For Uxbridge families
Uxbridge calls itself the Trail Capital of Canada and has the ground to back it up. For most kinds of school that's a pleasant fact about the weekend. For this one it's close to the whole argument.
We're opening for Kindergarten through Grade 6 somewhere in Durham Region, and the north of the region is a serious candidate.
The land up here
The Oak Ridges Moraine runs through here, and with it the Durham Regional Forest, Glen Major and Walker Woods. Mature mixed forest with real elevation in it, minutes away.
Elevation is the part that matters and the part most of Durham hasn't got. You can't teach anyone to read a map on flat ground.
What the school is
Families who choose Uxbridge have usually already made a decision about scale: they wanted somewhere their children would be known. A school of a few dozen students in small groups is the same decision applied to the school day.
Mornings on reading, writing and mathematics with each child on their own path. Then character, fitness and real food, thinking and problem solving, communication, money and business, how things work, and the outdoors.
Whether it lands here depends on you
North Durham is a smaller population than the lakeshore, so a school up here needs its families to be genuinely nearby rather than theoretically willing.
The founding families form asks your town and the drive you'd accept. Uxbridge answers are what would put it north, and there's no other mechanism.
Questions about Uxbridge
Would you really open in north Durham?
It's a real possibility. The land is the best in the region for what we teach, and the constraint is whether enough founding families are close enough to it.
Our children are already outside most of the time. Is this still for us?
Probably more so. A lot of what we teach assumes children who are comfortable outdoors and around tools, and rural families tend to arrive with that in place rather than needing it built.
Join the founding families list
The Academy opens when the founding cohort is full. Families on the list get first places, help set the first year's calendar, and keep the founding rate for as long as their child is enrolled.