The Calvin Plan
Making life better everyday, one step at a time.
We're planning to tackle some of our school's oldest problems with some of the newest, modernized solutions. We'll tackle some of the biggest crises and issues threatening our students' learning environment, from addressing the issues of our washrooms to addressing the changing rooms and many more through a new renovated plan at The Calvin Party.
Our Biggest Priorities
The biggest priorities at The Calvin Party to address the biggest issues
A Place You Feel Safe
The Calvin Plan's Biggest Priorities
We are committed to creating a learning environment where students and staff feel safe. That's why we're addressing the biggest issues threatening in-school security, from vandalism, to overcrowded hallways by creating harsher punishments that aim to reform.
A Place of Connection
The Calvin Plan's Biggest Priorities
We are committed to creating a learning environment where students feel connected to their peers. We're introducing new fundraisers and school-wide events that bond while generating revenue that can help our school can utilize to buy new supplies.
Supporting Changemakers
The Calvin Plan's Biggest Priorities
We want learning to be more awarding, and we want to be able to support students no matter what they aspire to do in their future. We want to make use of our in-school clubs and programs to better hear the voices of our students, and to let students take control of what matters to them.
Our Mission
Our mission is to foster a safe, fun, and welcoming learning environment where student's can thrive with the environment and resources they need to pursue their own defined succecss.
Here are 6 strategies to our plan:
We're removing the door so the inside can be monitored on the outside.
It will now be mandatory / required to keep washroom doors open at all times. There has been a proposed plan to remove the washroom doors, which may be scrapped. This is so teachers can monitor inside activity by leaving the washroom exposed so you can hear what's happening inside, making it harder for vandalism and various acts to occur.
We're boosting cleanliness by installing air purifiers, and air fresheners, and opening up the windows.
Unflushed toilets and war zones have left washrooms smelling disgusting. Air purifiers, air fresheners, and open windows will be required in all washrooms if able to try to improve overall hygiene and overall cleanliness. Additionally, we're discussing plans to hopefully install feminine products in female washrooms, such as period products where people can grab whatever they need.
Preventing paper towel wars through implementing hand dryers / other alternatives.
We hope to be able to completely stop and prevent the paper towel dispensers from being abused by completely removing them and implementing alternatives, such as implementing a locked dispenser or implementing hand dryers. Paper towels have become problematic as people are finding ways to use them to clog toilets, start paper towel wars, and overall create a giant mess that is left to the facility operator to handle.
Investing in innovation and repairing and replacing broken parts.
In alignment with our commitment to enhancing the overall school environment, we are allocating funds towards the restoration and modernization of our washroom facilities. We're investing money towards repair and innovation within our school washrooms, meaning we're rebuilding and revamping the ceilings inside of the girl's washrooms which have been proven hazardous and dangerous. This project has been green lit by the C.B.E and is set to be completed before the 2023-2024 school year begins.
Project Dressup
Since the announcement of Simon Frasser's new dress code, many students failed to obey it. We believe that this is due to a lack of understanding and knowledge of what's allowed, and what's not. We're addressing these concerns through Project Dressup, a plan to introduce a promotional video to inform and educate our students on what's appropriate and allowed, and what's not.
Snitch and Ditch Program
We're partnering up with the Calvin Bureau of Investigation and the Simon Fraser Investigation Bureau to support a snitch and ditch program, a program where students are encouraged to snitch on high-pitch offenders to win awards and cash. This fully annoynomous form will hopefully get people to step up and report something if they see something.
Learn how we're making learning better, safer.
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We're addressing the overcrowded hallways.
Hallways have been a scene of violent pushing and aggressive behavior which has led to injuries in the past. To address this, we're:
adding a 2-way system consisting of 2 lanes to support 2 directional traffic. Indicating arrows will be on the floor to help support this.
adding a railing to separate directional traffic on the stairwell leading to the third floor
adjust the school schedule and regime to stagger dismissal times to reduce the amount of people in the halls at once.
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We're making changing for P.E optional.
When everyone is confined to one singular room, it becomes very chaotic and hectic. Considering very few people actually change, this becomes problematic. To address this, we're making some changes to the changing system for physical education.
Changing will now be optional. If you wish to change, you can do so. If not, you are not to be in the change rooms to declutter.
Trash cans will be added to the change rooms to reduce litter and overall waste.
Benches are proposed to be added for ease.
We're re-adapting learning to return to how things once were.
Our commitment revolves around reinstating the reading period and adjusting the choices available to students. The modifications in our school's schedule, spanning from the wellness block to elective options, have sparked controversy among various individuals. In the previous year, the reading period provided students with an opportunity to engage in reading and complete assignments before the introduction of the wellness block, which aimed to take its place.
Learn what we're doing as a council to attempt to bring back things that students loved the most, and how we're modifying and revamping our courses to meet our school's most controverisal changes.
Here are 4 strategies to our plan:
We're reintroducing reading period for the 2023-2024 school year, where students can read, doodle, etc.
The reading period, a 15-minute slot following lunch, provided students the freedom to read, doodle, address pending assignments, or simply unwind. In the academic year 2022-2023, this reading period was substituted with a wellness block, placing a greater emphasis on nurturing students' mental well-being. Responding to students' appeals, we are now reinstating the reading period and shifting the wellness block to encompass an entire period solely on Fridays.
We're bringing more options for both grade eights and nines, including photography, fashion studies, an various more.
Grade eight and nine options have oftentimes been neglected compared to the grade sevens, fives, and sixes. We're hoping to introduce more option courses to both our grade eights and nines for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Some suggested options were a photography class, a fashion studies class, a design studies course, and various others. This comes with concerns over staffing issues but is a topic of debate by the school council.
