Education

Mission Statement:
"Learning, Growing and Leading Together

PO Box 1200, Ashern, MB
R0C 0E0

204-768-2571

Principal: Robert Ellis
Vice Principal:  Memory Halldorson

Email:asherncentral@lakeshoresd.mb.ca

About Our School
Ashern Central School is a grade 5 to 12 school. Our grade 5-8 students live in the town of Ashern and surrounding area. Our high school students come from many nearby communities.

At ACS, we try to offer our students many different experiences and opportunities. Students from grades 5-12 can explore the regular school subjects as well as the Visual Arts, Drama, Music, computer-based courses, power mechanics, woodworking and many other opportunities.

We are a tight knit group of learners who gather each month at assemblies to celebrate the success of our students. We value leadership and working to our highest potential.

Our learning support and guidance programs ensure that all of our students receive the most suitable programming available, and follow the best path to graduation and their own personal career and life choices. We are proud of our school's multicultural nature, and the respect and appreciation developed by working, learning, and growing together. We may come from different homes and backgrounds, and have different strengths and talents, but we are all members of the Ashern Central School community.

With our students and their families as full partners, we will work to help develop:

• Strong literacy and numeracy skills that will support students in their future endeavors.
• Future leaders with a strong basis in the implementation of the 7 Habits for Success in their daily lives.

School Highlights

Our Middle Years was again a vibrant place. In October, students were inspired during their trip to WE Day, and from that event, two students raised money for children in developing countries through the sale of bracelets.

Throughout the year, students were able to discover the exciting side of science through working with Mr. Waldner. During this time, students performed experiments and investigations to enrich their science learning.

An exciting new opportunity for our grade 5 to 8’s this year was the addition of curling to our Phys. Ed program. Students traveled to Moosehorn to learn the fundamentals of this sport. We then held our first annual ACS Curling Bonspiel which was a fun event that all Middle Years students participated in.

We have had many exciting events throughout the year at Ashern Central School.

This year, we created a new social justice group. Students Taking Action At Ashern Central School (STAAACS). STAAACS worked on several projects throughout the year. In October, they did a food drive for WE Scare Hunger. They also did a food and toy drive for two families in time for Christmas. Finally, they fundraised to bring a Live Differently presentation to our school.

We celebrated a high school provincial championship team at ACS this year. Congratulations goes out to our girls’ curling team, Talyia Tober, Tansy Tober, Kira Tritthart, Alyssa Tritthart and their coach, Terri Otto. The girls were dominant at both the Zones and Provincial bonspiels. We also wish to highlight Talyia Tober who was a great representative for us at Lakeshore’s Proficiency Awards.

Goal #1:
Once again, this year, we have focused on improving our reading in our school. We are striving to have all our students gain at least one year of reading each school year. We also focus on implementing intervention programs to attempt to have all students reading at their appropriate grade level.

At the year-end testing based on Fountas and Pinnell reading assessment, 97% of our students in grade 7 and 8 grew at least one full year in reading and 36% of the students grew two or more years in their reading. In grade 5, we had 70% of our students grow at least one grade levels, with 30% grow more than two grade levels. In our Middle years, 75% of students are reading at grade level.

In our high school, we have seen a marked increase in our students who are reading about the functionally literate level. This school year, we had over 97% of our high school students receive their ELA credit.

Goal #2:
The second goal at ACS is to work to improve our math proficiency, especially based around the foundational outcomes in the grades 5 to 9 area.

In our first full year of grade 9 math, we had a 95% passing rate. In all grade 10 and 11 math classes offered this year, we had 97% of the students receive a minimum of a passing grade.

Each June, our school completes a baseline math assessment which assesses students on all outcomes they are to learn that year. The past two years, the average mark for the grade 9s has been 40%, this year with a focus on foundational outcomes and full year Math, the average increased to over 66%. Our biggest growth has been in the Number strand, where students increased their understanding by over 30% from the first baseline assessment.

The first year that the assessment was completed, the average for our students was 33%. It increased this year to an average of 58% with 13 out of 16 students passing the assessment. We have made the biggest gains in the areas of number and statistics and probability with at least 25% gain in both areas.

Mission Statement
"Ashern Early Years School is a healthy, safe, and friendly community school. Students, parents, and staff are committed to working cooperatively to instill respect, and the joy of lifelong learning. Ashern Early Years School supports individual growth as well as group achievement because we believe our children are our present and future”

PO Box 1400, Ashern, MB R0C 0E0
(204) 768-2625
ashernearly@lakeshoresd.mb.ca

Principal:  Karen Carmicheal

About Our School
Ashern Early Years School is a Kindergarten to Grade 4 School located in Ashern, Manitoba. It has a current student enrollment of 65 students. Ashern Early Years has four homeroom classrooms; Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2/3 and Grade 3/4. Ashern Early Years School has an active Parent Advisory Council. Parents and community members are invited to join the Parent Advisory Council and become involved in the programs in our school.

In the 2017-2018 school year, Ashern Early Years School is a K-4 school with 71 students. We are comprised of a Kindergarten Class, Grade 1 Class, Grade 1 Class, Grade 2/3 and a Grade 4 Class. Our staff includes five teachers, five Educational Assistants, a Secretary and a Librarian/Educational Assistant.

Our Speech and Language Pathologist provides weekly assessments and develops programming for our students in the Speech and Language Program. The program is delivered daily to our students by an Educational Assistant.

Reading Recovery is taught by our trained Reading Recovery Teacher, providing early intervention in both reading and writing to Grade 1 students

School Highlights
Ashern Early Years School received a Grant from the Manitoba Arts Council; Artist in the School. All of the students were taught the art of Japanese Drumming by Fabuki Daiko. Fabuki Daiko, is an international performing group, took residency at Ashen Early Years for a week in February. Students were given daily lessons in Japanese Drumming, and at the end of the week the students put on a performance for family and friends.

Each class at AEYS also held school wide assemblies where they showcased some of their learning. Classes recited poems, showcased artwork, performed a play as well as presented science research projects in front of friends, family and fellow students.

Our School hosts Family Fun Nights throughout the school year. Families come to the school in the evening and play games, make crafts, have a snack and make connections with school staff and other families from our school.

Students connect with the community with our SaY Read Program. Students from the school read weekly with seniors at both the Ashern Pioneer Manor and the Ashern Personal Care Home.

AEYS hosts a Three Year Old and a Four Year Old Program through the partnership with the North West Interlake Early Childhood Development Coalition.

The students of Ashern Early Years continue to participate in Education for Sustainable Development. They continued to run the recycling program at the school as well as grow vegetables and flowers not only for home but also for our school butterfly garden.

Child Care services for children 3 months to 12 years old available by the Ashern Daycare Co-op Inc, located 2 Main Street East.

Mission Statement
"The Eriksdale School community strives to provide the highest quality of education in a supportive, innovative learning environment to foster success for all who walk through its doors.”

PO Box 179, Eriksdale, MB R0C 0W0
(204) 739-2635
eriksdale@lakeshoresd.mb.ca

Principal:  Alison Marttila
Vice Principal:  Chris Hunt

About Our School
At Eriksdale School we have 160 students from K-8, as well as preschool programs and day care.

We are proud of our literacy, numeracy, technology, and inquiry learning. Teachers work together in teams to provide quality learning opportunities, and parents are invited to be part of their children's education team. Students can choose from many extra-curricular options including social justice, a full program of intramurals, meditation, coding club and yoga.

Our school represents two communities, the Kindergarten to grade four students live in Eriksdale, and from grades five to eight students live in either Eriksdale or Lundar.

The focus of our school is to educate the whole child, which includes their academic, physical and emotional wellbeing. Students have Phys. Ed. every day, as well as intramurals every recess for those in grades three to eight.

Student Action, our social justice group, supports local and global issues that matter, such as cleaning up litter in our community and raising money for clean water initiatives in the developing world.

School Highlights
ERIKSDALE EAGLES SOAR

Options
Our Middle Years students had a variety to choose from this year for their options classes. Subjects offered included:

• Spanish

• French

• Music

• Drama

• Wildlife Management

• Gardening

• Sign Language

• Coding (including working with robots!)

Gardening
Students from grades 5 to 8 were given the opportunity to participate in a lunch time gardening club. The club had a lot of participation from students interested in learning about gardening and helping to produce locally grown food.

Under Mrs. Marttila’s botanical tutelage, students learned about different roots, plants, and how to care for them and maintain them. Students took full ownership of each step in the process.

The gardening club was concurrent with the grade 7/8 gardening options class, which allowed the school to fulfill a yearlong goal of creating a gardening school option.

The school garden is now a renewable source of food for our school, and will provide learning opportunities for students for many seasons to come!

Every Child a Reader
Each year we have school goals, and this year our literacy goal was that all students improve one year or more in reading comprehension.

Our school takes a balanced literacy approach, where each day students receive a mix of whole and small group instruction, as well as one-on-one support. Guided Reading is an important small group setting where the teacher works with students who are at a similar reading level or are practicing the same skill, such as the comprehension strategy Back Up and Reread.

Teachers make individualized learning plans for students who find reading challenging. These students are considered Priority Learners. Very focused and specific goals are made for each student, based on assessments and working with the child, and every six weeks new assessments are done and the goal is updated as the child progresses in their reading.

Every Child a Mathematician
Students who are ready to be challenged with the next grade level of math are provided that opportunity. This means that we have some students who are working on math that is one or two grade levels above their own grade level.

This acceleration is part of our special focus on outcomes that are essential to learn to do well in higher grades. These are called Foundational Outcomes. This helps teachers focus their teaching and work together collaboratively to help all learners. Every six weeks students are given Foundational Outcome quizzes, which determines which outcomes students have mastered, and which they need some further reinforcement.

Accelerating students when they are ready to move up, and using the Foundational Outcomes to focus our teaching, means every student is always getting exactly the kind of teaching and learning they need.

Accelerating students when they are ready to move up, and using the Foundational Outcomes to focus our teaching, means every student is always getting exactly the kind of teaching and learning they need.