Environmental stewardship is an emphasis across the curriculum. The mission of Sprout House, a primary and elementary school, is to provide a home-like setting in which happy and inquisitive children develop positive and eager attitudes toward school. The school fosters a planetary consciousness which embraces environmental beauty and preservation, as well as an awareness that all children deserve participation in societies where people can sustain themselves, live healthfully, feel stimulated, fulfilled, and happy. The curriculum is designed to help children realize the pleasures of learning, and to enjoy working and playing with other children and adults. A strong but unpressured emphasis is placed on science and the school provides extensive experience with objects in the environment.
Children come to feel connected with nature, and to have respect for their surroundings.
The concepts of scientific research are introduced as pupils develop skills in finding, using, and extending information. Students may participate as an option to organized athletics. The S.O.L.O. curriculum includes canoeing, hiking, snowshoeing, rock climbing, survival skills, natural history, nature writing and drawing, wilderness medicine, and community service projects. Projects include participation in a Bluebird nesting project, maintenance of a five mile section of the Metacomet Trail, clearing a hiking trail system on school property, and helping with the annual horseshoe crab survey on Long Island Sound. S.O.L.O. also offers a two-week trip to New Mexico and Arizona in March.