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Pirurvik Preschool:
A Place to Grow
Where Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) ways of being meets Montessori methodology to create a uniquely effective, child-centered educational approach.
Pilimmaksarniq
By: Pirurvik Preschool Published on: 27/05/2025Pilimmaksarniq: Development of skills through observation, mentoring, practice and effort: + One learns and develops skills through observing and doing + To be empowered and build capacity through knowledge and skills acquisition + Involves taking ownership and personal responsibility + Through this process, personal capacity, adaptability, empowerment, and self-reliance...
IQ + Montessori ECE
By: Pirurvik Preschool Published on: 27/05/2025The development of the Pirurvik Preschool was guided by a desire to provide Early Childhood Education that would be child centred and based on the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) and enriched through the use of Montessori materials. The goal was to provide a culturally relevant learning experience. In the development of the program we were guided by the IQ principal Pilimmaksa...
Pirurvik Preschool Beginnings
By: Pirurvik Preschool Published on: 27/05/2025The Pirurvik Preschool program was sparked by an idea and a discussion over a cup of tea. In 2012, after a difficult education meeting, Karen Nutarak Tununiq, the manager of the Nunavut Arctic College and Tessa Lochhead, a teacher trained in Montessori education, connected in hopes of addressing the frustrating lack of early-childhood education in their community. From a des...
Our Journey So Far
By: Pirurvik Preschool Published on: 25/03/2025Over the last 10 years, Pirurvik Preschool has been on a journey. What began as an idea, ignited from a desire to address the lack of early-childhood-education in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet, NU), has grown into a wider community-led, child-centred initiative to decolonize early-childhood education, nourish our cultural roots and share what we are learning with other communities.
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