We would love to meet you and answer all of your questions, bring your children, we want to ensure your child is going to love it here. As we give you a tour, you’ll be able to see how our staff and your children interact within our facility. During our tour, we will give you an overview of Tessa’s world-class curriculum and dual language immersion program, and will tell you more about our admission process – how we work, and what to expect from a TESSA curriculum!
“The first five years have so much to do with how much the next 80 turn out.” – Bill Gates
Our students become fully bilingual thanks to our native-speaking teachers and full-immersion teaching approach in either Spanish, French, or Mandarin.
Our educational approach is based on the best international models, curriculum and research.
We emphasize social-emotional development in children, alongside strong academic challenge.
By: Jamie Kreps It probably comes as no surprise, but bullying has been linked to an enormous amount of developmental issues in children – both in those who have been bullied and those who have bullied others. In fact, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), bullying has a lifelong […]
On Monday, December 10th, Tessa International School proudly celebrated The Hour of Code. Each teacher was engaged with her students on an activity related to learning the steps for coding. What is coding? It is essentially ‘how machines think.’ One way to think about it is it is a set of instructions to follow—much like […]
The world is becoming more multilingual. Nowadays, it’s common for parents to teach their kids two or more languages. Statistics showed that there are more second language speakers of English than native speakers worldwide. In Canada, 11.9 % of the population speaks a language other than English or French at home. In the United States, […]
