WHICH DEN DO YOU BELONG TO?

Panorama Hills School is a large K-3 school with nearly 700 students, a number that comes close to most middle schools. With an organization this large it becomes difficult to manage and assess this number of students.

As you know PHS now has two Physical Education Specialists which will make this process more efficient and purposeful. However, the addition of the second PE teacher alone is not the biggest strategy to accomplish this.

This year Mr. Fen-Mac and Ms. Atwall have introduced Dens to the PHS Phys Ed program. Similar to houses, such as in the famous movie Harry Potter where the sorting cap matched Harry to the house Hogwarts. At PHS, ten coloured Dens - two of each colour, yellow, blue, pink, red and green - now stand tall above the gym that each student belongs to.

We consider these Dens as learning communities that students will identify with each time they come to the gym for Phys Ed. Not only will this assist us in the management of so many students, our hope is that it will create a sense of identity for each of our students. Students across the school will belong to a coloured Den regardless of their grade. Perhaps our school spirt days will take shape around this concept where students could dress in their Den colours or maybe Kindergarten students will be buddied with their Den buddies in Grade 3 for reading groups or school-wide events. The opportunities are endless!

So...which Den do you belong to?