The Bradley Street Playschool

10/29/2025

We are looking for a new member of our teaching team!! Apply by sending your resume to the email below or at

https://app.acquire4hire.com/careers/details.json?id=161901&title=preschool-teacher-in-abingdon-va

We can’t wait to meet the new addition to the best group of teachers in town!

09/19/2025

Friends! Our t-shirt order has arrived! If you said you would pick up an order from us and are not currently connected to an enrolled child, you can message us for a time to swing by and pick up your goodies! Thank you so much to our community for all your support. You are going to look so good in your Bradley Street swag!

09/11/2025

Thank you so much to all of our friends and families who came out to our Open House this week! We loved showing you evidence of all of our learning and spending time together at the start of the school year. Thank you for being a part of our community!

09/03/2025

Our t-shirt orders close FRIDAY!

We need around 15 more shirts ordered to meet our minimum order requirements.

If you want a Bradley Street tee or sweatshirt with art from our kiddos, you have until midnight on Friday to order. Please grab one and help us make updates to our outdoor play areas!!!

We would love to deck out our community in Bradley Street Playschool gear while helping to raise funds for playground upgrades. We hope to install some more shade in our yard area, give the porch some sprucing, and add some fresh sand to the sandbox!

08/18/2025

GET YOUR BRADLEY STREET PLAYSCHOOL MERCH!!
Outfit your family and help us raise funds to update our playground. We are so excited for our first ever TBSP clothing options!

We would love to deck out our community in Bradley Street Playschool gear while helping to raise funds for playground upgrades. We hope to install some more shade in our yard area, give the porch some sprucing, and add some fresh sand to the sandbox!

08/12/2025

ONE WHOLE YEAR OF THE BRADLEY STREET PLAYSCHOOL!!

Can you believe it?! I find myself overwhelmed by the blessing it is to watch these little minds and hearts learn and grow each day. It has been a year of growth for all of us- often messy, occasionally stressful, always full of promise.

Happy Anniversary friends! We are so thankful for your support and to be in community with you. 💙💙💙

08/04/2025

🎉🎉Happy Happy First Day of Playschool!!!
We are so excited for this year’s adventures, learning, joy, and so much PLAY!!!🎉🎉

06/21/2025

🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️It was such a wonderful day for a roundel and a fairy song!

The first day of summer is fantastic for celebrating all of our friends with summer birthdays- with a fairy themed festival!

We loved seeing all the fairies dancing in our yard, playing with bubbles, and tasting fairy cakes and fruit. Happy solstice and birthdays, friends!! 🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

06/13/2025

One thing you will rarely see here on Bradley Street is a weekly specific theme. Because we are a child-led school, we prefer to focus on children’s interests- which are meaningful to them and more encouraging of their attention.

This often takes the form of project approaches in our classrooms. Child-led projects encourage intrinsic motivation and draw children into deep inquiry. This process helps children find answers to their own questions through authentic, age appropriate exploration and experiences. We work with the children to document their findings and commentary to create reflective and respectful evidence of our learning.

Please enjoy a peek into several of our recent projects throughout our classrooms! We love to love learning together. 💙💙

06/04/2025

Thank you so much to the Abingdon Garden Club for coming to sow seeds and teach us about radishes and our gardens this morning!! We had so much fun and are so excited to watch our seeds grow- just like us! We are so thankful to be your neighbors!!

05/28/2025

“Happiness is a
gooey mud puddle!
It’s okay!
Jump up and down!
Splash! Wallow!
Squish your toes!
Wow!”
-Gyo Fujikawa

The updated mud kitchen has drawn so many friends in this week. Writing recipes, adjusting volumes, imagining meals together, checking on our bean seeds…
Areas where children are allowed to make a mess and direct their own sensory, imaginary, social, and math experiences facilitate exploration and draw them into concepts through play. AND give us so much JOY!!!

05/15/2025

“Encourage your child to have muddy, grassy or sandy feet by the end of each day, that’s the childhood they deserve.” – Penny Whitehouse.

Our feet have seen all kinds of spring adventures this week!! Muddy, grassy, sandy, we have learned from it all. 👣👣💙