What should a parent know about priorities Almadina administration shares with its staff?
• We practice respect for diversity in shared values and promote a caring and safe school environment. The Citizen: Values/Virtues initiative is based on monthly themes and each classroom teacher has students participate in a theme project or integrate the theme into a core subject such as Language Arts or Social Studies. • Almadina is a languages acquisition school that uses language development as a tool to deliver the Alberta curriculum. We do not have the capacity or public charter to deal with other English or language acquisition needs of the student. • The official language of instruction at ALCA is English. We have students whose second and third language at home is English. Our challenge is to ensure that students reach their full potential, especially in the area of language acquisition. Teachers use the Jim Cummins BICS/CALP Model as well as the Canadian Benchmark Model to identify strategies for language acquisition along four variables: listening, speaking, reading and wri
