WESTMOUNT CHARTER SCHOOLWestmount Charter School is a K-12 school for gifted students in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our publicly-funded school began as ABC Charter Public School in 1996 with 116 students in grades 1-3. In 2002, our name officially changed to Westmount Charter School and we have now grown to a student population of 1,000!
We hope that you will find that our website will answer many of your questions about our school and about gifted learners. Just follow the links along the right-hand side of each web page, or browse the student, parent and educator links at the top of each page. In addition, currently-enrolled Westmount students, their parents, and Westmount staff, now have the opportunity to "log in" to additional areas of the site!
The basics
Our Vision:
"Westmount Charter School, "as a partner in the best learning system in the world", will be recognized as the centre for excellence in gifted education."
Our Purpose:
"To provide qualitatively differentiated educational programming for Kindergarten through Grade 12 students who are gifted." (The Charter, 1998)
Our Definition of Giftedness:
"Students are gifted when they perform, or show potential for performing, remarkably high levels of accomplishment in learning rate, depth of knowledge, and reasoning and problem-solving abilities when compared to others of their age, experience, and environment."
Our Program provides:
- an established program, now in its thirteenth year of educating gifted learners
- a multi-faceted understanding of giftedness
- small class sizes and a caring learning environment that honours differences
- differentiated programming based on Alberta Education Curriculum that allows students to proceed at their own rate provided they have understood the concepts of the entire curriculum at their present level
- an emphasis on developing the Whole Child
- an emphasis on teaching students how to learn
- an emphasis on understanding concepts, and on developing a variety of creative ways for students to "show what they know"
- a qualified and dedicated staff
- school bussing and good access via Calgary Transit
- opportunities for volunteerism and humanitarian involvement in the world
- the opportunity to stay at the same school from the beginning of elementary grades to high school graduation!
Our Admin Team
Martha Faulkner, Principal
Marylyn Waters, Vice Principal
Hal Curties, Vice Principal
Dani Sever, Vice Principal
Chris Hooper, Vice Principal
Merv Kurtz, Superintendent
Megan O'Hara, Secretary-Treasurer.
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