375 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto, ON M6J 3E5, Canada
- SCHOOL TYPE: Private
- WEBSITE: The Orchard Montessori School
- SCHOOL LEVEL: Elementary, Middle, Pre-Kindergarten, and Kindergarten
- GRADES OFFERED: PK - 8
We offer a bilingual casa program with arts and science extensions in bright, airy classrooms. Our Elementary program thrives on Montessori’s theories of a cosmic education with a strong focus on the natural sciences. Our middle school program situated students in a working commercial gallery. We also offer engaging and enriched afterschool programs to our students and those from local public schools. Students can choose from an array of classes including art, kung fu, science, Orff, French, limon dance, yoga, tennis, makerstudio and multisport.
The neighbourhood takes its name from Trinity Bellwoods Park, built around the former Garrison Creek ravine. This park was the original site of Trinity College, one of the colleges that now make up the University of Toronto. Today the only remaining artifacts of the school are its restored gates at the south end of the park. By 1900, the college and its picturesque surroundings attracted residential development. Most of the surrounding streets were filled in with tall, narrow houses of the Bay-and-Gable or Gothic Revival style characteristic of much of Toronto's housing stock from that era. A number of fine homes from the period are scattered throughout the neighborhood.