Peaceful Gatherings Nature School

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Our 2025 Weekly Summer Camps for Ages 2.5 to 13:
June: 16-20 | 23-27
July: 14-18 | 21-25 | 28-Aug 1
August: 4-8 | 11-15

Half & full-day options available (Full day available for ages 5 and up)
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Welcome to
Peaceful Gatherings

Three unique programs where tender hearts and adventurous spirits play to learn in the Seven Oaks area of Columbia, South Carolina.

Nature School

Peaceful Gatherings Nature School is a child-led, nature-based program that offers an outdoor, bilingual education.

Agile Learning community

In 2023, we introduced the first Agile Learning Community of SC, enriching our older students educational experiences with a flexible, student-driven approach.

Infant and Toddler
Co-working Collective

Our Infant and Toddler Co-working Collective provides a unique solution for remote working parents, offering a warm and nurturing environment for their young children while parents work on-site.

Pictured several young children playing outside in a mud kitchen

Students at Drop-off

What is a Nature School?

Pictured several young children exploring in a trail in the woods

Students Exploring in the Woods

As a nature preschool Peaceful Gatherings will spend the day outside regardless of the weather. The only time that we will not be outside is in unsafe weather.

Unsafe weather is defined as follows:

Sustained temperature of 13 degrees for the duration of the school day
When there is driving rain, rain that is accompanied by high winds, or rain with temperatures below 40 degrees
When there are gusting/gale force winds of 25 mph or higher
Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning.

1. Nature is the central organizing concept of the program. That is, nature is the integrating thread that intentionally ties together the preschool’s philosophy, methodologies, classroom design, outdoor spaces, and public identity.

2. A nature preschool’s program is based on high-quality practices of both early childhood education (developmentally appropriate practices) and environmental education (principles of interpretation and the North American Association for Environmental Education’s “Guidelines for Excellence in Environmental Education”), requiring its teaching staff to have skills and experience in both early childhood education and environmental education.

3. A nature preschool program uses the natural world to support dual goals that address both child development and conservation values. These include the development of the world of the child (in all domains – cognitive, physical, social, emotional, aesthetic, and spiritual) and the development of an ecological identity or environmental ethic.
(Natural Start Alliance, 2014) Figure 1. Bailie & Finch’s Definition of Nature Preschools (Natural Start Alliance, 2014).