Pear Tree Elementary blog

Pear Tree Elementary Students Win with New Provincial Exams

As schools around the province prepare for a new way of doing things, it will be business as usual for Pear Tree Elementary students this fall. That’s because changes the province is making to high school provincial exams are ones that Pear Tree was founded on seven years ago. Starting this summer, one of…

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Pear Tree Team at UBC’s 2018 IOP Conference

Pear Tree Elementary is pleased to announce that its team will be presenting at UBC’s 2018 IOP Conference on May 5th At UBC’s IOP Conference, Alexis Birner (M.Ed.), Andrea Page (M.Ed.), Louisa Chan (M.Ed.), and Paul Romani (M.Ed.) will all be presenting about different topics: Alexis and Louisa will be discussing the use of iPhones for…

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Cultivating Resilience through Mindful Movement

Alex Miller and Cally Bailey from GrowYourRoots.ca discuss how to develop resilience in kids through mindfulness Our personalities are instilled with different patterns and habits shaped over time, and we are influenced from before we are even born. Everything from our silly quirks to our biggest fears are a result of what we have…

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Guest Speaker: Steph Corker (Ironman Athlete)

For anyone that doesn’t know what the Ironman Event is, it’s a long-distance triathlon consisting of: 1) A 2.4-mile (3.86 km) swim 2) A 112-mile (180.25 km) bike ride 3) And, a marathon All this is done back-to-back without a break. Steph Corker has completed 16 X Ironman races, and has qualified for 3 X…

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Winter Sing-Along with Families

On Wednesday night at St. James Community Centre, Pear Tree Elementary students and families came together for a winter sing-along. The night included a dance performance that the older students have been preparing for since September; the younger kids performed some classic Xmas music; and the night finished with a family sing along. As part…

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Australian School Teacher Interviews Pear Tree Elementary

This week, Pear Tree Elementary was proud to welcome Ming Urwin, an elementary school teacher from Abbotsleigh School for Girls, Sydney, Australia. Her interested in learning about the implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in schools led her to come to Canada to visit Pear Tree Elementary, among other schools in Vancouver. She also visited HTH…

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Lululemon Whitespace

Pear Tree Elementary students had the amazing opportunity to visit Lululemon’s Whitespace Lab this morning! The Whitespace Lab is where specific Lululemon employees conduct extensive ‘top secret’ research into new materials and designs and how these perform on live athletes in their intended sports and environment conditions. The Whitespace Lab is not open to the…

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Guest Speaker: Dylan Wykes

Canadian marathon runner and Olympian, Dylan Wykes, was the guest speaker today at Pear Tree Elementary. Dylan is currently mounting a comeback after representing Canada in the 2012 London Olympics, finishing 20th – the fastest of three Canadian participants. Today, Dylan talked about what it takes to be an athlete, tying this to Pear Tree’s…

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Visit to TurF Studio

Pear Tree Elementary’s students went on a field trip to TurF (a studio, shop, kitchen + coffee bar) on 4th Ave. Coaches Alex Miller and Cally Bailey led the students through TRX and Mindfulness workshops. Thank you to Alex, Cally and TurF! Share:

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Project-Based Learning in Action

This is what project-based learning looks like in action at Pear Tree Elementary! Notice Pear Tree’s progressive approach: everyone is focused, engaged, and hard at work; students are free to work at a table or on the floor, in the classroom or in the corridor; they work both in groups and independently; they use a…

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