Victoria Village Public School's Mission Statement
Everyday, Everybody, A Success
Victoria Village Public School, built in 1959, is located in the Victoria Village community in the Victoria Park and Lawrence Avenue area. Victoria Village P.S. serves students from Kindergarten to Grade 5. The school population is approximately 300. Our school population represents a variety of language groups and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. The school houses a privately operated childcare centre: Muppets Pre-School, for children ages 2 to 10. It includes a before and after school program for our students and children from the surrounding community.
Enhancing Learning Through the Arts
Children are engaged in many activities that promote their creativity and enhance their learning. Teachers and visiting artists engage the children in music, dance, drama, and visual arts workshops that have the students chanting, learning and creating dances, dramatizing stories, learning musical rhythms, playing the recorder and creating works of art to represent scenes from stories they've read.
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Enhancing Learning Through Environmental Education
Victoria Village is EcoSchool certified. We have been Gold certified for the last eight years which shows student involvement in reducing waste, conserving energy and a solid stewardship of the environment.
Caring for Our Environment
Victoria Village students ensure that we are caring for our environment by bringing litterless lunches to reduce garbage and by recycling to ensure that we prevent waste.
Enhancing Learning Through Extra Activities
Children at Victoria Village have the opportunity to play the recorder, sing in choirs, be tutored in literacy and math, make crafts, colour, learn about famous people, engage in a variety of sports activities like Floor Hockey, Gymnastics, Soccer and Three-Pitch, learn chess and join the ECO club to monitor garbage as extra-curricular activities.
Enhancing Learning Through Character Development
As a school, Victoria Village is committed to the Future Ace Creed which inspires and assists youth and adults to become the best that they can be by enhancing character development and promoting social harmony. There are monthly celebrations to reward students for exhibiting exemplary behaviour in the school and schoolyard.
Additional Features
- Scientists in the School
- Reading Recovery
- International Languages Program
- Naturalized Courtyard
- Settlement Program
- Grade Three EQAO Tutoring
- PALS Playground Activity Leaders
Student Life - Where You Belong
GO TEAM
At Victoria Village Public School, students are involved in many fantastic activities. In the past these activities have included: Arts Day, Spring Concert, Winter Craft Night, Winter Olympics and Carnival, Play Day, Jump Rope for Heart, Percussion Workshops, Orff Workshops, Recorder Workshops, Fall Cross Country Meet, Chess Lessons, Tennis Lessons, Peer Tutoring and many extra-curricular activites. Extra Curricular activities might include: beach ball volleyball, soccer, basketball, floor hockey, three-pitch baseball, gymnastics, drama, dance, art, drawing, colouring, recorder, choir, multicultural club, chess, PALS, reading books, constructing bridges with Kinex and Lego, creating comic strips, cooking club, Rainbow Loom Club, Yoga, Kilometer Club, Choir, EQAO Trick Club, Homework Club, Friendship Club, math activities or computer club. Children can participate in the school's recycling program, energy audit, and greening school ground activities as well.
WHAT SETS US APART
Children at Victoria Village are engaged in learning all day, everyday. We celebrate all successes no matter how small. Learning to tie a shoe or zip your own jacket is just as important as learning to read, write and calculate. Through our partnerships and teacher and parent initiatives, the children learn from a variety of experts like scientists, poets and performance artists in a variety of learning styles that support every student's needs. We are the Victoria Village in Jack Grunsky's song and we are "the Place To Be!"
PARENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
At Victoria Village, community volunteers and parents work with our staff and students to support classroom programs. Public library visits and class trips to local places of interest support curriculum topics. Our school offers the International Languages Elementary Program in Arabic, Greek and Tamil to give students the opportunity to learn their heritage languages and to appreciate their culture as well as chess, piano and tennis lessons through community partners. "Victoria Village Hub" connects people to resource services and programs in this neighbourhood which helps our students and their families integrate into the community. Newsletters from the school and teachers to share class/curriculum and event information go home regularly.