Promoting Children to the Next Level

Promotion Schedule for Children at Arvada Covenant Church

This year, all children finishing Kindergarten through 5th grade will promote to their new grade level rooms on June 29. This is the first Sunday after Kid's Camp 2008 so Kid's Camp will be the last event at ACC at the grade level they are just finishing.

At ACC, Preschool age children promote once a year at the beginning of September and stay in the same room until the following year. We don't promote children to the next age level room on their birthdays. Instead, we keep children of the same age together for the entire year. We do this for several reasons:

¨ Children have the consistency of remaining with the same teachers and classmates for a full year.

¨ Teachers have the consistency of the same group of children through the year. They can develop a group of consistent friends.

¨ Children stay with other children that are at a similar developmental stage and they grow together through the year.

¨ Preschool classrooms stay at a consistent size and age throughout the year.

¨ Children are promoted with their friends/peers at the same time - from the time they leave the nursery until they go to college.

The promotion schedule is based on a child’s age on October 1^st. This date was chosen to match with the Jefferson County School District, which the majority of the children attending our church will attend.

In September of this year, children that turn 2 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C102.

Children that turn 3 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C103.

Children that turn 4 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C104. This will be the pre-kindergarten room, for children that will be attending Kindergarten in 2009.

In February, 2009 we will allow children that that turn 2 between October 1, 2008 and February 1, 2009 to transfer into Room C102.