KEY's 6 Cs™
CuriosityHarnessing the spirit of inquiry to truly understand issues at the core of any problem or situation at hand.
CreativityHarnessing the imagination to act on and arrive at tangible (physical objects) and intangible (ideas, thoughts) expressions.
Critical ThinkingActively evaluating and analyzing information in order to conceptualize, strategize, and apply solutions in the classroom, on the playing field, at home, and in life.
CollaborationUnderstanding how to harness individual strengths to contribute to greater team success.
ConfidenceThe ability to feel secure in one’s capabilities, choices, decisions, and thinking.
Character Instilling in students a sense of integrity and awareness of actions and consequences.
Is Your Child Ready? KEY Learning Assessments Show You
Each Little Scholar that comes in through our doors has different needs, goals, and responds to different styles of learning. Your time at KEY starts off with a certified Pearson learning assessment conducted by our trained professionals to determine your child’s strengths, learning styles, and areas that need improvement. From here, our Educators recommend the best approach for classes accordingly to your goals. Moving forward with KEY, your child will be set up with our private school prep, one-on-one or group classes for further educational enrichment through our Little Scholars classes to match your goals.
KEY Private School Prep Classes
The Private School Preparation program is an assessment preparation program which simulates actual school assessments. Children will be placed through three, 4-week streams of learning environments with activities that simulate the actual assessment. The twelve weeks in total will be focusing on three of the Early Childhood Education Methodologies proven to teach children through hands-on experiences inspired by Reggio-Emilia, Waldorf, and Montessori approaches. We chose these three approaches due to the similarities in helping children to fully understand their full potential as intelligent, creative, whole persons. In each approach, children are viewed as beings capable of their own development, strongly influenced by natural, dynamic, self-righting forces within themselves, opening the way toward growth and learning.
We believe in the best quality, especially when it comes to the education of our children. KEY has worked with both of our children. Our son took KEY’s etiquette course and after that we noticed a remarkable change in the way he interacts with others, especially adults. Our friends and relatives have even commented on his increased confidence. KEY helped our daughter gain admissions to one of the most competitive private schools by advising us every step of the process. KEY’s levels of dedication, service, and quality are unmatched. We have no doubt that KEY will be the go-to place for families wanting the best admissions advice and enrichment programs.
KEY Little Scholars Classes
Key’s Little Scholars curriculum is developed to be an immersive year-round project that will be implemented in three classrooms, and inspired by three educational methods; Montessori, Waldorf and Reggio-Emilia. As the children globe-trot from Vancouver, North America to South America, Oceania, East-Asia and back, we will learn about the culture, lifestyle and art. Man-made monuments, landmarks, animals and colours, flags and language, traditions and games, history and folklore. The children will work closely with friends and teachers and fully immerse themselves in this multicultural expedition, all within the classroom!
Montessori-Inspired
Body
Our Montessori-Inspired approach develops our young students’ character and leadership skills, along with their critical thinking, strategic thinking and problem-solving. The basic foundations of life skills balanced with the academics of this approach views children as eager for knowledge. In a typical lesson, a child is able to freely choose learning activities that are specifically prepared within their environment. Children are expected to explore a wider world and develop rational problem-solving, cooperative collaboration, imagination and aesthetics, and complex cultural knowledge. All learning streams connect to the overarching theme of “Around the World” with our Inspired Montessori program’s designation being geography, language, history and math. The Montessori curriculum is highly individualized, with scope, sequence, and clearcut learning outcomes. The individualization results in some children being able to read and write.
Reggio-Emlia-Inspired
Our Reggio-Emilia-Inspired approach develops our young students’ character, confidence and collaboration skills vital to making students classroom ready. Our educators support children in exploring and investigating as they grow in competence to symbolically represent ideas and feelings through any of their "hundreds of languages" through words, movement, drawing, painting, building, sculpture, shadow play, collage making, dramatic play, music, etc. All streams connect to the overarching theme of “Around the World” with the inspired Reggio-Emilia program’s designation being culture. Our educators follow the children's interests and do not provide focused instruction in reading and writing. However, they foster emergent literacy as children record and manipulate their ideas and communicate with others. Teaching and learning are negotiated processes between adults and children, involving generous time, in-depth revisiting, and reviewing. Long-term, open-ended projects are important aspects for collaborative work.
