MISSION STATEMENT

Episcopal Day School provides a superior education for the whole child, recognizing that each child has different gifts, talents, and abilities - training and challenging the mind and body and nurturing the spirit-so that each one who comes to us leaves with a foundation of academic skills, spiritual awareness, and self-esteem upon which can be built the dreams of a lifetime.

The school is an outreach of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd and serves two-year olds through eighth grade students of many religious, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Attracting and retaining this diverse student body is an integral part of our mission.

Our faculty and staff respect and cherish each student as a unique individual. We are dedicated to providing an outstanding and challenging academic program tailored to the needs of each learner. Through self-discovery, we encourage each student to develop moral values and self-discipline and a well-rounded personality. Through our community service program, we promote a sense of responsibility for the world around us, encouraging our students to contribute to making their world a better place.

PHILOSOPHY

The knowledge of God is the beginning of wisdom.

The Christian church has always regarded education as one of the tasks involved in its pastoral ministry to people of all ages.

The Bishop Noland Episcopal Day School (EDS) of the Church of the Good Shepherd is an instrument of this ministry in that it attempts to guide the child in spiritual, as well as emotional, intellectual, and physical development. Any worthwhile education must take into account the fact that a child is not only a rational, but also a spiritual being; and that a sound mind and a sound body are related to reverence, charity, respect, and those things of the spirit, which are values common to, yet transcend human life. The role of the Bishop Noland Episcopal Day School is that of helping the child develop all facets of personality in proper orientation as a child of God. Each child is unique, an individual, one of God's children.