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Choice School is a school for talented and gifted children. As a gifted private school, we celebrate the passion to learn and promote excellence in your child.
We offer a gifted education with programs that address individual strengths and needs of the gifted children by providing individualized education plans and advance programs with small class size, emotional, and social support for Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten to early entry to Grade 8. (Pre-K, K-8)
Our dedicated teachers know how to teach bright and gifted children!
Check out our Richmond and Vancouver locations. Read parent testimonials.
Read our Questions and Answers
View our upcoming events.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Gifted Resource Teacher
- Elementary School Teacher
Please contact the school 604-273-2418 for more information.
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OPEN HOUSE
Richmond (Main Campus) at 20451 Westminster Hwy N.
There are immediate upcoming open houses, check the calendar below.
Vancouver Campus at 8680 Hudson St. at West 71st Ave. (St. Augustine's Anglican Church)
There are immediate upcoming open houses, check the calendar below or call us for an appointment.
Contact us: 604-273-2418 or info@choiceschool.org
See our calendar below for the most up-to-date information.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Gifted Lecture Series, Open Houses, and more
See the calendar below for our next lecture, and other events
Please call 604-273-2418 to RSVP. Feel free to invite interested friends and family to attend.
For a larger monthly view of this same calendar, see the school's calendar page.
Scroll and click on the event to see more options and details.
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OFFERING TWO LOCATIONS | RICHMOND AND VANCOUVER
Richmond (Main Campus) at 20451 Westminster Hwy N.
Vancouver Campus at 8680 Hudson St. at West 71st Ave.
(St. Augustine's Anglican Church)
See our monthly calendar or our upcoming events to see our next open house.
Please call 604-273-2418 to learn more about gifted education and to book an appointment.
Feel free to contact us at any time for additional information.
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CHOICE SCHOOL EVENTS
Open Houses
Focus Week 1: Literature Week
Focus Week 2: Frontiers of Science
Focus Week 3: History and Culture Week
Literacy Café
Summer Camps in July
Gifted Lectures
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / Questions and Answers
How will you know that Choice School is appropriate for your child?
- S/he has intellectual energy which is not catered for in main-stream education
- S/he is bored with mainstream school programs
- S/he is becoming frustrated with school and no longer enjoys going attending.
- Her/His advanced academic prowess means s/he relates better with adults or older children
- May find social integration with her/his own peers more challenging
- Has twice-exceptional needs so is very advanced in some areas but has needs in others (e.g. very gifted Mathematician and cognitive development but struggles with written output)
- Has heightened emotional empathy and advanced social awareness
What is giftedness in the context of Choice School?
A child who may be deemed as gifted or advanced and considered for admission is one who:
1. Has undertaken an education psychologist's test and has been identified as an advanced learner
2. Has taken the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities and Test of Achievement: administered in Choice School
3. Has evidence of advanced achievement for his/her age in many areas or significant advanced achievement in one particular area (cognitive development, language capabilities, written or computational output significantly in advance of his/her years).
4. Evidence may include a teacher's written assessment, recorded parental observations; a portfolio of work (eg. Art, Writing, Math problems)
Why choose choice school?
We:
- Customise our programme to adjust to your child and his/her learning
- Challenge our students beyond the entitlement B.C. curriculum
- Support each child's educational strengths and needs in an Individual Education Plan (I.E.P.),
- Have caring, warm teachers have an intuitive understanding of the needs of gifted children
- Have very small class sizes maximum 16 students
- Have assistants who support twice-exceptional children
- Have teachers who are experienced in teaching gifted children
- Have daily P.E. and regular Art, Music and French lessons
Contact us at 604-273-2418 or info@choiceschool.org to book an appointment to meet with our principal or to visit the school.