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Description of School

Holder Community School consists of 300 students grades K to 6 who range in academic ability and cultural backgrounds. It is located in a middle to low income community where both parents usually work just to full fill their family needs. Our students need hands on activities with connections to life. Most of the learning needs to take place in the classroom as homework usually is not done at home. Holder Community School has a very active Parent Advisory Committee) who fundraise throughout the year to supplement the school budget. The school is staffed with a full time principal and a half-time vice principal, 13 classroom teachers, 2 support teachers, 7 Special Education Assistants), and half-time trained Teacher-Librarian. The school quite a few resources available for teachers and students. These include new and exciting books for the library and classroom libraries, computers, and a knowledgeable staff. The library is located in the middle of the school and is open throughout the day; the computer lab is attached to the library. The school also has Smartboards in all of the classrooms and access to a class set of iPads. The teachers and administrators share a common vision of school goals and work towards them throughout the year. Each class in the school has been working with the Daily 5 program to support the their students in independent learning.

Please add a sentence below when you are happy with the description of the school. I think the school description is complete. Sue I think the school description is complete too. -Mandy I agree! - Catherine Done & done : )- April = = = This has now been recorded in a VoiceThread and Added to Our Prezi!!! =

I checked out the Prezi...it looks very impressive. I can't get the Voicethread to work though. When I click play, nothing happens. It prompts you to sign up or log in though, which I did. Sue

I also checked our the Prezi and the voice thread does not seem to be working, not sure if the voicethread can actually be embeded into the Prezi so that it will start when we go the slide. Mandy

I thought it was just me!! - Catherine