Community Report 2018-2019

École St. Norbert Immersion is dedicated to supporting, encouraging, and celebrating all learners with an emphasis on respect, citizenship, leader-ship, and academics within a French environment. We believe in building positive relationships by creating opportunities for students to provide community service. École St-Norbert Immersion’s goal is to develop global citizens by fostering confidence, responsibility, and empathy in a safe and nurturing school community.

Our Mission

Principal ’s Reflection

The École St. Norbert Immersion Community Report only provides a small glimpse of all the activity that has gone on inside and outside the walls of the school throughout the 2018-2019 school year. For a K-8 school, we have a considerable variety of learning, cultural and sporting activities to enrich our students’ school life and experiences. From an academic perspective, literacy, numeracy and effective communication (in French and English) have been, and will continue to be the focus of the school community’s efforts. Professional development and teaching strategies that increase students learning are of prime im-portance. Student achievement is at the heart of everything we do. Cultural and learning activities continue to support our aim of providing a quality French Immersion education to our students. Inclusion, outdoor & cultural education, the Arts and social justice are all strongly valued at ESNI. Whether in the community or in the school, our students’ actions throughout the year are reflective of these values. This spirit of collaboration extends to the partnership the school has with the St. Norbert Immersion Advisory Council. This active Parent Advisory Council always complements and supports the school initiatives. In closing, all the successes we have experienced throughout the school year are dependent on many people. The St. Norbert immersion school community is vibrant and has a positive school culture. Thank you to students, parents, family, friends, staff and community members who have contributed to the successes of 2018-2019.

School Profile Early Entry French Im-

mersion Program 264 students in K—8 15 Teachers 1 Learning Support

Teacher 1 School Administrator 0.50 School Counsellor 0.25 Social Worker 4 Educational Assistants 1 Secretary 1 Library Technician 4 Custodians

École St. Norbert Immersion

Community BBQ organized by the St. Norbert Immersion Advisory Council.

School community pancake breakfast during the Festival du Voyageur.

St. Norbert Immersion Advisory Council purchase of a modular stage for school and community use.

Redesigning of the school logo with a launch set for September 2019.

Participation in Festival Théâtre Jeunesse with the student created play L’étranger du parc

Student created production and screening of Dear Insecurity.

Grade 4/5 partnership with St. Norbert Personal Care Home.

1 student nominated for the 2019 Seine River School Division Individual Student Citizenship Award.

1 student nominated for the 2019 Seine River School Division’s Creative Young Minds Awards

2019 Québec Exchange Trip for grade 7 & 8 students.

2019 ski trip to Holiday Mountain for grade 6 to 8 students.

2019 Camp Arnes for grade 5 & 6 students.

2018 Grade 7/8 Girls Volleyball Champions.

2018 Grade 7/8 Boys Volleyball Champions.

Achievements & Highlights 2018-2019

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Activities, clubs and Initiatives

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Gardening Club Cross-country Ski

Club Métis Fun Night ESNI Talent Show Student initiated

fundraisers and drives for: Terry Fox Run, Winnipeg Humane Society, Cancer Care Mani-toba, Koats for Kids, Christmas Hampers, etc.

Community clean-ups & composting.

I Love to Read Month

Big Brothers Big Sisters Program partnership with CSNC

Orange Shirt Day Day of Pink

Day of Pink

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School priority progress

1. Helping students develop reading and writing skills that allow them to see themselves as authors.

SUCCESSES

Literacy enhancing strategies were shared and modeled at staff meetings and school-based professional development sessions.

Sustained effort to increase the amount of books in classroom libraries in order to provide students with engaging and level appropriate reading texts.

Seven teachers accessing professional development workshops focusing on Sue Jackson’s approach to literacy and classroom practices.

Continued use of multiple representations of math concepts (visuals, symbols and words) through wall charts, visual reminders, etc.

Professional development opportunity for 8 staff members on how to enhance critical thinking in students.

Reading levels and math scores tracked in order to guide the teachers’ teaching practices, strategies, and interventions.

2. Building vocabulary and communication skills in a variety of authentic situations and settings. SUCCESSES

Continued effort to create authentic situations where students are called upon to communicate spontaneously in French:

-Festival Théâtre Jeunesse -Students Exchange Trip for grade 7-8 students -Ralliement, Concours oratoire & Divisional Debates -Various school outings and field trips (Manitoba Museum, Canadian Human Rights Museum, etc.)

Increased use of the ACPI “Référenciel d’évaluation” as the school wide standard for evaluating all immersion students French language communication skills.

3. Fostering mathematical reasoning through questioning, vocabulary development and representation of concepts. SUCSESSES

Continued use of multiple representations of math concepts (visual, symbolic and word) through wall charts, visual reminders, etc.

Critical Thinking Professional development opportunity for 8 staff members on how to

enhance critical

Festival du Voyageur

ESNI Talent Show

Social Justice Leadership

Québec Student Exchange

École St. Norbert Immersion

900 Ste. Thérèse Avenue Winnipeg MB R3V 1H8 204-261-4430 (school)

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Priorities for 2019-2020

Sustained focus on the priorities from 2018-2019 into the 20189-2020 school year. *See above diagram

Continued enrichment of the classroom libraries and reading corner in every classroom.

Extension of the professional development workshops focusing on Sue Jackson and Regie Routman’s approach to literacy and classroom practices.

Increased awareness of the reading and writing connection through daily writing tasks.

Greater focus on students’ communication in French in spontaneous, authentic and meaningful situations.

Emphasis on French language vocabulary building and linguistic precision.

Integration of the ACPI Référenciel d’évaluation, as well as the imple-mentation of elements of the Approche intégrée to inform classroom practices.

Grade 7/8 Volley-ball Extracurricular Sports

Grade 5/6 Camp Arnes

20 years of partnership with the Terry Fox

Foundation!

Student Engagement

in the learning process