School Plan 2019-20
École Guyot is currently a Kindergarten to Grade 7 French Immersion school in the Louis Riel School Division with 383 students. In the 2020-21 school year, École Guyot will continue to grow to a Kindergarten to Grade 8 French Immersion school.
In May of 2019, our school team met to reflect on the 2018-19 school plan to identify areas of growth and areas that we wanted to continue to work on. In September 2019, we reviewed the plan once again to allow for new staff members to get a feel for what we had been working on previously. Conversations were had with the staff to determine our focus for the next years, and specifically this school year (with some of the goals being multiyear goals).
Our school plan has the divisional Multi Year Strategic Plan top of mind by assuring that we are connecting to the four quadrants of the Circle of Courage through our work with staff and students. The four quadrants are as follows:
- Belonging – Creating a Culture of Equity and Inclusion
- Mastery – Creating a Culture of Learning and Well Becoming
- Independence – Creating a Culture of Inquiry and Responsibility
- Generosity – Creating a Culture of Caring and Collaboration
We are collectively working toward the following goals:
- Enhance instructional practice in literacy: Collecting evidence of learning to inform instruction and to set instructional goals
- Enhance instructional practice in numeracy
- Enhance students' abilities in developing resiliency when facing situations causing anxiety
- Citizenship – Develop empathy and acceptance of all community members for the betterment of the school community
Mastery and Independence Quadrants
Enhance Instructional practice in literacy: Collecting evidence of learning to inform instruction and to set instructional goals.
Strategies to reach our goal will include the following:
- Focus on using best teaching practices (which would include the Optimal Learning Model in both French and English) to enhance writing skills.
- Analyze reading behaviours through the use of reading records to set individual goals with students and understand, create and use these assessments to inform next steps.
- Use a variety of texts to analyze students reading comprehension to inform instructional practices.
- Use professional learning communities to discuss and reflect on common understandings, practices and to set goals.
- Develop students' awareness of the language learning process and cultivate a growth mindset, which includes a willingness to take risks which then fosters and promotes students who identify themselves as French language learners.
Mastery and Independence Quadrants
Enhance instructional practice in numeracy.
Strategies to reach our goals will include the following:
- Continue to implement the teaching sequence plan that prioritizes outcomes.
- By strands, create common assessments to evaluate student progress (baseline, formative and summative assessments).
- Articulate common expectations for student performance and next steps for student learning.
- Professional development and meeting time to share resources, plan units, analyze assessment results, identify best teaching practices.
- Foster job embedded professional development.
Independence and Belonging Quadrants
Enhance students' abilities in developing resiliency when facing situations causing anxiety.
Strategies to reach our goals will include the following:
- Help students create a "tool kit" for them to have a multitude of self-regulation strategies by modelling and using the Zones of Regulation, Responsive Classroom, Big Brain/Little Brain
Provide students with language to express social and emotional needs by having common language for students to use when expressing a need.
Generosity Quadrant
Citizenship – Develop empathy and acceptance of all community members for the betterment of the school community.
Strategies to reach our goals will include the following:
- Use of a variety of school wide opportunities to encourage generosity through acts of kindness, acts of giving (Koats for Kids, Terry Fox, EnviroGuyot, Community clean up, Friendship groups, Lunchtime clubs, Receptive classroom, Hugs from the Heart) and daily interactions with others.
- Staff use authentic opportunities to teach citizenship skills by providing students with occasions to work in small group settings, to work with different grade levels.
- Students in turn, give of their time to do school-based jobs (patrol, lunch monitor, Leadership club, Library club) thus demonstrating their willingness to help where needed.
Over 321 toys, $290.00 worth of gift cards and $1080 in cash donations were collected for the Children's ward at CancerCare!
Students helping students by giving of their time.
