Mission Statement
Educating all students to become lifelong learners and contributing citizens in a challenging, changing, multi-cultural world.

Vision Statement
A future in which all students achieve their full potential.

Goals

Effective Schools: Make every school an effective school by embracing and building capacity for the seven correlates of effective schools: clear and focused mission, instructional leadership that has a strong focus on numeracy and literacy, safe and orderly environment, climate of high expectations, frequent monitoring of student success, time on task and positive home-school/community relations.

Effective Environments: Make every school a clean, attractive and quality learning environment that stimulates academic achievement.

Effective Staff: We will be an employer of choice that will attract and retain an effective, diverse and highly functioning workforce.

Core Commitments

Respect. We will:

• Respond to stakeholder needs in a caring, thoughtful and considerate manner
• Ensure a safe, welcoming, inclusive environment that nurtures personal achievement
• Communicate and respond to stakeholders in an open, honest, sensitive and intelligent manner
• Acknowledge the diversity, dignity and worth of all individuals and respect their roles, competencies and contributions to our mission

Innovation. We will:

• Foster an environment that encourages creativity and inspires people to make a difference
• Recognize and reward excellence, effort and innovation in pursuit of our vision
• Encourage thoughtful experimentation and challenge routine ways of doing things
• Be mindful of the need to adapt best practices in enhancing our mission effectiveness

Accountability. We will:

• Act with integrity in accordance with established Board policies
• Measure and report our accomplishments against explicit, planned outcomes
• Use resources wisely, efficiently, effectively and equitably
• Deliver on committed actions

PARKSIDE’S BELIEF
We, the students, staff and parents of Parkside, are dedicated to fostering a caring environment in which the potential of every student is realized through curricular and extra curricular activities, staff will continue to grow professionally and parents are actively involved in the educational process. Together, we will strive to be knowledgeable, productive and responsible citizens.

EQAO Results
These assessments capture performance at a specific point of time each year. The results should be considered together with other school information about student performance in reading, writing and mathematics.

•  Parkside 2009-2010 EQAO Results