School Profile: 

Coldstream Elementary School is located in the municipality of Coldstream to the east of Vernon.  Currently there are 373 students.  We take pride in all aspects of our academic success and community spirit.  We have grown through our involvements with a strong PAC (Parent Advisory Council), early literacy support programs, international student exchanges and many enriching arts and cultural pursuits.  The adults within the Coldstream school community truly care about children. Student strengths and needs drive our practice. We continually strive to offer varied opportunities, in all areas of the curriculum, to enhance student learning.  The Coldstream School community wants students to do well in all aspects of their life: academically, socially and emotionally. The staff work closely with parents and the community to ensure that learning occurs for all students. Our Parent Advisory Council is outstanding in their work for and with students. It is our vision and desire that all children receive an education that will prepare them well for life in the 21st century.

School Mission Statement: 

It is the mission of Coldstream that students will achieve and celebrate successful learning in a supportive environment which promotes social and environmental responsibility.

Our school community focusses in the the whole child, ensuring we provide a safe and healthy learning environment. The parent community are very caring and involved.  A supportive team that wants what is best for student success. We have actively parent particpation in District program that are offered to the parents.   Staff have embarrassed the re-designed curriculum.   Coldstream has a rich Fine Arts Program that is evident upon entering the building.  Staff are using technology, following the SAMR model (supplement, augment, modify and redefine) to enhance the needs of our students.   Additionally technology is being used as a communication tool. Laptops, ipads & chromebooks are used daily.  Presently we are in our second year of piloting ‘Freshgrade’  an electronic collection of student work, assessment and reflection the clearly show process over time.  The goal is to replace traditional reporting with more meaningful  conversations about student learning and achievement with all stakeholders.

At the beginning of the 2018 school year, staff were asked ‘what is working well at Coldstream’?  This image is the Answer Garden visual created by their responses.

Our school places high importance on the success of students in the key areas of literacy, numeracy and social responsibility.  Our umbrella goals are followed up with specific initiatives for inquiry and change.​

Goal #1: To Improve Student academic achievement in ‘Reading’.

Our review of student achievement show that most of our readers not meeting expectations are in the primary grades.  This supports our rationale to focus supports on our early intervention processes.

Primary – Developing fluency, expression, predicting and reading for meaning

Intermediate – Increase comprehension by developing inferring and questioning skills.  As well as extracting main ideas from text.

Goal #2:  To improve student academic achievement in numeracy.

Reviewing student success in numeracy, it is recognized that the challenges in maths increase as students enter the intermediate grades.  We will focus our attention on instructional differentiation and structures to meet the diversity of needs in the intermediate grades.

Goal #3:  Students will be socially responsible.

Rationale for Goal Selection:

Students become socially responsible when they feel safe with a sense of belonging and connectedness.  In order to become a global citizen students need an awareness of the global community and the need to contribute to both our school and global community.

Reviewing student challenges in the areas of self-regulation and anxiety show a high number of students who require supports in these areas.  Our focus on this area will be to access proactive teaching strategies to support students.  We know that success in all areas of academics and social responsibility will be increased with an improvement in the skills and supports for self-regulation and anxiety.