Our School
Goals:
- Our goal has been to foster a community for learning. The staff, in cooperation with parents, are committed to helping students develop the skills, attitudes, and behaviours necessary for success. Our students have responded by enthusiastically striving for excellence in all elements of growing, living, and learning.
- Together we are working to be the best that we can be.
Accomplishments and Initiatives:
- Strong emphasis on basic skills in literacy and numeracy
- Family literacy programs in early primary
- Monthly Preschool Buddies Program bringing in families and their preschoolers
- School-wide emphasis on Developing Readers bringing together the school in an effort to foster well-rounded and competent readers
- Knights of Reading Program promoting a school wide reading emphasis
- School community activities that focus on multiculturalism
- Annual public speaking and science fair competition
- Active participation in athletic and fine arts programs
- Strong student leadership opportunities including active student council and peer mediation through our "Extreme Team"
- Computer lab upgraded with technology integrated into classroom
- A large, well-equipped computerized library with a library program
- Collaborative relationship with an active and supportive Parent Advisory Council
- Commitment to home/school communication links and partnerships
- School-based assessment programs in numeracy and writing
- Positive behaviour emphasised and reinforced through regular assemblies and school wide emphasis