Oct 28, 2013 | News, Oakville Christian School News
Enrichment clusters are multi-age groups of students who share common interests and come together for a designed block of time to explore those interests. Rather than teaching the students, instructors facilitate clusters. Clusters are driven by students to produce an...
Oct 21, 2013 | News, Oakville Christian School News
The grade 4 classes went to Springridge Farm for a “Rock Walk” where they were taken on tour of the area to learn about the rock formations and erosion. Collecting rocks was a perfect culmination of this outing as they discovered, identified, and then were...
Oct 21, 2013 | News, Oakville Christian School News
The grade 6 class recently traveled to Mountsberg Conservation Area for a biodiversity study as part of their science curriculum. While at Mountsberg the students learned to classify different coniferous trees according to their physical characteristics. They...
Oct 8, 2013 | News, Oakville Christian School News
The School-wide Enrichment Model (SEM) emphasizes Type II skills, which are instructional methods and materials designed to promote the following: general cognitive skills such as creative problem solving, critical thinking, decision making affective skills such as...
Sep 24, 2013 | Oakville Christian School News
The Total Talent Portfolio (TTP) is a pedagogical component of the School-wide Enrichment Model (SEM) that allows teachers to focus on student strengths rather than deficits. Information about a student’s talents, learning styles, interests, expression styles, etc. is...
Apr 24, 2013 | News, Oakville Christian School News
Oakville Christian School was recently represented by 16 participants at the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair (BASEF) from March 20-23. Once again, our students made us very proud and we are pleased to recognize and share in their success. OCS sent 12 projects...
