Pretty River Academy School Leadership

Cheryl Proctor, Interim Head of School

Welcome to Pretty River Academy, an innovative place where remarkable things happen every single day. We are a heart-forward community, grounded in nature and guided by purpose. At Pretty River Academy, we believe in more than education. We believe in possibility. We believe in helping every student discover their own version of extraordinary.

Here, learning is a journey where the path to self discovery winds; sometimes it’s wide and open, sometimes it’s narrow and steep but it always leads forward. Along the way, our students learn that a setback is simply a setup for a comeback and that challenges are simply opportunities to grow.

We nurture critical thinkers and creative problem solvers where students work together in collaborative learning communities. Our students learn to ask questions, make connections, and explore ideas through inquiry-based, transdisciplinary learning engagements that encourage creativity, curiosity, and confidence.

Through our Social Emotional Learning framework, RULER, developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, students build the skills to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate their emotions. They learn empathy, responsibility, and resilience - essential skills for life they l use both in and beyond our school community.

At the heart of everything we do at Pretty River Academy are our Resilient Learner Pillars - encouraging a Growth Mindset, nurturing Curiosity, fostering Self Awareness, promoting Self Direction, and creating Collaborative Learning Communities, all of which help our students develop confidence, competence, courage, and compassion.

We focus on designing brain-friendly classrooms, where learning is active, purposeful, and connected to how the brain learns best - through engagement, emotion, and experience.

At Pretty River Academy, every student is known. Every student is valued. Every student is unique in what they bring to our community.

Our students are thinkers, creators, performers, innovators, athletes and leaders.
They lead not just by title, but by example - understanding that leadership is both a role and a responsibility.

You’ll find them in the classroom, on the field and on the stage - learning, competing and performing, always supporting one another. They are friends who eat together, work together, and play together. They are confident, competent, curious, courageous and resilient.

At Pretty River Academy, we believe that education is not just about preparing students for the next stage of life, it's about helping them become the best version of themselves now.

This is Pretty River Academy. This is where your child’s future focussed evolution begins.