Waldorf-Inspired
Our Waldorf-Inspired approach develops our young students’ creativity, critical thinking and curiosity skills that lead to new and innovative ideas. A vital factor of this approach is imaginary play. It is their most important "work" and the activity through which the grow physically, intellectually, and emotionally. Children learn through music and movement, constructive and creative play, listening, memory, storytelling, and songs. All streams connect to the overarching theme of “Around the World” with Waldorf’s designation being on folklore and fairy tales from different cultures. Our educator’s present materials to children through modeling. Children take what they learn and apply it to their own production of booklets that become self-made textbooks. They study literature, folktales, and mythology; rhythmic musical movement; practical crafts; natural sciences; foreign languages; art; and music. This approach fosters integrated multi-sensorial learning and self-expression.
Thanks for all of your hard work and outstanding contributions for my son’s achievement. In his private school interview, I saw a different side of my son; a confident, positive, and polite young man. After the principal of Richmond Christian School interviewed my son, he made offered admission on the spot and welcomed my son to the school community. It was great news for both my son and me. I believe Richmond Christian School will be a great challenge for my son and I’d love to ask KEY’s assistance to continue helping him achieve a higher level of educational goals and realizing his value in life.
Success Story
She again thanked KEY for everything that we did to ensure that her two children got into one of the more competitive private schools in town. Before her children came to KEY, they were polite and kind, but shy and quiet. Through our Keys to Success program, they learned about different topics and subjects, all the while improving their English. They also developed their confidence through presentations to their class and during the parent-teacher night performance. Moreover, not only did they make friends in class, but they also learned to work well and cooperate with students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. For their interview preparation, we taught both students how to interact with their interviewers and how to ask them questions about Collingwood. They also were taught how to greet and say goodbye to the interviewer properly with the right handshake, eye contact, and smile.
KEY Corporate Culture
At KEY our approach to building a team begins with the values of intelligence, passion, and innovation.
We look for like-driven people who bring an agility, enthusiasm, and an ability to pioneer new concepts to the organization that inspires and ignites abilities in all of us:
INTELLIGENCE. PASSION. CULTURE FIT.
With this approach, we empower our team to rise to challenges that helping families through the process of providing their children with the best opportunities to succeed in school and in life.
As entrepreneurs in a burgeoning industry, we rely on the innovation of the people we work with to create vibrant learning space. We offer a supportive environment for our employees as we do each family KEY serves.
Latest Articles
The New CEO of Goldman Sachs Describes the Valuable Job Skill He’s Finding Less
Recently, the new CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, was interviewed. If you haven’t heard of Goldman Sachs, it is perhaps the most influential investment bank in the world. A number of its former employees have gone on to hold very high positions in governments around the globe.
Are You Ready to Be a Private School Parent? Here’s How You Can Tell
As an aspiring private school parent, should be asking yourself: Will I be ready?
How should children and parents prepare for private school interviews?
Thirty seconds. That’s how long it takes to leave the first impression.
Why are students skilled in debate more likely to enter top universities?
Prove it!
In Cathy’s elementary school math class, the teacher writes a difficult question on the board.
The whole class stares at it stumped… except for Cathy.
Cathy throws up her hand and says, “the slope of the line is 5!”
Teacher says, “You are correct…but can you prove it?”
Teaching Your Kids This Skill Will Set Them Up for Success.
Does your child prefer to sit at the back of the class? Do they seem disengaged at school and at home? Do they avoid eye contact when asked a direct question? Perhaps your child has lots of ideas but struggles to articulate themselves?
