Lambton Park Community School

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Model School

Model School is one of the inner-city schools, within the top 50 of the Learning Opportunities Index, that delivers the following essential components from the Model Schools Task Force Report:

-Innovative teaching and learning practices among teachers

-Providing support services to meet social, emotional and physical well being of students

-Establishing the school as the heart of the community

-Researching, reviewing and evaluating the students and programs

-An ongoing commitment to sharing successful practices with other schools

The Model Schools for Inner-Cities initiative provides students with the tools, resources and opportunities they need to participate fully and equally in school and their communities.
Lambton Park like other Model Schools in Toronto provides strong, visionary leadership. Children, families and communities are brought together into the school environment as participants and partners in the learning process, with the school becoming the “heart of the community”.
Lambton Park provides strong professional development for all staff, develops successful practices and shares resources with their cluster of schools.
We ensure that teachers understand the unique needs of children living in the inner cities.

Lambton Park Community School's Mission Statement

Lambton Park Community School is located in the Scarlett Road and Dundas Street West area. In 1993, the original building was replaced with a beautiful new facility. Our school serves a diverse population of eager to learn students who demonstrate a keen desire to excel in all areas of learning and to give back to the society. Lambton Park Child Care Centre is an integral part of our school. We strive to promote and support the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of all students. Healthy eating, care for self and others and, always being the best version of ourself are important to us.

Full Service School and more

We also offer an after school Music Program run by Sistema Music. It runs four days a week from 3:10 to 5:30 pm.

More Information About Lambton Park Community School

Safe and Caring School

We want all of our students to reach high levels of achievement and to acquire the knowledge, skills and values they need to become responsible members of a democratic society.

For our children to be the best they can be, we know they must feel safe in and out of the classroom. Our school-wide focus on safety for all is a lens through which we make all decisions.

Safe and Caring Schools are enabled through:
Strong school leadership, with consistent discipline policies and procedures; School-wide safe and caring schools programs and instructional components focused on inclusive contributions;Prevention based knowledge and skills; Ongoing support and professional growth in emotional intelligence, conduct management, prevention oriented strategies, mediation and violence prevention; Inclusive and developmentally appropriate materials, activities and programs are championed and utilized; Strong efforts to develop relationships and partnerships with the school community; Clear assessment, evaluation and monitoring of student performance, combined with differentiated programming.

Student Support

We want all of our students to be welcomed, included and supported within our school. Some students with unique strengths and needs (behaviour, communication, intellectual and physical) may require more specialized or intensive programs and supports. Collaboration and problem solving among school staff, parents and students is integral to effective interventions.

Monthly Recognition Assemblies

Awards are presented to students who have demonstrated consistent excellence of our specific character education trait, to children who have demonstrated the learning skill of the month, and we also present Honour Roll certificates following Report Cards. Our winners are presented certificates. This family friendly event also includes a classroom performance.

We embed these themes into everything we do because we know our initiatives:

Develop the whole student;
Contribute to a healthy, safe and orderly school environment;
Create a collaborative school where the teaching and learning can be the focus;
Provide high expectations for learning and behaviour;
Engage students in their learning;
Is Universal;
Is Respectful; and
Strive for an ever growing depth of self-awareness, self-discipline and understanding.

Special Evenings

Through out the year we invite families to a range of events and experiences that allow us to come together as a community of learners.

Additional Features

Active Parent Council
Dedicated Parent Room in School
Many Unique Opportunities for ALL
Incredible Atrium with Student Art
Focus on Differentiated Instruction
Display Case - Recognition & Awards
Hard-Working Staff

Student Life - Where You Belong

GO TEAM

Our students are proud to be at Lambton Park. They have told us that they like being at school and love the staff that they work with.

There is a renewed emphasis at our school to offer the co-curricular opportunities the kids deserve here at school. We recognize and value all of our staff who go beyond the basic professional responsibilities of their jobs for our students in many ways.

The staff offer teams in the following sports: Cross-Country Running, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer and Track & Field.

The school also offers different staff-led clubs including Choral, Leadership, Announcements, Yoga, Dance, Spirit, Junior Librarirans, Knitting, Gardening, Eco-Club, Yearbook, Intra-Murals, Technology, Homework and Boys’ Book Clubs.

Students have the opportunities to lead others and work with others in many ways. Formal leadership roles are available to our older students who participate as Student Ambassadors and take advantage of student leadership opportunities.

We want our students to realize that as a hard-working group we are all part of our school team in and out of the classroom wherever we go.

WHAT SETS US APART

"Lambton Park - Achieving, Believing and Caring... our ABC's" is our school motto.

Our ABC's were adapted from one of our former director's opening messages with the TDSB. To some these words could appear to be rather short and simple. However, to us they set a lofty goal each and every day. We want to live these words in everything we do.

We want every child in the school to achieve to the best of their abilities in whatever they wish to do.

We want every person that works with our children, and the students themselves, to believe in our kids' abilities and to know that the sky is the limit.

And finally, we want everybody who touches our students' lives to genuinely care about the entire child's well-being and to celebrate the successes.

Research shows that an old African proverb is correct. "It takes a village to raise a child." By supporting our staff, our parents and guardians, our community and our students in new and creative ways, we are demonstrating that simply doing what was done in the past is not good enough. Lambton Park is intent on moving forward!

PARENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

This has been a key focus of ours with all kinds of unique partnerships, for example - Eritrean Woman's Group - TDSB Newcomer Program - Etobicoke Children's Centre - Yorktown - BOOST Weekly Meetings for students and adults - High Park Choirs - Ballet Jorgen - Arts for Children - Cdn. Children's Opera Company - Four Villages & Early Years 2 - Jane/Dundas Public Library - Toronto Public Health - Ontario Universities - Gooch Centre - Toronto Police Programs - YMCA - Northwood Neighbourhood Services - SOSCA - CCAC - Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto - Jane-Weston Youth Initiative - Royal York Baseball - Lambton Park Community Childcare & Cooper Mills Childcare - Before and After School Childcare - Model Schools for Inner Cities - Full-Service Schools - Active School Council - Morning Meal Program - Volunteers in classrooms, at special events, and on excursions.