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The Whole Child

No two students are smart in quite the same way. We teach to every kind of intelligence they bring.

We celebrate each student as an individual and help them make the most of their own gifts and talents. With a whole-child approach, our goal is to help every student reach their full potential in every part of life.

Lessons build social skills, emotional growth and physical coordination as well as academic readiness. Students find joy in learning and in the process itself, and their confidence grows. They build knowledge in the ways they learn best.

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Many kinds of intelligence

Everyone draws on more than one kind of intelligence. Howard Gardner’s research names eight: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalist.

Many schools focus mainly on the first two. We teach to all of them, because students learn in many ways, and a fuller education reaches each one.

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Enter our doors. Open your mind.

The journey starts with the first step inside.