Character
Choices and what comes of them. Taking responsibility for your own work. Doing hard things because they're worth doing. Finishing what you start. Getting something wrong, or losing, and going again. Doing the work when nobody's watching.
Kindergarten to Grade 6
What we teach
Each subject taught to a high standard, and time to get it right before moving on.
The core subjects
Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Science and technology
History and geography
Seven additional areas of focus
The core subjects are the foundation. A child needs more than that to be ready for life, so we work on these too.
Health and fitness
Physical activity every day, and learning how to look after your body. Real food and nutrition, and why it matters. First aid, CPR, and what to do in an emergency.
Thinking and problem solving
How to break a problem down and work it out instead of memorising an answer. How to form a hypothesis, test it, and change your mind if you were wrong. Working from first principles: what you know to be true, rather than what you've been told.
Communication and working with people
How to listen, how to understand where someone else is coming from, and how to get your own ideas across. Making a case and defending it, speaking in front of a group, and taking a question you weren't expecting. How to work as a team to get something big done.
Money and business
How money works: earning it, saving it, what interest is, what things cost and why. Entrepreneurship and self-reliance. How to start and run a small business.
How things work
Engineering, learned by doing it. Taking things apart, putting them back together, building from scratch. Hand tools, simple repairs, woodworking, growing food. How a computer works and how to write simple code.
Outdoors
Time outside in every season. Finding your way, reading the weather, fire and shelter, plants and animals, and where food comes from before the store.
If you're looking for
- Private school in Durham RegionA private K-6 day school opening in Durham Region: small classes, strong academics, and money and business, engineering and the outdoors taught as subjects in their own right.
- Forest and outdoor schoolOutdoor learning in every season, alongside reading, writing and mathematics taught to a high standard.
- MicroschoolSmall groups, with a teacher and an assistant in every room.
- Non-woke and conservative schoolingWhat actually happens in our classrooms, written as policy you can hold us to: one flag, the anthem every morning, and gender and sexuality left to parents.
- A homeschooling alternativeFor Durham families who homeschool or are considering it: keep control of what your child is taught, and get a teacher, other children, and your own week back.
- Hybrid homeschoolingPart-time school days with the rest at home, and the curriculum published to parents before it is taught.
- Alternative schoolChildren are given the time to get something right, and spend a good part of the day on their feet.
- Independent schoolWhat independent means for an Ontario school, the two definitions in use, and what to ask a school instead. A private K-6 school opening in Durham Region.
- Money and business for kidsMoney and business taught as real subjects from Kindergarten: earning, saving, interest, what things cost, and a stand of their own in the early grades.
Ask us about the school
We'll keep you posted as we choose a site, set tuition and open enrolment.