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.

Pirurvik Preschool: Celebrating A Milestone

Pirurvik Preschool: Celebrating A Milestoneby: Pirurvik PreschoolPublished on: 22/01/2026

Pirurvik Preschool: Celebrating a Milestone

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Pirurvik Preschool: Celebrating A Milestone

Qapik Attagutsiak - Inuit Midwifery

Qapik Attagutsiak - Inuit Midwiferyby: Pirurvik PreschoolPublished on: 15/12/2025

With a full heart, Pirurvik Preschool is please to present, Qapik Attagutsiak -Inuit Midwifery, a documentary remembering and honouring, Elder Qapik Attagutsiak, a beloved midwife, master seamstress, and one of Nunavut's most respected knowledge keepers.

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Qapik Attagutsiak - Inuit Midwifery

Pirurvik Preschool Beginnings

Pirurvik Preschool Beginnings
by: Pirurvik PreschoolPublished on: 27/05/2025

The 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...

Pirurvik Preschool Beginnings

Our Journey So Far

Our Journey So Far
by: Pirurvik PreschoolPublished on: 25/03/2025

Over 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.

Our Journey So Far

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