Barrowtown Elementary School Plan for Student Success 2012-13 “Supporting students in reaching their goals!” 1 Barrowtown Elementary School School District #34 School Plan for Student Success 2012-2013 School Planning Council Members Principal (acting): Donna Wright Teacher(s): All Barrowtown Teachers Parents: Wendy Verdonk, Gina Janzen, Kelly Sansalone As of: May 10, 2012
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Barrowtown Elementary School Plan
for Student Success 2012-13
“Supporting students in reaching their goals!”
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Barrowtown Elementary School
School District #34
School Plan for Student Success
2012-2013
School Planning Council Members
Principal (acting): Donna Wright
Teacher(s): All Barrowtown Teachers
Parents: Wendy Verdonk, Gina Janzen, Kelly Sansalone
EDI (% vulnerable in 1 or more domains) 50 23.08 66.67 33.33 -
Percent using the School Meals Program - - - - -
Percent Transiency* 7 15 8.42 6 9.75
Percent Special Education 5.6 3.8 4.6 4.4 5
Percent ESL 11 9 7 7 10
Percent Aboriginal 3.23 7.77 9.2 13.9 13
Other Demographic factors:
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1. Mission Statement:
At Barrowtown Elementary School we believe: We are a school family that C.A.R.E.S for students in order to prepare them with the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes necessary to reach their goals. C: Cooperates A: Achieves R: Respects E: Encourages S: Supports
2. School Context:
Barrowtown Elementary has been caring for students since 1952. We are a small, rural
school located east of Abbotsford, amidst a thriving agricultural community. We have a student
population of approximately 80 students, with a variety of ethnic backgrounds. We have
approximately 10% of the population who are First Nations students. We have a smaller
population of “identified” English as a second language (ESL) students, who make up
approximately 10% of our population. The majority of our ESL students are made up of Indo-
Canadian students who have grown up speaking Punjabi at home. Barrowtown has a rich
history of parent involvement. Last year over 30 parents, representing three quarters of our
school families, have volunteered in our school. Parents are able to serve in some of the
following ways: Parents Advisory Committee (PAC); School Planning Committee (SPC); District
Parents Advisory Committee (DPAC); classroom volunteers; and different parent committees
(such as Hot lunch, Reading with students, coaching sports, special events or library). Strong
parent involvement is a key to the success of our school.
* Data will be input at the end of the school year or as received
3. Leadership/Teamwork:
The Barrowtown Elementary Learning community is systematically developing a plan for
improving student achievement through the following roles and responsibilities: School Planning Council:
Will review data on students’ achievement and provide feedback in order to support the school plan.
Will set a budget to align staffing and resources needed to support the school plan.
Will facilitate a staff development plan to support achievement of the school plan.
Will collaborate with the school community to provide home-school connections in regards to the school plan.
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Administrator:
Will provide professional development opportunities for staff (Bi-weekly PLC meetings, Pro D embedded into monthly staff meetings)
Will report to Assistant Superintendent regularly on the progress of assessment after dialoging with staff.
Will attend and promote relevant Pro-D activities to support the school goal.
Will provide time on each staff meeting agenda to review school data relevant to student engagement and achievement.
Will meet with staff once a month and provide data to monitor student progress based on the data pyramid:
Will guide staff through a data treasure hunt to help focus on improving student
achievement by collecting and analyzing data using this six step process:
Teachers:
Will have time to collaborate on ideas and plan for instructional activities;
Will use staff meetings and professional development opportunities designed to grow as a team; (continued)
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Will identify and implement High Yield Instructional Strategies learned through a book study on “The Art and Science of Teaching” by Robert Marzano to improve student achievement.
Will have time provided to be involved in a PLC.
Will have an identified Teacher Leader facilitate the Grade Group PLCs
Parents:
Will be encouraged to participate in classroom and school activities (ie: Literacy Days) which support the school goal.
Will be encouraged to engage in the PAC meetings, parent nights, school academic activities as well as athletics.
Students:
Will participate in buddy writing programs between primary and intermediate grades in the school.
Will be encouraged to participate with writing in the Home Reading program, with rewards from a school store and recognition in assemblies.
Will strive to meet learning targets in classroom through “assessment as learning”, using student friendly rubrics.
Will be recognized at “Celebrations of Learning” each term throughout the School Year.
4. Communication:
Barrowtown Elementary will communicate and make public our improvement goals and the progress made through the following strategies:
Newsletters Each school newsletter will contain a section that provides parents with an
update on the writing strategies being taught at school and ideas for home support.
Barrowtown Elementary Website There will be a page on our website with the PDF format of our plan. There
will also be downloadable documents that give parents helpful hints to support their child with home writing.
