With the beginning of a new school year, we return to some old routines.  Students and parents, please be mindful of pedestrian safety and use the crosswalks when coming to and from school.  Drivers, please ensure that you 'Give our Kids a Brake'so they may reach their full potential.

We look forward to a successful year of achievements for 2012-2013.  In addition to the many engaging curricular, co-curricular, and extra curricular activities offered to our students, we are extremely proud of the excellent results our students achieve.  Our Stratford Eagles are students who participate fully, work hard and study diligently in our Cogito program through a rigorous, enriched, liberal arts curriculum. Integrated into this academic focus are our daily Character Education traits, based on the Safe and Caring Schools initiative, which develops "Three Rs": Respect, Responsibility and Results. Daily announcements, positive behaviour referrals, and "Lunch with the Principal" help move our "Three Rs" forward.

Although much light has been shed on the character development of students, it is done in careful balance with the academic component of our program. It is imperative that parents continue to strengthen their commitment to the Cogito Principles through closely monitoring their son/daughter's homework agenda for assignments, quizzes and exams. Teachers will be ensuring that homework is measured, meaningful and relevant to ensure that students exercise their cognitive and metacognitive development. Parents, please visit our SchoolZone for regularly updated school newsletters and up-to-date information pertaining to your son/daughter's programming at Stratford. These initiatives, collaboratively orchestrated by Stratford Staff, parents and students, is another indicator of how our rigorous Cogito program respectfully engages students in relevant learning opportunities through authentic relationships - at school and in our surrounding community.
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Check out our engaging Go Public initiative - promoting public education. Click here to listen to our version of I Got A Feeling...

To all parents and community members, we thank you for collaboratively and cooperatively working with our staff as we nurture our student's love of knowledge through a positive, respectful environment focused on a rigorous, knowledge-based program -a program leading toward academic excellence!

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