Our Focus for the 2024–2025 School Year

How can we support students in feeling connected to their learning through a Numeracy lens and support those who don't? Allowing multiple entry points for all students to share their understanding while focussing on their connection to the curriculum and its impact on students' social emotional well-being.

Throughout the school year, we have had dedicated time at our professional development days and staff meetings to think, learn, share and reflect about our school learning story. Staff engaged in Mathematics & Numeracy sessions given by our District Mathematics and Numeracy Teacher Consultant, Janice Novakowski. They dedicated time to plan for the diversity in our classrooms, the use of instructional routines and the use of math materials. We dived deeper into numeracy tasks and created opportunities for bridging language into mathematics.

Here is what staff noticed and celebrated:

Students felt more connected to their learning when provided with lots of time and practice. 

Staff felt more confident in their teaching practice when given opportunities to collaborate, plan and take part in professional learning opportunities centred around numeracy.

Student engagement increased when lessons and activities were hands-on and used multiple entry points for learning.

Establishing math instructional routines in teachers daily teaching practice created opportunities for students to practice strategies and explain their solutions. Many instructional routines make connections between visual/pictoral and symbolic representations of number and operations.

Having essential math manipulatives and teacher resources in every classroom, as well as access to our mobile math cart to further supplement math lessons and learning, have had a positive impact on student learning. We noticed when students have access to materials, there is a deeper understanding of ideas and concepts and students are more engaged and connected with their learning.

Next Steps for the fall:

Parent Education - Bridging the Gap

• Math Parent Evening & students teaching their parents math routines
• How we teach math and a better understanding of the BC curriculum

School-wide math language

• Consistent vocabulary language K-7
• Common Anchor Charts for all classrooms

Being more visible with our learning

• Displaying evidence of learning in math with 11x17 tableau posters

Monthly school-wide interactive math bulletin board

• Number talks, fraction talks, puzzles, slow reveal graphs