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Guiding Light Academy is a Private Catholic School with a mission to nurture and develop children in Junior and Senior Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 8. At Guiding Light Academy, our forte is our enriched curriculum that far exceeds the Ontario standard curriculum. Our 21st-century teaching places a focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Every child participates in various activities conducted by professionals from reputable Canadian Institutions as a part of their daily schedule. These include physical education, music, dance, gymnastics, drama, and elocution. Guiding Light Academy is Private Catholic School conveniently located just minutes away from the Streetsville Go Station in Streetsville, Mississauga. At Guiding Light Academy, we strive TOWARDS TOMORROW, TODAY. As a Private Catholic Elementary School, Guiding Light Academy does not follow the revised sexual education program. We believe that it is mostly up to our parents to assess and determine when they want to expose their children to specific content as a private school Guiding Light Academy has the flexibility to integrate or exclude information that we do not believe to be in line with the teachings of the Catholic Faith or contribute to the overall development of our students. At Guiding Light Academy, we aim to inspire lifelong learning and develop spiritual awareness by employing the whole child approach to education. Our enriched curriculum program emphasizes a higher level of academics, a stronger spiritual awareness, and a diverse range of co-curricular activities. At GLA, we provide our students with a nurturing learning environment that encourages self-awareness principles and builds emotional intelligence, strong morals, and ethical values. Our blended propriety curriculum and standard learning techniques provide our students with leverage for success within the global employment sector and all other aspects of their lives. The Enriched Curriculum at Guiding Light Academy provides your child with the opportunity to learn and grow spiritually, physically, and emotionally through creative learning. At Guiding Light Academy, we focus on three critical Elements, including Spiritual Guidance, Academic Excellence, and Co-curricular Activities. We combine traditional methods of academic learning with aspects of interactive social learning. At Guiding Light Academy, our primary goal is to provide a learning environment that inspires learning, encourages active self-development, and instills deep spiritual values. Through daily prayer and liturgy studies, students are encouraged to celebrate and develop a strong love for their Catholic Faith. At Guiding Light Academy, we emphasize the importance of developing spiritual core values and encouraging students to treat each other with respect and kindness. Through a secure spiritual connection, students foster self-awareness, inner strength, and compassion for others. Our curricular activities are considered an extension of the formal and traditional academic programming. We believe these experiences provide innovative and interactive teaching and learning opportunities that enhance your child’s overall learning. At GLA, we offer such experiences as musical studies/performances, creative dance, visual art studies, and gymnastics, which complement the GLA academic program. The academic program at Guiding Light Academy supports our mission to develop a passion for learning. Our program is specifically designed to develop a solid academic foundation for students to build lifelong learning success. The combination of our dedicated instructors and nurturing learning environment helps to engage students well beyond the traditional curriculum programming. All of our teachers at Guiding Light Academy are OCT certified. We offer an intense training workshop over the summer to ensure the proper delivery of our specialized curriculum. Our teachers come to our school with many years of experience and are recognized as professionals in the education field. Teacher observation reviews are also conducted regularly to ensure that all staff is effectively employing the latest teaching methods and continue to meet our highest standards of curriculum delivery. From Grade 3 onwards, GLA focuses on building examination skills for all of our students. During these early years, the children do not face the anxiety of exams that they face in the later years. By teaching our students good study habits early on, we help prepare them for success in this area. Explicitly, we teach them various practical organizational skills, time management skills, and relaxation techniques. We also provide our students with practice exams throughout the early years at GLA to help prepare them for the actual exam-taking at the higher grade levels. By learning all of these valuable skills at an early age, we help to build your child’s self-confidence and problem-solving skills that will assist them throughout their academic life and, in turn, help ease the transition from classroom learning to exam writing. Our unique and personalized approach to learning is specifically designed to exceed the Ontario Ministry of Education Standards. Every student that attends Guiding Light Academy will receive their very own workbook package. Our workbooks are grade-specific, and the content is regularly updated to ensure it meets the highest academic standards. Our workbooks provide your child with the opportunity to expand on their classroom learning through targeted workbook exercises. The GLA workbooks promote independent learning and aids in the development of your child’s problem-solving skills. The GLA workbooks are an invaluable tool that is also used to help monitor your child’s progress to help ensure your child achieves academic success. During Maths Week, we aim to inspire and motivate our students to learn new math concepts. Maths Week's concept is to help build self-confidence and strengthen problem-solving skills in this vital subject area. By incorporating various games, technology, and a multitude of fun activities, children can learn math in a creative and less structured environment. Math week provides students with a positive, powerful, and memorable learning experience for our students. Through group activities, our students also learn how to work collaboratively with others to solve complex math equations. During Reading Festival Week, children participate in various engaging and fun activities to help promote literacy learning. By incorporating the use of technology and audio/visual aids, children can recognize the importance of expression when reading and storytelling. Through literacy games, children are provided the opportunity to connect with the stories and stimulate their imaginations, making reading much more enjoyable. Throughout Reading Festival Week, we invite local authors to visit and share their stories and demonstrate a real passion for books and reading. The benefits of our author visits are invaluable and encourage our students to read and use their imagination to create new stories of their own. For the younger students, reading buddy sessions are also made available to help build their early literacy skills in Throughout Reading Festival Week, we invite local authors to visit and share their stories and demonstrate a real passion for books and reading as a whole. The benefits of our author visits are invaluable and encourage our students to read and use their imagination to create new stories of their own. For the younger students, reading buddy sessions are also made available to help build their early literacy skills in a relaxed and supportive environment. View full school