WELCOME TO
VAL CARON
PUBLIC SCHOOL |
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1555 Main Street East,
Val Caron, Ontario
897-6713 |
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 The outside entrance to Val Caron Public School offers
visitors a taste of the serenity that awaits inside the hallways of this
JK to Grade One French Immersion School of 170 students.
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 The school emblem is proudly displayed on the wall of the
main hallway.
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Welcome To
Val Caron
Public School
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Grade One
Reading
Challenge
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Photo Board
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Certificates of
Appreciation
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Community
Awareness
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MISSION STATEMENT |
At
Val Caron Public School, our mission is to provide a safe school
environment that enables all students to achieve their academic
potential in French and in English, take responsibility for
learning, develop a positive self-esteem, be a person of
character and prepare for meaningful participation in an
ever-changing technological and collaborative society.
At
Val
Caron
Public School
, we provide a positive early learning experience and a safe primary
school environment. Children are engaged in a variety of educational
activities that help them achieve their academic potential in both
English and French. Students are taught to take responsibility for
developing their intellectual skills in an integrated educational
program that prepares them for successful life-long learning. |
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Administration
Principal - Paul Dupont
Vice-Principal - Christine Séguin-Dupuis
Secretary - Darlene Fogal |
Features
of the school
Val
Caron
Public School
is located in the community of
Valley East
in the City of
Greater Sudbury
. We are a French Immersion school offering
JK
,
SK
and Grade 1 to a population of 151 students.
Our students continue their
education at
Valley
View
Public School
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We attract French Immersion
students from
Valley East
and Capreol. Students are bused in from as far away as
Radar Road
to the east,
McCrea
Heights
to the south, Capreol to the north and
Blezard
Valley
to the west.
Val Caron Public School has
computers in each classroom, a library, a Special Education program,
a reading intervention program, a spacious school yard and a Before
and After School program.
We have two JK, three SK
and 3 Grade 1 classes as well as a gymnasium.
Currently, we do not have
any split grades.
Our activities are geared
to our young learners and include the Thanksgiving Feast, the
Christmas Carousel, skating, swimming, the Winter Carnival, and the
Summer Play Day. Students also enjoy excellent learning experiences
on field trips to Science North, the Sudbury Theatre Centre and
musical performances. We also have various productions at the
school.
The students make connections with the community. Each year, they
visit Topper's Pizza, Dollarama and Dairy Queen.
Parents play a very active role at our school as many of them help
in our classrooms, with our fundraising activities and on field
trips.Our students are socially inclusive. They have raised funds
for various charitable organizations, including the Terry
Fox Foundation and the Easter Seals Society.
Every year, teachers accept
co-op students from
Confederation
Secondary School
. This year, we have one university student working as a French as a
Second Language monitor and we also have a university student that
was hired as a Tutor in the Classroom. This tutor works with
students one on one to improve reading skills. |
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Character
Education |
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Building character from a very young age is evidenced by
the large, colourful wall display outlining the ten positive
characteristics that are being developed in the students. |
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We have
an ongoing character education program that promotes a variety
of positive character traits. We are moving into year three of
our World Class School Initiative.
This
year, we will be helping students to develop character traits
through our character education initiative called the Giraffe
Heroes / Les héros girafes. Linking character education with
active service and citizenship in the community will give
students the chance to put their values into action on some
real issues they care about. The students will get involved in
service projects and learn how values work in the world. They
will have the opportunity to learn and practice important life
skills
such as teamwork, communication and other social skills, and
to experience success in a real world task. |
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Anti-Bullying
Policy |
Everyone at
Val
Caron
Public School
is committed to making our school a safe and supportive
learning environment for all students.
We will treat each other with respect, and we will refuse to
tolerate bullying in any form at our school. Bullying is
unfair and one-sided. It happens when someone intentionally
hurts, frightens, threatens or leaves someone out. It is a
form of repeated
aggression used from a position of power. It can be physical,
verbal or social.
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Staff
at our school will do the following things to prevent bullying
and help children feel safe at school:
Closely supervise students in all areas of the school and
school grounds
Watch for signs of bullying and stop it when it happens
Respond quickly and sensitively to bullying reports
Take seriously parents' concerns about bullying
Look into all reported bullying incidents
Provide a safe environment for students who report bullying
Students at our school prevent bullying by:
Treating each other respectfully
Refusing to bully others
Refusing to let others be bullied
Refusing to watch, laugh or join in when someone is being
bullied
Trying to include everyone in play, especially those who are
often left out
Reporting bullying to an adult |
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World
Class School Initiative
Giraffe Heroes / Les héros girafes |
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moving into year three of our World Class School Initiative.
This year, we will be helping students to develop character
traits through our character education initiative called the
Giraffe Heroes / Les héros girafes.
Linking character
education with active service and citizenship in the community
will give students the chance to put their values into action
on some real issues they care about.
The students will get
involved in service projects and learn how values work in the
world. They will have the opportunity to learn and practice
important life skills such as teamwork, communication and
other social skills, and to experience success in a real-world
task.
Stage 1: Hear the
Story
Students take in the stories of Giraffe Heroes, people who
have stuck their necks out for the common good.
Stage 2: Tell the Story
They take what they've learned and look for more heroes, in
storybooks, in media, in their communities, and in their
families.
Stage 3: Become the Story
Moved by the stories they've absorbed, the kids emulate
Giraffe Heroes, choosing a problem they care about and
creating their own service project to address that problem.
The story of their project then becomes one that can inspire
others. |
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 As
part of their first service project, the students collected
240 pairs of socks that were donated to the Outreach Program
in
Sudbury
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Congratulations!
Students
had the opportunity to listen to Stan Tall and Bea Tall and
learn how Giraffe Heroes are people who have stuck their necks
out for the common good.
Each
class has a giraffe that is earning his/her spots.
Students
are on the lookout for giraffe heroes in their classroom, in
their school and in their community.
Each
time they discover a Giraffe Hero, they are invited to put a
sticker on their classroom giraffe. School examples of giraffe
heroes are promoted on the announcements in the morning. |
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| In the
month of October, students learned about Terry Fox, a true
Canadian Giraffe Hero! As a new service project, students and
parents generously donated Halloween decorations and special
treats for families living at the Genevra House. Thank you to
all for your generous contributions. Mme Powell's students
sorted and prepared Halloween bags for 12 different families.
Congratulations! |
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Turkey
Feast -
October 6, 2006
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all our parents who contributed to this delicious feast. It was a
huge success! |
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| In the month
of November, students wrote postcards to Canadian soldiers overseas.
A special giraffe hero was proudly highlighted on our Giraffe Heroes
bulletin board: Pte Jesse Tait. |
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| We thank our
special guests from the Chelmsford Royal Canadian Branch 553 who
joined us during our Giraffe Heroes Assembly on November 30th. |
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| Congratulations
to Mme Darlene Fogal, our secretary who is our giraffe hero for the
month of December. She is constantly sticking her neck out for
students and staff. We love you Mme Darlene! |
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| Thank you to
all students and parents for their contribution to our mitten tree.
We collected over 100 pairs of mittens. Treemendous!! Mittens will
be donated and put in Christmas baskets for families in the Valley. |
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| Congratulations
to Wanda Seeley and Victoria Masterson who were recognized as our
Giraffe Heroes for the month of January. Thanks to their dedication
as library volunteers and as our bingo coordinators, our school is
enriched. |
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