​​Welcome to the new school year and those families that are new to our school, we welcome you to Dr. Oakley! 

Every school year is new and exciting and as we establish new teams, we work very thoughtfully to create warm, welcoming, inspiring learning communities with the new configuration of students. Many of the activities and tasks are directed towards this goal to support all student levels of positive well-being and to inspire them to be greater risk takers in their learning.  Stephanie Bender our assistant principal will greet students each morning as they arrive off buses. They then connect with teachers as a soft start either inside their classrooms or outside.  As students begin their day of learning, teachers will engage with them in intentional connection time before starting their day of academic learning. Socio-emotional and wellbeing are extremely important to support students with their academic learning.

As you are aware, we provide very rich, intensive, literacy programming for our students. Literacy instruction is immersed across all curricular areas.  Mathematics instruction is also intentional and explicit to support the unique learning needs of our students.   Our students are grouped according to grades in either a straight grade or a multi-aged configuration. Each grouping has approximately 23-24 students and two teachers. For an hour a day, three teachers support the grouping of students. Each of these learning teams is identified by a color (teal, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and green). To further support students we also have a mathematics/technology learning leader, a literacy learning leader, three literacy support teachers and a physical education teacher.   Within each learning community, students will be grouped in a flexible manner depending upon the learning activities and the needs of the students. 

Thank you and Welcome!
Denise Nimmo 
Principal