Star Academy Science Fair

Travis Allison
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I was invited last week to attend the annual science fair at Mississauga’s Star Academy (see their listing on Ourkids.net).    Star Academy is a private school that focuses on teaching children to “love to learn”. A visitor to the school could easily understand this focus if they were visiting the science fair last Thursday!  It [...]

Waldorf Art Tournament will fund trip

Shane Alexander

Every year at the Toronto Waldorf School, the grade 8 class come up with some creative idea to raise money in order to take a last journey as a whole unit before they all enter the high school stages of their life.  This year, the grade 8 class have come out with an awesome and [...]

Interview: Dave Bird – Pinehurst School

Travis Allison
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I had a great time last week speaking with Dave Bird, principal of the Pinehurst School in St. Catherines.   Pinehurst (view their listing on OurKids.net) specializes in helping students who have learning or behavioural difficulties that prevent them from succeeding in “traditional” classrooms. From their website: Our Mission is to motivate all of our Pinehurst [...]

What’s On: Week of April 26-May 2, 2010

Shaundra Selvaggi

Welcome to What’s On, The Our Kids blog’s weekly roundup of interesting and exciting events on tap. To help make sure we know about all the best events be sure to leave a comment below or send an email to travis[at]ourkids[dot]net. Now on with the week ahead! Wednesday April 28 Information Session | LANDMARK SCHOOL [...]

Sex Education in the Early Grades – What’s the Real Purpose of Explicit Sex-Ed?

Paul W. Bennett
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[Thanks to Paul W. Bennett for sharing this article with us.  If you have any comments you can leave them hear at the bottom of this article or directly on Paul’s site where this article first appeared.) Ontario’s aborted sex education curriculum reform created quite a public uproar and re-ignited an ongoing debate across Canada.  [...]

What’s On: Week of April 19-25, 2010

Shaundra Selvaggi

Welcome to What’s On, The Our Kids blog’s weekly roundup of interesting and exciting events on tap. To help make sure we know about all the best events be sure to leave a comment below or send an email to travis[at]ourkids[dot]net. Now on with the week ahead! Tuesday April 20 Open House | TOWN CENTRE [...]

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