Language & Literacy
Build reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary, spelling, speaking, and listening skills. Stories, discussions, and writing help students communicate their ideas clearly.
A balanced elementary experience can help students build essential skills while discovering what makes them uniquely themselves.
From Kindergarten to Grade 6, students build essential skills, explore new ideas, and grow in confidence through a balanced elementary education.
Build reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary, spelling, speaking, and listening skills. Stories, discussions, and writing help students communicate their ideas clearly.
Develop number sense, operations, patterns, measurement, geometry, and data skills. Students learn to reason mathematically and solve problems in meaningful contexts.
Explore living things, materials, forces, weather, and the environment through observation, questions, investigations, and age-appropriate scientific activities.
Learn about families, communities, geography, Canadian history, cultures, and citizenship while developing an understanding of different people and perspectives.
Explore visual arts, music, and creative expression. Students experiment with ideas and materials while developing imagination and an appreciation for the arts.
Develop movement skills, coordination, teamwork, and an understanding of healthy choices through age-appropriate physical activities and games.
Learning progresses from foundational skills to greater independence and more complex thinking.
Develop early literacy and numeracy, communication, curiosity, classroom routines, and positive social skills.
Build reading fluency, mathematical reasoning, research habits, collaboration, and confidence working more independently.
Apply knowledge to more complex tasks, explain ideas with evidence, solve problems, and prepare for the next stage of learning.
Children learn in different ways and at different paces. A strong elementary experience balances clear instruction and guided practice with discussion, exploration, creativity, and opportunities to work together.