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About Orchard Lyceum
The Orchard Lyceum is a Montessori school for students in grades 6, 7 and 8, located in the heart of downtown Toronto. The Lyceum builds upon the foundation created by Casa and Elementary Montessori programs, but students from all programs are welcome.
Radio Nowhere is Now Here!
Welcome to the Orchard Lyceum’s internet radio home. Students are responsible for developing, producing and delivering radio content.
The station will serve a variety of live broadcast and pre-recorded programming as it is developed by the students of the school. Some things we cover include the local news, weird world happenings, the weather, mock ads, debates, musical performances and interviews with local personalities.
Please also tune in each week for In the Walls a completely student-produced radio drama!
Every Friday at 11am, we go live to air!
Creative Uncommon Summer Camp
2026 Open for Registration
Creative Uncommon is a summer camp like no other. A series of immersive, small group art and culinary experiences under the guidance of Lyceum Director Holly Venable and Chef/Artist Sam Higgs for students aged 9-13 years of age.
Join us as we get out into the city in search of art and stories from different culinary traditions and spend some time in The Lyceum’s workshop and kitchen learning different techniques and skills.
Holly and Sam combine their experience from an array of artistic disciplines including: culinary arts graphic narrative, sequential art and manga drawing fundamentals, foraging, gardening, botanical studies, ink making, watercolour, silkscreening, cyanotype printing, collage and assemblage, creative writing, felting, and film camera experiments.
Fees include all materials and lunch. Just show up ready to get creative and have fun!
Orchard Lyceum Testimonials
The Orchard Lyceum fosters intellectual curiosity and creative confidence in a collaborative learning environment.
"We watched our super-creative, super-feeling child blossom creatively, intellectually, academically and socially. As her self-esteem grew and her anxiety softened, we knew that this school had changed the direction of our child's adolescence."
– Erin Breau-Barkley, artist and mother of grade 8 student
"The Lyceum is a wonderful opportunity to extend the reach of knowledge that is innately engrained in every child. The atmosphere is one of cooperation and respect. This is a truly incredible and unique experience."
– Alistair, student age 14
"Our kid is thriving and getting more confident. We are happy to see her navigating academics and creativity and enjoying herself."
– Anya Douglas, tutor and mother of grade 6 student
"Each day was full to bursting with a dazzling array of puzzles. I am grateful to The Lyceum for teaching me what it means to fall in love with a question."
– Julian, student age 17
"Through their curation, our son is exposed to worlds within worlds — artistic, culinary, environmental, scientific, civic, historic, and moral. The Lyceum experience gives us certainty about how to best offer our children ways to grow."
– Bianca Wylie, Senior Fellow/Centre for International Governance Innovation and mother of grade 5 student
"Within these walls there exists a universe of perpetual wisdom. Each day we are moulded into problem solvers, respectable citizens and critical thinkers."
– Isla, student age 12
"On leaving the day she observed before formally joining she said 'I feel like I have known these people my whole life.' She will keep what she's learned at the Orchard Lyceum with her for the rest of her life."
– Sarah Cullen, artist and mother of grade 8 student
"When my friends ask me what I did at school today, they always look surprised. Today I turned a bathroom into a darkroom, played cards with Mother Superior, helped make gourmet lunch and filled a planter with conifers. I realize how lucky I am."
– Vita, student age 12