Truth and Reconciliation

September marks Truth and Reconciliation at the CBE. There are many different activities and resources available both locally and nationally that can be found on the CBE TRC Webpage

Tuesday, September 29th is Orange Shirt Day at Hawkwood School

Each year, Hawkwood School creates and posts our Truth and Reconciliation Commitment on our website.  One of the provincial requirements for teachers included in their Teacher Quality Standard indicates that “a teacher develops and applies foundational knowledge about First Nations, Metis and inuit for the benefit of all students.” This process can look different in each grade level, and also different year to year at Hawkwood School.

Our updated Truth and Reconciliation Commitment for this school year will be posted on the Hawkwood School Website next week.

Math Beyond the Numbers

Can you work on Math without numbers? Can Math be moved, created or explored? In Ms. Katzko’s grade 4 class, it sure can. Her students recently explored how shapes can be reflected, rotated and repeated to create patterns. In addition to learning aspects of the grade 4 Math curriculum like transformations, radial symmetry and spatial reasoning, it was also a lot of fun.

Progressive Student Discipline

Despite investing heavily in problem solving strategies and building school and classroom communities, behavioural issues and conflicts still arise when 600-700 students share a common space. As an elementary school, we understand that skills like problem solving, conflict resolution and self-regulation need to be taught and practiced just like reading and Math. Most incidences that arise are opportunities to further develop these skills.

The disciplinary pathway can be very different for individual students and is influenced by many factors including the age of the child, the context of the issue, and the behavioural history of the students involved. There are many documents at the provincial and system level that cover student conduct. One of these that outline the disciplinary process is the CBE Progressive Discipline Philosophy, which speaks to things like the school response and the student's response to issues that may arise.

What’s In a Colour?

A simple story about crayons can provide a tremendous amount of learning experiences. Ms. Palsich’s grade 1 class spent some time reading “The Day the Crayons Quit” and learned many things beyond the initial story. 

Art

• Recognizing and naming colours
• Creating using a variety of materials
• Use scissors safely

Social Studies & Health

• Recognizing similarities and differences
• Sharing materials in a group
• Persevere through work to produce my “best”

Language Arts

• Find, read and print colour words
• Record my thinking in a sentence
• Connect and respond to stories read aloud

Have a great week!