January 30 – Feb 3
Parking and Drop-off Entry and Dismissal time continue to be going very smoothly. Thank you to our drivers and pedestrians who are choosing safety over convenience in helping everyone arrive at school and home safely. School Opening Rehearsal Our staff and students are working hard to prepare our school for the Official Opening Assembly. We’d like to remind parents that they are invited to attend the Rehearsal on February 1 beginning at 1:00PM. The following groups will be performing.
Reminder Friday February 3 is a PD Day – No School for Students Coming up this week: Jan 30 Grade 2 Art Club Jan 31 Choir and Grade 1 Makers Club Feb 1 1:00 School Opening Rehearsal (parents welcome) Grade 4 Calligraphy Club Feb 2 Choir Grade 3 Celebration of Learning 6:00PM Feb 3 PD DAY – NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
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Parking and Drop-off Thank you. We noticed (and hope you did too) a significant difference in “good to great” driving and pedestrian behavior last week. If you consider that close to 500 students enter and exit the building in less than 10 minutes we should all be quite happy with the way last week went. We noticed quite a few more students arriving closer to 8:00 than 8:10 and enjoying some outside time with their friends. Thank you again and lets go for two weeks in a row. Fields, Hills and Sidewalks A reality of living in Chinook country is that a clear and dry sidewalk can become frozen and slippery again in a matter of hours. Our students are also noticing that the hills and fields around the school can become quite slippery. We’ve all learned to Walk like a Penguin. Please be careful walking around the school, compound and fields. Winter Activity Day No one could have planned a more perfect day. Perfect snow, perfect temperature and students having a great time together. Everyone had a great time – refining their snowman building skills (all evidence since melted), trying our some snowshoes, walking with tandem skis, some sledding and being together as a school outside made the day a great success. There are even rumours that a giant snowman made a brief appearance before heading off to a cooler environment. A great time was had by all. Official School Opening Dress Rehearsal Invitation
The following classrooms or grades will be performing at the Official School Opening on February 2nd. Our Dress Rehearsal will be at 1:00PM on Wednesday February 1. If your child is in any of the following groups you are invited to join us for the Dress Rehearsal.
Coming Up this Week Jan 23 Grade 2 Art Club Jan 24 Choir and Grade 1 Makers Club Jan 25 Grade 4 Calligraphy Club (3:30) Jan 26 Choir Have a great week. Finally we are going be able to get outside and enjoy some fabulous winter weather next week. On behalf of the school I would like to pass along our thanks to your children for being so flexible and awesome during the longest stretch of indoor weather most of us can remember. We really did enjoy watching students enjoy some great games of Rock, Paper, Scissors Tag last week – and are equally happy to know that game can now move outside. Winter Activity Day We are looking forward to New Brighton School’s Winter Activity Day on Tuesday. We’ll be heading outside around 1:00. The forecast looks amazing and the activities teachers have put together are great. Students will have lots of choices to enjoy outside taking advantage of the great snow and a chance to be together outside as a whole school. Parking and Drop Off We’ve noticed the return to some bad habits around driver and pedestrian behavior around entry and dismissal time. We would like to remind our community that our supervisors outside are there to keep students safe and that some of the comments and gestures directed to our staff are not appropriate. Please remember that our supervision for students(outside and inside) begins at 7:55AM and you can avoid the congestion by arriving closer to that time than to entry time. Most students seem to enjoy the few minutes outside with their friends and that would go along way to solving the congestion problem between 8:05 and 8:10. We would also like to remind parents that we have several buses that arrive every day – sometimes on time and sometimes not. The buses cannot “do another lap” and some of our students have significant mobility issues requiring adult assistance boarding and leaving the bus. Thank you for leaving the bus zone free. We would also encourage our parents and neighbors to call 311 if they would like to report traffic challenges. Arriving a bit earlier and choosing safety over convenience would solve almost all our traffic concerns. School Council Update We had a great turnout for last weeks School Council and Fundraising Society Meetings. Each month the school shares a report and we are happy to share the report below. Coming up this week
Jan 16 Calgary Public Library Book Bus – Gr 4 and 5 – Library Card required Jan 17 Choir – Gr 3-5 Makers Club – Gr 1 Winter Activity Day 1:00PM Jan 18 Calligraphy Club – 3:30 – Gr 4 Jan 19 Fun Lunch (gr 1-5) Pre-order was required Choir Gr 3-5 DMCS School Family Event @New Brighton School January 9-13 There is a certain rhythm that comes to a school around the month of January. Students are into a variety of projects at school and there is a wide range of clubs and activities being offered. Students and staff have developed their routines with each other and relationships between students, staff and parents are established. Students understand the routines of lunch. Being five months older means a lot in a K-4 school and we can see it in the way students are approaching learning. More students are reading independently, writing independently and just being a little older, taller, wiser and more independent. Maybe you are noticing this at home too. We are looking forward to embracing winter on January 17 with a Winter Activity Day. Each teacher is designing an outdoor activity and students will move as they like to activities that seem interesting to them. We’ll keep you posted as the date gets closer and we watch the weather. We’ll be outside in the afternoon – as long as the weather cooperates. It is hard to believe but we are beginning to plan for the 2017-2018 school year now. Kindergarten registration begins on Monday and we look forward to beginning to meet the newest students who will be joining New Brighton School in September 2017. Kindergarten registration information is available on our school home page. Coming Up This Week
Jan 9 Grade 2 Art Club Jan 10 Choir and Grade 1 Maker Club Jan 11 Grade 4 Calligraphy Club (3:30PM) School Council (6PM) and Fundraising Society Meeting (7PM) Jan 12 Choir Happy New Year and welcome to the beginning of Canada’s sesquicentennial year (150 years of confederation). We hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing break and that your children are excited and ready to head back to school. In my house I know I am ready for the children to get back to school. The last week of school seems like quite a while ago and we hope your children shared the enjoyment of getting together as a school once a day to share in some caroling and the opportunity for our Grade 2 and Grade 3 Dance Club to show their stuff to the whole school. We were also able to celebrate our Warm Feet for the Street campaign by delivering 280 stuffed pairs of socks to the Mustard Seed. We are happy to celebrate our accomplishment as a school community. New Brighton School is featured on the CBE homepage News Section (http://www.cbe.ab.ca/Pages/default.aspx) with a description and images of our great work as a school. The last week of school was also report card time for our Grade 1-4 students. We hope the report card provided an opportunity for celebration at your home and an opportunity to see the direction our teachers have planned for your child over the next few months. We know from research and experience that students acquire content knowledge and skills when that content is connected to real questions. Real questions have no simple answer and provide space for responses that consider available facts acquired through research and discussion and personal decisions based on values and beliefs. How would you answer the following questions? What information would you need to make a decision? How many different perspectives do you think there would be in our community of students and parents? The questions below represent the starting point for our students learning over the next several months in Kindergarten through Grade 4. We feel that by exploring questions of worth and with real implications students will become better readers, writers, mathematicians, social scientists, scientists and artists and acquire the basic skills in literacy and numeracy necessary for success. We look forward to exploring these questions together over the next few months.
Write the Troops Follow-Up You may remember that our students wrote to Canadian Forces troops around the world as part of our Remembrance Day learning. We are happy to share a response we received from Operation Impact in Kuwait. A variety of clubs are starting up in January and we’ll provide an update to our school calendar on our website when we’ve got it all figured out.
Coming Up this Week January 3 Classes Resume January 5 Gr 3-5 Choir January 6 PM Kindergarten Attends |
Jeff HuttonNew Brighton School Principal, CBE graduate, native Calgarian, husband and father of two CBE students. Archives
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