About Us

Our Early childhood  program utilizes a child-centered, inquiry-based approach to learning, the foundation of  Ave International School.

Inquiry-based learning experiences are designed to capitalize on children’s natural tendencies to be curious and explore their interests within and beyond the classroom.

Research on cognitive development of a child states that  students are curious, asking questions as active seekers of information; use their senses to gather information about their environment; sort, match, and classify objects quite naturally in their play; can make simple causal explanations of events using their personal knowledge, which also enables them to make predictions;  make connections, talk about similarities, and draw conclusions;  representing their ideas & solutions in many different ways.

An inquiry-based activity should draw on these characteristics, acknowledge a student’s interests and should involve materials that “provoke a sense of mystery and wonder so that children become curious about who they are, how the world works, where they come from, and how we express ourselves”. 

In our classroom we intentionally observe and engage children in order to gain a deeper understanding of their interests & develop lifelong learners.  The information that we gather provides the “spark” for classroom inquiry-based explorations.

Keeping children’s interest in mind, we purposefully co-planned authentic experiences from which they can create meaningful observations and engage in exploration.  Exploration naturally leads to investigation. After the children’s interests have been identified through exploration, a planned investigation might be conducted to further their knowledge on this particular subject. The findings gathered from this investigation will be communicated through documentation, verbal discussions, and physical demonstrations.

We ensure that our pedagogical curriculum is followed by highlighting and incorporating expectations that naturally compliment the focus of inquiry. Sometimes this means bringing ideas back to the larger group for discussion or explicit instruction to help deepen our collective understanding and drive the project forward.

Ave International School offers a unique language immersion program, providing children the opportunity to build a foundation for bi-literacy in one of the three languages: Mandarin, Spanish or French.

The activities integrate content-focused early literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, and creative arts and a second language. Learning focuses on developing the ability to treat others with respect, cooperative learning from playing with others, and problem-solving in order to appropriately resolve conflicts.