Lower School - Additional Programs

Before Care and Extended Day Program
The School offers a faculty- supervised extended day program for Lower School (PreK - 6) students weekdays from 7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. The weekly fee for morning care is $15. Our extended day program is held around the corner from the school at the Riverfront YMCA. It is an exclusive program for Doane students that includes weekly swimming lessons, free swim and the best possible combination of Doane/YMCA after school programming. Transportation from Doane to the YMCA is provided free of charge. The monthly fee ranges from $128.25 to $214 depending on the number of days per week your child participates.

Private Music Instruction Program
Private Music Instruction is offered to all students, PreK-12th grade.

Interscholastic Sports (6th grade through 8th grades)
Coed Soccer - Girls’ Middle School Basketball - Boys’ Middle School Basketball

Assemblies and Special Events
A sampling of Lower School assemblies and special events include the Annual Science Fair, Burlington Fire Department Fire Safety Presentation, Peppermint Puppeteers Recycling Presentation, Sibling Lunch Wednesdays, The Franklin Institute’s Mad Scientist, Dream Flag Project, Battle of the Books, National Geographic Geography Bee, Scholastic Book Fair, Collaborative Class Published Books, Holiday Events (including Halloween Parade, Family Thanksgiving Lunch, Christmas Story by the Fire, Easter Egg Hunt), and, of course, participation in all the wonderful Doane Academy traditions.

Field trips
A sampling of Lower School field trips include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Jersey State Aquarium, Philadelphia Zoo, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Palmyra Nature Cove, Indian Acres Tree Farm, Franklin Institute, Cape May, NJ and Camp Green Acres.