Mail outs to parents and staff Invitations to literacy events will be sent to all of our parent community Translations will be provided for families, which require this support.
Staff meetings At each staff meeting a month PLC groups will report out on their progress
in implementing their action research The second staff meeting of each month is dedicated to Professional
Development to reach our goals. (Marzano book study / What’s next for the Beginning Writer / Writing Anchors / Writing Power/ new resources)
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Level Group meetings Level groups (Primary/Intermediate) will decide their focus for supporting
the students in literacy from the data and High Yield instructional strategies, which they will implement for student improvement.
School Planning Council meetings Each term the S.P.C. members will meet to review the plan. They will be
invited to staff functions to participate in discussions that relate to student achievement levels in reading.
PAC meetings • Due to daytime PAC meetings the Principal will present on school data,
writing strategies, and assessment practices. Parent/Teacher meetings and evenings
Teachers and parents will discuss the ‘strength’ in the home-school connection (i.e.: Home Writing participation in relation to new Home Reading program being introduced in the Fall).
Student agendas Monthly Home reading logs placed in all planners - alignment of
accountability for writing at every grade level Open Houses (i.e. Meet the teacher Night in Sept., Literacy days in Oct & Jan. and final
assembly in June) Each term we will provide an open house to parents, students and staff. We
will work together through activities that support the strategies we are teaching in the classroom
Barrowtown Elementary will enhance writing strategy communication with Aboriginal families by providing culturally appropriate opportunities.
Barrowtown Elementary will make every effort to communicate the goals and objectives of this plan to families who do not speak English as their first language by providing interpreters for meetings and translating goal objectives.
Our school provides information to the District Communication manager for articles in the community newspaper to profile our school and highlight our students’ achievement in writing.
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5. Goal #1:
Student achievement goal: To increase writing achievement of all students in Grades 1 - 7.
6. Rationale:
• Writing data during the 2010-11 school year demonstrated a steady growth in writing at all grade levels. Action research in classrooms demonstrated that Primary students improved from 43% fully meeting to Exceeding Expectations in October 2010 to 65% by February 2011, during the action research. Intermediate students improved from 45% fully meeting to exceeding expectation in October 2010, to 67% fully meeting to exceeding in February 2011. With this steady progress we have targeted our students to meet an 80% target by June 2012. • Our PM Benchmark assessment shows that we reached are target and 100% of our Grade 3 students, are reading at grade level. However, in Grades 4 and 7 test scores indicate that reading levels decrease as comprehension difficulty increases. • Assessment, areas needing support include: style; meaning; and conventions, during the 2010-11 school year. Progress will be tracked next year as we implement more resources and strategies to improve student achievement. • Grade 6 District writes in 2010-11 showed that 55% of our students were meeting or exceeding expectations in writing, although this is an improvement from last year it confirmed that we should continue with this growth plan. • Our FSA scores for Grade 7’s in February 2012 showed that 80% of our Grade 7 students were meeting or exceeding grade level expectations in reading. FSA analysis showed that inference was a strand needing further support. Our FSA scores for Grade 7’s in February 2012 showed that 93.3% of our Grade 7 students were meeting or exceeding grade level expectations in writing. • Results indicate that that writing levels could improve to 80% if we were to focus on improving writing for all students. Test notes indicate, that in final term, “convention” levels prevent students from achieving higher-level writing scores, so teachers are focusing on this strand.
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Objective 1:
By the end of Grade 3, a Barrowtown student will be fully meeting the following prescribed learning outcomes: • write for a purpose and audience • access reference materials • use criteria to improve writing (co create criteria and rubrics) • use conventional spelling, sentence variation and new vocabulary (3,2,1 Edit)
Objective 2:
By the end of Grade 7, a Barrowtown Elementary student will be fully meeting the following prescribed learning outcomes: • write a variety of well-developed texts • write to compare, analyze, generalize, and speculate. • develop and apply criteria to improve writing • enhance meaning and artistry in writing, using features and conventions of language.
7.1 Performance Indicators for Objective 1:
District Data District writing scores for Grade 3
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School Data: School Writing Scores for Grades 1 (2010 - 2011)
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School writing scores for Grades 2/3 (2010-2011)
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7.2 Performance Indicators for Objective 2
Provincial Data
F.S.A. Writing results for Grade 4
F.S.A. Writing results for Grade 7
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District Data District Writing results for Grade 6
School Data
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8.1 Actions for Objective 1:
Professional Development will be focused on effective writing strategies using the Writes
Traits Kits, High Yield Instructional strategies (HYIS) and common assessments (BC