Our Mission
To provide children with excellent care, a level of care that we would show as if they were our own;
to harbor a safe haven for them to learn the way they learn and at the pace they learn;
to lead them to be compassionate, well-rounded, and confident individuals;
to inspire them to be curious lifelong learners who always chase the twinkle of wonder.
Teaching Methods - Inquiry and Play-Based Learning
We use an inquiry approach to learning. Our classes, themes, lesson plans, and curriculum are built on this foundation. Socrates, who first coined the phrase “Wisdom begins in wonder.”, did not support the idea that a “learner” is a passive participant in the journey to knowledge, instead believed that learning was an active process of construction by the learner. We at TWS build our curriculum around the foundations set for us by Socrates, Kath Murdoch, Trevor MacKenzie, and Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt.
“‘Inquiry-based learning’ is a process where students are involved in their learning, create essential questions, investigate widely, and then build new understandings, meanings, and knowledge. That knowledge is new to the students and may be used to answer their essential question, to develop a solution, or to support a position or a point of view.”
- Trevor MacKenzie, Inquiry Mindset
Children are born to learn through play and curiosity. Research shows that play-based learning and inquiry-based learning go hand in hand when it comes to early childhood education and beyond. Children associate joy, fun, and engagement with learning when they are learning something they are invested in or interested in. Once we allow children to take charge on their path to knowledge, we enable them to make healthy associations with the concepts of education and become life-long learners.