About Our School
Cedar Creek Public School opened in September 1999 and is located in the village of Ayr, Ontario. We are a Kindergarten to Grade 8 school that prides itself in academic excellence and creating a community that fosters growth mindset and a collaborative, inclusive space for all. The school consists of a main office, library, gym and multi-purpose rooms, 24 classrooms, 4 portables, an instrumental music room and a special education resource room. The site also hosts the YMCA childcare and the EarlyON program. The school is situated on a ten-acre site next to Schmidt Park. These Outdoor facilities include numerous soccer fields, two baseball diamonds, one outdoor basketball court, two creative playground structures and various blacktop games. We offer French Immersion classes to students from Grade 2 – 6 as well as Core French to all students in Grades 1 to 8. Our school mascot is the Cedar Creek Coyote!
About Our Staff
Cedar Creek is comprised of a large staff including administration, office staff, teachers, a child and youth worker, educational assistants, early childhood educators, custodians, and community volunteers. Together, this team of extremely talented, hardworking individuals create a fun, safe and an equity minded learning environment for students. In addition the staff at Cedar Creek focuses on preserving a “whole school” atmosphere by regularly having students in the primary, junior and intermediate divisions participate together in school-wide activities.
About Our Students
Cedar Creek has approximately 570 students enrolled from JK-Gr.8. Our neighbouring school, Ayr Public School, feeds into Cedar Creek for grade 7 & 8, and our graduates go on to attend Southwood Secondary School. You can find out more student information in our Cedar Creek School Handbook.
About Core Values
At Cedar Creek we know our words and actions matter. We have collaboratively identified with our caregiver community, staff and students what our core values are and strive to demonstrate them each and every day. Please see our student created posters below. Staff nominate students each month who are demonstrating these characteristics for the “Whylie Winner” Board.
In addition to these Core Values, in alignment with WRDSB policies and in the interest of the health, safety, comfort and well-being of all staff, students and visitors to Cedar Creek, the following behaviours are not tolerated at Cedar Creek. Students are encouraged to report issues of this nature to the office.
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Consequences for inappropriate behaviour is based on:
- Problem Solving (finding a solution to the problem)
- Restorative justice
- Progressive Discipline (e.g., visit to office, phone call home, withdrawals from class, Out of School Suspensions)
We use a 3 Part definition for BULLYING:
- Imbalance of Power
- Intent to Harm (physically, emotionally, socially)
- Repeated Pattern (more than one incident)
When talking about bullying with students, we also speak to the differences between:
teasing – generally between friends, and reciprocal
conflict – generally between individuals who are NOT friends, one way incident.
mean moments – strong emotions, isolated incident
bullying – generally between individuals who are NOT friends and meets the definition above (power, harm, repeated)\