Let us put our minds together and see

what we can do for our children. ~Sitting Bull~

A.E. Wright

Community

School

REPORT TO

COMMUNITY

June 2018

Building ...

Healthy Minds,

Healthy Hearts,

Healthy Bodies and a

Healthy World

♥ H - opefully

♥ E -veryone

♥ A -cts

♥ R -esponsibly

♥ T -ogether

♥ S -ustainably

Hearts Beat Here!!

REPORT TO COMMUNITY 2018

“We want to challenge readers’ thinking about what is possible for chil-

dren of any age by sharing rich examples of visible learning in a variety

of subject matters and age levels.” ~Mara Krechevsky * Ben Mardell *

Melissa Rivard * Danilel Wilson ~ Visible Learners

The authors here describe the value of thoughtful intentional planning.

A wonderful segue to our school plan sharing for 2018.

Braylon teaches the kids about trees using the tree his class made!

♥ Reading, Writing,

Talking, Listening

♥ Taiko Drumming

♥ Thinking Critically

♥ Mathematics, hands

on, discovery, problem

-solving

♥ Beyond the class-

room walls

♥ Community

♥ Discovery/

Exploration

♥ Social /Play

♥ Interactive

♥ Passions

♥ The Arts

♥ Relationship, Rele-

vance and Rigour

♥ Documentation

♥ Projects, Presenting

♥Communication

♥ Mentor Texts

♥ Teachers and chil-

dren as learners

♥Technology

♥Science

♥Social Studies

♥Our World

♥Problem Solving

♥Experiment

♥Indigenous Teachings

♥ Teaching each other

♥ Cross Curricular

Learning

♥ Inquiry Learning

♥ Adult Book Club

♥ Adults Journal

This year our staff took part in two book studies . Both of these are

aimed at supporting the journey we are on to make learning as

meaningful as possible through

cross-curricular and Inquiry based

teaching. As a staff we have de-

termined that the outdoors plays

a huge role in extending our un-

derstandings of curricula. We had

the pleasure of working with Gilli-

an Judson as a whole staff upon

reading her book on Engaging

Imagination. Gillian is also con-

nected to the Whole School Pro-

jects text by Kieran Egan. The

professional development around

these two texts made it very easy

for us to see the strong rationale

for implementing our whole

school project—”Gardening—

Planting for Sustainable Living at

A.E.W”.

“Teachers build a deeper sense of how distinct disciplinary perspec-

tives can come together in a large-scale interdisciplinary project.”

Kieran Egan. P. 16

Every child and youth de-

serve at least one person

that is utterly crazy about

them!

~Dr. Martin Brokenleg~

♥ I Love to Read

♥ United Way

♥ Volunteer Reception

♥ Sports / The Arts

♥ Roots of Empathy

♥ Indigenous Teachings

and Learning

♥ Siloam Mission

♥ Bake Sales

♥ Journal Writing

♥ Leadership Groups

♥ Choir

♥ Band/Guitar/Ukulele

♥ Tablah and Harmonium

Lessons

♥ School-wide Assemblies

♥ Parent-Child Early Years

Program (0-6 years of age)

♥ Friday gift of song

♥ Nations

♥ Garden Plans

♥ CLUBS—Aboriginal

Club, Floor Hockey, Talent

Show, Friendship, Anime,

Dance, Art, Filipino Cultur-

al, Cooking club, Soccer,

Leadership, Running,

Knitting, Crochet, Henna,

Hip Hop Dance, Math, Tri-

pleball, Volleyball, Speed

Stacking, Flag Football,

Rugby, Biking Lessons

♥ 30 Hour Famine

♥ Project Winter Chill

♥ Doctors without Borders

♥ Picture Books Shared

♥ A Read You Need

♥ Brain Breaks—Ms.

Monique

To put it simply: in addition to a

brain, we have a heart—and we

want to put it to use in promoting

young people’s learning. Exclude

this vital organ from our work, and

you get compliance at best.

~Ronald S. Barth~

We continue to base our school

-wide values in a human rights

approach—specifically the

rights of children. We are grate-

ful that our intentional teaching

and planning allowed for a more

in-depth unified commitment to

Indigenous Teaching and

Learning as well as Preventa-

tive work in the area of Mental

Health and Social Thinking this

school year.

As a staff we know how very important the quality of mental health is

to raising healthy children. We are aware that the stress of newcomer

families can directly impact kids’ sense of self and their learning. We

continue to be committed to Project 11 in our grade 5/6 classes as

well as a Pilot Program for Project 11 in 2 of our grade 3/4 classes.

