St. Matthew’s Early Childhood Center at Charles House, located at the
corner of El Camino and 2nd Avenue, was designed to provide young
children with a unique school experience to spark their growing imagination.
Morning class schedules for preschool and prekindergarten are created to offer
a hands-on play-based program to develop the minds of young children.
The Early Childhood Center at Charles House encourages children to
celebrate nature with classroom gardens, outdoor playground with tricycle
circle, and expansive windows that bring a beautiful natural setting into the
classroom. This building will enable St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School to
continue to increase enrollment to meet the growing demand of education.
Students and faculty attended the ribbon cutting ceremony and
the school choir will sang in honor of this momentous occasion.
St. Matthew's history began in
1864 when the village of San Mateo had a population of 150 people, 25 houses, a
railway depot, Roman Catholic Church, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, and a
grocery store. To the north was San Francisco and Grace Church, now Grace
Cathedral. There were several Episcopal families in the area, and the Reverend
Giles Alexander Easton arrived from San Francisco to conduct the first
Episcopal services in the local schoolhouse on April 24, 1864.
St. Matthew's will celebrate 150 years
of service to the San Mateo community in 2015. For more information on St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and Day School, please visit http://www.stmatthewsday.org/
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