Thought Leadership

In The Foundry, Middle School students designed, built and presented various sets for their drama/plays. During this experience, they learned more about empathy, how it connects to the design process and how they could build onto the community with their creativity. 

As educators, we always say that passion is the best teacher as it drives valuable curiosity and learning, opening up access to previously inaccessible skills, such as coding and sewing. We are very excited to have the Projects of Passion (PoP!) back in person this year after the pandemic, as a THS annual tradition that began in 2016 when our Grade 4 teacher (Mrs. Dunn) held a Genius Hour project with her class. 

In his October blog post, Managing Director Dan Blurton discussed AI’s benefits and pitfalls as they relate to education. In this blog, he pivots to another program at the school that is even more important to understand in light of recent advances in AI: Cultures of Thinking.

With the Grade 4 studying Maya culture, the Term 2 intensive project had the students craft original Maya-styled masks. The student group developed engineering, woodworking, and creative experience and skill through the process.

Read about the importance, many uses and joys of Math!

Read about the importance of celebrating the whole person, irrespective of their learning styles, and appreciating them for being different.

Over the past several years, we have witnessed a growth throughout all levels of the music program at THS. The general music program for Junior Grade 1 to 4th Grade is solid and gives students a meaningful foundation in music on which to build when those students move to Upper Primary and into Middle School.