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Fernway School
An IB Candidate
School
Fernway School“Welcome to the Fernway Family”
– One of five K-4 Buildings: Boulevard, Fernway, Mercer, Lomond, Onaway
– Built in 1927– 15 Classrooms, 3 per grade level– Over 350 students – 37 staff members
The Mission of the Schools
The District will nurture, educate, and graduate students who are civic-minded
and prepared to make ethical decisions; who are confident, competent communicators,
skillful in problem solving, capable of creative thinking; who have a career motivation and a knowledge of our
global and multicultural society.
Our Mission: Civic-minded, ethical students
• Student Mediation• Student Group on Race
Relations (SGORR) makes annual visits to the 4th grade
• Family Service Projects
Our Mission: Confident, competent communicators
• Curriculum centered on effective and varied expression
• Readers Theater• Reading groups• Writers Workshop• Kindergarten Journaling• Performances
Our Mission:Skilled Problem Solvers• Curriculum-centered
problem solving• Chess Club• Enrichment Programs • International
Baccalaureate programme
• Successmaker computer program
• Science Lab field trips
Our Mission:Creative Thinkers• Curriculum centered on
creative outcomes of learning
• Music and Art classes• Art Club• 3rd grade Musical • 4th grade Poetry Play
Our Mission:Career Motivated Students
• Scientist in the schools
• Parent career visits and volunteerism
Our Mission:Global and Multicultural Knowledge
• Mandarin Chinese taught weekly
• International mindedness a focus of IB
The Mission of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB)
“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
Transdisciplinary Themes
• Who we are• Where we are in place and time• How we express ourselves• How the world works• How we organize ourselves• Sharing the planet
Learner attitudes and attributes
Attribute of the week:
Principled! I am honest and fair.I am a good friend
and I do the right thing.
Some of our essential agreements
Some of our wonder walls
Featured Country:
• In Wales, there are more sheep than people.
• The first Christmas card was created in England in the 19th century.
• Mary Stuart became queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
• England helped develop many of the world’s favorite sports, including football (soccer), boxing, and tennis.
• The UK has no written constitution.
Resource:
United Kingdom
Current K IB plannerWho We AreNew places, New
Faces!Central Idea: People find out more
about themselves and others by trying new things and making new friends.
Current 1st Grade IB planner
Who We AreDude!
Central Idea: People build relationships with families, friends and within communities.
Current 2nd grade IB plannerHow We Are
Choices!
Central Idea: People make choices in various settings and their actions have a consequence.
Current 3rd Grade IB plannerHow We Organize Ourselves
TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves MoreCentral Idea: Members if communities collaborate to establish and implement
organizational systems.
Current 4th Grade IB plannerWho We Are
Investigate, Innovate!Central Idea: Technology
and innovations impact people’s well-being.
Inquiry ~ a driving force to our learning!
Action Fernway School…
changing the world one action
at a time!
Summer Success 2012 Awardsfor Waterford/SuccessMaker Summer Program
ParticipantKindergartners
Nathan BallmanRyan ByrnesJenna Englander
1st Graders
Kemora BakerKennedy ColeCharlotte GlasperBriana GomezElizabeth HalloranLauren HilbertJohnathan KallergisJabori MateenMartez SamsMatilda SpadoniRamsey Vallot
2nd GradersJaylah AlexanderEthan ByrnesCaroline DanfordDamarion JamesKylan MarshallLiesel PrudeIko UmosenJayiana Wilson
3rd GradersOwen BauerJames BoydCody EnglanderTimothy FlyntKatherine HalloranRoss HalloranOliva KuhelAmani ReddenJamia WeakleyAndrea YasinskyJohn Yasinsky
4th GradersJihad ArifWilliam GlasperConnor RichardMadison Stovall
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