Building Meaningful Learning for Life Starts Here
Our Kindergarten Classroom is a place of belonging, contributing, self-regulating, and wellbeing. Our curriculum invites young learners to discover and pursue what excites them under the guidance of engaged educators. Add to this a Structured Literacy Program, Arts & Athletic Field Trips, Wonder Walks, Units of Inquiry, and Emergent Science, the RDS Kindergarten experience offers a culturally responsive pedagogy while developing independence, self-confidence, and curiosity about the world through a child-centred, inquiry-based approach.
Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction
Our Kindergarten structured literacy program follows the Science of Reading, ensuring instruction is research-driven and highly effective. We develop comprehensive early reading skills with a focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, handwriting, and spelling to build strong foundational skills. We use Really Great Reading's Countdown Curriculum which has been endorsed by The Reading League for its alignment with best practices and research into reading instruction. Our approach builds confident readers by emphasizing reading accuracy and word attack strategies to enhance comprehension and foster lifelong reading success.
How Children See Themselves Matters
The Kindergarten Program at RDS is focused on developing independence through a child-centred, inquiry-based approach. In class, students interact with provocations (creative work stations) that encourage independent problem solving skills and design-based thinking. Students learn about belonging and the importance of contributing through co-regulation, empathy and constructive conflict solving. Both classrooms and curricula are designed with the intention of being easily accessed and interpreted by children according to their age and comprehension level.
Social-Emotional Wellbeing, Contributing & Self-Regulation
Co-regulation & Constructive Conflict Resolution
Wonder Walks, Outdoor Education & Field Trips
Structured Literacy, Design Projects & STEAM
The RDS Kindergarten curriculum scaffolds students' social-emotional skills with co-regulation techniques, creative problem solving exercises and a safe space to work through big feelings.
Kindergarten
We inspire and develop the authentic character and potential of each child.
Junior School
Access to top-tier facilities.
Middle School
Design-based learning that translates into future-ready skills.
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