Hello / Bonjour École Tuscany School families,

Welcome to Kindergarten

A reminder to our families that our Welcome to Kindergarten Orientation is happening tomorrow at 6:00pm. Tuscany School staff will welcome registered kindergarten children and their parents to the school for an in-person Welcome to Kindergarten evening at Tuscany School. This event is for children beginning kindergarten this coming fall. We ask that only parents and the incoming Kindergarten child attend this event, and that you make other arrangements for any older or younger siblings so that you can be focused on your incoming Kindergarten child’s exciting experience during their Welcome to Kindergarten.

Tuscany School Traverse Wall

Since last year, we have been looking into acquiring a traverse climbing wall for Tuscany School. A traverse wall is also known as a “bouldering wall.” It is a wall where you climb horizontally, rather than vertically. A number of conversations have taken place at our School Council meetings, and most recently, M. Trevor presented on the benefits of a traverse wall. We are so thankful for Council’s support in bringing this to life and covering the cost to build this wall in our gym. This will have a huge impact on our school and leave a legacy, as future generations of Tuscany School children will be able to use this wall during physical education for years to come. A big sincere thank you to our parents for fundraising and for backing this project – we couldn’t realize this goal without you!

There are many benefits to a traverse wall including:

Transference to outdoor play
Non-mechanized and students develop: Muscular strength, Fine and gross motor development, Coordination and Balance
Challenge by choice
Perseverance building
Critical thinking
Kids really like Spider-Man ;)

Our School Council will be running a Bottle Drive in support of raising funds. Information will be sent home in your child’s blue folder as well as communicated through School Council. Here is a link to the digital flyer | Traverse Wall Bottle Drive

Ensure you are signed up for School Council emails. If you aren’t on the School Council email list, please subscribe to School Council emails at: https://tinyurl.com/tuscanyschoolcouncil. *This is not the same as CBE messenger.

New Street Signs - Updates to Parking and Drop Off

We have worked with our School Council, Calgary Bylaw, and Calgary Parking Authority to improve accessibility and traffic flow to the school. Today the City of Calgary updated the following traffic signs around the school.

Along the west side of the school - in the "kiss and drop:" This is now clearly marked as a loading area with no parking during 8:00-9:00 and 2:30-3:30 pm on school days. THis area is for active loading and unloading. Sitting and waiting in the car does not count as active loading and unloading. You are eligible to park there outside of the loading area times, including the evenings and on weekends. You may also park there when you pop into the school between 9:00-2:30. Please be courteaous and do not park there during the loading times. Thank you to our Kiss n Drop volunteers for helping to keep traffic moving in this area of the school.

North of the school in front of the main office entrance: To support students and families with disabilities, including our EES buses, immediately in front of the school is now designated for those with a disability permit only. The reminder of Tuscany Drive on the north side of the school remains for school busses only. Please respect the traffic signs, everyone is in a rush to get to school in the morning, and we need to do so safely.

We anticipate new sandwhich boards in the coming week to remind drivers of the new signs.

School Council News & Updates

Our next School Council AGM is on June 8^th at 6:30 pm. A number of executive positions and committee chair positions are up for election at our June AGM. Find out more by emailing Mariana, our school council chair, at tuscanycouncilchair@gmail.com

Save the Date – Our year end Tuscany BBQ, sponsored by the School Enhancement Society is on June 22^nd from 5 pm-730 pm. There will be lots of fun activities and you don’t want to miss this event.

The Tuscany Community Coalition is hosting its annual Colour Run on June 25. All Tuscany students and their families may attend this event (yes even those that don’t live in Tuscany). Please see more information here | Link

You may have also noticed that all the activity lines (hopscotch, 4 Square, Line tag, etc.) on the compound have been repainted recently, along with a few new additions. Thank you to our School Enhancement Society for covering this cost. The students have been playing outside and really enjoying the paint job.

Our new iPads and cases have been distributed to our students. Thank you to Council and the School Enhancement Society for raising funds to cover this expense so that we could get technology into the hands of our students.

All the fundraisors over the year, including the Read-a-thon, Purdy's Chocolates, Fun Lunch and Snack, the Casino, and the Apple Fundraisor allow Council and the School Enhancement Society the ability to purchase so many great things for the school like gym equipment, technology, artists in residence, Alien Inline, Sound Kreations, etc. We are very fortunate at Tuscany School and have very generous parents. The fundraising directly impacts our students' experiences at school.

May at a glance

May 25 FUN Lunch (please order through Healthy Hunger by the prior Friday)

May 29 Non-Instructional Day – No School

The homestretch is right around the corner. Please reach out if you have any questions.

À bientôt,

Patrick Tomczyk, PhD

Principal

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