At Richland, our students have regular opportunities throughout the day to experience spontaneous play, where they can safely create, experiment and explore the world around them. During outdoor play, children have the...
Our 2010-11 Graduates returned to Richland for a special morning gathering where they presented their hand-crafted mosaic stepping stones as a gift to our community. The stones will be placed in our...
At Richland Academy, the arts are regarded as an instrument of expression and considered an important component of the ‘Hundred Languages of Children.’ Students engage in active learning programs that instil confidence...
Our Grade 2 students combined their understanding of scale and representation by using models to represent the different things they see in the classroom and in the school on a daily basis. ...
The Grandparents and Special Guests of Richland Academy were honoured in a special event on October 14th, Grandparents’ Day...
Our Grade 4 classroom began their year-long journey to become literate in the ways that the media sends us messages and shapes our communities. They started by questioning “What is Media Literacy?” They...
Today the JK embarked on a ‘collaborative progettazione’, exploring the realm of ‘Relationships through Friends’.
A poem was read to introduce the unit of interest.
Several questions were asked of the JK children and recorded for documentation:
The PK children experimented with colours, numbers and shapes while printing with apples.
They selected paint colours based on the apples that they had gathered- yellow, red and green. They carefully cut open the apples in different directions, and the children excitedly counted the seeds that became visible inside. In one apple they counted up to six seeds!
Sebastian was amazed to see a “star shape” in the middle of the apple after we removed the seeds. Some of the red and yellow paint mixed to form orange, and Alexia exclaimed “Apples can’t be orange”!
Leading up to Thanksigving, Richland Academy collected non-perishable food donations for their annual "Thanksgiving Food Drive" in support of the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank. Thanks to the generous support of the...
Spatial Awareness is an organized awareness of our body’s position in space. It is a concept closely related to Kinesthetic Identification and studies suggest that there are strong links between a well-developed sense of spatial awareness and artistic creativity; as well as success in math. Spatial awareness is essential to the development of abstract thought. In Drama, our objective is to find out how Kinesthetic Identification gives us the ability to organize and classify abstract mental concepts through discovery of ourselves.
