Cedarvale Community School is located in the Cedarvale Community near Bathurst and Eglinton Streets. The school first opened on September 5th, 1950. Cedarvale is a Kindergarten to Grade 8 school. Our motto is "Committed to Excellence". Our mission is to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people dedicated to achieving to the best of their ability. As an IB World School, we have an additional commitment to developing internationally-minded students who demonstrate intercultural understanding, open-mindedness, and respect for others.
Planning for this Year
We have been pleased with the overall results of the Cedarvale grade 3 and 6 students in the Province-wide EQAO testing and assessments. Although each year there has been a lot to celebrate, it has been equally as important to review the results and identify areas of strength and needs. Through the review process, a plan of action is developed, implemented, reviewed, revised, and continually updated. We believe that it is imperative that we continue to review our programs to ensure that we provide the very best academic programming for each student.
IB World School
We are an International Baccalaureate World School (Authorized Primary Years Program; Candidate Middle Years Program). The Mission Statement of the IBO "encourages students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
More Information about Cedarvale Community School
Strategies: Literacy
Language Arts: Partners in Action; library available to staff, students and parents all day; First Steps reading, writing, and oral language programs; Reading Buddies program; Reading-at-Home book bag program for Primary Division students; daily, nightly reading for Junior Division students; parent and community volunteers to listen to Grade one readers.
Strategies: Numeracy
Linking mathematics to communication by teaching all students to express how they arrived at mathematical answers; expectation that students, in every grade, will explain, describe, and justify their mathematical answers; a variety of assessment techniques including authentic assessment and demonstrations.
IB - Primary Years Program
The PYP uses the existing knowledge that the child brings to new experiences, and emphasizes the importance of children making connections between their experience and the incremental pieces of new information they encounter. Inquiry is the leading, but not the exclusive, pedagogical approach of PYP. Inquiry can mean: exploring, wondering, questioning, experimenting, researching, collecting data, reporting findings, making predictions, testing theories, and elaborating on solutions to problems. In addition the PYP encourages students to be internationally-minded and to look at ideas and issues from a global perspective i.e. being socially responsible and caring.
Student Life - Where You Belong
Our students belong to a vibrant learning community. Along with all of the good learning that happens in the classroom, we offer a variety of clubs and activities: ECO-Schools, Equity, chess, library helpers, Silver Birch, Blue Spruce, French, Dance, board games (e.g. Scrabble). Intramural sports include: cross country running (inter-school), volleyball, soccer, basketball, dodgeball, running club. We also offer inter-school team sports i.e. cross country running, basketball, soccer. Student involvement in our school also includes: peer mediators, safe school committee, equity committee, fund raising (i.e. book drive for the Gambia, helping a library in Ghana, Toronto Foundation for Student Success, UNICEF and our annual Food and Toy drive), Remembrance Day assembly, Earth Day assembly and picnic, Hat Day, Ground Hog Pajama Day, daily litterless and boomerang lunch (everything goes back home in the students' lunch bag) and pizza lunches. Our grade 6 students go to Sheldon Centre for Outdoor Education each year.
What Sets Us Apart
As an International Baccalaureate World School, teachers focus on student inquiry and international mindedness. We were thrilled to be chosen by Today's Parent magazine's September, 2009 issue as one of Canada's top 20 schools! Along with our enthusiastic students and staff, we have a very active and involved parent community. Parents volunteer to work on committees, and help our students with their reading. Parents organize our pizza lunches, and run our magnificent Spring Fair. These activities are just a few of the ways parents can get involved at our school.
Parent and Community Engagement
Children's Garden; Local business community field trips; Classroom visitation by members of the business community, various elected officials, and other representatives of the community; Safety programs sponsored by Division 13 Toronto Police Force. Active School Council; Parent volunteers supporting classroom programs, the school library, fundraising, school committees, Spring Fair, Book Fair, Toy, Clothing and Food Drive, Snuggle Up and Read, Arts Committee, sports activities, pizza lunches, and field trips
