Our vision for Tanglewood School is to offer students individualized, high-quality early learning experiences that encourage holistic development by focusing on each child’s intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual growth. Our mission is to cultivate creative, confident, and happy children who are kind to themselves and others, are engaged with their communities, and approach life…
Montessori is a unique approach to education that focuses on individual discovery as opposed to a lecture formatted classroom. Established by educator and doctor Maria Montessori in 1907, Montessori educational theory has been at work in over 20,000 schools worldwide over more than 100 years. That’s a lot of students! The Montessori approach is considered…
When Arthur George Heaven brought his wife and seven children all the way from England to Oakville in 1882, he settled on an 81-acre fruit farm reaching to the shores of Lake Ontario. In 1896, Heaven built a beautiful two-storey stone house on the property and gave it as a wedding present to his son…