| Dear David Thompson families, It was so wonderful to see students returning to school, reconnecting with friends and sharing stories of their summer adventures. In visiting classrooms today, Isabelle Korpela and I were so happy to see students enthusiastic, positive and ready for the school year. Today, students spent the morning in homeroom classes to help students to settle in and build a sense of community. In the afternoon, we followed a mini timetable to meet their teachers and familiarize them with their schedule for tomorrow. Just as a quick note, we would like to remind parents who are dropping off and picking up students between 7:40 and 8:00am, and 2:30 and 2:45pm, to please use 5th Street at the east end of our school yard. We are trying to minimize traffic and crowding of students at our entrances by only allowing our school buses access Arbour Crescent. We are continuing to provide healthy lunch items for students. We would like to thank Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids for their ongoing support. We are looking to restart our breakfast program. Mme. Khoo and Mrs. Strickland have generously volunteered to run this program, which provides breakfast items for students at no charge. We are currently looking for donations of shelf stable products. Items in need include: instant oatmeal, granola bars, whole grain cereal, spreads (cheese spread, jam, Wow butter), and perishable items like milk, fruit and yogurt. Items can be dropped off in the office. Thanks in advance for your support. While we have been focussing a great deal on the physical health of students in our messaging to families, I do want to assure you that the mental health of our students continues to be a top priority. In addition to community building activities in homerooms, we have scheduled an activity day and assembly for Friday to further enhance our sense of belonging to David Thompson School, strengthen our collective identity and make a commitment to embracing diversity. After all, it takes all stripes to be a tiger! I would like to end by thanking all our staff for their hard work and commitment in making the first day such a success, and thanking our families for helping their children to prepare for the start of the school year.
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| Dear David Thompson families, With the arrival of summer, you undoubtedly find yourselves drawn toward the outdoors, more time with family and friends, a slower pace, as well as hobbies or plans may have been set aside over the course of the school year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our teachers and support staff for their hard work in a challenging year. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, class quarantines, and shifting from online to in-person learning, our staff maintained a positive attitude and strong work ethic in supporting students in their learning, addressing mental wellness, and maintaining a caring and welcoming school community for everyone. Currently, teachers are involved in transition meetings to ensure we hit the ground running in the fall. In light of the pandemic and the subsequent interruption to classes over the past 15 months, it is even more important to consider ways of embedding math and literacy at home. Here are a few simple ways of doing this: Math - Talk about the likelihood of events. For example, the likelihood of rain, a team making the playoffs, etc.
- Work on puzzles or play cards or board games that involve mathematical thinking
- Make your mathematical thinking visible to your children. For example, how you estimate the supplies you need for a home project, estimating time to travel somewhere, estimating the price after a discount or with taxes, or your budget for groceries or a trip.
- Look for shapes and patterns in real life.
Reading - Have lots of reading materials available around your house.
- Model lifelong reading by setting aside time each day to read at home and talk about it
- Read the same book as your child and discuss it
- Rent or buy audio books to listen to when driving in the car with your children
- Take your child to the public library, visit their website, and go to a bookstore to find materials that reflects your child's passions or interests. Try not to object to their choice, even if it is a teen pop star biography.
- Language is all around us; when you are out with your children, talk about what you notice. This might be a great pun, literary allusion, metaphor, or interesting word.
- Find time every day to have a conversation with your child. Not only does it build self-esteem and improve social skills and connections, but it can also help them become better communicators and improve their vocabulary, which is key in improving reading comprehension, writing and speaking skills.
Wellness is also an important part for families to consider. Here are a few ideas: - Go for a nature walk or take part in other physical activities
- Start a project as a family
- Rediscover old family recipes or find new ones you can do together
- Get away from screens, particularly social media
- Plan staycations as a family that incorporate everyone's interests
- Create a jar of fun things that require little organization and pick one each day to do as a family
- Explore mindfulness or meditation techniques
- Reconnect with friends and family you haven't seen in person in a way that respects local health guidelines and bylaws
- Take up journaling
- Celebrate small successes
- Reach out to professionals if someone is finding it hard to cope.
As we look ahead to next year, we are hopeful for normal to return. We are currently planning for the return of clubs, sports teams, intramurals, concerts, plays and regular complementary courses; however, we will be prepared if adjustments need to be made. Be sure to continue to visit our website and the CBE corporate website for the latest announcements regarding back to school plans. I hope all of you have a wonderful summer break surrounded by friends and family. Take care of yourself and each other, and we will see you in the fall!
Chris Keuben Principal École David Thompson School Calgary Board of Education | cbe.ab.ca
t | 403-777-7470 | ext 2123
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| Dear David Thompson School Families, I am looking forward to welcoming our school community to the 2020-21 school
year. I want to assure you we are doing everything possible to ensure the health
and safety of all our community members.
