Lower School Learning Services
Student Support at CDNIS
From the category archives:
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 [...]
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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 to trust their feelings and [...]
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Attitude is everywhere at CDNIS – just ask the Attitude Sleuths who are on the hunt for Attitudes in Action. For the last month Rob has joined with the Prep, G. 1 and G. 2 teams to reinforce the concept so clearly stated by Max Threkeld in Class 1A when he said “If we choose [...]
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In anticipation of Bill Helin’s visit (the artist in residence who will be carving two totems next month) grade 5 learned about the Native Canadian Tsimshian tradition of the life crests. Many years ago the Chiefs and Elders of the tribe made a decision to give each hunter an animal identity. Through reflection the hunter [...]
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This month the guidance team (aka Rob and Lolita) have been highlight the ATTITUDES in the class lessons. Through storytelling, drama and song the focus has been to help students understand how to demonstrate these attitudes in their daily lives as well as encouraging them to notice when their friends & classmates are showing the [...]
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Two programmes are up and running in the upper grades of the Lower School:
Friendship Club
The popular Friendship club is back. This is a peer-mentoring programme that matches students in G 3-4 with middle school students in G 7 -8. Running for 10 weeks this program will focus on building friendship skills, enhancing self esteem, and [...]
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It has been a busy few weeks in the Lower School but here’s a glimpse of what we’ve been up to in the Counselling Offices;
Prep – Grade 2:
Through in class lessons we have had a focus on academic skills looking at topics such as
paying attention in class using the ‘helpful high five’
listening with your [...]
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