I honestly cannot believe what our experience has been like with Newtown Friends School. It was…read morerecommended to us by an acquaintance whose children attend there and love it. Small classes, progressive values such as inclusivity and diversity, values that so much seemed to reflect our own. It just so happens that our fourth grader was the victim of a crime over the summer before attending this new school. His behavior was affected by this event and, initially, NFS staff, using their language of partnership and collaboration, provided support that had an immediate positive impact. As they expressed a willingness to collaborate with us so did they decide NOT to actually collaborate. The simple recommendation was to keep the support in place and unchanged for a number of months. For whatever their reason, they chose not to do so. This immediately set our child up for failure as they made changes to the support that was working perfectly. Despite our efforts to collaborate, they simply changed it with no regard to what would work for our son. As a result, he was basically set up for failure. Our bright and motivated 9-year-old boy was never in so much trouble as he was at NFS. He was clearly under their critical microscope and their lack of understanding, empathy and unwillingness to work with him was both shocking and obvious. We decided that this school was definitely not a match for him or for our family. The values that they tout are good on paper but our experience is that none of them were genuine and there was no caring about our child, family or experience. "Teaching the whole child", and all of their "partnership", was chewed up and spit out along with us. But they made a point of keeping our.overpayment. Please know that NFS collects tuition fully in advance of the school year being complete. So if you invest in this place for your child's education and well-being, be prepared to lose your money if your child is deemed not good enough by those on high in administration. A sad reflection of Quaker values equating to a complete and total lack of empathy, enormous hypocrisy and obvious greed.

There seem to be two entries for Newtown Friends School, the only difference being the full…read moreaddress. Be sure to check both locations until Yelp combines these two.

Let's be honest for real. The kids basically do everything on their own, the program director…read moredoesn't give a care in the world about anything and shows lack of interest at the kids at all time! It's about time for this place to shut down and hand it to someone else who really cares about the kids!!

My kids have been going to George School summer camp for 4 years. They absolutely love it. Each…read moreweek is filled with adventure and fun with lots of themes and interesting events. They look forward to it all year long. The counselor to camper ratio is excellent. They talk about it all year long. They love the food and have been very accommodating at lunch time to my kids. One is gluten free and the other is gluten and dairy free. It's such a blessing not to have to make lunches during the summer. Overall for summer camps you get what you pay for and while George school is not cheap it outshines others in almost all categories. One area of notable improvement and the reason for my 3 star review relates to accommodating kids with gluten and dairy free snacks. So far this summer they haven't done that effectively and kids get left out or are not included / come home starving at the end of the day. This has the little kids feeling left out and down right hangry / full meltdown when we pick them up. As I mentioned you get what you pay for and for just about 9.5k for 8 weeks at camp for two kiddos we would expect this to be something that could be handled. We would expect to have to make lunches for camp / send them with snacks etc for other camps costing 2-3k for entire summer of 10 weeks but not at George School. I look forward to this being corrected and being able to update my review to 5 stars!

The Newtown Reform Church has it entrance right at the corner of the Newtown Bypass and Buck Road,…read moremaking for some entertaining moments when the drivers behind you realize you are turning into a driveway that they cannot even see. Still, once on the property, and the church is seen in the distance across the open field, you realize that this is probably a good place for a church, but certainly not for anything that attracts more autos into the site. There is no other way in or out, so just be careful. I have only been to this location a few times for special events of the Chinese Christian Church of Princeton that rents the facility from the local congregation on a regular basis. The most recent was the celebration of The Year of the Dog, which began recently. The space works well for these hundred or so families, and it is obvious why they would love to purchase the grounds and structures for their perpetual use. Word has it that the church has declining membership and was in fact for sale at one time, but that it is now in partnership with a residential developer to build homes around the steeple and use the hall as a community center!? Sounds like a very bad idea. I enjoyed the feasts and festivities produced by the leasees there, both summer and winter. How nice would it be if they had a permanent home here in the heart of Bucks County. Surely, William Penn would approve.

