Spire School Playdate on Monday, February 6 from 9:30-11:00am

Parks Plus Creation was founded in 2013 to offer all-weather, outdoor, nature connection programs for children and families in San Francisco, and under its canopy, Spire School began in 2015. Here, educators model care and connection using intentional practices to guide holistic development, and encourage children’s innate curiosity and wonder.

We believe that all children have the capacity to learn and develop through play, sensory experiences and exploration and thrive most in a safe, nurturing environment. We affirm each child’s exploratory learning by leaning into their creativity and curiosity through our focus on collaborative learning, whole child development, sensory explorations, social and emotional development, and care for nature. At Spire School, children strengthen their kindergarten readiness skills while cultivating their life skills.

We facilitate rich learning experiences for young children, encouraging them to explore San Francisco’s natural spaces. Our educators nourish their desire to ask questions, use their imaginations and analyze the environment with all of their senses. We draw from Reggio Emilia philosophy, developing our curriculum based on the interests of the child by providing open-ended, child-directed experiences and materials, and documenting learning along the way.

Largely influenced by the Forest Kindergarten approach, children develop in all areas from physical coordination, language and cognition, to their overall creativity by spending hours of uninterrupted time outside with educators co-creating a space for positive growth and inquiry-based learning.