The Seycove Community strives to engage its members in opportunities for collaborative innovation and learning, to build and maintain purposeful connections and relationships, and to create a safe environment in which to develop citizens of integrity.
We encourage all individuals to have pride in their uniqueness and in their accomplishments. We respect ourselves and others. We contribute in a positive manner to establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for all to learn and succeed. We appreciate and understand the differences or others including those of gender, race and cultural background. We are committed to being a part of a positive school climate for the whole community of Seycove Secondary.
Seycove students are committed to giving back to their community in order to make it a positive space for everyone to thrive. Our parent community is active and engaged in the school and in supporting our students to be kind and open-minded young adults. Our staff is committed to ensuring students feel welcome and able to learn and grow both in their academics and as individuals.
Acknowledgement of the Traditional Territory
Seycove at sə́yəmətən - "Place of Good Water"
In June 2022, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation gifted Seycove Secondary with an Indigenous place-based name, sə́yəmətən. sə́yəmətən was the name of the village located in this area that we now call Strathcona. sə́yəmətən means “place of good water". The Tsleil-Waututh Peoples primarily used ocean routes for transportation, using cedar canoes. Throughout different seasons of the year, they would travel to different locations throughout the inlet, hunting and harvesting in the bountiful coastal waters and shores. Their safe journeys relied upon detailed knowledge of the seasons, associated tides, weather patterns, and currents. “The Place of Good Water" offered travellers a safe haven from storms and tides and was teeming with ocean life and food.
We give thanks to the Coast Salish people, specifically the Skwxwú7mesh Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation, upon whose unceded traditional territory Seycove was built. We value the opportunity to learn, share and grow on this traditional territory. I am committed to the spirit of reconciliation. We are so grateful for the opportunity to learn, live, and work at sə́yəmətən, where Seycove resides.
Seycove's Vision Statement
The Seycove community strives to engage its members in opportunities for collaborative innovation and learning, to build and maintain purposeful connections and relationships, and to create a safe environment in which to develop citizens of integrity.
Seycove's Connection to District Strategic Plan
Seycove's goals were developed through rich discussion with staff, students, and our parent community. Coming out of COVID, we wanted to address areas that may have started to lag due to the interruption of school, of socialization, and our life as we all knew it. We identified the skills that we wanted to collectively work together to build. Through the lenses of our District's key goals, the list of growth areas for Seycove evolved: Social and Emotional, Problem solving, perseverance, self-efficacy, resiliency, engagement, mental health, relational skills, kindness, and inclusivity , executive functioning and self-regulation, study skills and basic academic skills such as literacy/numeracy skills.
Seycove's School Goals
Goal 1:
To foster a positive school culture that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and a positive sense of belonging.
Goal 2:
To foster life-long learning, agency, self-actualization and active citizenship
Goal 3:
To create engaging and authentic learning experiences.
Planning and Implementation
Strategic Actions
For Goal 1:
· Action 1: Refine our Values into new Seycove Community Agreement that aligns with our school goals.
· Action 2: Make our Values visible across classrooms and in our conversations.
· Monitoring and Adjustments:
- Do students know the values? Does our community know our values?
- Have we included the refined values in conversations, recognition, appreciation, Learning Habits?
- Are we living into and showing up with our values?
For Goal 2:
· Action 1: Redefine Recognition. Ensure students feel 'seen'.
· Action 2: Celebrate learning, service, leadership etc.
· Monitoring and Adjustments:
- Do students know the values? Does our community know our values?
- Have we included the refined values in conversations, recognition, appreciation, Learning Habits?
- Are we living into and showing up with our values?
Monitor, Evaluate and Adapt
Ongoing Assessment and Reflection
Formative Assessment:
Summative Assessment (Analysis of evidence):
Reflection (Interpretation):
Communicating Progress
Engagement
Seycove's themes for the 2024-2025 school year are Relationships with Self and Others, Relationships with the Land, and Relationships with Technology.
In moving forward with refining our school goals and connecting to the themes, the Seycove school planning team will work on updating our value statements into a new 'Code' or Community Agreement – and commitment to our beliefs - that represents who we are as a community and what we stand for.
The work this year will include determining our values, that align with the school goals and then making our value statements visible and meaningful.
Staff Engagement
We will designate time at our staff meetings to garner feedback on the school planning team's work on updated school values. Staff collaborated last year to create the current school goals, and the values are pulled from common themes and threads that weave through our goals.
Student Voice
We have a large student group who is participating in school planning this year. Our goal is to bring together different perspectives from our student body to help define what it is that Seycove is committed to in terms of living into our values. Once we have a draft of our 'values' from the school planning team, we want to garner broader student feedback before we finalize the new Values/Code of Seycove.
Family and Educational Partner Engagement
Our parent community is invited to our FOS School Planning events – one in the fall and one in the spring. We also share our school goals and planning with the PAC to get feedback from our amazing parent community.
