We are so excited to be partnering with Sharon Fortowsky this year for a while school collaborative art residency #landbasedlearning #visualarts CBE Area 1

Celebrating Canadian legend Terry Fox today as demonstrated perseverance and resilience while we ran together! Who did you run for?

🚸 Now that everyone is settling into their back-to-school routine, we want to remind Calgarians to follow these traffics safety rules to keep students safe! #BackToSchoolSafety #YYC

Introducing a new year of kinders to our favourite space. The gift of the fall colors and a visit from a diving duck. What a wonderful Wednesday. Royal Oak School #weareCBE #getoutside #thankyouNa’a

Our amazing artist in residence was back this week engaging the students with the textures and patterns from the trees and leaves in our community. Inspired by her ability to authentically bring the outdoors inside. CBE Area 1 #weareCBE #landbasedlearning

Thank you Na’a for the colors of fall. After practicing sitting quietly just to BE in the oval wetlands, one student shared, “the wind was talking to us!” as it rustled through the trees. #getoutside #weareCBE #landbasedlearning CBEEarlyLearning CBE Area 1 Royal Oak School

Kinders identifying, sorting, and creating colors with leaves as we collaborate with Sharon. 🥰 #weareCBE Royal Oak School CBEEarlyLearning #natureisart

Kindergarten children headed to the wetlands for #TakeMeOutsideDay and built some beautiful art with nature Take Me Outside

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P is for Poppy… kindergartners represented this symbol of hope as we helped decorate for our school-wide assembly today. Royal Oak School

Artist in residence Sharon, inspiring our future scientists as they investigate the impact of pH on the tones of the natural dyes we are making. #artandscience #inspiringminds CBE Area 1 #weareCBE

Where does colour come from? How is paint made? What ingredients from the land helps create pigment? Questions to ponder as we work with Sharon Fortowsky #landbasedlearning

Grade 1’s learning about how to keep our roads safe with @calgarypolice and engaging in the design thinking process to ideate about how to slow down traffic in front of the school

Welcome to literacy month at ROS. Thanks to our parent council for organizing such engaging activities to hook our young readers. Check out the vocabulary on our collaborative word wall! CBE Area 1 CBEEarlyLearning #WeAreCBE #growareader

Dress like your favourite book character day got our staff and students to turn on their creative imagination. #literacymonth CBE Area 1 #weareCBE

Working with Sharon Fortowsky to document evidence of spring. Detailed drawings of insects will enhance our whole school collaborative art project in our gathering space.

Grade 2’s applying their pull-apart strategy to solve addition problems related to animals and their names in Blackfoot. #verticalmath CBE Area 1 #wearecbe

Grade 1’s are Conservation Champions! So proud of our students for sharing their learning and advocating for the polar bears! Calgary Zoo #conservationchampion

BIG things are happening in our Gathering Space! We can’t wait to share the results of our whole school collaborative project with students on Tuesday.

Our whole school collaborative art project has come to life in the Gathering Space. Students partnered with Sharon Fortowsky and supported Beam Paints to create seasonal trees which embody the vision for our school as a second home for all students to connect and belong.