Within our elementary and high school curriculum, BSLS offers a variety of unique programs to increase learning and development. We also offer a number of extracurricular and optional clubs\/activities your child can choose to join. Additionally, Beautiful Saviour has opportunities for parents to get involved with the school. Please see below for our list of program enhancements. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Physical Education\u2014Intramurals: <\/b>Mr. Wozney<\/b><\/p>\n
Students are encouraged to participate in exploratory and cooperative learning activities during morning and afternoon recesses. Low and high organized games are planned and supervised by the physical education teacher. The grade 5-8 students play a variety of games including dodgeball, soccer and invasion. All intramurals are played during the winter months and end, at the end of March.<\/p>\n
Running Club: Mr. Wozney<\/b><\/p>\n
Students from grade 3-8 are able to walk, jog, or run with friends during the lunch hour recess in the fall and spring. The students walk in conversation with one another and have the benefit of exercise and of fresh air! Younger students are encouraged to participate with an adult.<\/p>\n
Volleyball: Mr. Wozney<\/b><\/p>\n
The students learn the skills of volleyball such as serving, setting, forearm passing, and spiking during practices and are allowed the opportunity to use these skills during games against other schools. They learn how to play as a team and have the opportunity to demonstrate respect and good sportsmanship to others in a competitive environment.<\/p>\n
Basketball: Mr. Wozney<\/b><\/p>\n
The students learn the skills of basketball such as dribbling, passing, and shooting that are related to basketball. They learn different offensive and defensive strategies as applied in games. The students have the opportunity to use the skills against other schools in organized games and demonstrate their ability to communicate and work with others in a non-classroom competitive setting.<\/p>\n
Track and Field: Mr. Wozney<\/b><\/p>\n
The students participate in track and field at the University of Manitoba in a four part series through the Athletics Manitoba Association. The grade 4-6 students participate in team relay events. The grade 7-8 students participate in individual and team relay events. The students participate in shotput and hurdle events. The students compete against others schools in Winnipeg at these track and field events.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Overall Music Program<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n BSLS offers a very unique music program. It all starts in our childcare programs with our music instructor visiting both the St. Mary\u2019s and the Birchdale locations. Music is taught through movement and musical games. Throughout the year our young musician\u2019s ears are tuned to sing along with a guitar, xylophone, and hand held instruments.<\/p>\n The kindergarten music program is a continuation from the childcare programs. Students will continue with exploring song through movement and games and will begin to learn basic rhythms, terms and theory. Students are engaged with the use of hand held instruments such at the cabasa, shaker and hand drum as they begin to accompany their peers through song. <\/p>\n Violin Program: Mr Badiuk<\/b><\/p>\n This program helps to build students musical theory as they learn to play the violin and build their confidence with musical skills. As the students grow they will perform in front of their peers, family and audiences outside of the school for Christmas and other festivals. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Private Music Lessons: Mr. Badiuk<\/b><\/p>\n Mr. Badiuk offers private lessons in violin, guitar, drums, and the core band instruments in addition to regular music class. There is an advanced violin class offered to students who are interested in continuing on with the violin studies and\/or for those who are currently taking band class. Private lessons and advanced violin are great ways for the students to call the shots on what they are learning musically. The extracurricular time encourages children to learn musical material that is of interest to them, challenge their skills, and that might not be covered in the BSLS regular music curriculum.<\/p>\n Talent Show:<\/b> Mr. Badiuk<\/b><\/p>\n BSLS has an annual talent show that takes place in June. This club is where the students can design, prepare and be dedicated to their act\/talent for our annual talent show. Students learn strategies to work with their anxiousness and how to prepare a strong stage presence.<\/p>\n Drama Discovery: Mr. Badiuk<\/b><\/p>\n Drama Discovery is for students in grades 5-8 who want to explore theatre. The students explore public speaking strategies and practice speaking and acting in front of larger groups. The students are experimenting with play writing and other facets of drama.<\/p>\n Colouring Club: Ms. Meilleur<\/b><\/p>\n Colouring Club meets every Wednesday during lunch recess for some calm creativity. The grade 1-3 students have options of creating their own drawings or colouring positive growth mindset posters or Bible verse posters. The students have the opportunity to develop friendships that foster from a different place than the playground.<\/p>\n Comic Club: Ms. Meilleur<\/b><\/p>\n In comic club, students learned about the parts of a comic book such as panels, captions, speech bubbles, etc. then worked on developing their own comic-style stories. Guidance was given to help develop characters and plot.