PrePrep-5th Grade

Boys Prep will not provide bus transportation starting in the 2018-19 school year due to the new facility's convenient location. The future home of Boys Prep Bronx will be 192 East 151st Street, convenient from the 2, 4, and 5 trains as well as the BX 1, 2 and 19 bus. Boys Prep will have student Metrocards, provided by the NYC Department of Education. For more information, please visit Office of Public Transportation General Education Eligibility. 

2018-19 School Building

• Address: 192 East 151st Street Bronx NY 10451
• Phone: 718-742-4321
• Fax: 718-744-2497

Grades PrePrep-5 

• Early Drop Off: 7:05-7:20 AM (must arrive before 7:20)
• Breakfast: 7:40 AM
• School Hours: 8:00 AM- 3:00 PM 

• Duration:  September 17, 2018, to June 21, 2019
• Time:         3:30 p.m. (immediately after dismissal) to 5:30 p.m. 
• Fee:           $200 for the entire program year ($20 per month)

Providing our scholars with academic enrichment and engagement opportunities that will increase their love for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math while preparing them for college and career, with the emphasis on literacy and critical thinking skills.  

Registration is now closed.

If you have any questions or you have enrolled and wish to submit payment, please call the HElium team at 718-742-4321.

Shirts

• Yellow or orange PrePrep T-shirt or Gray crew neck sweatshirt ( all shirts must have Boys Prep logo)

Pants

• Plain navy blue pants (can be from any store/brand)

Shoes

• Any color velcro sneakers (no light up sneakers, wheels, or anything that is unsafe or distracting)
• Socks must be worn every day. Students may wear socks in the color of their choice.

Note: 

Hoodies, non-uniform outerwear, jeans sweatpants, and bottoms intended for athletics are not permitted. Bottoms may be purchased through the supplier or at your local retailer. If your scholar needs to wear rain or snow boots due to the weather, they must bring sneakers to change into once they get to school. All scholars must wear a PrePrep uniform every day. To find store locations and order online visit www.flynnohara.com.

The Community Council is a vibrant family-run organization that exists to give families and staff a unified voice in the school. All families are members of the Community Council and are expected to volunteer for at least two hours during the school year. Community Council officer elections are held at the end of each school year for the following school year.

The Boys Prep Elementary School Community Council Executive Board includes:

• President: Danielle Edwards - bpccpresident@boysprep.org
• Vice President: Atiyah Brown - bpccvicepresidentlower@boysprep.org
• Secretary: April Suazo - bpccsecretary@boysprep.org
• Treasurer: Rosanne Vargas - bpcctreasurer@boysprep.org

Questions, concerns or suggestions can also be directed to bpcommunitycouncil@boysprep.org.

Named after the pioneering co-founder of Sesame Workshop, PrePrep: the Joan Ganz Cooney Early Learning Program provides a distinctive educational experience within a playfully rich and cognitively demanding learning environment. The Joan Ganz Cooney Early Learning Program builds upon the research from the federally-funded Ready to Learn initiative from 2005-2010, which measured the impact of educational programming, including Sesame Street episodes, on children's science and literacy skills by demonstrating the effect of media targeted at socio-emotional development.

PrePrep is a co-ed program for 4-year-olds that launched in 2014. There is a PrePrep program hosted at Girls Prep Bronx Elementary School, and Boys Prep will establish a PrePrep program starting in the 2018-19 school year. PrePrep scholars automatically matriculate into Girls Prep Bronx or Boys Prep Bronx Elementary Schools for kindergarten.

See our feature on NPR below:

The Pre-K curriculum fulfills and surpasses the requirements of New York State’s Pre-School Foundations for the Common Core (“PKFCC”). Students benefit from a curriculum that offers the right balance of joyful play, curiosity, and self-control, while also placing equal emphasis on character development (such as resiliency, optimism, determination, and gratitude), college awareness, and cognitive rigor across academic disciplines.

PURPOSE OF CONTENT-RICH MATERIAL IN PRESCHOOL:

1. increase vocabulary
2. enhance background knowledge to promote deeper learning
3. accelerate children’s grasp of language and numeracy
4. cultivate habits of mind conducive to inquisitive learning and successful social interaction.

Unique program elements:

• The program includes curated content from Sesame Workshop’s vast media library that uses engaging characters to develop critical behaviors like self-regulation. This includes, for example, the new Cookie Monster series of videos that help children learn the behavioral strategies necessary to manage emotions, navigate friendships, cope with stressful situations and improve executive function tasks, such as impulse control, working memory, focusing and shifting attention.
• In its first year, we received support from an executive at Sesame Workshop to identify new ways to use children’s media to enhance learning in the classroom, engage families in creating a rich literacy environment at home, and provide early childhood Professional Development for faculty.