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In early 2025, we engaged with a sustainability consultant, completed a materiality assessment and launched a series of bi-weekly working sessions to assess our current state, gather policies and baseline data and engage key stakeholders – including our Executive Committee in March. From there, we dove into foundational sustainability work: 

• Tracking Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
• Monitoring water and waste use
• Setting goals to reduce our environmental footprint.

We are proud to share that we have received Bronze certification from EcoSchools Canada. This innovative program supports our commitment to environmental learning and climate action across all grade levels.

Through the certification process, we track and celebrate meaningful actions that reduce energy use and waste, raise environmental awareness and integrate sustainability into our everyday learning and teaching.

Lauremont promotes holistic well-being through physical education, school-wide athletics and dedicated mental health and guidance services that support emotional resilience and healthy lifestyles.

• Wellbeing curriculum (for lower and upper schools), committee and strategic plan
• Daily Physical Activity
• Mindfulness Time
• Outdoor Education
• Providing more outdoor time for students, a connection to nature

Through our Montessori and IB programs, Lauremont delivers inclusive, high-quality education that fosters critical thinking, creativity, and a deep understanding of global issues.

• Individualized lessons and follow-ups to meet the needs of each student.
• Teachers guide students to reflect on their learning and set goals.
• Students are encouraged to be active participants in their learning.
• Emphasis is placed on developing 21st-century skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration.
• Focus is on providing student agency and building student capacity to reflect on their actions, set goals and take responsibility for their learning.
• Connections to real-world contexts and applications.

Lauremont advances gender equality by fostering an inclusive environment, offering equal opportunities in leadership, sports, and clubs and supporting student-led initiatives.

• Women in Leadership
• Children have equal opportunities in all aspects of the school community- education, sports, extracurricular clubs, etc.
• Resources are used to foster discussions that support diverse perspectives. (Unlearn Posters)
• Discussions and study topics that promote understanding of diverse perspectives: Ex. Unlearn posters,
• Novel Studies (Fatty Legs, Stranger at Home)
• Social Justice Club- Lessons about stereotypes, fairness, rights

Sustainability is integrated across the curriculum, with students leading and participating in climate-related projects, and environmental clubs.

• Environment Club
• Solar panels
• Butterfly garden
• Greenhouse
• Tree planting partnership with the town of RH
• Friends of the Community
• Gr6 leadership
• Eco Leadership Program

Students engage in land stewardship through outdoor learning, tree planting, cleanups and biodiversity-focused initiatives that cultivate care for natural ecosystems.

• Lake St. George and Ravine Visits
• Outdoor education, visit to a field centre for hands-on, experiential
• Learning opportunities, and regular visits to the ravine to connect
• Learning to real-life contexts
• Clubs, gardens

• Outdoor classrooms, raised garden beds and a shared courtyard provided hands-on learning environments.
• Nature play, planting and gardening were woven into the Montessori curriculum.
• Activities such as food awareness projects and waste audits fostered early environmental stewardship.