At Montroyal we engage in a continuous process of planning and implementation. For example, our staff regularly collaborate on professional development activities to support successful learning and teaching in the classroom. Professional Development activities are guided by our goals in inclusion, academics and social/emotional learning. Teachers make use of classroom assessments and ongoing monitoring of learning and engagement to develop and refine upcoming lessons.
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
Strategy: To provide students opportunities for demonstrating leadership in the school environment. Through activities such as the buddy classes, Intramurals and/or Peer Leadership, students take on increasing amounts of responsibility. Our own actions can have a positive impact in our local community, through good decision making, leadership and stewardship of the environment.
Strategy: To support the development of executive functioning skills. Students are guided on the steps necessary to complete assignments within set timeframes and how to organize and approach projects and large assignments both solo and in group settings.
Everyone Belongs
Strategy: To promote the School Motto “Everyone Belongs” by creating a shared understanding of our overriding goal. This is coupled with differentiated learning activities for the all learners, age appropriate SOGI curriculum, and weaving in Indigenous content and awareness across the K-7 spectrum.
Strategy: To include the teaching of Social Emotional learning programs or lessons in all classrooms to actively teach skills and strategies that promote positive social, emotional and academic success in students (i.e. Second Step, Growth Mindset or Open Parachute).
Strategy: To support learners with a diversity of needs, we target professional development activities for our staff with resources to better help us understand what adaptations and teaching techniques are needed to give students the best chance of success.
Academic Excellence
Strategy: To teach critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving skills to support student developing the understanding that learning requires time, effort, and opportunities to make mistakes. We want to support all learners and to continue to focus on creating strong, capable and confident lifelong learners.
Strategy: Guided Reading Program for all students in grades one to three. This small group setting targets specific literacy skills and creates powerful growth amongst all readers for decoding, comprehension, and fluency.
Strategy: Honour and Promote Fine Arts. All students in the school participate in major musical theatre productions. Students develop confidence, leadership and focus, and showcase learning in front of our community (students, families and staff).