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Message from the Principal
Dear Parent, We have created a very special place for children. From babies through to eleven years, our unique environment is especially responsive to a child’s developmental stages and innate desire to learn. Our teachers are specialists in the age group/developmental stage with which they work. They are keen observers and adept facilitators, recognising varying paces and learning styles, helping not doing, coaching not lecturing. Most have committed years of service to our school. They believe in unfolding the child, not moulding or merely stuffing with data. We offer a broad curriculum in multi-age classrooms, aimed at the development of the whole person - mind, body, heart and soul- teaching academic and social skills, as well as life skills, to actually last a lifetime. We are guided not by bureaucratic edict but by a philosophy of education that espouses respect for the individual child, nurturing surroundings, and self-reliance. Plus, we believe in purposeful and fulfilling activity that breaks down the artificial division of ‘work’ and ‘play’. And, while we don’t promote peer competitiveness as a learning tool within our classroom, we do reinforce the inner drive for self-improvement as a motivational tool. Lastly, we are proud to be in Islington, and part of a diverse community – of parents, students and staff – with all that central London has to offer, working towards a shared vision, and held together by common-sense educational values. best wishes
Miss Emma Gowers |
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