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Growing Together…Caring, Capable Citizens in a Changing World!
We are currently meeting the educational needs of approximately 376 students enrolled from Kindergarten through Grade 7. We are located in a pristine area of Coldstream with connections to Mackie House, Sovereign Park, Bishop’s Bird Sanctuary, Kal Park and lake, and Coldstream creek. There are sixteen teaching staff, two administrators, an itinerant counsellor, a teacher-librarian, school based resource teachers in addition to twelve support staff (clerical, CEA’s, custodian, noon hour and bus supervisors). We work together to ensure that all students are actively engaged in their learning in an environment that facilitates belonging. We take pride in being a welcoming school community, with high standards of achievement in academics, fine arts, athletics, and social responsibility.
At Kidston School we recognize that learning happens on a continuum and that students learn at different rates and in different ways. Student success is demonstrated through curiosity, kindness, helping one another, a sense of personal well being, thinking and reasoning, creativity and a zest for life and learning.
Trust, honesty, respect for each other – staff, parents and students. We work collaboratively to ensure all staff and students can be successful. Kidston is very fortunate to be surrounded by wonderful outdoor classrooms- Fylton Forest, Kalavista Lagoon, orchards, Mackie house, Creekside Park, Kalamalka Lake where place based learning can happen naturally. We also have our school garden where lots of hands-on, discovery and inquiry based learning happens. There is a real sense of community at Kidston Elementary.
Continually building on our Kidston Kindness theme, we work together as a team to promote a trusting and respectful environment where we can share our understanding and knowledge with one another.
We encourage social, emotional, and academic growth through citizenship, learning from the environment, taking risks, and reflection for everyone in our community of learners.
Growing Together…Caring, Capable Citizens in a Changing World!
We are currently meeting the educational needs of approximately 376 students enrolled from Kindergarten through Grade 7. We are located in a pristine area of Coldstream with connections to Mackie House, Sovereign Park, Bishop’s Bird Sanctuary, Kal Park and lake, and Coldstream creek. There are sixteen teaching staff, two administrators, an itinerant counsellor, a teacher-librarian, school based resource teachers in addition to twelve support staff (clerical, CEA’s, custodian, noon hour and bus supervisors). We work together to ensure that all students are actively engaged in their learning in an environment that facilitates belonging. We take pride in being a welcoming school community, with high standards of achievement in academics, fine arts, athletics, and social responsibility.
At Kidston School we recognize that learning happens on a continuum and that students learn at different rates and in different ways. Student success is demonstrated through curiosity, kindness, helping one another, a sense of personal well being, thinking and reasoning, creativity and a zest for life and learning.
Trust, honesty, respect for each other – staff, parents and students. We work collaboratively to ensure all staff and students can be successful. Kidston is very fortunate to be surrounded by wonderful outdoor classrooms- Fylton Forest, Kalavista Lagoon, orchards, Mackie house, Creekside Park, Kalamalka Lake where place based learning can happen naturally. We also have our school garden where lots of hands-on, discovery and inquiry based learning happens. There is a real sense of community at Kidston Elementary.
Continually building on our Kidston Kindness theme, we work together as a team to promote a trusting and respectful environment where we can share our understanding and knowledge with one another.
We encourage social, emotional, and academic growth through citizenship, learning from the environment, taking risks, and reflection for everyone in our community of learners.
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Are we making a difference for our students?
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Are we making a difference for our students?
We are regularly teaching self-regulation skills, WITS, SOGI awareness, and promoting inclusiveness and anti-racism through bi-weekly assemblies, whole school cooperative activities, daily reinforcement of Kidston Kindness Behaviour expectations, Kidston Kindness tickets, and the Garden project.
As a staff we are regularly reflecting on the growth of our students in these areas to help promote a safe and inclusive environment that supports both academic and social/emotional growth.
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Kidston Kindness: A Safe Space to Learn - What does our Student Learning Survey data tell us about our students?
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Kidston Kindness: A Safe Space to Learn - What does our Student Learning Survey data tell us about our students?
At Kidston we pride ourselves in creating a community feel, inclusiveness, and providing a safe environment for learning. With a focus on Kidston Kindness, we encourage our students to solve problems in peaceful ways.
Click on the links below to view our recent survey data for Gr. 4 and Gr. 7, and see what the student data has to say about Kidston Elementary!
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What information does our Primary Literacy and Foundation Skills Assessment data tell us?
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What information does our Primary Literacy and Foundation Skills Assessment data tell us?
At Kidston we used our 0.2 FTE discretionary position time to work with our primary readers that need extra support to achieve their year’s growth in reading.
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Kidston Gardens & Outdoor Classroom: Engaging hands on learning
Place Based Learning
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Kidston Gardens & Outdoor Classroom: Engaging hands on learning
At Kidston, we have focused as a community on our Kidston Gardens project and the creation of an outdoor classroom. Students are much more engaged when given multiple ways to demonstrate their learning, especially using hands-on approaches.
Place Based Learning
Engaging in learning at Kal Park, Fylton Forest, and local beaches: Learning about First People’s Principles of Learning and Ways of Knowing.
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Staff Collaboration of Writing Programs for Primary & Intermediate
Solving problems using WITS
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Staff Collaboration of Writing Programs for Primary & Intermediate
How can we improve students’ writing to be better communicators based on our recent FSA data results?
We are focused on developing our practice of improving writing at Kidston. The staff will be engaging in Professional Development and working collaboratively to engage students with a common writing program in primary and intermediate grades. This will allow for continuous instruction and growth for all students.
Solving problems using WITS
Taking Action
Developing Citizenship Through Kidston Kindness
Reading Intervention
Taking Action
Developing Citizenship Through Kidston Kindness
Student focus on COURTESY, COOPERATION, CARING, and CONTRIBUTION through community building activities, visible messages, sharing of information at assemblies, buddy class activities, and The Virtues Project is used to promote citizenship in the community.
Reading Intervention
At Kidston we work as team and with our students to help them achieve at least one year’s growth in their reading abilities. To help achieve this goal, we have targeted interventions with small groups, guided reading, phonological awareness, home reading programs, and literature circles. All of these are used to support students in improving student reading levels throughout their time at Kidston Elementary.