As you are aware on July 21, Education Minister Adriana LaGrange announced
that all schools across the province will return to classes under Scenario 1 – inschool classes resume (near normal with health measures). In response, plans are
well underway in our school to welcome our community of students as we adhere
to current health guidelines.
CBE’s Scenario 1 Information can be found on our website and outlines the
measures we are taking to provide for the health and safety of our students. Please
refer to this document for detailed information on health measures, physical set-up
of schools, cleaning of schools, daily operation of schools and transportation. The
actions described in the document follow the guidelines provided by Alberta
Education’s K-12 School Re-entry COVID-19 information: Guidance for schools reentry Scenario 1. We continue to refine information in our re-entry planning based
on provincial and CBE guidance.
Please visit our school website
https://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/davidthompson/Pages/default.aspx for information
on the actions and processes that are being applied to the specific context of our
school.
Sincerely,
Chris Keuben
Principal – David Thompson School
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| Dear David Thompson families,
Thank you for your patience as
we have worked through some necessary planning in preparation for resuming
structured learning opportunities for your child(ren). I understand there has
been plenty of uncertainty about what learning is going to look like moving
forward. I can assure you that we are going to work on key learning outcomes
at-home within the parameters established by the province and CBE.
For students in grades 5 and 6,
education content will continue to focus on language/literacy and
mathematics/numeracy outcomes, and there will be opportunity to incorporate
science and social studies outcomes through cross-curricular learning.
Teachers will assign an average of five hours of work per student per
week. Education content for students in grades 7 to 9 will average 10
hours of work per week that focuses on core mathematics, language/literacy,
science and social studies curriculum outcomes. Teachers will work with
their students and parents on the delivery of these materials.
Course content will be
delivered primarily through D2L and Google applications; however alternate
means of accessing learning materials will also be provided as needed.
Starting tomorrow, teachers will be contacting families to inquire about
student access to technology and internet services and also to determine who
may need these alternate means of delivery. Also, in order to ensure
consistency, weekly blogs will continue to be updated and sent out in the
Friday message, and grades will continue to be posted in PowerSchool.
This week, teachers will focus
on connecting with families, providing review materials through D2L shells,
Google applications or via email. Through our Friday message, we will
send out updated blogs that will describe that work students will be doing next
week, along with a schedule of virtual meeting times using Google Meet.
This application will allow students to video conference with teachers to ask
questions and get feedback. The application also allows students to
connect to the virtual meeting space by telephone. In addition, teachers
will be available by email to answer your questions. See the attached letter
regarding the use of Google Meet and Google Classroom.
This is an unprecedented time
for all of us. As we adjust to our new reality, we know our work will
evolve as we gain a greater understanding of individual situations and use of
online platforms. We also know we won’t get it perfect right out of the gates,
but we are committed to continued improvement in providing meaningful
educational programming to our students within the current context.
We would like to thank you in
advance for your ongoing understanding. Stay safe and take care of each
other.
Sincerely,
Chris Keuben |
| On behalf of all of the staff at David Thompson School, it
is my pleasure to welcome you to 2019-2020 school year. For those of you
whose children have attended our school last year, we are so glad to have you
returning. In addition, for those of you whose children are joining us this
year, we are pleased to have you as a part of our school community.
The beginning of a new school year provides us with the
opportunity to reconnect with students, families and colleagues, as well as
share stories of a summer well spent. It also provides us with an
opportunity to reflect on past successes, set new and ambitious goals, and
build new relationships.
Back to school information is currently located in the
featured stories on our homepage, or by clicking here. I also encourage
you to explore our website, which provides extensive information about our
school.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions, concerns or comments. I look forward to working with all members of
our community this upcoming school year!
Warm regards,
Chris Keuben
Principal, David Thompson School |
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Welcome to the 2018-2019 school year! I look
forward to continuing to work with our students, teachers, and
parents/guardians to develop a school community that is warm, caring, safe and
respectful. Our staff would like each student to have a strong
sense of belonging in our community of learners and to be really proud to be a
David Thompson Tiger! Our teachers are committed to supporting our
students to reach their potential and to build the skills and knowledge that will help them
to be successful in the future.
I encourage you to explore the various tabs in our new
website. It’s a great way to find out what events are going on at
this school, what our expectations are of students, how to contact teachers, or
to get updates from our School Council.
If you have any questions, our main office will be happy
to assist you.
Best regards,
Rolf Haensel
Principal
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Welcome to our new website. To find details on important events, click on "Calendar" at the top of the page. To find School Council information, click on "Get Involved" then "School Council." To order fun lunches, click on "Teaching & Learning" then "Parent Resources."
If you are looking for other content, try entering the key words in the search bar in the top right. It will help you locate the link more easily.
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