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New strategies and materials
An action that we have taken to support our school’s learning focus is: The school focused on making math engaging. We bought new manipulatives and games to work on computational skills. The teachers also ordered and used some new teacher resources. See image 1 This action supports our school’s learning focus in the following ways:…
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We Have Experts All Around Us
Teachers are an amazing resource. For the January 26 Professional Development Day, intermediate teachers from Bridge, Lee and some math teachers from McRoberts got together to share and learn from each other. They discussed ‘How do we set students up for success in numeracy?’ They looked deeper into the continuum of computational fluency from Grades…
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Professional Development
Professional Development Based upon teacher feedback about: wanting to learn about differentiation/Universal Design for Learning in mathematics incorporating the Collaboration core competency in mathematics teacher observations around student stretches in mathematics: lack of vocabulary difficulty expressing themselves reading and understanding the language in word problems September 22nd the Bridge, Mitchell and Kidd staffs got together…
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Numeracy Focus for 2025-2026
Based on staff input as well as our school’s FSA results, we have decided to focus on Numeracy as a school-wide goal for the 2025-26 school year, while continuing to work on Building Bridges of Kindness. Many students have a positive attitude towards math when asked but some still struggle with basic calculations or applying…
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Student Voice at Bridge
After a successful year last year, we continue to have an active Student Voice Committee at Bridge that has been meeting at lunch time with several staff members to organize creative school spirit events. So far this year we have had a fun Multiples Day which included an opportunity for photos together, and we are…
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Staff Book Clubs
As lifelong learners, staff at Bridge have initiated two book clubs this year to continue their journeys of truth and reconciliation as well as to support all of our learners including students with disabilities. Our Teacher-Librarian will be leading a monthly discussion based on the new book by Carolyn Roberts, Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice…