Benavidez Elementary Head Start

About Benavidez Elementary Head Start

Benavidez Elementary Head Start is a provider of early education and care for the students and families of Houston. As a center-based facility, Benavidez Elementary Head Start provides the best of a school-like environment, which can help smooth the transition for students to formal school one day in the future, and the best of a community of student peers and professional staff to help inspire and support the learning journey. Centers like Benavidez Elementary Head Start can benefit students with their resources, opportunities, and activities for enrichment and learning. In addition, Benavidez Elementary Head Start conveniently proffers a full-time schedule, helpful for busy working parents that want their children to have the best when they need to be apart. Children at Benavidez Elementary Head Start benefit from the full-time schedule too as the dedicated time to be amongst their peers promotes growth, development and stimulates creativity and learning. The structure during the day gives children many opportunities to be themselves, play, explore, and have all manners of fun, all in a day! Students at Benavidez Elementary Head Start will also experience a nature-focused, outdoors-oriented learning approach that emphasizes an early and often connection to the environment and natural world. Learning approaches like this embrace the role that active, outside play can take in shaping independence, appropriate risk-taking, and creative self-expression for children. The outdoors can be a place of joy and wonder in childhood, and stimulating that wonder in children can have positive lifelong benefits and be a boon for physical and emotional health.