Welcome Back to School for 2017

We are looking forward to seeing all of our students back at school on Monday January 9, 2017. We hope everyone had a great holiday with families and friends and now we are focused on getting back to school and on learning.

Please remember that there is supervision in the school yard starting at 8:45 a.m. and we are hoping to see all of our students on time for school in the new year.  As well, it is very cold outside, please ensure your children are coming to school dressed and ready to be outdoors for recess.

We suggest that you get your children back into their regular routines and sleeping patterns to get ready to go back to school on Monday. Perhaps discuss with your children what their goals are, where they want to improve and what New Year's resolutions they want to make to continue working to achieve their goals.  

Please join us for our School Council Meeting on January 19 in the Learning Commons at 7:00, babysitting is provided.   

Please mark down the date of January 26 for the first Parent Workshop in a series of three workshops to be offered at JVPS.  We are very excited about these workshops and hope to see many of our families attending.  Please look for more information on these workshops.

Class Placements

As our school looks ahead at organizing classes for September 2016, it is valuable for parents to understand the procedure used in student placement decisions. The ultimate goal in all our efforts at Johnsview Village P.S. is to enhance student learning. 

We attempt to place students in the most positive learning environment possible given each individual pupil’s skills, knowledge, attitudes, and work and social habits. A great deal of time is spent ensuring that each student’s academic and social needs are met. We use the following criteria in order to determine class placment:

· Class sizes consistent with Ministry and Board guidelines

  · A gender balance in each class

  · A range of performance levels within each class

  · Matching pupil leaning styles with teaching strategies wherever possible 

· Promoting positive social relationships while minimizing unproductive associations 

Please be aware that staffing is unclear at this point due to enrollment fluctuations, teacher transfers, leaves, and reallocation of teachers to different grade levels. As we near the end of the school year, decisions will be made based on the aforementioned criteria. It is important to recognize that while we try to place each child in the optimum learning environment, all final decisions regarding pupil placements remain the responsibility of the school principal. If you have any information about your child that you feel would be pertinent in the placement process (conflict with other students, learning styles, twins’ placements), please inform your child’s teacher.  Please note that we cannot accept requests for individual teachers.

All students will find out their classroom placements on the first day of school, Tuesday September 6, 2016.