Although not a member of the St. Andrew's congregation because of my Jewish faith, I have visited…read moreboth the old and new St. Andrew Catholic Church in Newtown, Pa. on many occasions. It is part of the Philadelphia Diocese, and operates an school by the same name on Wrights Road. The old brownstone single tower neo-Gothic structure, completed in 1880, has a wonderful ambiance, but it held only 200 people and became too small for the growing population of central Bucks County. A new modern open church was completed in the 1990's, just up Swamp Road. Its airiness and vaulted ceilings contributes to a sense that prayers fly upward and are amplified by the multitude of sincere entreaties below. It is a very warm church. Sadly, it seems that the main reason for visits over the years has been to attend funerals and the Blue Mass for our police officers and first responders. Father (Monsignor) Picard is a strong and compassionate leader of this faith community. He connects well with all, and offers a sincere ear and deep reflective response to all who seek his advise and aid. I found myself there yesterday after a neighbor I have known for many years passed away suddenly. The pews were full with his mourning family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. Psalms were read. Songs were song, and eucharist was offered. Tears flowed. Embraces were extended and heart felt. The service ended and solemnly as it had begun, with Father Picard standing at the door offering one last, "Peace Be With You," to all who had come to celebrate and commiserate the life and death of a wonderful man too soon taken.

Although Newtown was founded by Quaker William Penn in 1684, the Newtown Friends Meeting House was…read morenot constructed until 1817. Why did it take so long, when Newtown was a hub of population and commerce throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries; and was the county seat of Bucks County for 88 years beginning in 1727? Given the nature of Quakerism, the very importance of the township was the reason that the majority Quaker population in those days choose to find peace, contemplation and brotherhood a bit farther afield. According to local historians, the presence of the courthouse, about a day's horseback ride from most other villages in the county, often required litigants and weekly market sellers to stay overnight in town. The presence of so many non-residents led to the establishment of businesses complementary to their desires. Thus, there were many taverns and whorehouses to pleasure the traveler. Even a modest sin city was more than the pure souls could accept, and they decided to seek their communion with God a few miles out of town away from these earthly distractions. So, shortly after Doylestown was selected the new center of government and justice (1813), the Newtown Quakers began planning the path to making Newtown a meeting center. One of the leaders of the Quaker community in Newtown was the artist Edward Hicks (The Peaceable Kingdom). He arrived in 1811, and became the driving force in town for the balance of his life. The actual meetinghouse was built in 1815. It remains today, a two story whitewashed stucco structure, with out buildings and beautiful peaceful garden. While not a Quaker myself, I have had the good fortune to spend a lot of time in the meetinghouse due to the generosity of the Meeting, that willingly allows others to use the facility for community purposes. Thus, The Peace Center has held its Peace Camp there for many summers, and a local Jewish congregation met in their sanctuary Friday nights/Saturday mornings for several years. Before that, the Underground Railroad was believed to have had a stop in the vicinity organized by the group, and they were known to have collected money to send south to assist in the manumission of slaves. This noble house today sits in a park-like setting at the southern end of Court Street, the former main thoroughfare of town. It is still open for the business of prayer, witnessing and quiet contemplation. Although renovated in the past few years, its unique spiritual qualities survive for those who can feel its presence.

Teachers are leaving in droves. I believe the Principal is to blame. Not a good leader for teachers…read moreor students.

This school was horrible the bathrooms were disgusting the teachers are mean and I heard that they…read morefavor the other kids. They also made it a bad place the food there is like bad they overprice it and it is disgusting and they don't know how to help the kids with disorders. They also do not help kids if they problems lifting their bag up or down the stairs they make the kids struggle!

I found Crossing to be the least welcoming of all of the churches in Newtown. Due to the church's…read morelocation being convenient to me and friends having attended or been members in the past (none of them do/are now. I should have considered that as a sign not to visit), I became a regular attender, despite much of church staff being hesitant to even shake my hand throughout my time there. What I learned is that, if you did not grow up in this church or do not already have a friend group in it before you began to attend, you are viewed as an outsider and that is the way it is going to remain. I received an abundance of curious e-mails from Crossing that were clearly data harvesting attempts (even without/before being a full member of the church), and repeated, aggressive e-mails for me to come out to the church and perform manual labor on the church house early in the morning, even though I had been sick with COVID symptoms. I also balked when I saw how invasive the church membership contract/covenant is. When a church requires you to forfeit your right to legal counsel as a condition for joining them, that's more than enough of a sign not to come any bit closer. Finally: the lead pastor stopped communicating with me because I visited another church. If that is not evidence of clique behavior, what is? That's contrary to the message of the gospel.

