervention into the developmental learning process of each child’s classroom experience. At Beachbrook, teachers are considered the primary healing interveners in the life of each child since they have the maximum opportunity to provide healing intervention; however, therapists are also an essential part of the team effort to energize each child’s growth potential, and are essential to each child’s developmental process.

To facilitate the evolution of trusting, intimate and meaningful relationships, each teacher and assistant is given three children to primarily care and provide for. Young children particularly, respond well to the intimacy of small grouping, which is similar to family style living…