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St. John is a Roman Catholic School that provides education for children from Junior Kindergarten to Grade Eight.

We are a Catholic School community dedicated to providing a faith centred school environment that will encourage students to reach their full potential academically and socially and who understand the gospel message of social justice and peace.

Children need a safe, secure environment in which to learn and develop. We strive for a very positive school culture in which students with differing strengths and needs feel comfortable. In our school, on a daily basis, the message of the Gospel is lived out by our Christian values. We do this:

• By building our school life on Gospel values and Catholic doctrines.

• Through example and the religion, family life and peace education programs.

• Through a strong sacramental program and meaningful liturgical celebrations.

• By providing opportunities for students to demonstrate leadership skills.

• By providing opportunities for students in higher grades to work with younger students and their teachers, (shared reading programs, for example).

• By providing peer mediation, mediation forum and “bully-proofing” programs.

• By backing our code of conduct with clearly defined consequences.

• By encouraging students to develop strategies for problem-solving, taking responsibility for their own behaviour and by using confident students as role models in pro social skills groups.

• Through media literacy and the involvement of public health, police and community service educators to develop in students the awareness of:

• The impact and influence exerted on them by others

• Responses based on Christian values and informed decision making

• By encouraging a response to the needs of others by making fund-raising, food drives and community service part of our school year

• By involving parents who, led by the parent teacher community: strongly support our efforts, provide initiatives and share a leadership role in the partnership of educating their children.

Our students bring individual abilities, needs, attitudes, interests and learning styles to the learning process. We provide for these by:

• Identifying individual student needs through classroom assessment.

• Modifying existing programs to suit individual needs.

• Bringing concerns for students' needs to our school-based support team.

• Providing individualized programs to respond to student needs.

• Identifying students as exceptional through the identification placement and review committee process and establishing special education programs and services for such students.

• Formalizing a school plan for the incorporation of technological learning into our school curriculum to give opportunity to students to apply math and science principles to everyday activities.

• Expanding our technology-based learning programs and building up our technology resources.

• Continuing to extend our school computer literacy plan to take advantage of our existing computers and peripherals, expanded this year with computers acquired through parents in the community.

A significant number of enrichment and extra-curricular activities are offered both inside and outside school. These programs include:

• A variety of school excursions and overnight trips.

• Vocal and instrumental music concerts and festivals.

• Musical and dramatic performances, both in school and in the community.

• Academic tournaments and festivals which include chess and the spoken arts.

• A very successful program of athletic events and tournaments which include soccer, volleyball, hockey, basketball, cross-country, track and field and softball.