Dec 12 Weekly email

December 12, 2014

Dear Parents,

The Kindergarten through Grade 4 winter concerts yesterday were a great success. Over 700 parents, grandparents and family members came to watch the students perform as well as the Grade 5 and 6 students at Elboya. This was a great opportunity for each class to showcase their musical and performance abilities and they were awesome. The concert yesterday concluded our major pre-Winterbreak activities which were the Band Concert for Grades 5-9, the two school dances for Grades 5-6 and 7-9, and collecting food for the Calgary Interfaith Foodbank. Other in school activities such as Ugly Sweater Day and Candy Grams continue till Thursday, December 18th.

Elboya students under the direction of Ms. Sawchuk's Grade 7-9 Homeroom, Mr. Hadder's Grade 5-6 homeroom and Ms. MacGillivray's Grade 1 class have been collecting for the Food Band and the students have filled 16 very large Food Bank boxes of donations. I would like to thank all students, parents and staff for their support of this very worthwhile project.

On behalf of all of the staff, we wish each student and their family an enjoyable Winter Break. See you on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 when school recommences.

Ms. L. Davis

Principal

Important Dates

Thursday, December 18, 2014 – Last Day of School – Regular Dismissal

Monday, January 5, 2015 – NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 – First day back to School

Grade 9 students and parents

In November before Grade 9 students visited Western Canada High School, each student received 2015-16 Get Ready, Get Set, Go For it Your Introduction to High School.

A further Detailed High School Course Guide has been posted on the Calgary Board of Education's website at the following link: Your Detailed Guide to High School. http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/high-school/Documents/Detailed-High-School-Course-Guide.pdf

The CBE page including a survey about these documents is located at http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/high-school/Pages/default.aspx

I strongly encourage students and parents to review these documents as part of a student's transition to High School.

International Baccalaureate Program applications are due to the Main Office of Elboya School no later than Wednesday, January 7th, 2015. Before the Winter Break, students need to ask 1 of their Grade 9 teachers for a recommendation. Grade 9 staff will coordinate the rest of the recommendations. Information about IB including the application form is located at: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/program-options/academic-enrichment/Pages/International-Baccalaureate-Programme-(IB).aspx

Linda Davis

Principal

Elboya School

HomeLogic

Home Logic will be shutting down for parents temporarily as teachers prepare to work on report cards. We will put information in a future weekly email when it is opening for parents again.

Movember

Movember was a big success! We raised $715.00 for prostate cancer research and raised awareness about this very common type of cancer. Students were asked to guess as to which teacher was displayed sporting very spiffy mustaches. Prizes were awarded to two students from grades 7-9, two students from k-4 and two students from 5-6. Congratulations to our winners and to Elboya for raising such a substantial amount of money! Thank you.

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.

Artist in Residence

Elboya School is excited to welcome back Soundkreations Inc. to lead our students in an exploration into the world of hip hop dance. Their enthusiastic and professional instructors will work with our Grade 6-9 students from December 12-18th and our Kindergarten-Grade 5 students from January 6-14th. We would like to acknowledge the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and our Elboya Parent Council for making this Artist in Residence experience possible for our students.

Woodworking Request to Parents

A special request from M. DeNault and the Wood Working students: Anyone that has old mustard bottles (the spiral twist cap type) could you send them to school cleaned. We are always looking for new/replacement glue bottles and this work great. Many thanks! M. DeNault

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

An email reminder 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. Candygrams

The week of Dec 15 –18 we will be selling candy grams. Buy a candy cane for $1.00 to send to a friend with a short note of appreciation. Candy grams will be on sale in the fish bowl over the noon hour. K-4 will be able to purchase candy grams from their classroom teachers.

Dec 18 – the last day of school will also be UGLY SWEATER day. Find or create an ugly Winter/Christmas themed sweater to share with the rest of the Uglies!

Upcoming Events:

December 15th – 18th Candygram sales

December 18th Last day of classes – Regular dismissal

January 5th No School

January 6th First day back to School

Enjoy the weekend!

Cheryl Carbol

Administrative Secretary, Elboya School

Calgary Board of Education | www.cbe.ab.ca

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