Woodhaven Middle School (5-9)
Grades
5-9
Ward 5
Principal:
Mr. Russ Foster
Student Population:
567
475 King Street
Spruce Grove, AB
T7X 0A4
Phone:
780-962-2626
Fax:
780-962-8515
Email:
Woodhaven@psd70.ab.ca
Woodhaven Middle School’s Mission is clear - students at Woodhaven are striving to ''Learn How to Learn'' and ''Learn How To Get Along.'' We are educating 21st century learners growing up in a digital age where access to information is unprecedented. Our job is to help students to think critically about that information, making sense of it, analyzing it and applying this information to move their learning forward.
Along with access to information is the ability for adolescent students to communicate with each other 24/7. Our job is to help them understand how to get along in this world and the world at school. By fulfilling its mission, Woodhaven is working towards developing young people ready to take their place in an ever changing world.
We are a home for adolescents. As such we attempt to create community through the wide range of activities we offer at the school. Adolescence is a critical time of life marked by the need to socialize, be part of a group, take risks and experience success….here is how we do it!
Unique Features of Our School
- A school mission (Learn How to Learn and Learn How to Get Along) that is known by every teacher and student in the building.
- Academic intervention called ‘Core Support’ which takes students who may have problems keeping up with the pace of instruction in the classroom and pre teaches them concepts.
- Woodhaven is a true Middle School. Grade 5 students get access to the same programming as Grade 9’s but at an age appropriate level.
- Daily physical education programming.
- Successful Health Day Program.
- Woodhaven Connects Program which sees every student in the school offering service to their school, feeder schools, neighbourhood and to less fortunate in the Edmonton region.
- Successful integration into the school of the Middle Years Alternative Program (MYALT) for students with emotional and behavioural challenges.
- Second language instruction for all students in French.
- Woodhaven is the designated middle school site for drama programming in Spruce Grove. The school is excited to accept this role and is working to build a program of excellence that will meet the needs of Parkland School Division #70 students and attract new students to our school division.
- Woodhaven is also pleased to offer industrial arts programming to our students.
- Woodhaven offers an excellent extracurricular athletics program which adheres to the principles of the Positive Coaching Alliance.
- Woodhaven offers a Spring Basketball League for students from grades 4-6 which is coached by the Grade 8’s and 9’s from the senior basketball teams.
- Woodhaven’s School Council is very active in all facets of school life.
- A new playground was constructed in September 2009.
What Makes Our School Good and How We Know It
- 100% of our staff say Woodhaven is a good place to work.
- Woodhaven was ranked ‘Very High’ by parents, students and teachers on school improvement measures on the 2011 Provincial Satisfaction Survey.
- Woodhaven is committed to having every student learn at high levels and this is supported by systematic intervention for students with learning difficulties.
- Survey results show marked increases in satisfaction with the school over the past four years indicating that students, parents and staff see Woodhaven as a great place for adolescent learners.
- Provincial survey results show we are a Safe and Caring School and we have an excellent rating in teaching our students to be good citizens.
- Our school climate is friendly and productive.
- Our PAT results in Grade 9 are strong supporting the contention that students are ‘Learning How to Learn’ by the time they transition from Woodhaven to high school.
- Students surveyed in Grade 10 report they felt they were prepared for high school.
- Students surveyed in Grade 5 report that Woodhaven did a very good job in helping them with their transition from Early to Middle Years Schooling.
- Woodhaven Connects teaches our students the importance of giving back to the community
- Successful integration into the school of the Middle Years Alternative Program (MYALT) for students with emotional and behavioural challenges
Plans and Reports
Combined 2011-2014 Three Year Education Plan and 2010-2011 Annual Education Results Report