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Domain One
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Quality Catholic Education
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Goal
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Provide opportunities for our students, staff, parents and trustees to encounter Jesus Christ in an explicitly Catholic environment through-out the division.
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Key Elements - Outcomes
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- The Catholic faith provides a framework for learning and life.
- The Catholic faith is permeated into our curriculum so that contemporary culture is critically evaluated in the light of “The Truth.”
- Our staff witness to others a life lived in relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Our students, staff, and parents are honoured as distinct and unique while being brought together in a spirit of communion.
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Primary Strategies
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- Implement a four-year faith plan - “Called By God”.
- Review and integrate curriculum resources to support faith permeation across all grade levels and subject areas that align with REN, CCSSA, and Catholic bishop recommendations.
- Religion Lead Teacher supports religious curriculum integration through coordinating faith and social justice activities for students and staff across the Division.
- Staff collaborate with the Faith Coordinator to assess for professional, personal and environmental needs to school and teachers.
- Collaborate with the Church to increase school involvement in Sacramental preparation, in turn increasing student participation.
- Bi-weekly Catholic Faith Meetings for all staff that address Catholic Faith topics to build their confidence in participating and leading Faith events.
- Weekly Lectio Divina (prayer journals) to help staff understand and prepare for Monday Morning liturgies with students with Bible challenges.
- Liturgical season development with staff and students.
- Development of school prayer.
- Connections taught in Religion class between Fruits of the Spirit and CKCS Code (school rules).
- Building religion resources within the school so they are accessible to staff and students (i.e. prayer buckets, class sets of rosaries).
- "Faith Moment" in monthly school newsletter to explain current liturgical season/tradition to parents including fact sheets, videos etc.
- Develop comfortability with spontaneous prayer with staff to model for students.
- Begin a youth group in collaboration with the local Parish (post-COVID).
- Staff developed a school 3 year Faith plan, based on 5 Marks of a Catholic School.
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Ongoing Strategies
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- Invitations to parents/community to attend (in-person/virtually) Celebrations.
- Weekly Monday Morning Liturgy with Bible Challenge for students.
- Bible sponsorships for each student through the Parish.
- Monthly school update in Parish bulletin to strengthen school/parish ties.
- Monthly Mass.
- Maintain visible "Faith" items throughout the school.
- Faith Friends - linking older students with younger students in Faith activities (post-COVID).
- School choir led by Music Lead teacher (post-COVID).
- Annual Advent play production.
- Faith Builders (extra-curricular club) plan and implement Faith activities.
- Religion Lead teacher with lead time to plan and implement Faith activities.
- School sponsorship through Chalice (with fundraising)
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Performance Measures
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Domain One Local Performance Measures:
- Sacramental preparation enrolment (currently 24% from CKCS).Staff informal feedback & Catholic Faith Meeting survey (60% not comfortable).
- Teacher Q4 How satisfied are you with the Catholic Christian atmosphere of the school 100% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 100%
- Support Staff Q4 How satisfied are you with the Catholic Christian atmosphere of the school 100% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 100%
- Student Gr 4-6 Q5 I am involved in religious celebrations at my school 85% - Goal 90%
- Student Gr 7-9 Q7 How satisfied are you with your opportunity to be involved in the religious celebrations in your school 91% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 95%
- Parent Q4 How satisfied are you that the school is helping your child develop their faith 100% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 100%
Domain One Provincial Performance Measures:
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Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning Environments - 87.8% Province, 92.1% CK - Goal 95%
- Citizenship -83.2% Province, 86.4% - Goal 88%
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