OUR MISSION

The Giles School's mission is to cultivate lifelong learners and responsible global citizens who can rise to the challenges of the future while making a valuable impact on society. We provide a well-rounded bilingual education with an inclusive perspective that develops students of character who are committed to making the world a better place.

THE GILES ADVANTAGE

Dare To Listen

Inclusive Learning

Inclusive Learning

Inclusive learning and teaching are essential to equip our students with the understanding, preparedness, and resources needed to thrive in our ever-changing world. Society faces a range of challenges, and individuals from varied backgrounds, ideals, beliefs, abilities, and ways of thinking are needed to tackle what lies ahead. We focus on nurturing each child’s unique characteristics, interests, abilities, and learning needs to ensure they can develop to their full potential. Teaching is differentiated as required so that students feel safe and able to thrive.

International Growth Mindset

International Growth Mindset

The Giles School provides students with an international growth mindset by equipping them with four main languages: English, French, Mandarin, and Spanish. With a specific focus on French immersion, students are educated in cultural awareness and equipped with the language skills necessary to interact effectively in a variety of settings.

A growth mindset helps children face the inevitable challenges of life and view them as opportunities to learn, rather than as failures. By fostering this mindset, alongside the benefits of a multilingual, immersive language education program, children are given everything they need to grow, develop, and explore themselves and the world around them.

Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinking

An innovative thinker is able to utilize both sides of their brain by using critical thinking skills, creativity, and emotional flexibility to make sense of situations from a 360-degree perspective. The Giles School fosters innovative thinking skills in all its students through all the blended learning programs. Innovative thinking encourages self-awareness, self-reflection, and resilience, enabling individuals to cope with a range of emotions, situations, and experiences, and ultimately helping them stay ahead of the competition in today's fast-paced world.

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Harry Giles, founder of The Giles School

Our Story

The Giles School began in 1989 with a handful of students in the basement of an Anglican church, founded by Harry Giles, CM, QC, who also founded the Toronto French School and helped bring the International Baccalaureate to Canada. What started as six founding principles, early intervention, bilingualism, third languages, small classes, international standards, and love, still shapes how The Giles School teaches today, carried forward by Principal Caroline Bernaba and a staff who've been part of that story for decades.

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