Horrible! If you like cliques you will love this church. One of the most unloving churches I have…read moreever been to. Although our family was heavily involved in ministry and volunteering for this church, we were never treated like part of the in crowd. In fact when our family experienced something devastating they were nowhere to be found. When my father died, they were nowhere to be found. I would say this was one of the worst churches I've ever been to, but unfortunately most every church we spent several years in in the Northeast is like this. Cold hearted, arrogant, superficial and rarely faithful in teaching God's word accurately.

Worked at this center for about 2 years, very underpaid, started at 11/hour and fought for the…read more13/hour that I wound up leaving with. Very sad that people working for this company who do so much for so little pay. On top of it all, it was very hard to take off even with more than a two weeks notice, and very inconvenient and inconsistent with breaks, there were multiple times I was told 5 minutes before my break that it was changed to a later time or that I wouldn't even be receiving one that day. They would also change the schedule on everyone for the next week with out notice, and even though they sent out two weeks of schedules, they would change the second weeks schedule every week, so basically you wouldn't know what your hours were til the Friday before the next week for the upcoming week. Also to mention with all of this being said, even if I were scheduled to leave before close, I NEVER got out on time, and the one acting asistant director told me to let her know when I had things scheduled after my leaving time (knowing that I never got out on time) so she could try to get me out close enough to the time I had something scheduled. Even then there were MULTIPLE times my schedule said 8 to 5 and I had something scheduled at 6 and missed it due to them not allowing me to leave at scheduled time. Which made making appointments very hard since I never got to leave on time and also due to the schedule changed EVERY week. I'm not even going to start sharing how incredibly rude, disrespectful, and unprofessional most of the staff were, if I did, this review would take you a long time to read. I could go on and on but to keep it short and honest, I'll just end with this food for thought...just driving around locally places like McDonald's and Dunkin are offering benefits and 15/hour for a starter position. Luckily I found an assistant teaching job locally that started me at 17 an hour and benefits, and helps with schooling every year. My new place of employment also has consistent break times and rarely changes the schedule on me, and when they do change it on the rare occasion, they notify me in advance and let's me take off when needed. So basically if you want to be treated unfairly and get underpaid, work at kindercare in newtown. Thanks!

From the owner: Infant Programs (6 Weeks - 1 Year), Toddler Programs (1 - 2 Years), Discovery Preschool Programs (2…read more- 3 Years), Preschool Programs (3 - 4 Years), Prekindergarten Programs (4 - 5 Years), Before and After School Programs (5-12 Years), Summer Programs (preschool, prekindergarten, and school-age)

My younger daughter joined Chesterbrook after coming from a very negative previous school…read moreenvironment across town. The principals here literally bent over backwards to get my daughter into the school. They offered a promotional rate for several months as well as no enrollment fee and made some adjustments to make room for her in the class. We are beyond impressed with their caring and the education she is receiving. It is so clean and our child is so happy. We look forward to having our older daughter start camp here this summer as well. Thank you so much for being so great!!

Chesterbrook Academy, Newtown is absolutely the best daycare center. I've had both of my girls…read morehere since they were infants. My older daughter is now 4 and my younger daughter is 2 and they are still there and thriving. The teachers here are outstanding. And there's been very little teacher turnover (my 2 yr old has had the same teachers that my 4 yo had). They are caring, attentive, nurturing and know the smallest details about your child...it shows the level of care and attention that is paid to the children. My girls have also learned so much here. They have a solid "curriculum" for each of the classrooms. My 4 yr old knows all her letters by sight and can write them all. She's starting to write words now too. She can also count in Spanish and knows her colors and other random Spanish words. I researched daycare centers high and low prior to selecting Chesterbrook. They have exceeded my sky high expectations. I couldn't recommend them more.