APPROACH
Mission
At Learning Tree School, our mission is to trigger our students’ imagination, understanding and connection to the natural world through playful, outdoor and scientific inquiry.
Our mission is to provide a high-quality early childhood learning program that meets the developmental needs of preschool and lower primary students while inspiring them to love and appreciate the world of nature.
Vision
At Learning Tree, our vision is to empower students to acquire, demonstrate, articulate and value knowledge and skills that will support them, as life-long learners, to integrate and contribute to the global world through practicing the core values of the school: respect, tolerance, inclusion and excellence.
Our vision is also based on encouraging students to learn through fun by connecting with nature, investigating, experimenting, contemplating and solving problems.
Curriculum
Academic Intervention Program
Curriculum Inclusion is not simply about physical proximity. It is about intentionally planning for the success of all students. At Learning Tree, students with learning support requirements are fully included in a content – rich, general education setting. Our school implements a clearly – defined, team based system that combines in class support and academic intervention in a resource classroom.…
Grade1
Curriculum Through nature-based activities, our curriculum in first grade is designed to meet our students’ level. In English, our students will read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. They will understand the key ideas and details of stories. Our teachers will follow a comprehensive and sequenced phonics program to help students analyze and decode words. They will also…
Grade2
Curriculum Through nature-based activities, our curriculum in second grade is designed to meet our students’ level. In English, our students will read texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression with purpose and understanding. They will recount stories and determine their central messages. Our teachers will follow a comprehensive and sequenced phonics program to help students analyze and decode regular…
Grade3
Curriculum Through nature-based activities, our curriculum in third grade is designed to meet our students’ level. In English, our students will become independent readers as our teachers expand their reading and reading comprehension skills. They fluently express their feelings and opinions on topics, they contribute actively to class and group discussions, asking questions, providing useful feedback, and making presentations. They…
Grade4
Curriculum Through nature-based activities, our curriculum in fourth grade is designed to meet our students’ level. Our English course focuses on the four core skills of the language, reading, writing, listening and speaking where students will be able to connect the word to the world. Our students will become readers with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension, produce clear…
KG1
Curriculum Preschool is a time of amazing physical, social, emotional and intellectual growth. Children explores new elements, interact with others, and learn concepts that he/she will continue to build competence with for the rest of the life. KG1 curriculum relies on nature based and hands on activities to develop children’s skills. Our students will follow a daily routine. Our educational…
KG2
Curriculum Through a natural learning approach, we foster KG2 students’ curiosity and creativity by engaging them with a full day activities. Our educational curriculum promotes conversation and language development while building social skills, promoting independence, developing a positive self-concept. Our students actively engage in Literacy in the four critical components: Reading comprehension, phonological awareness, alphabetical principle and concepts about prints.…
KG3
Curriculum Through a natural learning approach we foster KG3 students’ curiosity and creativity by engaging them with a full day activities. Nature activities and playing with natural objects will help teachers strength students in literacy and numeracy subjects. In this stage our students go beyond learning letters and their sounds, they become readers, they learn phonics, blending, reading fluency and…
Pre-K
Curriculum Preschool is a time of amazing physical, social, emotional and intellectual growth. Children explores new elements, interact with others, and learn concepts that he/she will continue to build competence with for the rest of the life. Our curriculum concentrates on hands-on activities to support our little students’ growth in an attractive nature environment. In the nature, our students can…
Special Educational Needs
Curriculum There is no better measure of a school’s culture than how inclusive it is for its most vulnerable students! At Learning Tree, we value diversity and differences. We see that supporting students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) as integral to the success of our school and not as an “add on”. Our school is fully inclusive. Our qualified and…
