91¿ì»îÁÖ is pleased to offer a five-day summer camp to interested 5th (soon to be 6th) graders. The cost of the camp is $50. Students will have the unique opportunity to spend each day learning about a different occupation while participating in hands-on activities such as welding, baking, cooking, hairstyling and carpentry! …LEARN MORE >
The HSD Festival of the Arts was created four years ago as a way to bring our schools together and celebrate student creative learning in dance, drama, music and visual arts. The 2016 festival will take place June 1-4 at Clearspring Mall in Steinbach. Â Browse through art displays from across the division. Opening night program… Read More
Beginning on April 28, 2016, The 91¿ì»îÁÖ will facilitate a division-wide community engagement through the online group insight platform, Thoughtexchange. HSD invites parents/guardians to take part in this unique and exciting opportunity to share their thoughts, regarding the school their child attends. This engagement will enable parents/guardians to share their thoughts as a… Read More
Over the course of the school year, the Southwood Deeper Learning team has launched a Makerspace for the school. Fundamentally, this place is an opportunity for deeper learning for our students. The students come to the Makerspace ready to rise to a challenge. Their responses to the challenge cross the curriculum. A makerspace challenge involves a process that includes questioning, designing, perfecting, sharing, and reflecting. During this process, you would expect to see the students displaying the important characteristics of Our Kid.
I wonder about how I learn things as a fifty-something year-old adult. Do I only choose to learn when presented with a problem? Do I choose to learn for fun? For curiosity? For my job? What provokes me to learn? I’ve been thinking about this lately and I can come up with all kinds of provocations for my learning… READ MORE>
Reporters Deja and Mason of the Southwood School News Team interview 91¿ì»îÁÖ Trustees Cyndy Friesen and Sarah Dyck. Watch the latest edition of the Southwood News!
The Professional Learning Centre (PLC) serves as an educational resource to all 91¿ì»îÁÖ teachers. Home to the division’s robust and diverse team of learning coaches, the coaches are a group of master teachers. As such, their work involves building connections with other teachers throughout the division, helping them create the best environments possible… Read More
The latest edition of Learning Matters (Deeper Learning Special Edition) is now available for download. LM is a Divisional Magazine of the the HSD Superintendent’s Office, and is published four-times annually. Articles within this edition include an introduction to Deeper Learning and the HSD Learning Coaches, Building a Thinking Classroom, and Inquiry-Based Learning, Play-Based Learning. … Read More
HSD students Kiana Friesen and Madison Gigolyk were recently awarded the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award for their community service as members of the Kleefeld School SHOC social justice team. During the last school year, SHOC (Students Helping Other Communities) raised $10,000 for a school in Ghana through the Free the Children organization. Created in… Read More