School Goal Two
How can we guide and support our students to recognize factors that impact their mental health, to form meaningful connections and to effectively handle challenges?
We gather information about our learners from the following sources:
- Conduct interviews to hear from diverse students across our school about what they need to improve their mental health, and to inform our next steps;
- Gather data from the BC Grade 7 Student Learning Survey on the specific questions that relate to mental health, and use this data to redesign our school-based survey to get more detailed feedback from students across all three grades; and
- Compare data from the ROMS student Mental Health Survey in November and June.
First Peoples Principles of Learning
The Mental Health Goal needs to ensure that:
- Learning requires exploration of one’s identity;
- Learning is holistic, reflective, experiential and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and sense of place); and
- Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits and the ancestors.
- We are implementing a school-wide mental health plan with monthly themes and weekly topics that are explored on ROMS Mental Health Mondays all year;
- We are continuing to engage staff in rich professional learning on the topics of mental health, SOGI and anti-racism education; and
- We are using the results from our ROMS Mental Health survey to continue to ensure that every student has a go-to adult, and provide support for those who don’t.
Over the 2025-26 year, we will track progress on our initiatives identified in this year’s plan. More specifically:
- Provide teachers with weekly Mental Health Mondays lessons and activities to continue to build a toolkit of strategies to support student mental health and wellbeing;
- Provide regular opportunities at weekly leadership meetings and monthly staff meetings for teachers to reflect on our Mental Health Monday lessons and provide feedback to guide our next steps; and
- Continue to use our school-wide Mental Health survey to identify strong adult connections for all students and develop a plan to actively build stronger connections with students.
Mental Health - Grade 7 2022/23 to 2024/25
Learning Self-care - Grade 7 Results 2022/23 to 2024/25
Social Skills - Grade 7 Results 2022/23 to 2024/25
Adult Support - Grade 7 Results 2022/23 to 2024/25
Adult Support (2) - Grade 7 Results 2022/23 to 2024/25
Summary learning, based on evidence gathered over the past 3 years, will provide us with key learnings to guide our next steps for the 2025-26 school year and beyond. More specifically, we will use the data collected in our Mental Health surveys to track growth over the students’ 3 year middle school journey.
