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Category archives: Elementary
Mr Remple’s Gifts Delights our K Class
Recently our kindergarten class set to work painting the bird houses that were donated built by local builder John Remple. We had to keep it a surprise until now as some of the houses had to make it home as gifts. Over the past five years, he has built around 4,400 birdhouses for classrooms in […]
Watch Out World… Here comes VCS Grad Class 2016
We are about to send out an outstanding group of young people into the world… To help capture the thoughts and plans of our grad class we started a new tradition at VCS this year. Enter the 2016 VCS Grad Survey designed to find out where our grade 12’s were planning to go after graduation […]
Clean Water… an Overlooked Privilege
Imagine if getting a drink of water wasn’t as simple as turning on your tap. Imagine you had to trek miles to a dirty river or polluted well and lug 40-pound jerry cans back to your family. Imagine you did this every day, a job so tedious yet crucial that it was essentially all you […]
Highlights from the 2016 VCS Spring FUN-Raiser
The verdict is in.. The VCS Spring-FUN raiser has been declared a real win for our school community. Great big thank you to all our parent, student & staff volunteers – it wouldn’t have been possible without YOU! Thanks to our special guests Dean McAmmond, Curtis Lazar, Carter Rowney, Leland Irving & Jagger Williamson. […]
Highlights from Intermediate Track & Field 2016
What started off to be a very wet day gradually turned into a stellar day for the 2016 Intermediate Track and Field event. Our students dug deep and gave it their all! A special thank you to parent and SC student volunteers and our staff who helped to make this day grrrreat! Press the arrow […]
Your Donation is the Fuel that will Drive VCS Forward…
Meet our Am-bus-ador Beckham is in grade one. If you ever get the chance to hear him tell a story about his day he’s guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and warm up your heart. Once Beckham graduates each one of our staff members will have played a part on the person […]
Value Added… Real World Learning Experiences
Post: Courtesy of Alicia Wielemaker, VCS Secondary Campus Teacher On April 4th I took my French 8 students to the Maven Lane Learning Centre. Their purpose was to lead French activities they had created for the 2.5 to 5 year-olds preschoolers in the program. Our students found the experience both enriching and engaging. The reward of […]
So What to Now What
A good-sized group of teachers at VCS have committed to be ‘early-adopters’ of our school’s journey in Teaching for Transformation (TfT). They are learning how to reframe the foundations of our teaching using biblical ‘Through-Lines’ or themes. It is exciting work for sure! There are a couple of simple questions in TfT that caught my […]
Running the Race of Faith
Dear Parents and students, Welcome to the 2016-17 school year! Yesterday we reunited as a PreK-12 staff to kick-off the year. We began by joining with Board members and VCS Prayer-team parents for worship and a campus-wide prayer walk. Wow! How powerful to see every square foot of the property, hallways and classrooms prayed-over, as [...]