COVID-19: Bringing Back Sanity

If you’ve seen the following scene in the movie Borat, you’ll have a idea of how some people are (over)reacting to COVID-19 social distancing Somewhere between hypochondria, lack of critical thinking skills, and virtue signalling, a portion of the Vancouver population is acting as if breathing the air will kill them. Basic social distancing rules…

Paul Romani

New Private Elementary School Opens in Kitsilano

Pear Tree Education is excited to announce the launch of its first private K-7 elementary school located in the heart of Kitsilano on West Broadway and Stephens St. The official opening date of Pear Tree Elementary is September 2016. Pear Tree Elementary offers a progressive education for Vancouver children, including maximum class sizes of 15…

Paul Romani

Vancouver Courier article about Pear Tree’s Summer Camps

Pear Tree’s Summer Camps discussed in today’s Vancouver Courier In today’s issue (May 27th) of the Vancouver Courier, Pear Tree Education make an appearance on pages A16-A17 as part of the newspaper’s Summer Camp-o-Rama article. Journalist, Shannon Lynch, was interested to know more about the benefits of kids attending Pear Tree’s summer camps, considering that…

Paul Romani

Pear Tree Summer Camps Mentioned on Global TV

Pear Tree Summer Camps Mentioned on Global TV Early this morning, Christine Pilkington from Vancouvermom.ca went on Global TV to announce the release of their Top 100 summer camps, as well as their featured summer camps. As part of the interview, Pear Tree’s summer camps were mentioned. Christine highlights that Pear Tree has opened two…

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The Story So Far…

Here are the highlights all of the achievements Pear Tree Education has made since it opened in March 2012 1) 2 x Salmon-in-the-Classroom courses Pear Tree students have helped release 100 coho salmon into the wild (and we’ve since adopted some guppy fish to take care of in the absence of the salmon) …

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Madrona School moving to Pear Tree!

Pear Tree’s directors are pleased to announce that we’ll be sharing our learning centre facilities with Madrona School! City Hall has given the go ahead for a zoning upgrade to Pear Tree’s facilities – in fact, the whole building. This upgrade is to enable Madrona School to share Pear Tree Education’s facilities on West Broadway…

Paul Romani

B.C. Money Changes

If you’re not already aware, there are a couple of changes in money that affect all of us in British Columbia. Firstly, Canada is phasing out the penny. This means that total amounts will be rounded up or down to the nearest 5c/nickel. This affects cash transactions only. All electronic payments will be charged at…

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Pear Tree Education's 1st Year Anniversary!

Pear Tree is celebrating it’s 1st year anniversary! So much has happened in one year that it seems longer After our March 2012 Open House, we launched with our first Pear Tree Spring Break Camp. Considering we were a completely new educational company, we had a surprisingly good turn out, and some of those customers…

Paul Romani

Pear Tree in upcoming Vancouver Courier edition

CLICK ON PICTURE TO LOAD PDF As part of the paper’s ‘Your Family’ section of it’s Urban Parents’ Guide, the Vancouver Courier has chosen to write about Pear Tree’s Pro-D day camp on Family Day (February 11th). The picture shown is of Pear Tree, even if there’s no caption provided by the newspaper. Pear Tree’s…

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Pear Tree at Vancouver Private School Expo

We would like to thank all those families that came to visit us at our booth at the Vancouver Private School Expo. It was Remembrance Day (a silly day for the organisers to book this event), so we weren’t sure what the turn out would be. However, we were talking to all kinds of families…

Paul Romani