Intellectual

Our students will learn key academic skills - like reading, writing and math - to encompass the knowledge and processes associated with intellectual development. As learners and meaning-makers, students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. 

In the 2022-2023 school year we partnered with Abbotsford Literacy Matters to foster an appreciation for literacy with our students. As part of this partnership students were offered an opportunity to become Story Walk Leader Facilitators. These leaders led several Story Walks this year on our school grounds, focusing on a different book for each term.

The first Story Walk that our school did as part of our school Naming Ceremony in September 2022 was, When We Were Alone, which educated young readers on some of the impacts of Residential Schools on Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Our school is committed to the ongoing learning journey of Truth and Reconciliation, and we are living out this commitment by featuring a Halq'eméylem word of the week.  Halq'eméylem is the traditional language of the Stó:lō people. We also start each week of by acknowledging the traditional and unceded lands that we learn on.

On National Indigenous Peoples Day our school participated in Halq'eméylem Bingo as a culminating activity of our learning of Halq'eméylem words throughout this year.