Growing up, establishing your unique identity, and learning at Mulgrave School are exceptional experiences indeed. Whether you join us at 4 or 16 years of age, we are committed to providing you with an outstanding and personalized education that will prepare you to make the very best of the opportunities and challenges in your future lives.
We are a caring and supportive school community with high expectations and high levels of achievement. We aim to inspire you and challenge you to fulfill your potential in a variety of contexts. Often described as a family, Mulgrave takes great pride in the quality of relationships between staff, students, and parents. We understand that this three-way partnership is the key to your success. If you are reading this as someone who does not know Mulgrave, I will encourage you to come to the school to meet our community and to see us in action. It is an exceptional place.
By inspiring excellence – the continuous pursuit of personal best - in education and life, Mulgrave strives to equip lifelong learners to thrive in a culturally diverse and interdependent world and to embrace, with passion and confidence, their responsibility always to do their best to support others and to make a difference by serving their communities, both locally and in the world at large.
As a top IB school, Mulgrave embraces the philosophy and mission of the International Baccalaureate Organisation. The International Baccalaureate Organisation aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end, the IBO works with schools, governments, and international organizations to develop challenging programs of international education and rigorous assessment. These programs encourage students worldwide to become active, compassionate, and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right. Mulgrave's history is packed with amazing stories about our students, community, faculty, and alumni. We are proud to share a glimpse into our past in the following timeline, created to celebrate our 25th Anniversary in the 2018-19 school year.
Mulgrave School - The International School of Vancouver - is a gender-inclusive, secular IB World School. As an independent day school with a reputation for academic excellence and providing a broad, holistic education, we offer the International Baccalaureate curriculum to students from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 in a spectacular West Vancouver setting.
Inspired and effective student learning is central to our mission and sits at the heart of our strategic planning and educational and operational decision making. Learning is the transformative process in which conceptual understanding, personal development, skill enhancement, and knowledge acquisition combine to help learners construct meaning. It is an active process, featuring dialogue and holistic engagement, that enables learners to make sense of the world by connecting new and existing ideas.
Mulgrave offers an education that can be found nowhere else in the world. Meticulous care for the individual and a deep passion for learning characterize all of our teachers. However, in Junior School, those elements are coupled with a focus on inquiry, collaboration, and curiosity. We aim to develop a strong academic foundation and tap into the natural interest children have in the world surrounding them.
Our student-led, teacher-directed model encourages children to connect with their physical environment and with the knowledge and ideas that fill their minds. Through questioning and discussion, students are given many opportunities to construct their meaning, explore many possibilities, and develop an authentic context for learning.
In Junior School, our primary teachers' warmth and positive energy infuse their classrooms are palpable. A peek through the windows shows students smiling and eager to engage in lessons and activities. Our students are happy to be here.
As students move into Senior School, we strive to grow creative, critical, and independent thinkers with the flexibility of thought best suited to the changing world that they will inhabit and change for the better as young adults. Thus, in addition to our energetic focus on academic attainment and very successful university placement, our education is equally attentive to the development of the whole person beyond the institutional worlds of school, university, and work. Active engagement in local service, global outreach, outdoor education, sport, and artistic performance is vital in this endeavor. Hence, the Senior School focuses on giving students the life skills necessary to manage these competing commitments on their time. Our integration of the IB Approaches to Learning and 21st-century skills ensure our students grow both as individuals and as responsible global citizens within an educational context that is highly relevant, flexible, and enjoyable.
We encourage you to visit us at any time to experience for yourselves the wonderfully positive energy of the Senior School. Our new facility is open and inviting, showcasing our specialized programs, collaborative environment, and close-knit community. Please join us at one of our Open House events, call to schedule a personal tour, or join one of the weekly Senior School Principal's late afternoon drop-in sessions for an opportunity to ask any questions you may have.
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