We're replacing the classic agenda to create a more sustainable, and useful alternative.
We're planning to create a thinner, more sustainable agenda to not only attempt to save the planet, but to also create a more useful alternative. The agenda was once a tool used to keep track of assignments and served as a hall pass during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it's hardly used ever. We will create a new system that either creates a new and better use for the agenda, or to scrap the agenda overall and invent a new system.
We're revamping the library to bring more books as an addition to our transition to the reading period
We hope to better utilize and take advantage of the given space of the learning commons on the second floor. With the re-introduction to the reading period, we want to buy new books covering all sorts of genres, and to repair broken and vandalized books.
We're making lunchtime more exicting
by introducing more variety to our fun lunches, adding more diversity to our food courses, and adding more activities to keep you occupied.
Ever since the closure of our school cafeteria, the fun lunch system was introduced. This system was disliked due to a lack of variety and expensive pricing. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, our freedom has been heavily restricted and limited. We're addressing these concerns in our efforts to make lunchtime more exciting with more variety to our courses, and more variety to what we are able to do.
Here are 6 strategies to our plan:
We're bringing more variety to the available equipment outdoors during lunchtime.
We're introducing sports nets, more equipment, and sports teams for our younger grades (grades 5-6 primarily) to get them more active and engaged with Simon Fraser's athletic programs. Additionally, we're bringing out more equipment that students can use during lunch hour that will be available for rent through the use of an agenda. This will push more people to head outside, and will add more variety to what you can do.
We're adding more variety and diversity to our food courses.
We're purchasing more varieties of different ingredients from diverse cultures to include more cultures in food class. We want to ensure that more culture is represented and that students have the opportunity to try to create and try foods from different cultures across the world to have a feel for what other countries have to offer. We're discussing the future plans for foods class in the upcoming 2023-2024 school year, and what teachers could do to incorporate more diverse ingredients into their courses.
We're adding cheaper alternatives to our fun lunch program.
Fun lunches are expensive and lack variety. We're exploring more choices and alternatives to fast food, and we're seeking local restaurants as a more affordable and convenient alternative to Subway and Oprah to explore more healthy alternativey. Since the closure of our school cafeteria, fun lunches have been widely popular. We are considering this as a complete replacement as it prevents staffing issues within our school.
We're bringing more options for both grade eights and nines, including photography, fashion studies, an various more.
Grade eight and nine options have oftentimes been neglected compared to the grade sevens, fives, and sixes. We're hoping to introduce more option courses to both our grade eights and nines for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Some suggested options were a photography class, a fashion studies class, a design studies course, and various others. This comes with concerns over staffing issues but is a topic of debate by the school council.
We've approved a new project to build a completely new basketball court.
We, alongside the Calgary Board of Education, are seeking the approval of a 100,000 dollar proposed project to build a new basketball court in the back of our school. This basketbal court will bring many new opportunities available to our students during lunchtime as well as during physical education. This project is still seeking approval from both the C.B.E and Ms. Lailey.
We're bringing back hot-dog / schoolwide barbeques
What happened to the good old days when we got to visit Bowness park and have a hot-dog school day? As we're shifting from pandemic to endemic, we're given the opportunity to bring back these events. We're planning to host a school-wide school barbeque on an undetermined date nearing the end of the school year just as a final farewell, fully paid for by the school.
What The Calvin Party is doing to help our students succeed.
Learn what The Calvin Party is doing to improve our school, and help students live up to their fullest potential.
We are harnessing the boundless potential of technology to create innovative fundraising methods and educational avenues for students. These approaches not only foster academic achievement but also provide lessons in cybersecurity and responsible technology usage, preventing any misuse of technological systems, fully developed and operated by our organization and is not officially endorsed by the school.
Introducing the launch of an unofficial student-ran Simon Fraser website.
We want to develop a new Simon Fraser website. The current one, run by the C.B.E, is rarely used and very few people are aware that it even exists. We want to create a new student-run website that better showcases the daily life of being a student at Simon Fraser, to showcase student talents and projects, and to show the work culture that we pride ourselves in. This one will be reguarly updated with new updates, photos, and newsletters to keep students, parents, and staff informed on school-wide events and information.
We're creating student-ran fundraisers that ACTUALLY go towards the school.
Our school has hosted various fundraisers, but none of them went towards our school. We're all about helping others, but as the metaphor goes.. put on your own oxygen mask before you help others. We want to create ACTUAL fundraisers to help buy supplies, revamp libraries and classrooms, and benefit our school. Fundraisers that are raised through various events such as an Artisan Fair, a school-wide track event, and various others where students are actively involved and engaged.
Working towards a more sustainable feature at Simon Fraser.
We want to make our school more sustainable. We want to launch campaigns to raise awareness about environmental issues, encourage recycling, reduce waste, and possibly create a school garden. Each day, hundreds of pounds worth of paper and cardboard in perfectly fine condition is thrown out. We believe that we can reuse these materials in various activites that support arts and crafts.
We want to expand our club programs, making better use of the learning commons.
Diversity council, student council, GSI, and various other school clubs have been widely popular. We want to expand the amount of clubs available within our school to make better use of the different spaces available within our schools during lunchtime to add more things to do while adding a new way to meet new friends and people of a common niche. Some ideas of clubs include debate, photography, entrepreneurship, coding, and more.
We want to award people for their work and contributions to our school.
We aim to honor our students who demonstrate unwavering dedication to their academic pursuits, recognize those who proactively engage in community betterment initiatives, and applaud those who embrace innovation and embark on unconventional paths. Our intention is to inspire individuals to embrace novelty without trepidation, to exceed ordinary expectations, and to present them with enduring tokens of recognition that will serve as lifelong mementos.
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