The Learning Community that is Creighton Community School (CCS) consists of students, parents, staff, administration, the Board of Education, the School Advisory Council, as well as the community at large, both local and provincial.

As the result of our beliefs, values and vision we, the CCS Learning Community, will direct our combined efforts towards achieving the following goals. We are committed to ensuring that:

• Creighton Community School is a caring, student-centered school;

• Creighton Community School provides a safe, healthy, challenging and responsive setting in which our children can learn and enhance their self-concept;

• The Code of Conduct of Creighton Community School emphasize a positive school climate, the general needs of society, and the rights and responsibilities of all people in the Creighton Community School Learning Community;

• Students be provided with a comprehensive and relevant education, based on their individual needs, with appropriate support – in order to gain in self-esteem, self-confidence, and knowledge – so that all may grow to their maximum potential;

• The programs, activities, resources and facilities needed to meet the needs of students are constantly developed and enhanced;

• Excellence is constantly pursued by all in the Creighton Community School Learning Community;

• The Creighton Community School Learning Community constantly strives to develop in students respect for themselves, each other, and other members of the broader Learning Community, as well as for property and the environment;

• The Creighton Community School Learning Community undertake activities to assist students in developing their social skills;

• The various components of the Creighton Community School Learning Community collaborate to enable students to be as successful as possible; and

• Effective communication exists between various components of the Creighton Community School Learning Community.

BOARD APPROVED:

August 30, 2007

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