Clubs
S.T.A.R.R Program
The S.T.A.R.R. Program is part of Options Community Services. This prevention program facilitates in school and afterschool programs for Grades 1-7. Our goal is to foster positive relationships, leadership skills and pro-social activities for children and youth in the 吃瓜大本营 community. Our programs are listed below. Please contact CSP if you have any questions.
Our In-School Leadership Programs run throughout the course of the school day and are a great way for students to give back to their school community while creating leadership opportunities for all students:
- Grounds Crew: helps keep the school grounds clean by picking up garbage around the school area
- Recycling Team: ensures all the school’s recycling is done once a week
- Equipment Team: organizes and cleans the Gym Equipment Room to ensure gym equipment is always ready to be used for classes
- Door Conductors: monitors the doors during recess and lunch to help kids who are injured get help, to let in teachers and students into the school, and ensures students are being respectful during lunch time in the hallways
- Spirit Team: creates Spirit Days for the school and designs posters to advertise these spirit days around the school
- Juice Box Team: helps recycle the juice boxes where the money is returned back to the school
- Announcement Team: Grade 6/7 students that do the morning announcements everyday
- Wildcat Leadership Team: Grade 6/7 student that organize various fundraising events throughout the year to raise money for a charity of their choice
- Friendship Ambassadors: Grade 6/7 students that facilitate games outside during lunchtime for primary students, welcome all new students to the school, and mentor primary students during recess and lunch
Robotics Club: For neurodiverse children who will be engaged in coding activities. The program runs Fridays from 1:40pm to 2:30pm. Please contact Ms. Gryb if you have any questions.
Challenge Program: The Challenge Program provides an opportunity for highly able and gifted students in grades 3 through 7, to engage with small groups of similarly able students in intense academic, intellectual, and creative challenges. Each Challenge center operates four sessions. Each session is organized by grade level and has four half-day modules that last eight to nine weeks. Please contact Ms. Sahota if you have any questions.
Roots of Empathy: Roots of Empathy is a program that strives to build caring and peaceful society through the development of empathy in children and adults. Our Roots of Empathy facilitator come visits our classroom three times a month to teach us important lessons around empathy.
We have a tiny teacher (a baby). They are usually around 2 - 4 months old when they start the program with us. Our tiny teacher visits our classroom once a month along with their mama and our facilitator. Students have a chance to interact with our tiny teacher during our "Hello" and "Goodbye" song.
Every month, we would measure our tiny teacher (height/weight) and make predictions about their growth. We would also keep track of their developmental milestones. We love having Roots of Empathy in our classroom and we cannot wait for our tiny teacher's visits! Please contact Ms. Rudek if you have any questions.
Lunch Bunches: Facilitate friendship building skills. Students vote to decide on activities and the adult ensures they get along even when students don't get their preferred activity. Each group meets once per week over the lunch break or during silent reading time. There are 13 groups including one for pre-verbal/selectively mute children and one for cooking. Please contact Ms. Lans if you have any questions.
Dino Island: Game-based, brain-development program that was offered to the entire school and mostly intermediate teachers signed up to do this. As children progress through the game, they are learning how to focus, tune out distractions and improve their memory while recognizing what meta-cognitive strategy works best for themselves. It is hoped that those strategies will be transferred to non-game playing times such as during Math or Science, etc. Please contact Ms. Lans if you have any questions.
Challenger Baseball: 100% inclusive way of teaching baseball to any experience level, age, or ability level including those who are blind, in wheelchairs, or have other physical challenges. This is sponsored by the Toronto Blue Jays who provided KB Woodward with all the equipment necessary to run a unit on baseball the 'Challenger Baseball' way. If teachers choose to do a unit on baseball, Judy Lans is willing to co-teach this for the sake of the students who need extra support. If the class completes a baseball unit, the Toronto Blue Jays gives every student in the class a t-shirt and a baseball hat. Judy provided a pro-d on this to staff as the contact person for this program, but now Sunny Chuti is going to be the contact person moving forward who plans to include this as part of his after-school programs. Please contact Ms. Lans if you have any questions.
Star Power - Lunchtime program providing grade 6/7 female identifying and non-binary students with positive mentorship. Program goals are leadership, empowerment, resiliency, and connection. Students engage in school outreach projects, discussions, and activities led by an Outreach staff designed to help make a smooth transition into high school. Please contact CSP for any questions.
When: Thursdays during lunch
RECORDER CLUB: Recorder club meets on most Fridays at lunch, in the music portable (P6). Students are encouraged to bring their recorder and work independently to practice classroom music and music of their choice. It is open to intermediate students. Please contact Ms. Norman if you have any questions.
LUNCH MONITORS: All Grade 6 and 7 classes are a part of the Lunch Monitor Leadership Team. Students volunteer to spend a portion of the lunch hour in classes supervising and supporting younger students. This is a very important Leadership Team at KB Woodward. Please see Ms. Smith if you have any questions.
RAINBOW CLUB: The K.B.W. Rainbow Club is a group of students and staff who are members or allies of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We meet on Thursdays at lunch to hang out and learn together in a safe space. We want the wider school community to know that we exist, have always existed, and will continue to exist on planet Earth. Our goals are to uplift and encourage everybody to be who they are, educate the students about queer identities and issues, and be a presence in the school. Please contact Lindsay Bayne
