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	Drama Club @Lunch Green Team@ Lunch	Drama Club @ Lunch Last day for Popcorn forms!	Grade 6 Meeting With Dr Gordon Higgins admin team –Library Taradale Families of Grade 4’s – Open House at Ted Harrison 6:00-6:45 pm 5/6 Basketball Intramurals	Wear Green!
		School Council 6:30 – GWS

Junior Middle School Registration 2023-24

“Tis the season” for our families of grade 4 and 6’s to begin planning for next fall.

On that note, all parents with students who live in Taradale who are currently in grade 4 at Guy Weadick are invited to an Open House at Ted Harrison on March Thursday, March 16^th from 6:00-6:45 at Ted Harrison School (215 Taravista Way NE Calgary, AB.) This will be a chance for families to get acquainted with their new middle school for Grades 5-9. We are excited for our current grade 4’s and encourage all of our families to attend this open house.

All students currently in grade 6 at Guy Weadick will have an orientation to there designated junior high Dr. Gordon Higgins on Thursday March 16, 2023 at 9:00 in our school Library. These same grade 6 students will tour Dr. Gordon Higgins on March 21, 2023 from 1:00- 2:00pm (155 Rundle Hill Dr. NE, Calgary AB.) All Parents and Guardians of these students are invited and encouraged to attend an open house at DGH that same evening from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.

Late arrivals and early pick ups

We are experiencing very busy mornings in the office with many late students being dropped off at the front of the school. Your students’ normal doors are open until 8:35 and you should direct your student to their regular entrance door when you drop them off. Only students who are late (after 8:35) should be dropped off at the front door to collect a “Late Slip.”

If we could also ask parents to refrain from planning early pickups at the end of school unless it is for an appointment or family emergency. If you are picking up and you don’t want your student to ride the bus, please call the office to inform us and then park and meet your student at their normal dismissal door.

Fee Payments

Please speak with Mr. Bulloch (Acting Principal) in the office if you need support or understanding with your outstanding fees in your “My CBE” Account.

Book Fair

We were excited to have the book fair back after 3 years! It was an enormous success!

Families can still order books online and the virtual link will be open until midnight Friday March 10th for online purchases:

https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5192545

Learning Conferences

Learning Conferences were held in person on Thursday March 9 from 4-8pm Friday March 10 from 8-12pm. We appreciated having the chance so speak with you about your student’s learning. For those who were unable to meet with their teacher please contact them to set up a conference. Ms. Thompson will contact her grade 3/4 families shortly as she was unable to be in attendance for her conferences.

March Music Madness

Ms. Fry has the March Madness Bracket up outside the Music Room. W3 have gone from 16 songs down to eight songs! Front runners at this point include Hakuna Matata, You’ll Be in My Heart, Let it Go, You’ve Got a Friend in Me, Circle of Life to name a few! Students are voting for their favourite songs in Music Class and the grand champion will be revealed before spring Break.

Attendance

It is important that you call the school when your students will be absent. The best and most efficient way for you to do that is call 403-777-6740 and press 1 to leave a message in our attendance mail box. This the most efficient way to share this important information.

So that is not a surprise to families we will be sending home excessive attendance and late letters as part of our accountability to Alberta Education in reminding families that attendance and punctuality is an important factor in student success in school. Not all families will be receiving these letters.

Lost and Found

Please encourage your student check out our lost and found or come into the school if your student is missing an item! We will be bagging the current items in the lost and found after spring break and holding them until next September when we will follow the past practice of donating those items to charity.

Volunteer Opportunities

Call for new Members! Your School Council is looking for enthusiastic supporters of GWS to join our council. The commitment is small, but the value of your input can’t be measured! Next meeting is at 6:30 on March 15, 2023. Please come!

As teachers decide on year-end field trips to support their learning you may be asked to volunteer on a trip. Please know that this is appreciated and most necessary for these trips to happen. The CBE has established safety ratios for all field trip and that is typically 10 students to 1 teacher so the average class of 30 would need a bare minimum of 2 volunteers.

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