Our Mission: Each student, in keeping with his or her individual abilities and gifts, will complete high school with a foundation of learning necessary to thrive in life, work and continued learning.
Our School Motto
“Together we can reach new heights.”
Jan 4 - Classes Resume
Jan 11 - Kindergarten Registration Begins
Jan 11 - Room 8 & 9 Field trip - Humane Society
Jan 12 - Room 5 & 10 Field Trip - Humane Society
Jan 13 - Room 4 Field Trip - Humane Society
Jan 21 - Fun Lunch - Coco Brooks Pizza
Jan 21 - School Council from 6:30-8:15PM
Jan 26 - Performance "The Klondike Rag" from 1:45-2:45pm
Jan 27 - Calgary Reads Volunteers Training Session from 1:30-2:30PM
Jan 29 - Grades K-6 Report Cards Go Home
Olympic Heights Gymnastics Club
Jan 4 - Grade 3 Gymnastics Club
Jan 7 - Grade 1 Gymnastics Club
Jan 8 - Grade 2 Gymnastics Club
Jan 11 - Grade 3 Gymnastics Club
Jan 13 - Grade 1 Gymnastics Club
Jan 15 - Grade 2 Gymnastics Club
Jan 18 - Grade 3 Gymnastics Club
Jan 20 - Grade 1 Gymnastics Club
Jan 22 - Grade 2 Gymnastics Club
Jan 25 - Grade 3 Gymnastics Club
Jan 27- Grade 1 Gymnastics Club
Jan 29 - Grade 2 Gymnastics Club
What's For Lunch?
Involve your kids.
Let your child choose the foods they like. This will increase the chance of them eating the foods you send.
Switch up bread options.
Try using whole grain wraps, pitas, small bagels, English muffins, buns or a different type of bread.
Add excitement to vegetables and fruit.
Send fruit such as bananas, pineapple or apples with a yogurt dip or vegetables like carrots, cucumbers or celery with hummus dip. Keep in mind; kids are more likely to eat vegetables and fruit that are already cut up!
Through our inquiry of pumpkins and how they grow, Kindergarten students have the opportunity to demonstrate their learning in multiple ways.
We dramatized, sketched, sequenced, and as shown in the photo, created a plasticine model depicting the stages of pumpkin growth. Personalizing student learning has enabled each child's strengths and learning to shine in his or her own way.
Kindergarten - Personalized Learning
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Grade 1 - Personalized Learning
Students have been engaged in a task design in which they were required to problem solve to create models of wetlands animals and insects they had researched for our inquiry in Science.
Choice of animal and materials to create their model was an individual decision for each student.
Acquisition of new skills through active engagement and problem solving to discover relevant and applicable details to the task were the essential elements for this activity.
Grade 5 - Personalized Learning
As a part of our inquiry studies, the Grade 3 students have been learning about the world. They have done this by exploring different cultures and comparing and contrasting the differences of children, globally.
While partnering with the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, each of the students helped to support a refugee experiencing their first winter in Canada. Our students created hand-sewn gift bags and collected warm winter accessories to share with the refugees. They culminated this learning by writing letters to their refugee buddies, with suggestions of fun Canadian winter activities.
Grade 3 - How can I make a difference in my world?
Grade 5 - Personalized Learning
On our field trip to the Pearce Estates Wetlands, the students explored the health of this wetland based upon a number of factors - plant life, abundance of insect and animals, water quality, and natural features.
One student commented - "Our water filter experiment showed me that the wetlands was cleaning the water as it passed through."
January 2016
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January 2016
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