Our School Motto is, "The Sky's the Limit!", and here is why.... In March, 2007, The Fraser Institute presented The Garfield Weston Award for Excellence in Education for "Academic Achievement in Excess of Expectations" to Lord Roberts Jr. P.S., setting it as part of the top performing 1% of Ontario schools in its category. In April 1998, the Board Advisory Council on Antiracism and Ethnocultural Equity voted to award Lord Roberts the Dr. Inez Elliston Award. We are equally proud of our achievements in EQAO and credit our outstanding staff, their collaboration with our community, and their dedication and standards of excellence with for our academic success.
Our Community
Opened in 1958 and located on Lord Roberts Drive, west of Midland between Eglinton and Lawrence, Lord Roberts Junior Public School is richly diverse in its cultural makeup. Our student population represents nearly 30 countries. In partnership with our community, parents and staff, our vision is to develop programs that support the physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs of the students entrusted to our care.
Student Life - Where You Belong
We offer a wide range of student co-curricular activities throughout the year, both academic and athletic. Our school choir is renowned and performs each year at the spring Arts Celebration for our area of schools. Other clubs include but are not limited to: volleyball, folk dance, cross-country, science club, house league, track and field, reading club, math club, chess club, Terry Fox Run, winter carnival/olympics, yoga, playday, recorder club, crafts club, robotics, yearbook club and Scrabble club. We also emphasize the importance of global responsibilities in order to accentuate our Character Education program and hold specific fundraising events to aid populations in crises following disasters, as well as local food banks through canned and dry food donations each year.
What Sets Us Apart
Lord Roberts Junior PS was opened in 1958. Named after Lord Roberts, Field Marshal of Kandahar, he was known as "Kipling's General" because his life embodied the ideals that the poet, Rudyard Kipling, sought to glorify; namely, courage, faith, and honour. Since being built over 50 years ago, the school population has fluctuated as the neighbourhood has changed. At one time, Lord Roberts was a Kindergarten to Grade 8 school with over 1,000 students! In 1989, enrolment dipped to 270 students. At present, we are hovering around 500 students from JK- Grade 6. We have a very diverse cultural makeup, with or student population representing over 30 countries.
Parent and Community Engagement
We support our many, varied community partners such as: Rainbow Village Child Care Centre; Student Teachers - in collaboration with Ontario universities and OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education); Co-op students - in collaboration with TDSB secondary schools; Jump Rope for Heart; Terry Fox Walk; A food and mitten drive at Christmas; Toronto Police Services (through the Elementary School Safety Program, VIP Program), Royal Conservatory of Music's Learning Through the Arts program; School Volunteers - library, classroom reading programs, field trips, sports events; Lunchroom supervisors hired from the community; Individual orientation and registration for incoming Junior Kindergarten families including the "Ready, Set, Go" program; and a Community Room available, among other programs and resources.
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Social Responsibility
Lord Roberts has a very diverse population with many students who require support in the early years of school. To have a good start in their education, we provide programs related to equity and the inclusion of our diverse population through monthly recognition assemblies and social skills training, The Haromony Movement, Safety Patrollers, and Student Parliament.
Literacy Initiatives Include:
We employ student mentoring methods such as Reading Buddies in early grades, as well as the use of student portfolios, involving trained parent volunteers in the language program, a book bag program, classroom libraries, and ensuring that the Learning Resource Centre is available to all students on a regular basis for research, writing and reading support.
Numeracy Initiatives include:
We integrate problem solving, use manipulatives and computers in the teaching of all strands. We collaborate with and provide parents with suggestions on how to link mathematics learned at school with home activities which reflect the same idea, thus bringing the real world factor to the more abstract concepts and enhancing student comprehension.
