Mount Royal and Virginia Park Schools are on a shared journey as a multi-campus Arts Core Program. Having two campuses ensures that we can accommodate students interested in participating in an Arts Core learning environment. Every effort is made to offer similar programming to students on each campus. This reality helps to shape not only a shared theme for both schools, but also shared staff, shared leadership, shared professional learning, shared pedagogy and shared philosophy.

Our collaborative work liberates our creative capacity for developing and articulating a vision that is authentic and responsive to the moment.

We have a commitment to a shared journey; one that will:

• Build upon the strengths of each school
• Honour the unique cultures and communities that define us
• Involve ongoing analysis and reflection
• Lead to the emergence of a new and collective story, guided by an Arts Core philosophy, where imagination inspires the love of learning.

Our team works to connect across disciplines, grade levels and campuses, using the arts to promote achievement.