Our mission is to create an educational community dedicated to empowering diverse learners in a supportive environment, expanding personal strengths to gain knowledge, skills and confidence for the future.
WVL Centre Society is a non-profit society that developed from a single parent reaching out to a retired local teacher for learning support for their autistic children through customized curriculum and creative technology integration. The teacher brought the skills of special needs through gifted instruction, skills developed as the technology curriculum coordinator for the local school district for 10 years, experiences as an Apple Distinguished Educator and serving on Apple Canada’s Voluntary Education Advisory Board, to the task of creating a learning environment for students young and old. Over the last decade WestView Learning has evolved into WVL Centre Society which now serves diverse learners in the Cowichan Valley, ages 6 to 90+.
What we offer:
Academic/Social/Vocational Programming
- K-12 learning support in a 35 week Day Program and a 42 week Tutoring program
- Day Program – students are registered with one of the provinces 17 approved on line learning providers and oversee the program that WVL provides in our 9:00 – 3:00 week-day program. This program supports academic, social and vocational program for students with a variety of learning challenges – including ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, etc.
Note: for more information, contact education@wvlcentre.ca
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- Tutoring Program – students work 1-1 with adult tutors to focus in on an identified area of support and receive a customized program designed to meet the needs of the individual learner, building skills and confidence that are transferable to classroom. WVL Staff are able to work in tandem with the student’s school teacher. Tutoring topics include K-11 support in Math, Writing, Reading, and in reading/writing and math. Different instructional approaches are chosen based on the needs of the students. The Orton Gillingham methodology is just one example of options.
Note: for more information, contact tutoring@wvlcentre.ca
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- After School Literacy/Numeracy Classes – Small group writing, journaling and math groups are offered for different age group upon request of parents and/or suggested as students are reading to progress from tutoring to a small class environment
Note: for more information, contact tutoring@wvlcentre.ca
STEAM Themed After School & Out of School Day Camps
- STEAM Classes in writing, cooking/gardening, art, crafts, journalling, engineering, coding, robotics, digital art, game design
- Day Camps during spring break and summer vacations
- topics of camps are similar to our shorter after school classes: writing, cooking/gardening, art, crafts, journalling, engineering, coding, robotics, digital art, game design and other topics upon community suggestions
Note: for more information, contact programs@wvlcentre.ca
Technology Classes For Adults
Note: Classes for adults and seniors are usually offered early evening or on the weekend due to the building providing K-12 classes Monday-Friday during the school year, and camps during most of the summer and spring break weeks. Contact heather@westviewlearning.ca for more information.
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Seniors Classes – Mobile Devices and Laptops/Desktops
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- iPad, iPhone, SmartPhone, Tablet (Samsung, etc)
- Windows 10, Windows 11 computer/Laptop training
- Apple Laptop/Desktop Training
- Teens/Adult Classes
- Microsoft 365 Training for Work or Personal Use
- Various software applications on mobile device or computers
- MS Office 365: One Drive, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Apple’s Office suite – Pages, Keynote, Numbers
- Apple’s Creative suite – iMovie, Photos, Garageband