Pender Islands School

Kindergarten through Grade Twelve

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Caring and Supportive Learning Environment

Pender Islands School offers students in Kindergarten through Grade 12 diverse learning opportunities in rich learning environments. Located on rural North Pender Island, our school is proud to offer caring and supportive learning environments to 143 students. Innovative programming, focused on the individual learner's needs and complemented by excellent Student Support Services and Counselling programs, helps promote students' self-esteem and success.

Our current school improvement goals focus on improving student learning outcomes in math; sustaining and further developing our positive school culture, and increasing students' and staff's levels of media literacy.

Our multi-age/multi-grade classrooms allow students to learn at their own grade levels, to review concepts and skills at lower levels and to be introduced to those at higher grade levels. As well, they promote healthy relationships between older and younger students, which we value and encourage. In this vein, we continue pursue 'restorative approaches', in which the emphasis is placed upon 'putting things right' between and amongst all affected parties, rather than by simply identifying and punishing 'wrong-doers'. Our students learn what it means to be personally and socially responsible, and demonstrate this through their peer interactions, the service work they do around the school ('Buddy" programs, running our milk, healthy snack and recycling programs), and charity work.

Our home-based students –Spring Leaves– pursue individualized programs developed cooperatively by their parents and teacher, who assists students with their learning through tutoring, helps families access school-based and other programs and resources, and works collaboratively with parents to assess student progress.

Our Student Learning Centre (SLC), is dedicated to providing secondary students with effective and engaging individualized programs, involving different combinations of direct instruction and distance learning. Computer-based technologies figure prominently. Here, students explore video production and digital editing using state-of-the-art computers. Our SLC offers evening tutorial sessions to Pender's high school students, on Tuesday evenings.

Pender Island School Code of Conduct

Our mission is to encourage learners to develop a love of learning and their full potentials as confident, compassionate and responsible members of society.

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