Quick Facts
- Our school welcomes approximately 435 students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 each year.
- We offer full-day Bilingual Kindergarten, the English Program with Core French, Early French Immersion and Middle French Immersion
- Once our students complete grade 6 they attend either Maplewood Secondary School or Goulbourn Middle School.
Registration
Interested in registering your child at our school? Contact Us or visit the OCDSB registration page for more information.
Mission Statement
The acquisition of the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and values required to successfully participate in, and contribute to a competitive and rapidly changing global society begins early in life and continues throughout one’s school career and beyond. ALC is thus a learning community where all strive to grow and achieve in an atmosphere of cooperation, consideration and respect for self and others. A positive school climate and a strong partnership between staff, students, parents and the wider community provide the foundation for each of our students to become active, responsible citizens. We all share the common goal of helping each student to develop to his or her personal potential.
Our School
A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary School opened in 1991 in Stittsville. The school is named after a former Carleton Board Superintendent of Schools whose contribution to the development of special education programs was recognized throughout the province.
The notions of community and family are very highly valued at our school. Teachers and parents work together in all aspects of school life, with the best interests of children as our primary focus. We are dedicated to making our school a place where students achieve in an atmosphere that is comfortable, focuses on the development of their character and offers lots of opportunity for developing all aspects of each student as a person. Our school is a vibrant place that offers much to every student, each and every day.
Academic Programs
- English Program
- Early French Immersion Program
- Middle French Immersion
- Instrumental music at the intermediate level
- Integrated Special Education Learning at the Primary/Junior and Intermediate levels.
Special Education and ESL Programs
Our learning support staff work in collaboration with the classroom teachers to support planning, program delivery, monitoring of progress and differentiation for students with special needs. In-School team meetings are held to support teachers in their efforts to meet the needs of the diverse learning styles of the students in their classrooms. Our learning support staff includes a Learning Resource Teacher (LRT), a Learning Support Teacher (LST), and Educational Assistants.
A. Lorne Cassidy is a welcoming facility characterized by open spaces, and large windows. We have portables organized in a “port‐o‐pac” on site. Facilities also include a kindergarten complex, double gymnasium, and specialty areas designed for music, art, design and technology, and science. Attached to the school, but operating independently is a cooperative nursery school.
Clubs and Activities
Organized activities include sports such as:
- Cross‐country running
- Touch Football
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Badminton
- Track and field
- Borden ball
Throughout the year, students may participate in:
- Lego Club
- Concert Band
- Student Leadership Team
- Skipping Club
- Field trips to various locations in the National Capital Region
- Skating at the local arena and at the rink on our field, and Grade 3 Swim to Survive.
Students are given opportunities to demonstrate leadership and citizenship by working as lunch monitors, recycling assistants, and kindergarten monitors as well as participating in charitable events such as the Terry Fox Run, Food Drives, emergency relief efforts and student-chosen activities to build school community.
As we gather today on the stolen, unceded and unsurrendered land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, we must take the time to acknowledge the history of the land and the enduring impact white settlers have had throughout history on the Indigenous people of Canada.
We have a responsibility to honour and respect the four directions, land, waters, plants, animals, ancestors that walked before us, and all the wonderful elements of creation that exist and recognize how we have benefitted from it all.
Each day, as settlers, we must to work to unravel the misconceptions and learning that has happened through centuries of Canadian history to build authentic relationships and lean into truth and reconciliation.
A strong commitment to Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility is embedded throughout the OCDSB 2023-2027 Strategic Plan and captured within each area of focus: learning, well-being, and social responsibility. We strive to ensure that our school is a welcoming and safe place for students of all identities to feel valued and respected as they engage, learn, grow, explore, and discover. For more information, please visit the OCDSB’s Equity and Diversity website.