Week of June 26th, 2023

 Grade 6 and Grade 8 Graduation Ceremonies

This past week, we honoured our Grade 6 graduating students at Davisville JPS as well as our Grade 8 graduating class at Spectrum Alternative. Our Grade 6 and Grade 8 graduation ceremonies were a momentous occasion for students and an opportunity to reflect back on their successes, achievements and overall journey at Davisville JPS and Spectrum Alternative. Congratulations to you all on reaching an important milestone in your lives!

As our students prepare to transition to the next phase of their education, we would like to wish them a fond farewell and much success as they move on. Also, we would like to extend our sincere thanks and best wishes to all of our families who will also be leaving our school community. We thank you all for leaving a lasting impact on our school community.

Again, congratulations to our graduating students and best of luck in this next phase of your education. You will be missed greatly, and will always be a part of our Davisville JPS/Spectrum Alternative family.

Pride Parade

On Friday, we had our annual Davisville/Spectrum PRIDE parade. What a great opportunity to celebrate our 2SLGBTQIA+ community.  The love, support, allyship and sense of community was truly beautiful. Our sincere appreciation to the Spectrum and Davisville staff who helped organized this event as well as the Davisville Parent Council who purchased and distributed Jumbo Freezies to everyone to mark the end of the event. 

The TDSB Mental Health and Well Being Department has curated mental-health centred resources, which provide learnings and awareness about the 2SLGBTQ+ communities and the impact of homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia on TDSB students, staff, and community members.  Our shared goal is to strive each day for equity by interrupting, disrupting, and addressing stereotyping, biases, and discrimination to promote positive mental health and well-being for all. Please take a moment to peruse through the link below:

PRIDE (TDSB Mental Health & Well-Being)

Butterfly Inquiry in our FDK Classrooms

Our FDK classes received butterfly kits this year. For the past two weeks, our Kindergarten students have been learning about butterflies through inquiry-based learning. The butterfly kits served as a great opportunity to engage students in conversations about the life cycle of butterflies and observe their metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly. The caterpillars were rotating between classes as students observed and discussed the changes they saw. From measuring the growth of caterpillars through a data sheet, students were able to use units of measurements to document how much the caterpillars have grown. Through open inquiry conversations beginning with, “I wonder”, our kindergarten students used their communication skills to talk about what they know about butterflies. On June 20, our Kindergarten classes witnessed the release of the butterflies! 

Happy Summer

It has been an exciting school year! We would like to take this opportunity to thank our School Council for their ongoing support to enhance school life for our students, staff and families at both Davisville & Spectrum. As we come to the end of another school year, we recognize and reflect upon the successes and achievement that our staff, students & families have accomplished together. As a cohesive team, we also value the importance of building strong relationships with home and school and we appreciate the support that we have received from our families. Have a wonderful & safe summer holiday!