Wingham HB School is a K – S4 independent school located on Wingham Colony which is located approximately four miles north of Elm Creek. Our school is currently a funded independent school. A funded independent school in Manitoba follows all Manitoba curriculum guidelines and subjects.

The school itself is a large building with many classrooms, a library, an art room and a gymnasium. We currently use two classrooms full time - one being the kindergarten to grade three while the other has grades four to eight. We have two Hutterian teachers teaching fulltime from K – 8. Having Hutterian teachers in the classroom is advantageous because the teacher knows the students very well and can maximize the utilization of the Hutterian culture within the classroom which increases students learning, interest and comprehension.

Students take all required the English courses as well as High German. Our high school students are taught via IITV and are strongly encouraged to graduate. Since we are in a rural area we have to rely on distant education for our high school medium. More informaiton can be found on our high school page in this site.

Another room that is very well used by both students and teachers alike is the curriculum room. It doubles as a photocopy/printer room. Students usually go to retrieve their printed material from this room. The picture on the right shows some of the curriculum material we use and is sorted and coloured by subject and grade.

We want to maximize learning opportunities for each student because the highly technological world is becoming more sophisticated everyday and our students need to be prepared to function in the modern Hutterian and larger society.

We use a lot of technology in the classroom and try to have a 1:1 computer to student ratio. We also purchased a smartboard for the main grade 3-8 classroom and this purchase has revolutionized the way we teach. The smartboard comes with sound, projector and is touch sensitive. There are many neat activities which can be incorporated into lessons available online. Many can be found on www.smarttech.com.

We also have one room as our library. We have spent large amounts of money on initially purchasing many books to read but constant updates are required. It's also a lot of work to make sure books are kept neat and organized and it is the responsibility or one student to do so each week. This job like all other chores are on a rotation and each student will take his/her turn doing this. The picture shows the main library. The K-2 students have their own small mini library in their own classroom so they don't have to leave the room to get new books. Our K-6 students follow a scholastic non-fiction guided reading program and this has worked to ensure that the love of reading is rooted into the students.

We are often asked how the school is cleaned and maintained. The school gets a thorough cleaning every weekend and the students also have chores that are done every day. Basic chores like sweeping, cleaning boards, maintaining the library shelves and other general chores are done on a rotational basis and each student has a chore. On Friday, we spend more time cleaning then usual and do all chores. The picture on the right shows the students doing basic school chores.

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