Where Understanding Builds Confidence and Confidence Builds Success.
Bright students deserve an education built for how they learn.
Life Changing Moments: A better educational experience is possible for your child.
A Transformative Experience
Why Landmark East School is Different
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Small by Design
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Evidence-Based Literacy & Mathematics Instruction
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Confidence Comes First
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Executive Function is Taught, Not Assumed
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Movement is Preparation for Learning
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Social Emotional Growth Integrated
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A Clear Patch Forward
"Reading was a huge challenge for me. I could barely get through two sentences without feeling tired or frustrated, but now I can confidently read multiple pages without stopping. At Landmark East School, the one-on-one classes and fewer distractions really help me focus." EG - a grade 10 student.
Foundation for Student Success
Time, Space, Understanding
Is your child starting to doubt themselves?
Early Success Matters. We meet each child where they are on their learning journey so they can begin with content that is accessible and achievable. Early success rebuilds confidence, restores a sense of capability, and lays the foundation for meaningful growth ensuring that challenge never becomes overwhelm.
Strengths Based Approach Builds Confidence. We respond to what each student needs in the moment, pacing their learning so they steadily move toward grade-level expectations with clarity and confidence. We teach through students' strengths, whether they learn best by seeing, hearing, or doing. We walk beside the students as they grow into where they are capable of going.
Academic Program Overview
Is your child more capable than their grades reflect?
NS Curriculum. Landmark East School follows the Nova Scotia Public School Curriculum, while providing additional classes that are unique to our school. We offer expert support to students with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, ASD, general LD, and other learning differences.
Class Size. Classes range from one (Program Study 1) to a maximum class size of ten (10).
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Elementary School runs from grades 3 to 6, and has a maximum class size of six (6).
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Middle School spans grades 7 to 9, with a maximum class size of eight (8).
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High School includes students in grades 10 to 12, and has a maximum class size of 10.
Graduates are awarded the Nova Scotia Department of Education High School Graduation Diploma. 85% of Landmark East School graduates continue their post secondary studies at colleges and universities.
The Approach. Teachers are trained in Orton Gillingham, LiPs, Seeing Stars, Cloud 9, and other literacy related approaches to ensure students can build their literacy skills in oral and written expression, comprehension, mathematics, etc.
"I've been doing photography and animation in my communications technology class. It's been really fun. I'm learning things that matter to me. What I like about Landmark East School is the small class sizes. There is more one-on-one time with my teachers, and that makes it easier to understand things in ways that make sense to me." LH - a grade 11 student.
SPARK
Improves Focus and Reduces Anxiety
The Spark Program is a purposeful part of each school day. We know that movement is not a break from learning, it is preparation for learning. Through daily cardio exercise and intentional physical activity, students arrive in class more focused, more settled, and better ready to engage. We see the difference in their attention, mood, and overall sense of well-being.
Our approach is grounded in the research of John J. Ratey, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Spark. His work highlights the powerful connection between exercise and brain function, affirming what we witness every day: when students move their bodies, they strengthen their capacity to learn. SPARK is one of the many ways we support the whole child - academically, physically, and emotionally - so that each student can approach the day with clarity and confidence.
Successful Me
We Teach Students How To Succeed
Not Just What To Learn
The Successful Me Program is a daily commitment to help students understand themselves as learners and as people. Research consistently shows that self-awareness, perseverance, goal setting, effective use of support, and healthy coping strategies are key predictors of long-term success for individuals with learning differences.
In Successful Me, students set goals, reflect on progress, build proactive habits, and develop the resilience needed to navigate challenges with confidence. These lessons are not isolated; they are woven into classroom learning, co-curricular experiences, and daily interactions. By focusing on the development of these essential attributes, we empower student not only to succeed in school, but to move forward into life with self-knowledge, independence, and a strong sense of capability.
Oral Expression
Building Your Communication Toolbox
The Oral Expression class helps students focus on developing listening skills, following and giving directions, sentence formulation, pragmatics (social language), following narratives, understanding word classes and semantic relationships.
Social Emotional Learning
Woven into the Daily Fabric
We understand that students learn best when they feel safe, understood, and genuinely valued.
Through intentional instruction and guided practice, students develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, perspective-taking, and effective communication skills. Students learn what to do when frustration rises. They practice how to ask for help. They learn how to recover after a mistake, instead of shutting down.
Our small classes allow teachers to model and coach these skills in real time. Moments that might feel overwhelming elsewhere become opportunities for reflection and growth. Students begin to understand not only how they learn, but how they respond to challenge and how to move forward with resilience.
As confidence grows academically, so too does confidence socially. Students leave Landmark East School with stronger skills, a deeper understanding of themselves, and a greater capacity to engage successfully with the world around them.
Annual Science Fair
Building Executive Functioning Skills
Each science fair project begins with a question, something the student genuinely wonders about. The teachers intentionally guide the students through a process that strengthens executive function skills, which so many of our students work diligently to develop. With support, the larger task is broken into manageable, purposeful steps: shaping a hypothesis, designing a plan, organizing materials, managing time, collecting and interpreting data, and reflecting on results.
When ideas are structured with care, tasks that feel overwhelming at first become possible and turn into reality. Our teachers scaffold processes thoughtfully, supporting students in planning, initiating, sustaining effort, and adjusting when "things" don't go as expected. Over time, that support is gradually released, allowing students to experience themselves as capable, organized, and increasingly independent.
In the end, students see more than a completed science fair board, they see evidence of their perseverance, their problem-solving, and their growth. They experience what it feels like to take an idea from start to finish.
That experience matters. It builds real confidence, the quiet, steady kind that comes from doing something challenging and discovering, "I can do this." That confidence extends well beyond the science fair, it strengthens resilience and independence across every part of school life.
Each year, our Elementary and Middle School students participate in the science fair not simply as an academic milestone, but as an intentional opportunity to strength executive function, build self-belief, and deepen their sense of capability.
Each year some of our students are selected to participate in the Nova Scotia provincial science competition.
Study Hall
Structured Indepencence
Does homework end in frustration? We take that burden off your shoulders so you can get your relationship back with your child.
Every Middle and High School student ends the academic day with a structured Study Hall. We see this time not simply as homework completion, but as an opportunity to intentionally teach the habits and skills that lead to independence.
During Study Hall, students are supported in organizing their work, prioritizing tasks, managing time effectively, and applying the study strategies they are learning in class. Teachers are present to guide, coach, and reinforce productive routines so that students build both competence and confidence. As students develop stronger executive functioning skills, they grow in their ability to work more independently and experience greater success in meeting academic expectations, both here and beyond our walls.
"I joined Landmark East School this year, and it's really making a big difference in my life. I have autism, and I really struggle with math and literacy, but now I feel so much better about my abilities and I'm doing way better in class. What I love about Landmark East is how supportive everyone is - the teachers, the students, everyone!" OC - a grade 8 student.
When a child begins to believe in themselves, everything changes. Discover what's possible!
The right school can make all the difference. At Landmark East School, we see students rediscover their strengths, rebuild their resilience, and realize their potential.
Let's talk about what's possible.
