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
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Jeff HuttonNew Brighton School Principal, CBE graduate, native Calgarian, husband and father of two CBE students. Archives
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