Kent Elementary School

Growth Plan 2012-2015

“Focusing On Our Strengths” 

School Planning Council:Wendy Clark, Leah Ochoa, Kate Onos-Gilbert, Amber Kafi, Chris Wejr

Staff, Parents, and Students of Kent School

GOAL A: To work to ensure that each student masters the basic skills of

numeracy and literacy.

3 Key Questions:

1. Where are we right now?2. Where do we need to go?

3. How do we get there?Dylan Wiliam

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Focusing more on Formative

Assessment…

…becoming more consistent and

transparent with Summative

Assessment

Objective 1: To increase the number of students fully meeting in reading in grades 4-6 to 80% on report cards, DART and FSA. 

Encouraging a Love of Reading

Do you like to read?

97%2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate 

Students

To increase the number of students fully meeting in writing in grades 4-6 to 80% on report cards, DWW, and FSA.

Objective 2

Writing.Connecting.

Sharing.

Challenging and

Personalizing Through Inquiry

Objective 3: To increase the

number of students fully

meeting in math in grades 4-6 to 80% on report cards and FSA.

To provide a school culture that recognizes and nurtures the strength

and/or interests of each child.

Goal ‘B’

Do you know a strength you have?

2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate Students

98%

CHOICES PROGRAM

teaching our passions,

exploring our interests

IDENTITY DAY

showcasing who we

are

First Nation Honouring Ceremonies

Celebrating Our Strengths Assemblies

Opportunities for Leadership

Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement

Culture Embedded in Our Learning

Goal C:

Work to ensure that each

student believes that he/she is

a confident learner.

I am a confident learner. I know that if I try hard I can learn.

100%2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate Students

Assessmentfor

Learning

Assessment explicitly designed to promote learning is the single most powerful tool

we have for raising achievement.-- Black

and Wiliam 

Developing a Growth Mindset

Developing Confident Learners

Coaching the Needed Skills

Goal D: To provide a school culture that welcomes and fosters parent/family engagement in their child's education

Dedicated PAC and School Planning Council

First Nation Parent Groups

At The Table

Increase Opportunities For School-Family Contacts

Family Learning EveningsFamily-Teacher EveningsFamily Social Evenings

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Our Plan… in pictures

Growing.Leading.Learning.

Kent Elementary School