TLC offers a special character education program, which features virtues that the school encourages students to take into their daily lives by.

Each month a different virtue is selected, and a special half-period is spent each day before lunch ('Character Circle') to discuss that, doing activities as well fitting with the course.

From then until 1988 it operated as a regular English language school, for the nearby community (teaching grades K-9 before the end point).

However, as young families moved to outer lying areas in the city, enrollment tapered off, and there was progressively more bussing of students from newer communities that didn't have their own school yet.

In 2002, continued declining enrollment, meant the school was turned into a single-track French immersion program.