FOUNDING PRINCIPLES At our 15th anniversary celebration, our founding members reflected on their experience of founding Island Pacific Academy and shared their thoughts with some of our Grade 4 students, bringing together IPA’s past and present.
"In my vision for IPA, I wanted graduates who would be known for the quality of their character, that you could trust their word, that they were kind, and that they were generous – they were always thinking about other people. I wanted graduates who would be known in the community. 'Oh, he or she is an IPA graduate, because they are so kind, so generous, with such good character.' Then I wanted young people to grow up pursuing whatever passion they found. You go to school to learn about different areas, and somewhere in all of that learning, for most kids a passion emerges, something you really like. And I wanted our school to be a place where you could find that passion and follow it forward. That’s the vision I had."
DR. DANIEL WHITE Co-Founder & First Headmaster
'What makes me really happy to come back to the school as a co-founder is to see that those values that we wanted to start the school on – human kindness, generosity of spirit, being helpful to others – that those things are still really important here, because we felt like those were things we wanted students to understand are really important in life. The school culture still gives off that feeling and that makes me really happy. What makes me confident is that there are lots of really energetic, bright students here that are committed to their school. You have a wonderful headmaster and very able and caring teachers who want their students to succeed. Mr. Teramae and the Board of Trustees are really committed to this school, so I know that's why the school is going to be a real success into the future."
JUDY WHITE Co-Founder & First Director of Advancement
IPA'S co-founders were interviewed by Kyler Koga '28, Winleth Dukes '28, and Oliver Nicol '28 for the Founding Principles video series commemorating IPA's 15th year.
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