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Welcome to Mamquam Elementary!

We are an arts infused school, using the arts to deepen learning across the curriculum.

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Beautiful Mamquam Art Featured Photo

Beautiful Mamquam Art

Our students have been working hard creating beautiful and unique art pieces to proudly display in our hallways. We hope you enjoyed seeing their pieces at the student led conferences on Wednesday.

Hip Hop with Ms. Briana

We were so lucky to have Ms. Briana from Squamish Dance Centre in teaching us all some fun hip hop moves and routines. After lots of fun practices throughout the week we all got together in the gym to dance and perform together!
PHE Skipping! Featured Photo

PHE Skipping!

Students took on a skipping challenge and really racked up a large number of skips in PHE last week!
High School Musical 2 Featured Photo

High School Musical 2

Howesound Secondary's Music Theatre Production Class will be performing their production of High School Musical 2 at Mamquam on April 16th.
For those interested in attending their full production at the Eagle Eye Theatre they have show nights May 1,2,3 and 8,9,10. Tickets can be purchased at the eventbrite link in the "read more" section.
Grade 5/6 Basketball Tournament Featured Photo

Grade 5/6 Basketball Tournament

Congratulations to our Mamquam Grade 5/6 Basketball Team at last weeks tournament held at Don Ross Middle School! We are so proud of your determination, efforts and team work!
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Principal's message

Mamquam Elementary School has a clear mission and some strong core values.  As a staff we see ourselves as a family.  We focus on the success of all students, and hold ourselves accountable for high excellence across the curriculum—in academics, athletics, fine arts and career programs.  We put our students first, and you can feel this when you walk into our building.  We are keenly aware that students learn best in a safe, secure and respectful environment supported by strong connections between school and community.
 
Perseverance, Purpose and Authenticity
 
We believe that we can only cultivate perseverance and determinations by building an environment/school culture where all students feel safe, respected, encouraged to take risks and try new things, and are intrinsically invested in their learning.   Further, we believe that students are intrinsically invested in authentic learning environments, where they see the purpose and reasoning for each learning intention, and are willing to enter into a framework for success.    It is our belief that working in this area will enable more students to move from meeting expectations to exceeding expectations in reading, writing and numeracy and all areas of their competency development.
 
Our Enduring Understandings as a staff:
 
* If we focus on common coherent curriculum and effective instructional strategies, then students will become creative and critical thinkers.

* If we work together to create common coherent curriculum that identifies and describes what developmentally appropriate creative and critical thinking learning outcomes are, then we will have a tool to help guide the planning of instruction and assessment of CCT outcomes

* If we continually develop the instructional expertise of our teachers, then teaching will be strengthened and all students will learn in deeper and more meaningful ways

* If we live a structure of reflective practice, then our instruction will improve over time
* If we live a structure of co-plan, observe, share feedback, reflect, co-plan and repeat then our instruction will improve over time
 
*If we embed Social Emotional Learning instructional strategies, students will become better critical and creative thinkers through social situations. Growth Mindset, Positive Behaviour Support, Self Reg Strategies, Zones of Regulation, Mindfulness...  
 
*If we develop a school wide authentic literacy and numeracy plan, students will improve reading, writing and oral language skills that provide an essential foundation to Creative and Critical Thinking skills

*If we use arts infusion as a strategy, students will be able to develop their creative and critical thinking skills through the arts. 
 
*If we measure creative and critical thinking outcomes, this will bring attention to those outcomes and help us understand how we are doing and what is next