Mission, Goals & Values
Mission Statement
Park City Day School empowers children to be academically prepared, socially aware, emotionally secure, and ethical global citizens eager to contribute meaningfully to our changing world.
Community Goals
Our challenging inter-disciplinary curriculum actively engages students and stretches them to explore their highest potential.
Our inclusive community appreciates a diversity of religious, racial, cultural and socio economic backgrounds.
Our teachers are passionate and intentional in their professional practice.
Our learners collaborate and solve problems within a nurturing environment where they feel secure, valued and supported.
Our parents and faculty commit as partners in the best interests of our children.
Our students take initiative contributing value to the school’s daily life.
Our adult role models and curious students actively engage with our rich local environment.
School Values
Respect:
Respect means not to interrupt when someone is telling you a story. – Dylan Millard, PCDS Grade 2
Respect means being a good sport – Case Cumming, PCDS Grade 3
Responsibility:
Responsibility means if your dad buys you something you don’t lose it. – Cooper Iacobelli, PCDS Grade 3
I display responsibility by helping my mom, walking my dog and being honest. – Paul Fischer, PCDS Grade 5
Teamwork:
Teamwork means helping each other at clean up time. – Sami Worthington, PCDS Grade 1
Teamwork means playing and working together with as many friends as you want it to be. – Phineas Hailey, PCDS Jr. Kindergarten
Integrity:
Integrity means doing what’s right, honest and fair. – Orion Martinek-Ballard, PCDS Grade 5
Personal integrity means I do things that I tell people I am going to do, such as learning my American Idol song when it needed to be ready, and reading the horse book I am supposed to read for my riding lessons. – Jade Eng, PCDS Grade 6
Compassion:
Compassion is more than just caring for someone; it’s doing something for them. – Lucie Tomlinson, PCDS Grade 8
Compassion is empathy, love and mercy. People feel compassion for others even if they don’t know them. – PCDS, Patrick Roach, PCDS Grade 9