Programs and Services
Academic Programs
- Regular English/Core French , JK – Grade 6
- Students in grades one to six receive 40 minutes of French instruction daily
Classroom Organization
- 3 JK/SK classes
- 1 Grade 1 class
- 1 Grade 1/ 2 class
- 1 Grade 2/3 class
- 1 Grade 3/4 class
- 1 Grade 4/5 class
- 1 Grade 5/6 class
Special Education and ESL Programs
Students requiring extra help are supported by our highly skilled resource teachers who work collaboratively with teaching staff, provide guided instruction to small groups and provide Literacy and Math enrichment to inpidual students. Our Learning Support Teacher (LST) performs diagnostic testing and helps prepare inpidual programs for children. Our English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher provides in class and inpidual support to students learning English.
Clubs and Activities
- Start to Finish Running and Reading Club
- Ski club, Skating, Chess club
- City Club – daily after school program
- Coro Piccolo Choir
- Mentor Program
- Student Support Groups
- Noon hour sports for both primary and juniors
- Breakfast Club
- Monthly character based assemblies
- Borrow a Book Reading Program
- Boys and Girls Club
- Music Concerts
- Milk program
- Heroes Hockey
Safe Schools Initiatives
Robert E. Wilson School believes strongly in fostering a Community of Character. Some of our ongoing initiatives to reinforce positive character attributes and a safe learning environment are:
Everyone is committed to recognizing each student’s inpidual and group efforts in reflecting positive character attributes. We actively promote respect, responsibility, safety and perseverance throughout the school.
PALS Program – Playground Activity Leaders in Schools. The goal of the project is to increase physical activity, build leadership skills and promote positive play on the yard.
Crossroads – we have a counsellor at our school two days a week to support our students, including presenting the Roots of Empathy program to our grade 2-3 class.
Safe and Caring Groups – weekly groups focused on promoting self-awareness, developing healthy relationships and enhancing self-esteem and conflict resolution skills.
Racial and ethnocultural persity is supported and celebrated through announcements, learning activities, special events and performances.
WITS and WITS LEADS (junior) - we are part of the WITS program. WITS stands for Walk away, Ignore, Talk it out, and Seek help, and provides a common language that children and the adults in their environments can use to talk about and respond to peer victimization. LEADS stands for Look and listen, Explore Points of view, Act, Did it work? and Seek help. This program promotes leadership and social responsibility among children in grades 4 to 6 and encourages them to solve peer conflict situations using these five problem solving steps