Dr. Brass School Level Plan 25-26

Foundational Items

Division Motto, Mission, Vision, Values, & Aspirational Statements
Motto Students Come First
Mission “Building Strong Foundations to Create Bright Futures”
Vision “Learning Without Limits ... Achievement for All"
Values Belonging, Diversity, Learning, Perseverance, Responsibility
Aspiration Statements High Quality Teaching and Learning, Engagement of All Students, Families, and Communities, Effective Policy Healthy, Sustainable Physical and Social Environments
School Mission, Vision, Values, & Compelling Why
Mission Cultivating a diverse community of lifelong learners through innovation, passion, and play. 
Vision Dream, Believe, Achieve.
Values Independence, Generosity, Mastery, Belonging
Aspirations To Be Better Than I Was Yesterday.
High-Quality Teaching and Learning
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Improving student outcomes

Attendance: 

By June 12, 2026, Dr. Brass will have 80% of students attend school regularly. 

Provide Breakfast, Hot Lunch, Bagged lunch and snacks on a daily basis. 

 

 
  • Monthly awards for the class with the highest attendance (Bowling Trip or $100 credit).
    • Monthly award for a student with Perfect Attendance (Gift Card).
    • Daily phone calls of students that have unexcused absences. Home visits if unavailable to connect with families.
    • Water Fun Activity in June, if attendance is greater than 80%.

Will be measured through daily attendance records. 

Melissa Fleury

Tanya Bilan

Diane Gleason

Natalie Katzberg

Brook Ungar

 

Cards for students who are absent/unable to get ahold of.

Bowling or credit to classes of $100 for highest attendance for the month.

Open communication with partners to ensure school is receiving enough funding/donations to supply students with lunches.

 

 

 

 

 
Healthy, Sustainable Physical and Social Environments
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Continuing to develop student and staff mental health and well being.

 

-Implement Zones of Regulation language school-wide and incorporate that into classroom help-seeking for understanding classroom learning.  Kindergarten to Grade 4 will receive specific Zones of Regulation classroom sessions that will include benchmarking of understanding three times/year (September, January, May).

-Implement Mental Health Literacy training for Grades 5-8 and staff including Grade 5 EMHLR, MH Literacy in each classroom, MH Literacy session PD session for staff

-FRIENDS sessions in Grades 1, 4 and 6

-specific months this goal will be intentionally targeted will be September, January, and May.

-understanding stress and anxiety and developing skills to build productive coping strategies and diminished avoidance.  Whole school classroom teaching about regulation within classrooms first, and then other areas of the school.  Target months for this goal will be September, December, March and May.  Data from the year benchmarking indicates this goal should continue next year.

-Caught being a Bear- This will be centered around Bears responsibility:

BE:

B- Kind

E-Empathetic

A-Accountable

R-Respectful

S-Safe

Staff will be encouraged to identify students who are demonstrating the Bears responsibilities and fill out a slip with the students' names and what they were being identified for.  Once a month at assemblies there will be a focus on what it means to be a Bear and there will be a draw for a prize from all those whose names have been in the Caught being a Bear box.  Additionally, staff can nominate other staff members for this and there will be a staff draw. 

 

A school-wide bullying and harassment definition and response will be developed and taught throughout all grades with staff and student involvement.  This will support a common language, a pathway to supports as well as opportunities to teach those who have been impacted by bullying behaviours.  

 

 

 

Twila Seeley

Brittany Stringfellow

Charlotte Ivey

MHCB

Offering safe and inviting facilities

Reduce the total number of incident reports compared to previous school year. Goal is to have 230 or less reports. 185 or less in class reports and 45 or less office reports. 

Celebration of achieving the goal will be an ice cream party for the school. 

Noel Budz

Kailee Trost

Clevr reports. 

Ice cream treats.

Promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion

Cultural Relationships

Dr. Brass School will continue to support Cultural Relationships with our students, staff and school community. By June 2025, Dr. Brass School will recognize the below daily living events to develop Cultural Relationships.

