At Cherry Brook Primary School, we believe in creating a safe learning environment for all students, an environment in which students feel safe enough to take academic growth risks. We believe we must help our students cultivate their moral and ethical accountability as well as an awareness of equity, civility and diversity issues. We expect our students will demonstrate a high degree of tolerance and a decreased level of bullying. We expect our students will make appropriate decisions and show a willingness to assume responsibility for those decisions.

Our curricular beliefs focus on developing within each student an ability to read with comprehension and critical judgment, to write and speak with clarity and effectiveness, and to master the disciplines of mathematics and science. Additionally, we believe exposure to the applied as well as performing arts, and a practical knowledge of how to acquire and maintain personal physical and mental health are important aspects to a total education experience.

Our curriculum is research based and reflects current studies in neuroscience (brain science) as well as cognitive science (mind science) both of which play a critical role in education.

Our curricular practices allow for teaching opportunities that recognize the need to explore:

• multiple learning styles
• inquiry and critical thinking
• collaborative settings
• the application of newly gained knowledge to real-life situations
• individual learning rates
• assessments which consider individual differences

We hold fast with our belief that we as educators are in the most noble of professions.