Category: Our Learning Story – Actions

As part of our Social Emotional Learning goal, the focus has been building a sense of community and belonging.  An important part of building community is to establish connections and relationships throughout our school, not only within individual classrooms.  We have regular Family Team meetings and activities whereby students from grades Kindergarten through Seven work…

In the fall, the district offered schools the opportunity to apply for 5 days of literacy collaboration release days.  At Blundell, we submitted our application, and were successfully granted these days.  Our focus was specifically around supporting our primary classes, as, when looking at data/assessments, we noticed that many of our youngest learners were “Emerging”…

One of our focus goals for our School Story remains improved Literacy development for all of our learners, whether they are just learning the alphabet in the early primary years, whether they are requiring reading interventions in small group settings, or whether they are extending in their literacy development.  Our actions towards providing literacy supports…

At the beginning of the school year, when scanning our staff in terms of what was going on for our students, the common theme was the need to focus on common, schoolwide expectations that were focused upon the positive behaviours we wanted to continue to review and reinforce.  We focused first upon the need to…

The start of the 2024/2025 school year was an exciting one, including welcoming many new staff to the Blundell Bobcats community!  This included school administration, enrolling teachers, non-enrolling teachers, and Education Assistants. As part of our efforts to build community among the staff was to participate in team building activities which included a Goose Chase,…