  • Dr. Brass will provide smudging opportunities for staff and students.
  • Dr. Brass will participate in various cultural learnings with a greater focus on our Indigenous traditions.

  • Dr. Brass School offers Drum Group, Pow Group and Beading Club. 

     

Orange Shirt Day Recognition: We hosted orange shirt day activities September 30, 2025.

All students in Grades 5-8 attended Treaty Four Celebrations at Fort Quapelle.

Smudging opportunities offered to staff and students. 

Sewing and beading club with Melissa Fleury. Club meets every Thursday after school.

Drumming group with Robert Severight. 

Staff education on cultural sensivity at staff meetings.

Metis Culture Day- June 

Indigenous Peoples Day- June 21

Melissa Fleury

Robert Severight

All staff

Community Grants and Funding

Good Spirit School Division allocations
Effective Policies and Procedures
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Focusing on educational approaches that prioritize student success

EYE: Kindergarten Assessment that supports transition to Grade 1. By June 12, 2025, 25% more of Dr. Brass' Kindergarten students will score green on the EYE assessment compared to the fall 2025 assessment. 

  • Prepared and intentional environment – curriculum content embedded throughout the environment
  • Invitations are intentionally designed based on interests and with essential learning experiences or outcomes in mind
  • Language rich conversations and documentation of learning throughout the room making learning visible
  • Meeting with Kindergarten teacher and SST to support students not meeting expectations
  • Heggerty Phonemic Awareness utilized
  • Classroom intervention to supplement classroom instruction
  • Sprints created in collaboration with Early Learning Team (Kindergarten teacher, SST, admin, Pre-K – 3 Curriculum and Assessment Consultant/ Coach)
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    • PLC meetings Pre-K – Grade 1 teachers will have common language meetings
    • Transition meetings – From Pre-K to Kindergarten, and Kindergarten to Grade 1
    • Ages & Stages Questionnaire will be utilized in Pre-K program to facilitate transition and ensure supports are in place as students enter Kindergarten
    • Pre-K classroom will embed developmental domains through the Pre-K environment. 
    • Family Engagement Days 
    • IMPACT event hosted by Kids First within GSSD in the Spring in conjunction with Kindergarten and Prekindergarten registration.
    • Orientation hosted in the fall prior to school start up to prepare kindergarten students and families for the transition into kindergarten.

Reading: 

By June 12, 2026, 80% of Grades 1 to 8 will be reading at or above grade level.

  • This intervention happens each day with targeted instruction.
  • All elementary teachers will be trained in UFLI, Heggerty, Science of Reading
  • Intervention groups offered throughout the day using George Georgiou's lessons. 
  •           Dr. Brass has a literacy lead that has time to support all literacy goals of the school.
  • After school reading program with teachers. 
  • Mentorship programs support reading in the school each 6 day cycle.
  • Grade 4:100 WPM, Grade 5: 110WPM, Grade 6: 120WPM, Grade 7: 130 WPM, Grade 8: 140 WPM

Numeracy

By June 12, 2026, 68% of Grades 1-8 students will be at or above grade level in Numeracy (Math).

  • We continue to use active Math Learnings including Pods and differentiated instruction.
  • Our Grade 1-3 students use Mathology and Grades 4-8 use MathUp & Brain Based Learning to support learning. Some classrooms provide Math Clubs after school to promote further learning of concepts.

Writing:

By June 12, 2026, 67% of Grades 1-8 students will be at or above grade level in Writing Assessments.

  • Intervention happens each day with targeted instruction.
  • Students will participate in various writing opportunities (for example: Remembrance Day Writing, and Young Saskatchewan Writers Contest).
  •           Dr. Brass has a literacy lead that has time to support all literacy goals of the school.

*If we achieve the numeracy, reading and writing goals in the first reporting period then we will have our students go to the Gallagher Center in February. Students would be able to either use the pool, skating, or curling facilities. 

