What can you expect?

Building Relationships

We know your child is coming to school with an abundance of knowledge, interests and unique life experiences.

The role of the classroom teacher is to get to know your child academically, socially, emotionally and culturally so they can best support their learning styles in a way that is meaningful and engaging.


If there's something you feel the teacher needs to know about your child, don't hesitate to reach out! We are partners in your child's learning from now until they graduate.


What does learning through play look like in Primary?
Find out in this video!

Learning Through Play

Play-based learning encourages children to show their learning in a variety of ways:

  • writing, painting, building, creating

  • exploring things and asking questions

  • drawing pictures or painting numbers, letters or words

  • engaging in storytelling

  • using technology to record and communicate

  • expressing themselves through music and movement




A Focus on Mathematics

Your child will enter Primary with many experiences connected to mathematics.

Counting, recognizing and seeing numbers in their environment will help your child see the importance of math.

While in school, your child will learn math in a social, hands-on and collaborative way.

Your child will begin to:

  • use mathematic vocabulary

  • recognize numbers from 1-10

  • rote count (sing-song counting to 20)

  • see numbers in two parts

A Focus on Literacy

Children first use listening and speaking to learn about language, and then begin to explore reading and writing.

When children are first learning to read and write, it is important to talk about the ideas they are reading about as this will help deepen their understanding.

In Grade Primary, your child will begin to:

  • share their thoughts and feelings of their daily lives in school

  • notice letters on signs and use those in their writing

  • match written words to spoken words

  • see relationships between sounds and letters

  • experiment with writing - labelling drawings and writing groups of random letters and then eventually write real words

  • wonder aloud, question and use new vocabulary.

Learn more about literacy in this video.

Learning Together

Teachers encourage students to work together and build on each other's strengths and ideas.


Working together develops:

  • collaboration

  • communication

  • creativity

  • critical thinking

  • citizenship

  • character


This video demonstrates collaboration in action!