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Creighton school board report: Grade 3 students surpass reading target

At the latest Creighton school board meeting, vice-principal Wendy Bentley shared data from a recent reading assessment for Creighton Community School students in grades 1, 2 and 3.

At the latest Creighton school board meeting, vice-principal Wendy Bentley shared data from a recent reading assessment for Creighton Community School students in grades 1, 2 and 3.

By 2020, the Saskatchewan government aims to have at least 85 per cent of all grade 3 students in the province reading at or above grade level.

Data from the Fountas and Pinnell leveled reading assessment for Creighton indicated that 95.2 per cent of grade 3 students meet this criteria, trustees learned at their March 23 meeting.

The recent screening also indicated that the achievement gap between Creighton’s First Nation and Metis students and non-First Nations and Metis students is narrowing significantly.

Special ed

The student support services team of vice-principal Wendy Bentley and Jodi Pawlachuk presented an overview of Creighton students requiring intensive supports.

When a student is identified as having a special learning need, the student supports services team and the classroom teacher meet to determine what classroom accommodations and modifications can be made to improve student learning.

If regular classroom accommodations are insufficient to improve the student’s learning, then an educational assessment is completed and an Inclusion and Intervention Plan (IIP) is developed.

At this time there are 12 Creighton students identified as requiring an IIP. The reduction in this number is due in part to the capacity of teachers to make classroom-level accommodations and modifications to maximize student learning.

Coordinator

Trustees approved the hiring of Daniel Ratt as the Creighton Community School recreation coordinator.

Ratt is a graduate of the school and for the past year has been hired through a partnership with the Flin Flon Aboriginal Friendship Centre to be a youth mentor at the school.

While this is not a new position at the school, previous funding from Northern Sport, Recreation and Culture that supported this program was eliminated in August 2015.

The school has been successful in obtaining a Community Initiatives Fund grant to support the recreation coordinator position until December 2016.

Since this is not guaranteed funding, the decision to have a recreation coordinator will be dependent on the board’s ability to annually secure supplemental funding for the program.

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