Our School
FLEETWOOD PARK SECONDARY SCHOOL
Fleetwood Park Secondary school is an amazing community with students of diverse backgrounds, abilities and interests. The school has a strong sense of community and tradition. "Dragon spirit" is highly valued! FPSS students are engaged in their learning and demonstrate excellence in all forms of learning every day. Our students value and celebrate the diversity of their school community. They support a friendly and inclusive environment grounded in respect for each individual.
“FPSS is a place of fairness because it is a school that doesn’t discriminate against one’s gender, culture, etc. FPSS has many classes and clubs, including leadership, social justice, Gay-Straight alliance club, multi-cultural club, etc. which all advocate for equality and fairness. Fleetwood Park is very multicultural and diverse.”
“Fleetwood Park Second is a place of caring. It has a friendly environment and everyone, for the most part, is kind to each other. There are great relationships between students to students and also between students to teachers. Everyone is respectful and supportive to each other. Teachers want what’s best for their students, and for the most part, students are respectful to their teachers, the staff, their peers, and the school.”
The diversity of our student body is celebrated. This year we will complete our Indigenous Welcome Post project with our theme of "unity". The project provides a focal point for our school community and is a physical and symbolic reminder of the importance of community. Our school has partnered with Master Carver Mr. Brandon Gabriel from the Kwantlen First Nation. Brandon has interacted across our school community as he has carved the post and discussed its meaning and symbolism. Through his teachings of Indigenous art and culture, through the act of shared artistic creation and through dialogue focussed on the First People's Principles of Learning, we are teaching our students that learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place.)
OUR FOCUS
Every day our learners are presented with opportunities to learn and grow through the implementation of First Peoples Principles of Learning. We have focused on the use of two Principles of Learning within a cohort of learners. This cohort includes a diverse range of learners that are representative of our school’s population and across all subject areas.
Through the use of the following principles: 1) Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story, and 2) Learning requires exploration of one’s identity, our students recognized personal, social and cultural contexts, values and perspectives in text. They also constructed meaningful personal connections between self, text and the world.
