Michelangelo School offers a bilingual program to address the needs of students living in a nation with two official languages. 

The 50/50 bilingual curriculum from is taught from Kindergarten to Grade 6, and alternates weekly. In other words, students will have one week English instruction and one week French instruction. Math is taught every day.

The IB Primary Years Programme, for students aged 3 to 12, focuses on the development of the whole child as an inquirer, both in the classroom and in the world outside.

Michelangelo Elementary School is an IB World School, authorized to teach the IB Primary Years Programme. 

Students in the 21st century are faced with the challenge of learning about an interconnected world where knowledge is constantly developing. The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Primary Years Programme prepares students to be active participants in a lifelong journey of learning.

Building a solid foundation in Literacy provides skills needed in all subject areas and for lifelong learning. Michelangelo’s Balanced Literacy Project is a bilingual language program where the teacher provides maximum support to all learners at their individual reading and writing levels in English and French and to ensure success for all students.  

Many of our teachers use the Daily 5 method for Balanced Literacy.  The school library holds over 17,000 books and it is complemented by a resource room with extra resources for our literacy program.

Michelangelo School offers many extra-curricular activities to its students during class time, at lunch and after-school.

• Newspaper club
• Book Club
• Robotics
• Intra-mural Sports (lunch time program)
• HALO Run
• Magic shows
• Piano lessons
• Guitar lessons
• Choir
• Martial Arts
• Dance
• Yearbook
• Book Fairs
• Field Trips
• Holiday events
• Spring concerts
• Storytelling
• Science fair
• Winter Carnival
• Spring Field Day