For the 2025-2026 school year our school’s learning focus is:

Our focus is to highlight and strengthen literacy skills in our school.

The data that supports the need for this school learning focus is:

In the third term last school year and at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, we began scanning our school assessment data and developed a hunch.  

When we compared our results in Literacy and Numeracy, we noticed that our Numeracy results were higher. 

We recognize that while 66% of our students are currently receiving ELL support, 91% of our families speak a language other than, or in addition to, English in the home. 

Not all our students reach the Consolidating level in their language learning, and academic language learning takes at least an average of five to seven years. 

Perhaps focusing on and highlighting successful literacy strategies school-wide will support vocabulary development and comprehension skills in our learners. 

Actions that the school will take to achieve the goals of our school learning focus include:

We are taking the following actions to achieve the goals of our school learning focus:

• Sharing successful literacy strategies within and across grade groups

• Making literacy instruction more visible in the school and to our learners

• Continuing to identify and support learners through our Resource Team when necessary

• Connecting literacy learning to the Pillars of Literacy

• Using time during Professional Development Days to focus on literacy

• Highlighting literacy learning for our parents/guardians 

The intention of these actions is to make the following difference(s) for learners:

By focusing on literacy, our intention is to support the vocabulary and comprehension development of all learners across all areas of learning.  We aim to increase their vocabulary, making it easier to access the ideas in different kinds of text.

We will know our actions are making a difference when we have data that demonstrates the following:

• After each term, are we seeing an improvement in the number of students who are emerging/developing in their literacy skills?

• How do students feel about their learning progress in literacy?  Are they able to articulate any of the strategies they have learned?