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> STEM Club (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math): Ms. Meilleur<\/b><\/p>\n STEM Club for grades 3-5 meets weekly during lunch hour to solve fun problems such as how many drips of water go on a penny before spilling over. These activities help develop inquiry, design and group work skills.<\/p>\n Coding Club:<\/strong> <\/strong>Mrs. McCrea<\/b><\/p>\n In Coding Club, the students will be learn how to program their own interactive stories, games and animations using the Scratch programming language. There will also be opportunities to use BBC Microbits (pocket-sized, codable computers) to create physical coding projects. They will participate in the AstroPi Mission Zero program in which entrants\u2019 code, written in the Python programming language, will be run in space on the International Space Station!<\/p>\n Chess Club: Mrs. Petkau<\/b><\/p>\n Chess Club is offered to students in grades 2-8 and begins by conducting introductory lessons that are taught to beginner chess players (the grade 2’s or others) before they start. The older students begin to mentor the younger students while playing practice games with the new grade 2’s (or beginners) and they talk them through a game. The Chess Club meets once a week in the chapel area during lunch recess.<\/p>\n In March, there is an optional mini-tournament that the students may sign up for if they are interested or they may continue to come out and play for fun. The students are divided up into groups by grade level and by skill level. Chess Club runs until Easter Break. Tournament trophies are awarded during our Awards Day in June. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> French Education<\/b><\/p>\n Students from K-3 receive daily French instruction from their homeroom teacher. In the early years the students receive approximately twenty minutes per day of French instruction often integrated through cross curricular lessons. The grade 4-8 students receive French instruction from our French specialist for 30-40 minutes per day. The Manitoba curriculum is focused on enabling students to communicate in the French language and to appreciate francophone culture. Students acquire the language skills to communicate in French, demonstrate an appreciation of Francophone culture and value the learning of French as a tool for personal, intellectual, and social growth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> R&R (Rest & Relaxation)<\/strong><\/p>\n Students in grades 3-8 can choose to come into an atmosphere that is quiet and calm. The lights are dimmed and Christian music is playing while the students whisper to each other while doing quiet activities like drawing, painting, or puzzles. The students enjoy spending time together doing tabletop activities that they may not get a chance to do with their school friends. It allows students to build relationships and to enjoy one another\u2019s company.<\/p>\n Pick It: Mrs. McCrea<\/b><\/p>\n Pick It is a time where the students get the opportunity to play board games and\/or other simple games together in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. The goal of the time spent together is to model appropriate responses when winning or losing a game and respectful conversation when in small groups with friends.<\/p>\n Reading Club: Mrs. McCrea<\/b><\/p>\n A time to read. Plain and simple. This is the opportunity to read the book the students choose and to enjoy time during the day to catch up on your book in a quiet and calm atmosphere.<\/p>\n We Care Club<\/b><\/p>\n The students in the BSLS We Care Club are motivated to share God\u2019s love with those in need in their school, local, and world community. The students determine the direction of club activities each year. In the past, students have undertaken campaigns to help Winnipeg\u2019s most vulnerable have healthy food and warm clothing this winter.<\/p>\n They began with the We Scare Hunger food collection from any BSLS families who could donate non-perishable items to help out a local mission whose furnace had burst right before the cold Winnipeg winter set in. This was quickly followed by the launch of their Koats for Kids campaign, during which the We Care Club students made posters, wrote compelling announcements and short skits to rally their fellow students to bring warm winter gear to share with children in our city. They amassed a trunk load of warm winter gear that was delivered to Perth\u2019s Drycleaning for distribution to local elementary schools.<\/p>\n Upcoming campaigns will involve fundraising for Christian Education, Children\u2019s Hospital, environmental awareness and tree planting campaigns, and the vulnerability of safe drinking water. Popsicle, hot chocolate, cold chocolate, and popcorn sales are some delicious ways the students plan to fundraise and to share in fellowship for doing God\u2019s work on projects near and far.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Resource Services<\/strong><\/p>\n BSLS has access to a speech pathologist, school psychologist, and a school social worker through the Louis Riel School Division. BSLS has a part-time learning resource teacher who provides additional support to our students. The focus of our Learning Resource teacher is to provide two reading programs Leveled Literacy and Empower Reading Program for our early years students who require support. Our Learning Resource teacher also oversees the development of individual education plans with the classroom teachers. We have volunteers that visit BSLS weekly to assist with supporting the speech programming. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>Stem related<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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