Principal's Message

Welcome to King Edward Community School Website. We are very proud of our student’s accomplishment and hope that you will enjoy perusing our site!

King Edward Community School endeavours to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for all students. We believe that children live up to what is expected of them, or children mirror what adults think of them. Therefore, our staff put tremendous effort into setting high expectations and providing learning experiences that encourage students to reach toward higher goals.

Our monthly school assembly themes are based on the seven Ojibway teachings; Faith, Honesty, Kindness, Respect, Caring, Sharing and Courage. Each grade level group is responsible for providing a representation of that teaching. Classrooms then spend the entire month focusing on and practicing a particular teaching. The principal then selects four students who demonstrate understanding of the teaching from each grade group and publicly acknowledges their accomplishment. Another aspect of our assemblies is the hall of frame award. Each classroom teacher selects three students from their classrooms to showcase a work of academic excellence. Students' work is displayed at the assembly and later in frames on hallway walls. All students are expected to contribute to and promote a safe, supportive learning environment.

Students and staff at King Edward School are involved in a number of initiatives intended to promote the arts in schools. We are involved in a project titled, Learning Through The Arts. The first year of the project involved two grade levels, the second year involved four grade levels and finally next year the project will extend to all students in the school. We are pleased to be a part of this program as its objective is to increase students' capacity to learn and retain knowledge in the core academic disciplines through music, drama, dance and visual arts activities. Each academic year our students and staff have the opportunity to work with three artists for three different sessions. Prior to arriving, artists meet with teachers to decide the topic and area of the provincial curricula they will deliver to students for that session. In a short period of time students and staff are exposed to a variety of creative ways of addressing learning outcomes. The experiences Artists provide allow students to engage themselves in activities that stretch and connect their current learning. We look forward to the school wide experience next year! We are also currently constructing a tile mural project with Bud Gilles a local artist through Manitoba Artists in the school. Teachers have also incorporated Aboriginal Art, such as soapstone carving or quilt making into regular programming.

King Edward Community School is also involved in a number of other additional projects to complement regular elementary school programming. The Open Doors Project operates a literacy and basic computer course out of the school. And students can take advantage of a City of Winnipeg, Parks and Recreation Program for two hours after school, three nights a week and the Lighthouse-Kids Time project runs Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Further information on these may be found by clicking on "handbook" on the menu bar.

Respectfully,