Our youngest students enter the Senior Kindergarten classroom eagerly ready for their day. They have just finished morning chapel, joining the rest of the students of St. Timothy’s for hymns, scripture, and prayers. Once back in their classroom the SKs say their morning prayer together, asking to see what’s beautiful, to know what is true, and to love what is good. So how do we teach our youngest to soak up the truth, beauty, and goodness we pray for each morning? We begin by

When I meet other parents at St. Timothy’s, I am always interested to hear the “why” behind their decision to commit to our little school. Everyone’s story of how and why they chose St. Timothy’s for their family is unique, and I am sure that you also have your own reasons that prompted you to seek out this school. For our family, it is the “classical” character of this school, more than any other, that drew us and keeps us here. The term “classical education” is often the ha

I am sure that you have always been told to tell the truth, right? Well, today, I’m going to tell you three truths that the graduates here have learned. I’m also going to tell you three lies... not so that you believe them but so that you can reject them when you hear them. (Think of it as Dr. Klaassen teaching you fallacies so that you can avoid them.) Let’s start with the truths. The first truth: God is the only solid ground on which we can stand. Ottawa is in an earthquake

It is not especially difficult to imagine a classroom in which Eustace Clarence Scrubb, a character in C. S. Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader, might be considered a very good student. Eustace likes to read, provided the books in question are sufficiently informative, and he’s curious about the natural world, at least so long as specimens are presented to him dead and pinned on cards. He’s precociously familiar with literary terms such as “assonance,” and when he finds himsel

High in a picturesque mountain range, with a commanding view of a beautiful valley, we see a man huffing and puffing as he climbs up, up a winding road into the thin air of the heights, all to make his way to a beautiful columned building. The man makes a payment at the doorway, steps into the shadowy interior, and before him, shrouded in mist rising from a crack in the floor, is a woman seated on a tall chair. And he asks the woman: “Who is the wisest person in the world?” A

This Advent, the halls of St. Timothy’s sound a little different on Thursdays, lovingly dubbed by some students as “music day”. On normal Thursday afternoons, students burst from the sanctuary at 2:40 on the dot in vibrant, clashing harmony; this year, little buzzes, hums, claps and wiggles betray their irrepressible love of music. The St. Timothy’s curriculum passes down a rich tradition of 1000 years of Christian musical heritage. Throughout the pandemic, many people have e