About Us

LeRoux Froebel Bilingual School

LeRoux Froebel Bilingual School operates in the Beach area of Toronto year round. We offer various programs for children 18 months to 12 years of age. Our facility is open from 7:30am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday.

We are closed for one week between Christmas and the New Year, Family Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, the August Civic Holiday, Labour Day, and Thanksgiving Day. We are open during March Break for those in need of full-time care, and on all school professional development days. LeRoux Froebel Bilingual School will close at noon on December 24th and reopen on the first business day after New Year's Day at 7:30am.

Who is Froebel?

Friedrich Froebel (1782 - 1852) coined the word "Kindergarten". He was a German philosopher and educator who refused to accept the idea that young children's first years at school had to be fearful or boring. He chose the phrase "children's garden" precisely because he believed that children, like plants, would grow and unfold by their own inner laws, each according to their individual needs and potential, given the right conditions. He opened the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837. Froebel stressed that play is the work of children, but he also stressed the need for guidance from qualified adults to meet the educational needs of children. What has happened in the late twentieth century is that in many kindergartens (started originally in this country by Froebel's followers) teachers apply only part of his philosophy. They encourage play, but only for the purpose of socialization. They ignore that Froebel intended play to be a means of not only affective (feelings) learning, but also of cognitive learning (intellect).

Our Philospophy

LeRoux Froebel Bilingual School is committed to providing a learning environment that supports and fosters children's freedom of expression, growing independence, and positive self-esteem. We believe that every child is of equal importance, and we work to create an atmosphere of acceptance, where children like and respect themselves and others. Play is a child's work, and our children are exposed to play-oriented activities in both English and French.