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Holiday Social December 10 6-7pm Featured Photo

Holiday Social December 10 6-7pm

Join us on December 10th from 6:00-7:00 pm where we will host families for holiday swag making, hot chocolate, snacks, and a school wide sing-a-long in the gym. We encourage families and siblings to join us in celebrating the upcoming winter holiday season. Feel free to bring pieces from nature, bows, ribbons, and anything else you'd like to contribute to your holiday swag!
Community Christmas Care Featured Photo

Community Christmas Care

Community Christmas Care - We will
be collecting money, gift cards and
NEW toys for Community Christmas
Care
When: Monday, November 25th to
Wednesday, December 4th
Challenge: Every student brings $2 to
support this event!
Keep Those Independent Grocer Receipts! Featured Photo

Keep Those Independent Grocer Receipts!

Did you know we can turn Independent Grocer receipts into gift cards for the school to use to fill our student grab and go fridge with lunch and snack items? Keep your receipts and hand them into the office. One of our lovely parent volunteers add them all up!
Kung Jaadee Storytelling Featured Photo

Kung Jaadee Storytelling

The whole school really enjoyed listening to Kung Jaadee, a professional Indigenous storyteller on Wednesday November 27th. Kung Jaadee is a published author who has been sharing stories for 30-plus years across Canada. She belongs to the X̱aayda (Haida), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Tlingit, Tsleil-Waututh Nations, and is also part Hawaiian. She was born and raised on Haida Gwaii and is from the Yaguu’laanaas Raven Clan.
2024 INDIGENOUS WINTER ARTISAN MARKET Featured Photo

2024 INDIGENOUS WINTER ARTISAN MARKET

The Squamish Nation Education is hosting a fundraiser for the 2025 Squamish Nation Grads to help support the cost of Graduation. Please consider supporting them at their Winter Artisan Market:
2024 INDIGENOUS WINTER ARTISAN MARKET
Sponsored by Squamish Nation Education

December 14th & 15th
10 AM - 4 PM
Totem Hall: 1380 Stawamus Rd. Squamish BC.
Fundraiser for the 2025 Squamish Nation Grads
Admission by donation

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Principal's message

Mamquam Elementary School has a clear mission and some strong core values.  As a staff we see ourselves as a family.  We focus on the success of all students, and hold ourselves accountable for high excellence across the curriculum—in academics, athletics, fine arts and career programs.  We put our students first, and you can feel this when you walk into our building.  We are keenly aware that students learn best in a safe, secure and respectful environment supported by strong connections between school and community.
 
Perseverance, Purpose and Authenticity
 
We believe that we can only cultivate perseverance and determinations by building an environment/school culture where all students feel safe, respected, encouraged to take risks and try new things, and are intrinsically invested in their learning.   Further, we believe that students are intrinsically invested in authentic learning environments, where they see the purpose and reasoning for each learning intention, and are willing to enter into a framework for success.    It is our belief that working in this area will enable more students to move from meeting expectations to exceeding expectations in reading, writing and numeracy and all areas of their competency development.
 
Our Enduring Understandings as a staff:
 
* If we focus on common coherent curriculum and effective instructional strategies, then students will become creative and critical thinkers.

* If we work together to create common coherent curriculum that identifies and describes what developmentally appropriate creative and critical thinking learning outcomes are, then we will have a tool to help guide the planning of instruction and assessment of CCT outcomes

* If we continually develop the instructional expertise of our teachers, then teaching will be strengthened and all students will learn in deeper and more meaningful ways

* If we live a structure of reflective practice, then our instruction will improve over time
* If we live a structure of co-plan, observe, share feedback, reflect, co-plan and repeat then our instruction will improve over time
 
*If we embed Social Emotional Learning instructional strategies, students will become better critical and creative thinkers through social situations. Growth Mindset, Positive Behaviour Support, Self Reg Strategies, Zones of Regulation, Mindfulness...  
 
*If we develop a school wide authentic literacy and numeracy plan, students will improve reading, writing and oral language skills that provide an essential foundation to Creative and Critical Thinking skills

*If we use arts infusion as a strategy, students will be able to develop their creative and critical thinking skills through the arts. 
 
*If we measure creative and critical thinking outcomes, this will bring attention to those outcomes and help us understand how we are doing and what is next