November 13, 2015

November 13, 2015

Important Dates

Nov. 10th Tuesday - Remembrance Day Assemblies

Nov 10th Tuesday - Grade 7’s - Zoo

Nov .11th Wednesday - Remembrance Day NO SCHOOL

Nov. 17th Tuesday - Book Fair

Nov. 18th Wednesday 7-9 pm - Elboya School Council

Nov. 19th Thursday 1:30 pm - Early dismissal

Nov. 19th 4-8 p.m. - Student-Parent-Teacher Interviews

Nov. 20th 9-12 a.m. - Student-Parent-Teacher Interviews NO SCHOOL

Dec 1st Tuesday - Band Winter Concert @7:00 pm Bethany Chapel

Grade 9 Transition to High School

Today we were pleased to host M. Martin Poirier principal of Western Canada High School who, along with Mme. Godin-Fortin and two former Elboya students, Kaila F. and Sabinne S. spoke with Grade 9 students. I appreciate M. Poirier taking the time to come to Elboya.

Grade 9 students are looking forward to visiting Western next week for the Grade 9 annual tour.

We distributed to each grade 9 student the general CBE handout, 2016-17 Get Ready – Get Set – Go For it: Learn more about high school and plan for your success as well. Online resources about high schools are:

General Guide

http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/high-school/Pages/default.aspx

Detailed high school course guide

http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/high-school/Documents/Detailed-High-School- Course-Guide.pdf

Information about Open Houses are on the websites of each high school. Western Canada’s website is at http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b816/

Western Canada Tour – M. Comeau

Tuesday, November 17th the Grade 9 students will go on a tour of Western Canada High School. We will leave Elboya at 9:30 and be back around 12:15 pm for lunch.

Western Canada’s Open house and General information session will be November the 18th from 5:45 to 6:30 followed by the Western International Baccalaureate Program Information Night from 6:30 to 7:30. The invitation from Western was sent to parents on Friday, 6 November, 2015 and is attached again.

Virtual Learning Commons – M. Haines

The Virtual Learning Commons is found at

https://sites.google.com/a/educbe.ca/vlc/

At this site, parents can locate a school calendar, a blog from each teacher for their class and dates of assignments and tests. We invite parents to consult it regularly.

Home Logic M. Comeau

Elboya School is using Home Logic, which shows student’s marks and assessments available to parents. Parents are encouraged to login and check their access. Instructions are found at http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b627/pdfs/HomeLogic-FAQ-for-Parents.pdf

If parents are having difficulties with logging in, please call the Main Office at 403 777-7760 ext. 0 and speak with Mrs. Block.

Remembrance Day

Thanks to the Drama 9 students and Ms. Park who put on two Remembrance Day Assemblies on November 10, 2015 for students and staff. We all appreciated the opportunity to remember those who have sacrificed for us. Mr. Grove created a display of photographs of some veterans and makes the following comment: Canada is truly an amazing country largely due to the sacrifice of our soldiers. As the Great Wars were a long time ago and we are slowly losing more and more of our veterans, it becomes even more important to share these photos and experiences. There were many amazing photos brought in and you can tell there is a lot of pride from the letters or notes attached with them. I can’t speak for anyone else, but it certainly made me pause and made Remembrance Day more personal seeing everyone’s contribution. I will have the display up for the next little while to continue to highlight Remembrance Day, as a single day/week/month is not nearly enough.

Student Parent Teacher Interviews—November 19 and 20, 2015

M. Comeau

Grade K – 4 and 4/5 Parents

You will be able to book one 10 minute interview with your child’s teacher online using the Elboya Conference Manager. Interviews are available from 4:00 - 8:00 PM on Thursday, November 19th and from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM on Friday, November 20th. Please follow the steps below. Parents who used this system before, simply need to log in.

Step 1 – Set up a Parent account by going to https://elboya.schoolsoft.com (DO NOT include “www” in the address). Click the REGISTER NOW button and complete the registration form. Your login information (email and password) will remain in the system to make it easy to access the Conference Manager in the future.

Conference Manager requires you to use Internet Explorer 7 (or above), Firefox 3 (or above) or Safari 4 (or above). If you are using an older browser, the Conference Manager will ask you to update your browser and provide you with a link. This is a one-time process and only takes a couple of minutes.

Please make sure to add appointments@schoolsoft.com to your contact list so emails from Conference Manager do not end up in your trash or junk folders.

Step 2 – Conference Manager Opens to Parents – Monday, November 16th at 6:00 AM. You can access the Parent Login Page either by using the link in this week’s Friday email or by going directly to https://elboya.schoolsoft.com.

Step 3 – Book your Parent-Teacher interviews
Select your child’s teach to see their schedule on either Thursday, November

19th or Friday, November 20th. Please schedule only one appointment slot. After booking your appointment, you can print off your schedule. You will also receive an email containing the teacher name, time and location of the conference. You can log into the system at any time to view your bookings, print, cancel or re-schedule appointments.

Grade 5-9 Parents

You will be able to book a 6 minute interview slot with each of your child’s teachers. Please follow the same steps as above. The interviews will be in the main gym.

Elboya Annual Food Bank Drive- Ms Sawchuk, Ms MacGillvray, Ms. Lewis

From November 23 until December 16, Elboya students will be collecting food and other items for the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank. Each food bank item will receive house points based on the theme for that week:

The week of November 23 – 27, the theme is Pasta – all pasta and pasta related items would receive 5 points.
The week of Nov 30 – December 4, the theme is Cereals – each item will receive 5 points

The week of December 7 – 11, the themes fruits and veggies – canned of course – each item receiving 5 points.
Baby items brought in at any time will receive a MEGA bonus of 10 house points each!

Help us to support those who are in need. Thank you.

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school! Classes will have the opportunity to preview the collection next week and will be bringing home flyers today. You can also visit the Scholastic Book Fair's website at http://www.scholastic.ca/bookfairs to read reviews of Featured Books.

Students will be able to make their own purchases throughout Wednesday and Thursday. Families are welcome back again during Parent/Teacher interviews times. There will be a special draw with an opportunity to win 25$ worth of books for your child and an additional 25$ worth of books for your child's classroom. We are able to accept cash, cheques, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

Wednesday, November 17 Student book sales from 12:15pm to 3:30pm

Thursday, November 18 Student book sales from 9:00pm to 1:30pm Family Purchases from 4:00pm to 7:30pm

Friday, November 19 Family Purchases from 9:00pm to 12:00pm

Finally, we are still looking for parent volunteers to help out during various shifts on the days and evening of this event. You must have your police record check and CBE volunteer clearance completed. Thank you for supporting Elboya's love of reading!