Nimbus Christian Education

Across the province today some of the communities we partner with are having snow days and students are staying home from school. Nimbus Christian Education is not. Despite bad weather our students are still able to keep learning. I’m of two minds about this. One part of me is sad, while the other is excited. I remember snow days as a child with such joy! Getting out of bed and discovering that you had this great surprise with a whole day to do nothing but play. My strongest memory comes from the day there was so much freezing rain that I pulled on my skates in the morning and skated on main street in town. I spent almost the whole day outside on my skates going everywhere because there was so much ice. But the world is different than when I grew up. I’m excited about how we can be so much more flexible about how and where our children learn. We don’t face the same limits that we did. I’m looking forward to exploring what this means for us in the future. So while I feel sad...

Helping students reach their maximum potential isn’t always easy; but, when you think outside of the box you can overcome any challenge. At Nimbus Christian Education we have been working hard to help educators effectively support students along their educational journey. Whether students are struggling or require an added challenge, educators need resources that are beneficial to all students. Providing extra time to complete a course or even repeating a course is critical to academic success. Allowing children to simply complete a unit without mastering the subject matter creates learning gaps. Similarly, academically advanced students who are not challenged often become stagnant, bored and working well below their potential. Students in either of these situations are equally at risk of jeopardizing their academic success and future endeavours. Depending on the size of the school, there may be an opportunity to have two or more classes run at once. Or perhaps it’s too diffi...