Motto

Do you Know it, can you show it?

Vision

At Panorama Hills School, we strive to create a learning environment where students can be creative, innovative, and collaborative in an inclusive community. Our goal is to develop independent thinkers, problem solvers, and lifelong learners. We believe students learn best through active participation. By building skills to ask questions, investigate, solve problems, share thinking, and support others, students nurture curiosity, enrich understanding, and engage with the world. Teaching empathy helps students understand and care for others, build stronger connections, and solve problems thoughtfully. Hands-on learning in creative spaces fosters creativity, resilience, and teamwork. Differentiated Instruction ensures every student has meaningful opportunities to succeed. We work with families, students, and staff to create a strong community focused on collaboration and connection. Topics like Peace Education, Land-based Learning, Environmental Education, and Design Thinking inspire thoughtful and sustainable solutions. At Panorama Hills School, we prepare students to be caring, innovative citizens who positively impact the world.​

Fostering Creativity, Innovation, and Collaboration: The school emphasizes creating a learning environment that nurtures these qualities within an inclusive community.

Developing Lifelong Learners and Problem Solvers: By focusing on active participation, critical thinking, and skill-building, students grow into independent thinkers engaged with the world.​

Promoting Empathy and Hands-on Learning: Empathy, teamwork, and resilience are cultivated through meaningful connections and creative, experiential learning opportunities.​

Team teaching involves teachers jointly planning lessons, delivering instruction to the whole group, and dividing responsibilities such as leading smaller groups for differentiated tasks, activities, or assessments. This approach allows for diverse expertise, personalized support, and enhanced engagement in the classroom.​

Mission

To create a student-centered community school that cares for people and supports individuals in meeting their individual potential through personalized learning that occurs within a culture of respect where we ask questions, persevere, take risks and celebrate diversity.

Our Purpose

It is our intent to:

• model and value peace, empathy, kindness and care for all people
• provide and encourage positive, caring interactions between students, staff and parents
• establish a safe environment where students can collaborate to take intellectual, emotional, and social risks
• empower students to set goals and take control of their own learning
• integrate deep, rich Inquiry that builds critical thinking skills through meaningful learning tasks that build 21st century skills and global citizenship
• refine students' ability to observe, investigate and reflect on their own work
• authentically infuse technology, the arts and STEAM principles to deepen Inquiry and understanding through tasks and learning opportunities that are personalized and meaningful to students

How Will Learning Take Place?

Character Education is an instructional technique that uses common language to examine what is going on; how people feel; what could be the best way of going about learning. It is a way of modeling cooperation and understanding between individuals and cultures. By deliberately developing character all students can be leaders. Students need to depend upon each other and work cooperatively. They need to know their roles; what they are expected to achieve and how to demonstrate that it benefits the group. Discussion, observation, and understanding are key teaching and learning experiences and skills we will develop. Our quest for building relationships will be through generosity, caring, hope and respect for each other. You will see evidence of staff caring deeply for our children. Our goal is that we will also have a sense of playfulness in our building – a community where everyone wants to be.

Inquiry-Based Learning is a process where students can reflect upon a situation, their learning, or group dynamics in a way that examines a specific question. It can be a powerful tool for cultural inclusion, appreciation for plurality, and dialogue. We often begin by asking "What's the problem?" With Appreciative Inquiry students are heard, seen, and appreciated. It also enables students to be active participants in the thinking process and encourages them to amplify what strengths or qualities they already possess towards their learning or class environment.

Our foundation in building a community will be our deep investment in children and their learning. We believe that all children have the capacity to learn and flourish. Our role is to have every child succeed. It is not about having the answers, but asking deep questions.

We wish to always model to you as parents, each other and to our students that we have a sense of passion and voraciousness for learning. We want our children to be critical thinkers and have strong ethics. We value risk taking for our children and there are multiple opportunities in our school and classrooms for actions and speech whereby each individual is encouraged to distinguish them as an individual. We will ask ourselves each day what have I contributed to our place – what difference have I made for myself and for another?

Panorama Hills School at a Glance

• Our students are organized into single grade groupings.
• Staff teach in teams and augment each other's strengths in order to support each learner in our care.
• Supportive programs are offered in ESL (English as a Second Language), French (Grade 4-5), Music, PE and Resource.
• Learning is supported through the involvement of several community experts such as artists, musicians, technology professionals, scientists, and many others!
• Strong school-wide focus on peace education through building empathy and care for others.
• Before/After school program located in building. 
• Lunch supervision is provided for all registered program users.
• Physical Education and Music programs provided by specialists.
• Extra-curricular activities are offered over the lunch hour.
• Parents are encouraged to volunteer in the school.

View Our Truth and Reconciliation Commitment

View Our School Development Plan | 2025-2026

View Our School Improvement Results Report | 2024-2025