Lambton Park Community School - Achieving, Believing and Caring... our ABC's
Lambton Park Community School has been located in the Scarlett Road and Dundas Street West area for many years. In 1993, the original building was replaced with a beautiful new facility. Approximately 135 children attend our school. Although close to 90% of our students were born in Canada, many of their parents were born elsewhere. Many of the children are from single parent families.
• The school offers Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6 programs.
• Lambton Park Child Care Centre is fully integrated with the Kindergarten program, providing a "seamless day" for JK and SK students.
• The site is used by an Early Years Parenting Centre, our Active Parent Group and many other Community Groups
Full Service School and more
The Student Support Leadership Initiative team supports our vision for the community use of Lambton Park for the delivery of social, recreational, cultural, justice and other inter-agency services that support the well-being and learning needs of students and their families. The concept is based on the philosophy that schools need to support children intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically for them to learn at their potential and be successful in life. The concept identifies the school as a focal point to increase student access to integrated, comprehensive services in an spot that is familiarand typically close to home.
Student Life - Where You Belong
Our students are proud to be at Lambton Park. They have told us that they like being at school and love the staff that they work with. There is a renewed emphasis at our school to offer the co-curricular opportunities the kids deserve here at school. We recognize and value all of our staff who go beyond the basic professional responsibilities of their jobs for our students in many ways. The staff offer teams in the following sports: Cross-Country Running, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer and Track & Field. The school also offers different staff-led clubs including Choral, Leadership, Announcements, Yoga, Dance, Spirit, Junior Librarirans, Knitting, Gardening, Eco-Club, Yearbook, Intra-Murals, Technology, Homework and Boys’ Book Clubs. Students have the opportunities to lead others and work with others in many ways. Formal leadership roles are available to our older students who participate as Student Ambassadors and take advantage of student leadership opportunities. We want our students to realize that as a hard-working group we are all part of our school team in and out of the classroom wherever we go.
What Sets Us Apart
"Lambton Park - Achieving, Believing and Caring... our ABC's" is our school motto. Our ABC's were adapted from one of our former director's opening messages with the TDSB. To some these words could appear to be rather short and simple. However, to us they set a lofty goal each and every day. We want to live these words in everything we do. We want every child in the school to achieve to the best of their abilities in whatever they wish to do. We want every person that works with our children, and the students themselves, to believe in our kids' abilities and to know that the sky is the limit. And finally, we want everybody who touches our students' lives to genuinely care about the entire child's well-being and to celebrate the successes. Research shows that an old African proverb is correct. "It takes a village to raise a child." By supporting our staff, our parents and guardians, our community and our students in new and creative ways, we are demonstrating that simply doing what was done in the past is not good enough. Lambton Park is intent on moving forward!
Parent and Community Engagement
This has been a key focus of ours with all kinds of unique partnerships, for example - Eritrean Woman's Group - TDSB Newcomer Program - Etobicoke Children's Centre - Yorktown - BOOST Weekly Meetings for students and adults - High Park Choirs - Ballet Jorgen - Arts for Children - Cdn. Children's Opera Company - Four Villages & Early Years 2 - Jane/Dundas Public Library - Toronto Public Health - Ontario Universities - Gooch Centre - Toronto Police Programs - YMCA - Northwood Neighbourhood Services - SOSCA - CCAC - Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto - Jane-Weston Youth Initiative - Royal York Baseball - Lambton Park Community Childcare & Cooper Mills Childcare - Before and After School Childcare - Model Schools for Inner Cities - Full-Service Schools - Active School Council - Morning Meal Program - Volunteers in classrooms, at special events, and on excursions.
