This section outlines our school’s key areas of focus. It reflects our commitment to continuous improvement and responds to the evolving needs of our students. Whether centered on student engagement, social-emotional well-being, or academic growth, our focus guides our learning journey and informs the strategies we implement throughout the year.

This year we will be focusing on literacy, more specifically on improving our students' reading and reading comprehension.

Literacy is the ability to understand, critically analyze, and create a variety of forms of communication, including oral, written, visual, digital, and multimedia, in order to accomplish one's goals. A text is any piece or combination of oral, written, visual, or digital communication.

The purpose of reading is comprehension.  Comprehension is the understanding and the interpretation of a text and that is what gives children purpose for reading. It involves making connections between what is read and what is already known, processing text and transforming understandings and thinking.

These pillars represent the different components of literacy that are a part of our classrooms: comprehension, concepts of texts, background knowledge, phonological awareness and phonics and decoding in context. Each pillar plays an important role in nurturing students' growth as readers, writers, thinkers and communicators. Many of the literacy learning experiences in our classrooms provide opportunities to work with more than one pillar at a time. 

Here, we present the data and observations that shape our understanding of student learning and well-being. Through assessments, classroom observations, and staff reflections, we gather meaningful insights that help us track progress, and ensure that our approaches are making a difference for students.

This section highlights the concrete steps we take to support our school’s learning goals. From instructional strategies to school-wide initiatives, we document the ways we put our focus into practice. By fostering a collaborative approach, we ensure that our actions lead to meaningful improvements in student success and well-being.