Kitten Room
18 months – 3 year olds
Our youngest children explore water, sand, paint, blocks, and outdoor play. Teachers guide toddlers through smooth school transitions and partner with parents on potty training at your child’s pace.
For 60 years, UPNS has been a place where children learn through play and parents take part in school life. Since 1966, our families have come from UCLA and neighborhoods across Los Angeles to learn, help, and grow together.
At UPNS, children learn by doing what young children do best: playing, creating, moving, asking questions, and spending time with friends. Parents are part of the school too, working alongside teachers and helping create the warm, familiar community our children grow up in.
Since 1966, generations of UCLA and neighborhood families have shared in the everyday work, and joy, of making UPNS feel like home.
Each room is shaped around the children’s age and stage, with experienced teachers, plenty of time to play, and parents helping alongside the classroom team.
18 months – 3 year olds
Our youngest children explore water, sand, paint, blocks, and outdoor play. Teachers guide toddlers through smooth school transitions and partner with parents on potty training at your child’s pace.
3 – 4 year olds
Kangaroo children spend their days pretending, building, painting, climbing, talking, and learning how to play through ideas and disagreements with friends.
4 – 5 year olds
Our oldest preschoolers take their ideas further through longer games, group projects, stories, outdoor challenges, and growing responsibility in the classroom.
Our teachers bring years of early-childhood experience and work closely with parents throughout the school day.
School Director
Administration Manager
Kitten Room Teacher
Throughout the year, UPNS families come together for games, trips, camping, seasonal celebrations, and plenty of shared memories.
The playground fills with handmade games, crafts, music, food, and families spending the day together.
A beloved spring field trip where children and families visit Underwood Family Farms to ride tractors, pick produce, and meet farm animals.
At UPNS, parents are part of the school. Families help in classrooms, attend meetings, care for the campus, and work with teachers to make the school run.