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Wheatley is a co-educational,
non-denominational private school founded in
1986 by Principal Eda Varalli. A parent and
educator, she set out to create an environment
that prepared children to assume the role of
citizens of tomorrow. Mrs. Varalli chose the
Montessori Method as the school’s curriculum
because it embodies everything she believes
good education should be.
She believes education should make
you a unique individual, not a conformist. It
should furnish you with an original spirit with
which to tackle the big challenges, and it should
allow you to find the values which act as your
road map through life. She wanted children to
be active in shaping their own lives as they
learn, being empowered to develop the best they
have within them. Wheatley had to be a place
in which students valued themselves, respected
one another and loved learning.
Wheatley is named for Miss Evangeline
Wheatley, who proved that the thirst for knowledge
is a continuous process that stops only at the
end of life. An educator and good friend, her
keen enquiring mind, her compassion for the
uniqueness of people and her philosophy that
one is a participator of life, not a spectator,
inspired the birth of Wheatley School.
The School’s first location was in a small
shopping plaza on Tremont Drive in St. Catharines.
It began with one Casa class of twelve children
and twenty-four ele mentary students in Grades
1-4. Growing steadily, in 1988 it incorporated
and became a non-profitorganization.
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