Intentionality • Authenticity • Curiosity
Intentionality • Authenticity • Curiosity
Our Nashville Private Christian School community is one of intentionality—toward each other, the community, and the Lord. Our faculty and staff know each student and are invested in their growth on an academic level, but more importantly on a personal, spiritual level.
The Covenant School seeks authenticity in the way we teach children to see the Lord’s hand in everything they do, study, or learn and the way we all enter into community with one other.
At The Covenant School, we value and celebrate the curiosity embedded in the heart of every child. Our children’s questions, their explorations, their attempts at understanding, all reflect the childlike curiosity that God has implanted in all of His children.
PreSchool through 6th Grade | Nashville, TN
Covenant isn’t just where I went to school, it’s who I am
-Alumni student from the class of 2012
We treasure the community at Covenant and are forever grateful to this school for the countless ways it fosters the magic, curiosity, and excitement of childhood.
-A Kindergarten parent
Our grade is really close and everybody knows each other well.
– 6th grade student
Creating a community where each child is known, loved, and prepared gives us the opportunity to do amazing things in the lives of our students.
– Christina Dunlap (Kindergarten teacher)
“I am thankful that the Covenant community truly knows all of my children and shows them the beauty of the gospel everyday. It is a blessing for my children to spend their foundational years in a Christ-centered community.”
–A 4th grade, 2nd grade, and Kindergarten Mom
–The Covenant School – A Nashville Private Christian School
The beauty of a PreSchool-6th school is in its simplicity and innocence. Students are free to be children — they can feel fully and safely known by our faculty and become leaders under their guidance.
The Covenant School begins coaching our students to be leaders at an early age. Fifth and sixth grade students practice their leadership skills with younger students as they mentor them under the direction of a trusted adult. Every year, the faculty nurtures relationships and purposefully encourages healthy bonding between students, so they may better understand their role in strengthening the school community.
Academically, a PreSchool-6th school allows curriculum to be more specialized, so students have the potential for outstanding academic achievement. When the time comes to make a decision about higher education, the Covenant School works closely with each family — we consider each child as an individual and counsel them throughout the application process, so they can transition to their next school with confidence.
Come see our students learn actively, think critically, and work collaboratively, as they recognize the nature of God and their relationship to Him in every experience.
It has been a little over four weeks since March 27th. Four weeks since a line was drawn in the sand of our lives at Covenant, a line marking before and after, a line marking the moment when life changed, and we will never be the same.
Our Covenant community has spent much of the last four weeks focused inward, picking up the pieces, putting one foot in front of the other, caring for each other and attempting to process the inconceivable. In short, we have been learning to navigate the new, forever-changed life before us. This internal focus has not, however, prevented us from feeling the awe-inspiring expressions of love and support from the Nashville community and across the nation.
There is a famous Mr. Rogers quote often used in tragedies: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
That quote has never been truer than it has the last four weeks, as this city has wrapped its arms around The Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church community. The bows on mailboxes and signs in yards are tangible evidence to everyone at Covenant that this town is grieving with us and showing their love and support. There are prayers pouring in from all over the city and beyond, and we feel them. Cards and gifts from across the country continue to show up for our students daily.
Organizations from all over the city have given our kids and families spaces to play and gather. Gifts and meals have offered care and support to our faculty and staff, making it possible for us to keep showing up. A concert was performed for our benefit that offered healing and hope. Humanity keeps showing up with what they have to offer to hold us in this vulnerable space. We know God is near because of you.
We are overwhelmed by the care this community has lavished on us, and the love we have felt from every corner of our nation. There are no words in the English language to express our gratitude to everyone adequately. They simply do not exist. Please know we see you and we feel your care and your presence. In the midst of this darkness, we believe that Jesus is the light of the world (John 8:12) and that this “light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). We believe this even in our grief. Your love has helped us do that.
Thank you, Nashville. We love you too.
The Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church