OSLA Council

Meet Bradley and Daanish, two grade 8 @Bellmoore_HWDSB student leaders on our Robotics Team. You’ll find them in our Library Learning Commons every 1st nutrition break having deep conversations about gear ratios, thinking through questions like how they might increase their robot’s speed - they are problem-solving, engaged, collaborating and so much more. 🌟🌟🌟 Here they are last Friday, after getting permission from their homeroom teacher, to work on their robot in our LLC because “we’re soooo close to making it work.” This is where they wanted to be during last period on Friday - after a busy week, they are still engaged, motivated, and learning. This is what happens when we offer our students dynamic, innovative learning opportunities. 🤖🦾🦿 Daanish and Bradley are leaders, not only because they are engaged in robotics, but because they are mentoring other students too - like these grade 4 and 5 students who were also in our LLC during last period on Friday. Bradley and Daanish answered questions, shared turns so they could each drive their robot, and encouraged them to join robotics in grade 6. These conversations remind us that our student leaders are incredible, capable leaders who can and will inspire our younger students. 🙌🏿🙌🏼🙌🏽 Bradley and Daanish, we are so very proud of you. We hope you know that we believe in you - your futures are very bright and we know that you will continue to learn, lead, and grow with us as Bellmoore and beyond. May you continue to have important conversations about ratio gears and encourage our younger students to innovate, problem solve, and collaborate just like you do every day. 👏🏾👏🏻👏🏿 Thank you also to our classroom teachers for encouraging these student learning opportunities beyond our classrooms. 🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏🏼 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏿 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💛💚 Our day got even better when Daanish also borrowed a book. We encouraged him to read over the weekend and he promised he would. We hope he did. 💫💫💫 Together at Bellmoore, we GROW to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @oslacouncil @CdnSchoolLibrar #SchoolLibraryJoy

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 6, Part 2: Let's Learn More About Lunar New Year, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our incredible hosts, Mackenzie and Jocelyn, sit down with some @Bellmoore_HWDSB student experts: Sadie from Mrs. Dicroce's grade 1 class, Alice from Mrs. Jelly's grade 2 class, James from Mrs. Sellers grade 3 class and our wonderful parent, Sara Fung, to learn more about how they celebrate Lunar New Year with their families. 🧧🧧🧧 These committed students worked so hard every nutrition break, and even independently at home in the evenings and on weekends to share more about this important family celebration with all of us. Because of your commitment, hard work, and YOUR voices, we can now ALL learn more about this very special celebration. This is student voice at its very best. We are so very proud of you! 👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾 This episode was recently featured in an article in The Hamilton Spectator: “From concept to airwaves: student-led podcast amplifies voices and builds community at Bellmoore Elementary School: Podmoore: Voices at Bellmoore' was launched at Binbrook school in the fall." So much appreciation to @katejmccullough and Cathie Coward from @hamiltonspectator for sharing these important student voices. 📰📰📰 Special thanks also to our AMAZING technology team - Technology Managers and Editors: Alan, Sawyer, & Dawson 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 Wishing all of our families who celebrate, a Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🧧🧧 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @oslacouncil @CdnSchoolLibrar #SchoolLibraryJoy

Yesterday was a day of pure MAGIC as we came together as a community to enjoy pancakes, pajamas, and stories with the incredible Canadian author, Sara O’Leary, who shared her books, “A Family is a Family is a Family,” and “A Kid is a Kid is a Kid.” 🌟🌟🌟🥞📚 We could ALL feel and see the energy in our building yesterday so deeply - the absolute JOY and enthusiasm as we came together - one BIG family at Bellmoore. This is truly community building at its very best! 💞💞💞 We have so much gratitude for this day - to be able to celebrate together. Special thanks to our AMAZING school council and parent community for making our Pancakes and Pajama Day such a huge success! Our students LOVED this opportunity to come together and it was only possible because of YOU - to be able to offer this opportunity to a school of our size is soooo incredibly impressive. 1500+ pancakes and you pulled it off with such determination, patience, enthusiasm, and JOY! We are truly grateful for you. 👏🏿👏🏻👏🏽 Thank you also to Mr. Simpson for gifting us such a wonderful experience - an author visit with Sara O’Leary. Your heart is sooo big and we appreciate you so very much! 🙏🏽🙏🏿🙏🏼 So much appreciation also to our principal, Mrs. Milinovich, our Admin team, and our entire staff for ALL you do to support our students. You continue to amaze us all with your leadership, student-focused approach, and kindness in all that you do! 🙌🏼🙌🏻🙌🏽 Thank you also to Sara O’Leary for sharing your beautiful stories with us. In Sara O’Leary’s words, “no matter where you are in the world, everyone has a family.” This looks different for us all, but we are truly a family at Bellmoore with the very best students, staff, and community. We felt this very much yesterday and every day. Our hearts are so full! 🥰🥰🥰 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏼 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💛💚 May we all take time this Family Day weekend to slow down, reflect, and connect with those we love. May we all feel loved. Happy Family Day, everyone! ♥️♥️♥️ Together at Bellmoore, we GROW to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @CdnSchoolLibrar @oslacouncil #SchoolLibraryJoy