It’s Here! The latest edition of Learning Matters has just been released. The theme for this edition continues with the HSD Deeper Learning Plan , and focuses on Leveraging Digital – Using Technology to Produce Investigators and Producers of Knowledge. Also included in this edition are stories from our schools – Connected Classrooms, Learning Partnerships, and Emoji Week.   Download digital version (PDF) .… Read More
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¾«¶«Ó°Òµ is pleased to offer a five-day summer camp to interested 5th (soon to be 6th) graders. The cost of the camp is $50. Students will have the unique opportunity to spend each day learning about a different occupation while participating in hands-on activities such as welding, baking, cooking, hairstyling and carpentry! …LEARN MORE >
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The HSD Festival of the Arts was created four years ago as a way to bring our schools together and celebrate student creative learning in dance, drama, music and visual arts. The 2016 festival will take place June 1-4 at Clearspring Mall in Steinbach. Â Browse through art displays from across the division. Opening night program… Read More
Update: May 2, 2016 5:18pm.
Service has been restored to all school locations.
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Beginning on April 28, 2016, The ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ will facilitate a division-wide community engagement through the online group insight platform, Thoughtexchange. HSD invites parents/guardians to take part in this unique and exciting opportunity to share their thoughts, regarding the school their child attends. This engagement will enable parents/guardians to share their thoughts as a… Read More
Over the course of the school year, the Southwood Deeper Learning team has launched a Makerspace for the school. Fundamentally, this place is an opportunity for deeper learning for our students. The students come to the Makerspace ready to rise to a challenge. Their responses to the challenge cross the curriculum. A makerspace challenge involves a process that includes questioning, designing, perfecting, sharing, and reflecting. During this process, you would expect to see the students displaying the important characteristics of Our Kid.
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I wonder about how I learn things as a fifty-something year-old adult. Do I only choose to learn when presented with a problem? Do I choose to learn for fun? For curiosity? For my job? What provokes me to learn? I’ve been thinking about this lately and I can come up with all kinds of provocations for my learning… READ MORE>
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Reporters Deja and Mason of the Southwood School News Team interview ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Trustees Cyndy Friesen and Sarah Dyck. Watch the latest edition of the Southwood News!
The Professional Learning Centre (PLC) serves as an educational resource to all ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ teachers. Home to the division’s robust and diverse team of learning coaches, the coaches are a group of master teachers. As such, their work involves building connections with other teachers throughout the division, helping them create the best environments possible… Read More
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The latest edition of Learning Matters (Deeper Learning Special Edition) is now available for download. LM is a Divisional Magazine of the the HSD Superintendent’s Office, and is published four-times annually. Articles within this edition include an introduction to Deeper Learning and the HSD Learning Coaches, Building a Thinking Classroom, and Inquiry-Based Learning, Play-Based Learning. … Read More
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