This year our Project 11 involvement grew based on the 3/4 Pilot Pro-

gram. “Project 11 is an engaging cross-curricular prevention program

targeting ELA and Phys-ed outcomes. Weekly lessons and daily activ-

ites have been designed to support students and teachers in bringing

mental health awareness, along with positive coping skills into their

lives.” True North Youth Foundation—Empowering Potential

Thank you to the Canadian Centre for Child

Protection that supported our learning this

year. We look forward to continuing the con-

versation with you next year.

Thank you to Barb and Clarence Ne-

pinak and Clifford Spence for sup-

porting and building our vision for a

more integrated approach to cultural

teachings to support Reconciliation.

♥ Track and Field

♥ Cross Country

♥ Brainbreaks

♥ Gym class

♥ Active Living Breaks

♥ School-wide Healthy

Snacks

♥ Relaxation strategies

♥ Team Handball

♥ Badminton

♥ Intramurals

♥ Hiking

♥ Dance

♥ Cooking Club

♥ Safe and Caring

Schools—All Belong

♥ Mental Health

♥ Train the Trainer Build-

ing Heathy Relationships

♥ Play

♥ Leadership

♥ Basketball, Volleyball

♥ Family Life

♥ Health Education

♥ Personal Safety

♥ Learn to Skate

♥Learn to Swim

♥Bike/Walk to School

♥Smoothie Shack

♥Breakfast

♥Soccer Club

♥Project 11

♥Body image awareness

♥MPI Biking Program

♥Coaches

♥Whole Foods

ACTIVE LIVING AND

HEALTHY EATING

As a So Active So Healthy School we continue to focus on getting kids

moving and making good food choices. “Canadian kids need to move

more to boost their brain health. The Science is in KIDS + STEPS +

SWEAT = HEALTHIER BRAINS” ~ 2018 Participaction Report Card

There is evidence to suggest that our kids are still requiring a more ac-

tive lifestyle outside of school hours. Programs like the MPI / Green Ac-

tion Centre Biking one have truly made an impact on kids’ abilities to

ride to school more often and more safely. It has been WONDERFUL

to see our school bike racks full since the program began this year.

We continue to be

active in our school

kitchen with cooking

club as well as Day 6

school-wide healthy

share day. Kids are

eating really good

food at school at

those times and in

our regular daily food

programs.

Cooking whole and

healthy food leads to long

term healthy nutrition

practices. It’s fun and

builds a sense of commu-

nity. Our garden will give

us more of an opportunity

this Fall too!

Riding a bike to school helps the en-

vironment and your body. This is just

one of 4 bike racks that has been full

in the last couple of months since our

Bike Program started.

We continue to find ways to teach kids about living a sustainable life in order to preserve our world

and ourselves. The learning ranges from considering environmental impacts to leadership develop-

ment, all building student voice, citizenship and responsible behaviour in a common world. Our

children have a sense of responsibility which in the long run will support a resilience that is healthy

and essential to contributing to building a healthy world. This year our 7/8 leadership team spent

the day with Kevin Chief to talk about what it takes to develop healthy leadership qualities, no mat-

ter our personality types. He spoke to the kids about hard work and staying true to that work ethic.

He gave real life examples of how overcoming adversity helps to develop resiliency. Thank you

Kevin for a great day!!! We learned lots.

This year 100 grade 7/8 kids went to camp Nutimik. The kids got to

interact with the natural world and experience first hand the reasons

to preserve and respect it. Sometimes the abstractness of the world

we live in makes it hard to fully understand implications for taking

care of it. Our goal at A.E.W is to ensure we are bringing the world to

the kids in order for them to have that relationship with it. Grade 7/8

camp was a perfect example of that. Our children make up a school

that represents a large part of the world—our goal is to make sure

that kids understand that no matter where you come from or what

you have experience in job is to be a steward of the land.

Thanks to Ms. Greco’s class for

wanting to learn more about

Residential Schools and the sto-

ry of Orange Shirt Day. The kids

were thrilled to hear back from

Phyllis. Ask them about it...

Healthy Hearts!

Healthy Minds!

Healthy Bodies!

Healthy World!

Healthy Hearts!

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STAY CONNECTED TO WHAT WE LEARN

DAILY!!

Thank you once again, to our wonderful Families as Partners

group for supporting another very successful school Glenlea

Plant Fundraiser! We can’t wait until the roof is done and the

yard begins to take greater shape!!

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Thanks to Phoebe Man who worked with us as our Artist

in the school this year. All of the young people in our

school loved it!!