Overview

York Academy & College Primary School provides a strong foundation of concepts and skills to form lifelong habits of learning throughout children’s earliest school years, in the core academic areas such as reading, writing, social studies, science, technology, robotic, engineering, architecture, mathematics, fine arts, performing arts, languages, communication, media production and broadcasting, music, physical education, and good citizenship. In all of our curricular areas, concepts are introduced at the concrete level and become more complex and detailed as the student’s knowledge and reasoning abilities advance. York Academy & College Primary School’s faculty and adjunct professionals provide dynamic, innovative and differentiated lesson plans and instructions through hands-on activities, role plays, simulations, cultural and social immersion, service learning, and multimedia projects to meet the needs of all students. Our Primary School is complemented by learning specialists with the mandate to meet the needs of every child.

York Academy "one cost cover all" takes into account the quality of education offered, the expertise of our faculty staff and paraprofessionals, and our mandatory advanced curriculum. In reality, York Academy is less expensive in many ways due to our services and programs being bundled together; this decreases commute time and saves time for parents, who traditionally are obliged to leave work early, driving to numerous destinations for after school, evening, and weekend programs and activities for their children.

York Academy & College Primary School encompasses our dedication to craft “Multi-Talented and Multiple Intelligence Renaissance Students”. Our students are provided with a rich opportunity to gain the necessary skills which will place them on the path to academic success and healthy personal growth. Our educational philosophy and curriculum ensure that the necessary components for the very best beginnings are present.

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Advantages

1. Preparing Excellence-Driven Lifelong Learners – By providing children with a carefully designed early education program, they gain significantly by developing their individuality, coping and socialization skills and a lifelong positive attitude towards learning. Such early learning experiences have a profound effect on their development. As a result, York Academy & College believes in providing an unparalleled beginning to formalized education is paramount for all children.
2. Interest-Driven – As children's receptivity and capacity to learn are at their peak in Kindergarten through the end of their Primary School years, York Academy & College Primary School ensures to capture these precious and sensitive early years to assist each and every child acquiring the invaluable aptitudes, knowledge and attitudes that will affect their ability to learn and their personal development throughout their learning journey and life experiences.
3. Inclusive and Nurturing Environment – As these precious early years at school for children unquestionably represent an extension of their family, York Academy & College Primary School is committed to ensuring that our students feel enthusiastic, capable, and successful by providing each and every child a respectful and nurturing community of professional and emotional support that promote active partnerships with parents, open communication, collaborative problem solving and decision making among students, faculty, adjunct professionals, administrators, parents and/or other necessary professionals. York Academy & College offers a school environment that cultivates integration, inclusion and equity for all. We celebrate the rich diversity we have amongst our student body and professional community and work to foster a solid foundation for the future of us all.
4. Supportive Transitioning To Middle School – Our Primary School is an integrated part of the rest of our friendly campus, which is designed to support primary school students’ smooth transitions into later grades with a sense of belonging, respect, discipline, inter-dependence and independence; and we proudly promote such successfully as the hallmark of York Academy & College Primary School. Throughout the Primary School years, York Academy & College Primary School works closely with every student to provide a full support network as they are progressively adjusting to enter Middle School. Group workshops, activities, role-plays, and study-time model are implemented on a regular basis; student-parent-teacher involvements are also introduced to support and discuss transition. Our Middle School students also play a major role in helping our Primary School students in their transition.

Core Skills

Beginning in Grade 1 to the end of their Primary School, students learn the importance of good citizenship quality and its purpose, the preservation of the environment as well as the responsibility for their own behavior. Through guided practice students work to develop skills of belonging, collaboration, inter-dependence, mastery, independence, generosity, leadership, and the fundamentals for continuing lifelong learning curiosity and work ethic. The social, cultural, unconditional caring and emotional well-being of our students are fundamental in our focus and are fostered through skillful community building behaviors modeled and explicitly taught by our passion-driven, qualified faculty and adjunct professionals. Mixed grade level is often introduced in order to extend students’ learning experience and curiosity.

York Academy & College Primary School signifies the importance of promoting the development of social skills and the values of respect and responsibility for ourselves, for others, and for the environment. Echoing York Academy & College’s mandate, our Primary School curriculum covers Academics, Languages and Communication, STREAM [sciences, technology, robotic, engineering, architecture, and mathematics], Physical Education [Sports and Athletics] Fine and performing Arts, Broadcasting, Cultural and Social Immersion, Ecoliteracy, Social Emotional, Service Learning and Good Citizenship Quality, Global Learning Education and Financial Literacy.

In Primary School, students also begin Global Learning Education curriculum with the study of people, countries and cultures around the world in literature, social studies, and science. Their global studies are incorporated into their Fine and Performing Arts curricular activities.