About Touchstone Community School
Touchstone Community School is an independent co–operative elementary school located in Rothesay, New Brunswick. Founded in 2000, Touchstone presently has an enrollment of 67 students, ages 4–11. Touchstone uses the Core Knowledge Sequence, as well as the Atlantic Canada Language Arts and Mathematics Curriculum Guides.
The Touchstone learning experience is based on an educational partnership among students, parents, and teachers. At Touchstone, academic excellence and creative learning go hand–in–hand.
Mission and Key Objectives
Mission
Imagine a school …
- where students, parents, and teachers strive for academic excellence in an exciting, creative environment
- where the basics are taught, but the learning always goes far beyond
- where the unique strengths of individuals are developed and critical thinking, self worth, self–discipline, and pro–social behaviour are cultivated
Key Objectives
At the foundation of Touchstone Community School are our
seven key objectives.
Touchstone Community School commits itself to:
- Supporting an environment in which students, teachers, and parents work in partnership
- Striving for academic excellence
- Maintaining small classes
- Providing a creative environment that encourages hands–on collaborative learning
- Teaching an expanded and challenging curriculum
- Enriching the curriculum with regular field trips to historical, cultural, and scientific sites
- Respecting students’ curiosity and interests and developing their unique gifts
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