About Us
Noyes is a dynamic community of teacher and learners which invites and needs your involvement. Whatever your interest - instruction, technology, library, governance, planning special events, chaperoning trips, gardening, fund raising, improving the building or playground, recycling, enhancing school safety, substituting in classrooms, art and music - there is a niche for you here. There is a synergy here of parent, staff and students, unlike any you may have experienced elsewhere, which propels us forward.
Vision Statement
Students at the Peter Noyes School will strive to reach their highest individual academic potential. They will become readers, writers, communicators - mathematically, scientifically and technologically able. Students will gain a facility for and appreciation of the arts. They will be able to think, problem solve, question and take intellectual risks. Students will be able to learn both independently and cooperatively. Students will emerge as curious, confident, life-long learners.
Students will develop certain attitudes, as well. These include:
- a belief in the importance of perseverance and effort and a sense of responsibility
- a sense of respect for others, for human differences, for the school environment and for themselves
- an awareness of the importance of community service
To achieve these outcomes, certain conditions for learning will be established and sustained. Students will feel a sense of safety and belonging and that they are part of a caring community. Teachers will recognize that there are many ways to learn and that they need to teach to different modalities and intelligences. Teachers, moreover, will strive to establish a spirit of collegiality marked by sharing, mutual support, continual learning and a commitment to working, as a faculty, on common goals, as well as individual growth.
Parents and teachers will work together toward achieving a partnership characterized by mutual respect, collaboration, sharing and communication. Parents and staff at the Peter Noyes School will be committed to developing such a learning environment by providing students with opportunities and by setting examples at home, in school and in the community.
Core Values
- Celebrate Achievement
- Always Respect Others
- Really Show You Care
- Encourage Personal Responsibilty
History
The Peter Noyes School first opened in 1950 with 12 classrooms (grades 1-5) at a cost of just over one half million dollars. At that time it was called the New Elementary School. In 1962, the School Committee renamed the school after Peter Noyes, a distinguished leader in Sudbury’s past. Peter Noyes came to New England from England in 1638. Sudbury’s first settlers, including Peter Noyes, were Puritans who left England to avoid religious persecution. Peter Noyes became a “founding father” of Sudbury and was involved in farming, obtaining land grants, town planning and governing the new settlement. Due to student overcrowding in the 1950’s, the new Noyes School soon became a Junior High School and remained so until 1964 when the Ephraim Curtis Middle School was built. The school housed sixth graders exclusively for a period of time before becoming an elementary school again.
In September 2006, Noyes houses students in grades pre-K through grade 5. The total enrollment is currently 680 students.