Exciting Summer Renovations at Kelowna Christian Elementary School: A Bright Future for Our Gordon Campus At Kelowna Christian School, our Elementary School holds a special place in our hearts. The Gordon Campus has been home to our youngest learners for over 39 years and is deeply rooted in our history. As with any well-loved building, time has ta...
Ministry Evaluation and Things to Celebrate!
Every six years, independent schools go through a ministry review. This review process is a deep dive into our curriculum and pedagogy (as well as files, policies, and certification) at Kelowna Christian School. As a previous public school teacher, this concept was foreign to me; the idea that someone from the Ministry of Education would come in an...
Construction Updates - Lakeshore Campus
October 3rd Now that school is in session, the halls of the KCS Lakeshore campus definitely sound different. The constant construction noises of saws, hammers and rock music playing on the worker's radios have now been replaced with laughter, the tuning of instruments, sliding chairs and the frustration of learning new locker combinations!On July 1...
Inspiring a Love for Reading in Your Kids
I am a self-professed book lover. Secretly, I would love to find a job where they paid me to read all day. Reading takes me to places I will never go and puts me in the minds of characters I would have trouble understanding otherwise. Reading didn't always come easily for me; I was a late starter in my reading journey and spent more time in t...
WHY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION?
SUMMER MUSINGS Not surprisingly, as Head of School, I frequently get asked the question: "Why KCS?"Often the question is posed in the context of a conversation with a potential family. Really it's a version of the broader question of "Why this school?" - as opposed to "that" school. Mostly commonly (at least in my conversations) "that" school...
Teaching Principles
Kelowna Christian exists to educate and inspire our students so that they can be effective, active and engaged servants of Jesus - both in their life at school and in their lives beyond school. How does our mission meet the classroom and the broader educational life of the school?The KCS Design Principles for Teaching and Learning are simple ...