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Volume 2, Issue 1
 
March 2004
 
Inside This Issue (Full Articles):
The Beach School: Giving Children the Freedom to Learn
Daily Life at The Beach School

 

The Beach School
42 Edgewood Ave
Toronto ON

416-693-3014
Email: info@thebeachschool.org
Web: thebeachschool.org

 


"All people are, by nature, curious."
Aristotle

 


The Beach School, opened in the east end of Toronto in September 2003, is a student-directed school that models itself after the Sudbury Valley School, which has been in operation in Framingham, Massachusetts since 1968.

The Sudbury Valley School to Visit The Beach School

May 2004

The Beach School is excited to announce that Mimsy Sadofsky, a founder and staff member at the Sudbury Valley School, will be coming to The Beach School the last weekend in May.

Ms. Sadofsky's visit is part of a new SVS program to provide support to other Sudbury Valley model schools through participating in publicity events, staff training and a meeting with members and friends of the school community.

Visit our website in the coming weeks for more details.°

 

TBS Staff Member Has Article Published in International Magazine


Children of the New Earth, a magazine published in California and distributed internationally, has the mandate to, "investigate critical issues pertaining to children ahead of mainstream media; to research and highlight the work of pioneers in all fields who are lighting the way for the children of our future, and keeping our readers up to date with developments worldwide."

Kristin Simpson, a full-time staff member at The Beach School has had an article published in the most recent edition of this informative new magazine.
 

FULL STORY

Daily Life at The Beach School

By Kristin Simpson

The school has now been open for more than five months, and staff and students are settling into a routine (as much as things can ever be routine where curriculum and administration are constantly evolving!) Some things are quite similar to the way I pictured them before the school opened, while others are quite different.
 

FULL STORY