2015-2016Cartwright Central Public School

Needs Assessment

Sources:

•2014 Grade 3, 6 EQAO

•2015 Report Card Data

Areas of Need

•Numeracy: Number Sense and Numeration (school-wide)

• Language: Writing (specifically, our male writers), high level thinking tasks

Higher Order

ThinkingSkills

School Plan

• Renew and embed a continued focus on a culture of “High Expectations and Achievement”

• Continue to focus on aligning teaching practices and assessment practices within and between divisions; For example, with learning targets and success criteria

School Plan

• Continue to explore high level, 21st century teaching using technology, critical thinking, creativity and innovative practice (including new laptop carts for grade 5,8)

• Share our learning journey with the community and showcase examples of high level thinking in student work throughout the school

Learning Targets and Success Criteria

How?

• A small number of goals done well; focusing on what our gaps are and addressing them

• Increased collaborative teacher inquiry as teacher teams deconstruct curriculum, co-plan, co-implement and co-reflect on student work

• A comprehensive system of interventions based on student need; school wide diagnostics and analysis of all of our students to move them forward

Interventions

•Kindergarten: “Observation Survey”: letter sounds, concepts of print, word and vocabulary

•K-6 Levelled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

•K-8 Benchmark Assessment System/Running Records (BAS)

Interventions

• K-8 “PRIME” diagnostic math tool /”Leaps and Bounds” math intervention

• Ongoing teacher team developed diagnostic assessment; descriptive feedback based on appropriate Learning Targets and Success Criteria (Assessment Loop)

• Small group, guided instruction based on results of diagnostic testing and differentiated needs of students

Projects

• EPCI—Early Learning Collaborative Inquiry, “iClipss”: Math Inquiry TBA

• School Wide Collaborative Inquiry (BCI)

• Character Education Focus; Common Planning time and conference time for teachers

• “Faces To Data” tracking all of our students’ success

• Case Conferences: Meeting 3 times a year to look at our data, plan next steps and plan interventions to assist students in meeting their goals

• Involvement in a Scugog schools inquiry that includes school learning teams in partner schools TBA

• Mapping our school journey; consistent revisiting and revising of our journey this year with adjustments for student need

Some Additions! Air Exchange

Units added to the Junior Wing

Kindergarten Play House!

Soccer Field!

BaSEBALL Field!

Basketball Nets!