Elementary School Program

The curriculum in the elementary grades is aimed at developing the qualities of head, heart and hand among the students. The program provides opportunity for students to construct meaning, principally through concept-driven inquiry, that is both disciplinary and transdisciplinary in nature.
The Elementary grades are grade 1 to grade 6. The students benefit from a balance of curricular and co-curricular activities designed to support and extend their learning. Maple Crest offers a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning.
At Maple Crest we enjoy linguistic and cultural diversity teaching language as an integral part of designing and implementing the curriculum, both within the classroom and outside. As such, all classes have libraries with grade-level books for guided, shared and independent reading. We believe that all teachers are language teachers and all students are language learners. The students’ mother tongue is accorded a place of importance and activities organized around that throughout the year.
The school follows the Canadian curriculum and students of grade 3 and 6 take the provincial test in English (reading and writing) and Math in the month of June. As a candidate International Baccalaureate (IB) PYP school, the curriculum of the elementary grades is planned and learnt as units of inquiry under the IB PYP themes:

• Who we are?
• Where we are in place and time?
• How we express ourselves?
• How the world works?
• How we organize ourselves?
• Sharing the planet.

The school prides itself in the use of varied teaching-learning and assessment activities both within and outside the classroom. Students aged 11 to 12 who are in their final year of the program are expected to carry out an extended, collaborative inquiry project, know as the exhibition, under the guidance of their teachers.
The students are taken on visits and field trips as deemed appropriate to enhance their learning and are continuously involved in projects within the community. The teachers are regularly trained to hone their skills and keep up with the latest research in good school practices to promote students’ learning.
Students have access to computers with internet connection and ICT is integrated into curriculum.  
Go to   http://ibo.org/pyp/index.cfm for more details