This year, our school community came together to create something very important: our School Charter. The Charter is a special agreement that gives everyone—students, teachers, and staff—the chance to share how they want to feel at school and to decide together how we can all help make that happen.
To create our Charter, each class chose one delegate to represent them. These delegates met and worked through two big questions:
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How would we like to feel in school?
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How will we help each other and ourselves to experience these feelings?
Using the ideas from the charters that individual classes had already created, the delegates built a list of words that described the way we want to feel at school. After careful discussion, we voted to narrow down the list from ten words to just three powerful ones.
Our three chosen words are: Safe, Included, and Focused.
These words will now guide us as a school community. You’ll notice them displayed in classrooms and common areas as a reminder of how we want to behave and what we expect of one another. When we work together to make sure everyone feels safe, included, and focused, our school becomes the best place it can be for learning and growing.
