What are our core values?

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Curiosity

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Instead of having a pre-determined curriculum, teachers observe children in their play to identify their interests, and collaborate with children to design projects around their own curiosity.  Learners engage in those projects either independently or collaboratively, as appropriate. The flexible nature of this contextual curriculum, enables children to dive deep into meaningful learning when their interest piques without needing to be moved onto 'the next thing' before they are ready, as well as supporting children to connect to place and people in an organic way.​

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Creativity

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Music, visual arts, drama, dance, entrepreneurial-thinking and problem-solving skills are developed through integration in project-based learning, as well as being available to explore at any time as part of personal passion projects (individually or in groups). 

  

Connection

 

In the rapidly changing landscape of an increasingly polarised world, the ability to empathise and resolve conflicts may be the most valuable skill-set for us all to develop.

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Empowering children to engage and communicate with each other and themselves in an empathic way (inspired by Marshall Rosenberg's: Nonviolent Communication) helps to create an environment in which individuals flourish.

 

Exploring connections is not limited to human-to-human connections, but includes connection to nature, our own bodies, and the universe. The complex relationship between the autonomy and interdependence of which, is fertile ground for discussion.