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We couldn't have asked for a better school for our daughter. She was guided to make good choice... The principal is an exceptional leader. She provides clear and consistent messaging to both students and parents. Although always available to parents, she promotes the need for students to self-advocate in preparation for pos... The educators at Kanata Montessori are dedicated to their students. When our daughter struggled to understand new material, her teachers found alternate ways to present the information often drawing on her areas of interest to... The academic program at Kanata Montessori has a strong foundational core intended to prepare students for post-secondary studies. There are also many hands-on options including impressive music and physical education classes.... Kanata Montessori is a small high school (with about 100 students when our daughter attended). The number is large enough to support group activities and events while still feeling like a tight-knit community. Class sizes are ... The environment at Kanata Montessori is very friendly and casual. Students don’t wear uniforms, and the school setup is comfortable. There are fun seating areas, a kitchen that’s available to students, a ping pong table an... Kanata Montessori is located next to the Trans Canada Trail on a large parcel of land with its own greenspace. The school is also situated near a community sports field and park where students often walk to participate in grou... When we selected Kanata Montessori, the high school hadn’t opened yet. We met with the elementary principal to discuss the plans and determine whether the school would be a good fit for our daughter. His commitment and passi... Our daughter didn’t apply to university, but she was well supported when reviewing post-secondary options. The principal is extremely knowledgeable and provided excellent guidance. With such a personal connection to each stu... |
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(4.9)
My daughter excelled personally and education wise at Kanata Montessori. I feel the educators p... The school administrator principal, Michelle Skene took an incredible individual approach to guiding my daughter in university applications. We personally had no boundary issues. My daughter appreciated the school and was not ... The educators encouraged and taught my daughter how to write well and think critically. Now after one year complete in University, I am so impressed how she can efficiently and creatively write an essay and repo md to assignme... By second term Grade 11, my daughter’s 2nd term at the school, her language arts skills dramatically improved. The educators also provided necessary support to cope with learning disabilities like dyslexia allowing our daugh... The student body was small with each grade cohort having between 10-20 students. The atmosphere was relaxed but professional with regard to education. In the high school building, there were ping pong tables, chess, lounging s... KMS found ways to include all students in events such as large theatre production gala, Annie, with served dinner. Students helping with production, music, hosting and guiding the audience and serving the dinner. I was very im... The school is located in Kanata, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa. The school is within walking distance of parks and shopping malls with places to go with lunch. The senior students had autonomy to leave the school for lunch. Near... The admission application was a meeting with Kanata Montessori with school principle Michelle Skeen with both parents and my daughter. We left the meeting, held in August, very interested and engaged. We were provided a tour a... The school administrator principal, Michelle Skene took an incredible individual approach to guiding my daughter in university applications as well as course selection to successfully achieve the required Ontario high school c... |
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We moved Emilie to The Ridge at Kanata Montessori in the middle of grade 9 after a disastrous a... Principal Michelle Skene and her awesome team of educators at The Ridge at Kanata Montessori do a fantastic job of keeping parents informed about life at school, especially since the pandemic began. The educators are availabl... It's not an easy task to motivate teenagers, but the educators at The Ridge at Kanata Montessori are incredibly inventive about how they teach their curriculum, especially through a variety of online tools since the pandemic b... The educators at The Ridge at Kanata Montessori offer a well-rounded curriculum that goes far beyond the provincial standards. While the high school at KM is not a formal Montessori school it is very Montessori-like in approa... The Ridge at Kanata Montessori is a small high school; as such the students get to know each other very well very quickly. They are a closely-knit group within their year, and also across the grades. Students are comfortabl... After languishing in a public school for the first half of grade 9, Emilie was delighted to find an intellectually interesting and challenging environment at The Ridge at Kanata Montessori. Where we used to push her out the d... The school is 12 minutes away from our home by car, in a suburban environment that includes a very large park down the street as well as restaurants/retail a few blocks away. High school students are encouraged to step outsid... The admissions process was conducted by the principal, who responded with great empathy and support when we reached out to her and asked to move Emilie to The Ridge at Kanata Montessori in the middle of the school year. We we... |
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(4.7)
Our son's experience was the best we could have hoped for. Freshly immigrated to Canada from Be... The school's vision is to get the best out of each individual, respecting the individual's strengths and weaknesses. On a daily basis, the school leadership brings this vision into practice by offering a program tailored to th... The teaching at the school, as we as parents experienced it, is quite different from what we have seen at our daughter's school and from our own experience as students. The teachers all (1) share great enthusiasm for their dom... The school strongly advocates academic excellence, in line with the individual student's abilities. In accordance with the Montessori vision that children are naturally inclined to want to learn, they foster the natural academ... I can't talk intelligently about the student body because I didn't have any personal interactions with it.
As for the dynamic between students in general, it seemed different from my own school back in the day and from my d... Our son absolutely loved it at Kanata Montessori. The atmosphere has more resemblances to a big happy family than the traditional hierarchical school organization. Students and teachers mingle all the time. The teachers do, ne... The school is in a quiet area in Kanata South. It can be reached within 15min of most of Kanata South and 20 to 30 minutes from Kanata North and Stittsville. It is easily accessible from Highway 417, over the main North-South ... We were in a particular situation when applying: We were then living in Belgium and preparing our move to Canada. The application process happened over email and skype.
The principal Michelle Skeen was extremely forthcomin... Having immigrated from Europe to Canada a few years ago, our son and us were not well acquainted with the university placement system in Canada, which is very different from the system in our home country.
The school's prin... |
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It had been a tough year in a large school with a cohort of students who were not motivated to ... The Principal at Kanata Montessori (The Ridge) was an outstanding Leader. She was committed to encouraging the students and staff to perform their best and strive for excellence, leading by example. Every Educator and Admini... There is not enough we could say about the Educators at KM. There is a wide range of educational backgrounds that give the school a unique flavor of diversity and interesting insight into many subjects. The students are allo... From the budget priorities to the staff educational backgrounds, it was evident that the school administration supported an environment of high academics and innovative learning. The school had a 3D printer and full science l... We walked into the school to a dog at the door happy we were there and another sitting on the lap of a student listening intently to the lesson. The dogs were a part of the student body, like anyone else. They contributed th... Our daughter mourned the loss of community connectedness when she graduated last year. Although the pandemic was raging on, The Ridge did an amazing job of celebrating each and every graduating student, holding true to the Pu... The school location worked out well for us as it was close to one of our work locations. As far as amenities close to the school, there wasn't too much, but at the time there was a deli close by that some students would go to... When we were looking at putting out daughter into another school, we did interviews at several schools. Walking into The Ridge for the first time was very eye-opening. The students were scattered about the comfortable foyer... One thing that we were most pleased with was the way that the school handled helping the students find post-secondary school programs. I think that at other schools it is mostly up to the students and the parents to go throug... |
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