Academics
At Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School we believe that it is important to recognize student achievement, participation and excellence through the presentation of awards for individual and group success.
Our Lady of sorrows School recognizes some of the students' achievements with the following awards:
Grade Eight Graduation Awards:
- Excellence in Math Award
- Excellence in Science Award
- Excellence in Language Arts Award
- Excellence in Music Award
- Excellence in Visual Arts Award
- Excellence in French Award
- Excellence in History Award
- Excellence in Geography Award
- Athelete of the Year - Male - Female
- Highest academic average
- Perfect Attendance
- Anishinabek Citizenship award
- OECTA award
- C.W.L. award
- NSL award
- LAC leadership award
- Excellence in English
- Excellence in Drama and Dance
- Teachers award
- T.A.P. Citizenship award
- Most improved
- Social Sciences
Winits
Every month we have a Winit celebration to give students who have displayed their best in category for that month. These students are presented with a certificate and acknowledged for their achievements.
Public Speaking
At Our Lady of Sorrows School, we promote the improvement of public speaking by organizing a Public Speaking Contest.
EQAO
Primary Grade 3 and Junior Grade 6 assessment administered by the Education Quality and Accountability Office are important markers of how students and our education system as a whole are doing. The provincial test measures core reading, writing and math skills based on the expectations in the Ontario Curriculum. School Action plans are determined from results.
Assessment
Our assessment procedure at Our Lady of Sorrows involves: assessment, evaluation, reporting, and improvement of student learning and program.
- Observation Notes
- Portfolios ((JK-Grade 8)
- Math and Language Journals
- Mid Year Testing within the classroom (Grade 1-8)
- Ready to Learn (JK and SK)
- Student Agenda Program used to communicate on-going assessment with patents
- Early and on-going identification (JK-8 Grade 3)
- Division Planning meetings Our teams strive to identify areas of weaknesses and develop an action plan to meet these needs
- Teacher Mentor Program TAG (Grades 1-8). LDAD - SK/1 DRA - Primary
- ORA
- CASI
- OWA
- CAT3 - grade 8
- Monthly running
- Ready to Learn
- Phonological Awareness
- Marri Clay Ass't
- Rossner - LDAO
- Yopp Singer - LDAO
- Student Self Assessments
- Levelled Benchmarks
Plans For The Future
At Our Lady of Sorrows School we strive to improve student achievement and engagement for all students and to become lifelong learners with support of parents, teachers and the community.
Goals:
- High levels of student achievement
- Reduce gaps in student achievement
- High levels of public confidence
Catholic education views human life as an integration of body, mind and spirit. Rooted in this vision, Catholic education fosters the search for knowledge as a lifelong spiritual and academic quest. The expectations of Catholic graduates, therefore, are described not only in terms of knowledge and skills, but in terms of values, attitudes and actions.
The Graduate's expected to be:
- A discerning believer
- An effective communicator
- A reflective, creative and holistic thinker
- A self-directed, responsible, lifelong learner
- A collaborative contributor
- A caring family member
- A responsible citizen
(Institute for Catholic Learning)
~ School News & Events ~
Welcome to Kindergarten Orientation Sessions(Posted:4/20/2012)
Registrations are now being accepted for full-day, every day JK and SK for September 2012. Call us for more information.
You may also view a complete schedule of Welcome to Kindergarten Orientation Sessions at www.npsc.ca .
Thank You for Celebrating Catholic Education Week(Posted:5/15/2012)
Students and staff from across our 13 Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic schools celebrated Catholic Education Week from May 6-11 with educational and faith-based activities.
Thank you friends, family, parishes and community patners who contributed to and participated in this event!
View photos from across our schools in the news release below.
New School Website(Posted:12/14/2011)
Welcome to the new Our Lady of Sorrows School website! Let us know what you think by sending us an email on our Contact Us page.
~ EQAO Results ~
| Reading | 81% |
73% |
48% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writing | 78% |
80% |
62% |
| Math | 88% |
93% |
81% |
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| Reading | 58% |
56% |
54% |
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| Writing | 50% |
66% |
46% |
| Math | 42% |
50% |
50% |
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| 2010 - 2011 |
Protection of Personal Information
In order to ensure the confidentiality of individual student results and to discourage generalizations about school and board performance based on very small populations, EQAO has established a minimum number of participating students for the public reporting of achievement results. As a result, schools and boards with very few students participating in Grade 3 and Grade 6 will have no results posted publicly. Similarly, reports for schools and boards with very few participating students in one grade may have no results provided in some sections of their public report.
The minimum number of participating students for publication of achievement results is 15. The minimum number of respondents for the release of questionnaire results is six. The EQAO term for the application of these rules is “suppression.”
Explanation Of Terms
- N/R: "Not reported" indicates that the number of students participating in the assessment or responding to the Student Questionnaire is so small that identification of individual student results might be possible; therefore, results are not reported.
- N/D: "No data available" is used to indicate that there were no students in the grade or program for the group or year specified.
- W: Results for some or all students are being withheld by EQAO.