EYE

  1. Fall Start up Orientation was hosted to welcome new kindergarten families into the building. 
  2. Family Engagement Events Hosted (Oct 17 and Spring TBD)
  3. EYE Assessment and LeNS assessment - classroom groupings and intervention groupings formed 
  4. Ages & Stages Questionnaire was utilized in Pre-K. Essential Learning experiences were presented in Pre-K environment.

Reading:

  1. George Georgiou Professional Development.
  2. LeNS & CC3 Assessment utilized 
  3. One School One Book
  4. 80% of grade 1 - 8 students are reading at or above grade level. 

 

Numeracy:

  1. Weekly IXL acknowledgment of achievements
  2. Math screeners utilized (Grade 2 - 8)

  3. Sask. Common Assessments 

    4. 58% of grade 1 - 8 students are at grade level or above in numeracy outcomes. 

    Writing:

    1. Legion writing competition

    2. Authors Tea Grade 1-3 (March 2025) 

    3. 57% of grade 1 - 8 students are at grade level or above in writing outcomes. 

 

 

 

EYE: Kristine Vaughan, Britt Hanson

Reading: Juliana Kindiak, Madison Stoll, Maggie Taylor

Numeracy: Edralin Badowich, Chelsey Williams, Julie Wilson, Rhea Calicdan, Melba Recana

Writing: Jennifer Daviduk, Kristen Nagy, Connor Schappe

  • EYE Assessment
  • LeNs & CCR
  • Literacy Lead
  • SPARKS
  • UFLI
  • Heggerty
  • Rime Magic
  • Sask READS
  • Math Screener
  • MATH Saskatchewan Common Assessments
  • MathUp & Brain Based Learning 
  • Mathology
  • Writing Contests
Engagement of All Students, Families, and Communities
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Fostering Connections with families and community

Have 68% of our families attend our student led conferences in the fall and spring. 

Student led conferences will include one day of traditional confernences for students, staff and parents to meet regarding individual achievement. The second day will be a school wide planned event that incorporates all grades. 

We will encourage other opportunties throughout the school year for families to be engaged. 

PreK-4 Sock Hop Attendance:

Prek- 10 family members

K- 23 family members

1- 19 family members

2- 15 family members

3- 13 family members

4- 29 family members

 

Chantel Kitchen

Charlotte Ivey

Robyna Janke

Germaine Oudie

Lee Seaton

Twila Seeley

School Budget and Community Connections

Valuing input from students, families, staff, and the community.

SCC - parent group that supports learning and play at our school.

Student and Parent Surveys - use of surveys to assist our school in becoming even a more enjoyable place to learn and play.

School Representative Council - students involved in making decisions at the school. Hosting activities, creating policies, and learning positive ways to use their voices.

SCC was elected in November. We have had meetings in December and January since. Next meeting is in March.

Student and Parent surveys are used to make the school a better place. The latest survey our school used was to invite our families to our Culture Fair. We asked families what culture they wanted their children to learn and if they could join us (engagement).

SRC - elected by our Grades 5-8 students. We meet monthly (sometime bi-monthly). Students are involved in the planning and following the planned events.

Mrs. Kitchen and Mr. Budz

Chantel Kitchen and Noel Budz

Communicating openly and clearly.

EDSBY - program used to communicate and share assessment information with home.

Newsletter - newsletter will be shared once a month with families.

Announcements - daily announcements are shared with families through EDSBY.

 

EDSBY used as primary communication tool for families. 

-Marks posted to gradebook

-Newsletters shared

-Announcements posted daily

-Report cards and IIP reports uploaded/published

EDSBY. Linda Weinmaster, Carmilla Zerbin, Chantel Kitchen, and Noel Budz.

Forming partnerships to support GSSD’s priority areas

Sign Post Meetings

Yorkton Tribal Council

Big Brothers and Sisters

Academic and Nutritional Partners

Shawn Patenaude Law Firm (Sponsored Fall Meal)
Signatures:
Principal Signature: Noel Budz
SCC Signature: Lisa Shauf