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Maker Space Setting Up for Action!
An action that we have taken to support our school’s learning focus is: Our Literacy Maker Space As part of our ongoing commitment to strengthening literacy, we have begun building our Literacy Maker Space as an active, hands-on, and collaborative learning environment designed to inspire creativity, communication, and joyful engagement with literacy. Our staff are…
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Literacy in Action!
As part of our ongoing commitment to strengthening reading comprehension and foundational literacy skills, our school has implemented several coordinated actions that directly support student learning: 1. Partnership with One-to-One Reading Volunteers We partnered with trained community reading volunteers from our Homma community through the One-to-One Reading Program. These volunteers provide individualized, evidence-based support that…
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Writer's Workshop
To achieve our literacy focus and strengthen student writing skills, our staff will take the following steps: Collaborative Planning TimeWe will use the Literacy Collaboration Grant time approved by the District and RTA (Richmond Teachers’ Union) to plan and refine Writer’s Workshop lessons. This time will allow teachers to share strategies learned from Matt Glover’s…
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Important Dates 2025-2026
Please find the important dates calendar for the 2025-2026 school year. Attachments Important Dates 2025 2026.pdf
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Homma Care for Others 2024/2025
Attached you will find The Care for Others Ways of Being drafted as a Staff in grade groupings, to ensure that they are appropriate to students’ ages. This is a living document that will adjust as needed.
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Homma Care for Self 2024/2025
Attached you will find The Care for Self Ways of Being drafted as a Staff in grade groupings, to ensure that they are appropriate to students’ ages. This is a living document that will adjust as needed.
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Homma Care for Place 2024/2025
Attached you will find The Care for Place Ways of Being drafted as a Staff in grade groupings, to ensure that they are appropriate to students’ ages. This is a living document that will adjust as needed.
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Guided Reading Resources
As we continue on our School Story journey, we learned that we needed more relevant Guided Reading programs in both English and French. Staff committees were formed, District Literacy experts were consulted, and decisions were made about the programs that would best suit Homma. We started to build our Guided Reading resources, the SAILS program…
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Homma Spring Schoolwide Reading Assessment
Based on Feedback given at the beginning of the year, we checked in with Staff at various points (Class reviews in January, weekly Learning Resource Teacher meetings and monthly Staff meetings) and shared the data collected: Class Reviews told us that one of the common themes amongst our classes remains a need to focus on…