Focus: How can we link children’s play to the curriculum and discover how to communicate these links to a variety of members in our school community.
Focus: Does creating a sense of belonging and self for Indigenous students in grades 8-9, have an impact on remaining in their home school and successful grade to grade transitions in grades 10-12?
Focus: Creating and maintaining authentic relationship-based connections with Grades 8 and 9 Indigenous students.
Focus: Developing social-emotional well-being by increasing sense of belonging/school connectedness for disconnected students.
Focus: Building Connection through Social-Emotional Learning with a PBIS Framework
Focus: Evolving our universal meals (John Barsby Snack Cart) program to include cultural elements that reflect our learners.
Focus: To help mitigate the effects of ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) in our students and increase their chances of life success.
Focus: Using play, loose parts and Story Workshop for supporting oral language and writing.
Focus: Bringing Snuneymuxw technologies to life for K-7 learners.
Focus: To select age appropriate decodable books that would benefit the growth of our intermediate students.
Focus: To increase feelings and a sense of connectedness in our Indigenous students to Dover Bay Secondary School.
Focus: The role of play, particularly outdoor play, in students’ well-being and learning, as well as the educator’s role in play, particularly outdoor play.
Focus: Journey of Syeyutsus: Reconciliation in Action through meaningful ways to develop an appreciation of Hul’q’umi’num culture while developing healthy relationships.
Focus: On how Indigenous understandings can better provide students with opportunities to further their connection to each other and to the land, as well as their sense of place within the community.
Focus: Will a focus on fluency at the intermediate level increase students’ reading comprehension?
Focus: To continue to grow our knowledge of mathematical instruction (year 3), focusing in on how we can teach/assess the curricular competencies with the intention of deepening our students’ understanding of number sense and making our instruction accessible for all learners.
Focus: The primary teachers were interested in looking at early reading intervention and differentiation of skills practice.
Focus: Improving student attendance, engagement and academic success through a comprehensive, twice daily, free school meal program.
Focus: We built our capacity to be better prepared/educated to deal with issues surrounding students’ mental health and wellness while at school.