Weekly email Nov 21

November 21, 2014

Dear Parents,

On November 18th, Grade 9 students and the Grade 9 teachers at Elboya School toured Western Canada High School as part of the preparation to transition to high school.  Western is Elboya School’s designated high school.  Each grade 9 student also received on Monday, November 17th, the booklet, 2015-16 Get Ready Get Set Go For It, a new Calgary Board of Education booklet on high school.  This booklet and other information about high school may be located at:

http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/high-school-registration.asp

Next steps for grade 9 students are to consider whether they wish to apply for the International Baccalaureate Program. Further information including the application form is found at http://www.cbe.ab.ca/Programs/prog-enrich.asp

IB is a program of academic challenge or enrichment.  Students who are considering making an application need to speak with their teachers.

IB applications are due at Elboya School’s Main Office at Fri., January 9th, 2015.

Elboya School forwards the applications to the IB program. 

I anticipate that a counselor from Western will meet with Elboya students sometime in February or March for course selections.  Further information will follow.

Calgary Board of Education photographers were at Elboya School on Tuesday, November 18th to photograph classes and students for the CBE image repository. Only those students with signed permission forms from parents were photographed.  The request of Elboya was French and Band classes in grades 5 and up.

Movember is the fundraising opportunity of choice this month and today students sported moustaches to support this effort. Many thanks to students in Ms. Bly’s Grade 4, Ms McBean’ Grade 5/6 homeroom, Mrs. Park’s Grade 7-9 homeroom and drama students who are running this month’s events including the painting on of the moustaches. House points were awarded for participating. There is also the opportunity up to November 26th, for a modest contribution, to identify staff photographed with moustaches.

Thanks once more to the many parents who support students at Elboya School by supervising field trips, contributing to the grocery fundraiser or Oktoberfest and in many other ways.

L. Davis,

Principal

Library Learning Commons Club

We are starting a new student club in our Library Learning Commons. If your son or daughter has an interest in learning more about how a Learning Commons functions and participating in brainstorming ideas, providing student voice and completing some easy tasks, we would love to have them!  Organizational meetings will be Tuesdays at lunch (12:35) in the learning commons.  See Mrs. Hansen for more information.

  

Lates and Late Club – Mr. Siakaluk

Students arriving late to school continue to be a concern at Elboya and now that the weather has turned lates can become more common. Developing the habit of being on time is extremely important and critical for the workforce. On Monday, administration will implement a late club for students who are late. Students in grades 5-9 who arrive late need to stay after school for 30 minutes to make up for missed time. Just to clarify – late club will be for students who have an unexcused late. This does not include late school buses, extreme weather, traffic or appointments. This is for students who have chronic late concerns or who arrive to school late with no valid reason.

If your child is late to school and is in Grades K-4, they report directly to Ms. Jones who will record their name. If your child is in Grades 5-9 then they need to sign in the late book. We ask all parents to say their goodbyes outside the school or in the office. Parents are asked not to accompany their students to their classroom as this can be very disruptive to classes.

Dressing for Winter 

Please be sure your child is appropriately dressed for the weather conditions. Jackets, toques, mitts, scarves, boots, snow pants, etc. are highly recommended.

Food Bank Drive - Ms. Sawchuk, Mrs. MacGillivray, Mr. Hadder 

 Monday Nov 24 - Monday December 15. 

This is our major fund raiser for this month.  This year, the need for the food bank has gone up by 200 families in the last few months alone!  The food bank needs our support. Each item brought in will receive house points. We have a focus week for each of the weeks and those items will receive bonus points.

Nov 24-30

Pasta week

(Pasta, pasta sauce, canned tomatoes)

2 points each +1 point if brought in on proper week – total of 3 points each if brought in during Nov 24 -30

  

Bonus points

Diapers (6 points)

Baby food (6 points)

Anything that is not listed will receive 1 point each; ie. Soup (1 point)

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

1.Virtual Learning Commons

Parents can find information about student tests, assignments and teacher blogs at Elboya School on the following link https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/vlc/ 

2. Outstanding Fees

A reminder letter along with a copy of the invoice has been sent home with students who have fees still outstanding. If you feel you have received this information in error please contact Mrs. Carbol @ 403-777-7760. Financial concerns? Please contact Mrs. Carbol regarding a waiver form.

3. Elementary Pizza Lunch

Our first pizza lunch with Healthy Hunger was a success, thanks to all of you who took the time to go online and order, and for all the volunteers.  The wonderful thing about using Healthy Hunger is that you can go online and order and pay for the whole school year, and not have to worry about your child missing out on pizza lunch.  If you have not done so yet, and would like your child to participate in the next pizza lunch (Wednesday December 3rd) please go to www.healthyhunger.ca register, order and pay. If your child is in grades 5/6 you will need to know their home room teacher to place their order properly. For those of you wishing to pay cash or cheque, it must be handed in at the office the day before pizza lunch or your child will not receive their order.  If you would like to volunteer for the next pizza lunch, please contact your room representative.  We require one volunteer per class/homeroom.  If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact us. Carrie Sheftel Fryer   csfryer@mac.com or Christie Krawchuk  christie9@shaw.ca

 Upcoming Events: 

November 24^th                      Food Bank Drive begins

November 26th                  Band Concert

November 27th                  EOE 7 & 8 Wall climbing, National Music – Gr 3

December 4^th                        Dance gr 5-6 3:30-5:00, gr 7-9 7:00-9:00

December 11^th                      Winter Concert