Students will learn “multi-literacy”  skills and strategies that will help them in expressing their understanding in many different forms.

Students will develop their artistic literacy skills of sensory awareness and creative expression in communicating their ideas.

Students will demonstrate their own artistic voices, and so become part of shaping their own learning.

Students will demonstrate a greater appreciation of cultural diversity in the local, and global community

Students will have a greater appreciation of how the past and present act as a catalyst for creating change for the future.

Students will have a greater appreciation of the aboriginal culture.

Teachers will gain valuable training that they will apply in planning future learning experiences that will integrate the arts.

Early Years will demonstrate greater understanding of numeracy by the end of the school year.

Early Years students will progress along the stages on the  Numeracy continuum  by the end of the school year.

Students in Gr. 4-6 will demonstrate greater conceptual understanding of place value, multiplication and Division, Fractions and         decimals and algebraic reasoning by the end of the school year

Teachers will refine and strengthen their Instructional and Assessment Strategies in numeracy

Teachers of Kdg and Grades 1-3 will increase their numeracy instruction strategies by the end of the school year.

Teachers in Grades 4-6 will have an increased awareness of the early years numeracy instructional strategies and continuum of numeracy skills.

Parents will have a better understanding of their child’s development and progress along the numeracy continuum of skills.

Parents will develop a better understanding of the instruction of numeracy and place used in classrooms.

Parents will have a better understanding of how they can support their children’s learning at home.

Teachers will have a common understanding of the assessment and evaluation practice currently in use in the school.

Teachers will have a greater understanding of the research and best practice in assessment and evaluation.

Teachers will develop tools to assist them in assessment, evaluation and reporting to parents.

Students will  participate in on-going self assessment and evaluation.   

Parents will have a greater understanding of teachers’ assessment and evaluation practice.

Teachers will understand the expectations at each grade level.

Teachers will have a common understanding of the grades on the report card.