A Special Place to Grow
Valley Parent Preschool is a play-based, parent cooperative preschool in Danville, California, serving children through 2’s, Preschool, Pre-K, Explorers nature classes, and seasonal summer camp. Families from Danville, San Ramon, Alamo, Dublin, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Lafayette, Orinda, and nearby East Bay communities choose VPP for hands-on learning, close teacher-family partnership, and a caring school community. Schedule a tour to see how children build confidence, curiosity, social skills, and kindergarten readiness through play.
Learning Through Play
Valley Parent Preschool offers a play-based curriculum. Children are natural learners, motivated by their own desire to understand the world through first-hand experiences. Our curriculum focuses on the whole child and provides opportunities for children to enhance their emotional, social, creative, physical and cognitive growth through activities that encourage curiosity and foster exploration.
Through their play, children are learning to think, problem solve and create – skills that will benefit them for a lifetime of learning.
In group play, children are also learning how to be social and how to navigate through different social situations. By trial and error (and appropriate teacher interactions) they will learn how to join a group in play, how to treat and keep friends, and how to take care of themselves if someone is not treating them nicely or fairly. If you watch carefully, you will see them working on personal challenges, social issues, or family roles through their dramatic play – quite amazing!
“Children learn best by doing what they do spontaneously, and what they do spontaneously is play.”
— Dr. Patricia Nourot
Non-Discrimination Policy: Valley Parent Preschool admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.