History

Our Junior Kindergarten School, Core Education & Fine Arts™, was founded in 1998 by Natacha V. Beim.
 
Having worked as an elementary school teacher as well as a Junior Kindergarten teacher for the European system of education before her return to Canada, Ms Beim experienced firsthand the incredible effect of early academic exposure in young children.
 
She did, however, experience some disagreements with the approach that was taken to deliver this knowledge. In her research of different methods, approaches and classroom formats, Ms Beim found that those countries who had an established junior kindergarten program, delivered in such a strict manner that although children benefited from the program itself, it often came at the expense of their natural desire to play and experiment. On the other hand, those countries who did not have an established junior kindergarten curriculum did not provide young children with even the necessary stimulation needed for proper intellectual development. Those programs were boring to children, and in some cases even worse than no exposure at all.
 
As a school teacher, and in the years that followed, Ms Beim worked to modify existing junior kindergarten curriculums to create a different approach, one that would not impose on the child's natural desire to explore, play and learn by experimenting with the environment.
 
Once the program was ready to be implemented, Ms Beim found much resistance, ignorance and generally no interest from already established pre-schools in implementing a better and more comprehensive method. Ms Beim still did not give up and gathered the funds necessary to open the school herself.
 
Her original intention was to establish a true Junior Kindergarten program in Canada, which resulted in the grand opening of Core Education & Fine Arts™.

Not only was Core Education & Fine Arts™ a great success amongst Canadian families: Its unique, gentle yet extremely challenging and stimulating approach to education gained popularity worldwide, and surpassed the founder's goal of establishing only the one school.
 
The popularity of the approach, as well as the evident results in the children who had graduated from the school, resulted in the franchising of the school and its educational philosophy, cefa educational systems, in 2003.
 
In the next few years, more schools are expected to open worldwide and in Canada.