Pythagoras Academy

Why teach at Pythagoras Academy?

Pythagoras Academy provides an ideal balance of subjects and disciplines with conceptual bridging across arts and the sciences. Each day we support students to engage in a variety of hands-on experiences. We teach them how to apply their interests, motives and talents to reach their full creative potential to solve real world problems.

To facilitate this well-rounded, lifelong learning and growth, we capitalize on the value of learning through the Fine Arts. We are excited by research findings that support our belief that the arts nurture creativity while also assisting cognitive, social and emotional development. It is within the arts that a learner’s most invaluable transferable skills are found: collaboration, creativity, leadership, aesthetics, critical thinking and communication.

Creativity not only builds self-esteem, it also teaches students the value of patience, focus, and constancy of purpose – all qualities that are necessary for success in any field, as well as life in general.

Our Mission, Vision and Values

We strive to create, support and maintain powerful, engaged learning in both the arts and the sciences.

Our foremost goal is to develop our students’ critical thinking. We also emphasize creative thinking, as well as innovation, excellence, aesthetic appreciation, expressiveness and joy. We take inspiration in our educational approach from Pythagoras, a classical Greek philosopher, whose brilliant work informed many of the renaissance humanist ideas, and from there, much of our modern thinking.

Our core values are:

Passion: We deeply enjoy the craft of educating, and our focus is on inspiring our students.

Technical knowledge: We are knowledgeable about how to help students to gain skills and a deeper understanding of concepts.

Curiosity: We are naturally curious about people and ideas.

Innovation: We work collaboratively and creatively on the leading edge of current research in the field of education.

Social-emotional intelligence: We are skilled at teaching in a way that helps students to feel safe to be themselves and to develop confidence. We are open-minded and open-hearted in everything we do.

Our Unique Programs

Each year we create a full musical theatre production in our elementary school that rivals the high school productions of other schools. We have an outstanding Fine Arts program (which includes music, art, musical theatre) for all elementary students.

Pythagoras Academy has great expertise in helping all students to master academic reading, writing and mathematics. We offer a creative and robust French and Mandarin program, with students performing plays in French.

We are a well-resourced school and can provide many creative and unique opportunities for our students. For example, some of our elementary students compete in an international lego robotics competition.