The focus for in class guidance lessons this month is on safety. Every year I take time to remind students in grades 3-6 how to keep safe; at home, at school, in the community and while on vacation. As parents you are raising your child in a caring and protected environment, mindfully aware of how dangerous [...]
Guidance Programme
This year’s session of understanding sisterhood had an enthusiastic start. Over 40 girls from grades 6 & 7 joined together last Friday to share their own experiences, explore commonalities and generally give thoughtful consideration to what it means to be a female. A special thank you to the female teachers in both grades who added [...]
I am passionate about introducing students to opportunities to serve or volunteer. A wonderful aspect of our school is that the students of CDNIS have a number of opportunities through their classrooms and the LSSC to contribute to charities. In an effort to bring this experience to a more personal level I am offering an [...]
This month in grade 4 I have targeted the guidance lesson to focus on the related concepts of their Unit of Inquiry. Under the topic of bullying and bullying behaviors we have explored; cause and effects of bullying behavour on our feelings patterns in bullying behavior and how to recognize when we are showing those [...]
Hi Welcome to a new school year. My name is Michele Moskowitz, otherwise known as Miss M (for short). I am the lower school counselor for Pre-reception – Grade 2. Most recently I worked in Israel at the Walworth Barbour International School as both a teacher and a school counsellor. I look forward to working [...]
The LS 3-6 Guidance office will again offer a series of small group sessions targeting specific behaviors / skill acquisition / or wellness issues. Two groups returning this month; Families in Transition Social Thinking Skills Families in Transition is a support group for children whose families are going through a separation of divorce. For more [...]
Welcome back! This marks year 3 for me in the role of Guidance Counsellor at CDNIS and I am excited to continue offering a comprehensive program for your child. As in previous years a number of small group counseling sessions will be on offer. I will also continue to offer in class instructional ‘proactive’ [...]
The Understanding Sisterhood 4-workshop series for girls in grades 6 & 7 held it’s last session on May 25th with a celebration. This was a pilot initiative started in collaboration between the US and the LS. Dr.Wendy Mcleod, Simone Courso, Jennifer Patriquin and myself (Lolita Schmalenberg) felt the girls at this pre-teen and teen stage [...]
This year one focus of the guidance program has been on empowering girls to have a more and positive self image while improving their relational skills. The program is offered to girls in grade 6 & 7, and focuses on providing a safe, educational and fun environment for girls to explore and share their feelings [...]
Part of our mandate as Guidance Councilors is to teach personal safety to students. This month the focus has been with G4 covering issues of ; safe people trusting your feelings / saying NO how to get away appropriate touch (private body parts) A difficult topic but necessary. The emphasis has been on empowering children [...]
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