{"id":7,"date":"2024-10-18T20:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T00:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/multisite-dev2024\/basic-school\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:13:27","slug":"school-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/about-us\/school-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"School Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About our school<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Queensborough Middle School (QMS) is home to more than 375 students in Grades 5 to 8. We are centrally located in the heart of the community and just steps from the Queensborough Community Centre and Queen Elizabeth Elementary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We work closely with our neighbouring school and community partners to support student success, nurture a sense of belonging, and help students build the lifelong skills they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/about-us\/school-overview\/school-procedures\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"351\">Learn more about our school procedures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safety procedures overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our school follows rules from the Ministry of Education and Child Care to help keep students safe. We expect everyone to behave in a respectful and responsible way and want all students to feel safe and included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queensborough Middle School practices safety (e.g. fire, earthquake, lockdown) drills throughout the year. We ask all parents at the start of each school year to update their contact and emergency information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an emergency, the school will work with local police, fire services, the city, health services, and child and family services to respond as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About our school Queensborough Middle School (QMS) is home to more than 375 students in Grades 5 to 8. We are centrally located in the heart of the community and just steps from the Queensborough Community Centre and Queen Elizabeth Elementary. We work closely with our neighbouring school and community partners to support student success, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}