Parents make learning centers that they take home to use and keep to help reinforce classroom skills. We are trained for our professions and our various jobs but we have never been trained to be a responsible parent. Parents receive a text, watch a short video each week that is followed by a discussion of the week's topic. Kathy Thomas L.E.E.P LEEP, the Learning Enrichment Educational Program, is a gifted and talented program for grades three through six taught by Ms. Barbara Conway and Mrs. Barbara Robb. Our students attend Central, Good Intent, Lake Tract, Oak Valley, Pine Acres and Shady Lane Schools.
Students meet weekly in their home school.
Once a month, all the students in a given grade level meet at Oak Valley School to participate in a special activity. Some topics covered by our curriculum include speaking and listening skills, divergent and deductive thinking skills, and literature units including the study of novels, plays, poetry and fables. Special units of study are completed in oceanography, the rain forest, ancient Egypt, the Titanic, and Japan. I believe that it now has programs in place in Shady Lane, Good Intent, Monongahela Middle School and at Deptford High School. Oak Valley was the first school to carry it in Deptford Township and still is the longest and most active out of all of the schools.