Dear Faculty,
The countdown is on - only one more week in our
2017-18 Academic year. The end is in sight. Please remember that next Saturday
is a working day; read more below about check out timings and procedure.
Thank yous….
- First
grade would like to thank Carl, Amritha, Shannon, Rachael, Linda, and
Hilary for their help with our Maker Days. The students loved learning
from you!
- Elliot
and Alex for all the thoughtful preparation, planning and hosting of the
Responsive Classroom sessions
- Morgen
and Hilary for leading our ‘what does rigour’ mean session at our faculty
meeting
- Shannon
for taking our photo yesterday, and everyone for bearing with the heat!
- Rachael
for all you have done for the Elementary section over the past two years -
travel safe and all the best for your upcoming wedding
- Grade
2 for the very child centered market place hosted earlier this week
- All
the teachers/TAs who have been so flexible with cover for the Responsive
Classroom training
Every teacher needs to have the items of this
form checked off and signed by the appropriate person before leaving for the
end of year. On Saturday 2nd June, the final step, the physical room sign off
will also happen. This will happen in your physical space with the check out
supervisor looking to see the room is packed and ready for summer cleaning.
This will look different in different spaces!
- If
you are moving spaces, or having your classroom renovated, EVERYTHING
needs to be in boxes, labelled with your (new) room number, name, and
grade/department.
- In
all rooms, EVERYTHING must be removed from bulletin boards, walls
- All classroom resources remaining in the classrooms should be neatly stored in a manner that allows the shelves and classroom to be thoroughly cleaned.
- Remember
we have Saturday 2nd June as a working day to complete any packing, as
well as check out
- Sign out sheet can start to be filled out as items are completed (except room
sign off which can only happen Saturday 2 June)
Lori - Grade
1, 2, Discovery Studio and PE; (16) LN
Dan - Grade
4, 5 and WL; (14) DL
Sherriden - Grade
3, Art, IS & Music; (14) SM
Expect this team to start walking through
classroom spaces from 11am. If you see them and are not ready yet, know
they will also come through again from 1-2pm. Once signed off you are welcome
to join everyone for lunch, or you can depart on your summer break.
Differentiation and Communication commitments
As discussed at our faculty meeting, before you
leave for the summer, please enter a draft idea into this form
of what your triad will
commit to doing differently to help achieve our goal of increasing challenge,
differentiation and rigour in the elementary school. Also add your goal for how
you may go about communicating differently to help change the parent narrative
next year. We will keep these to revisit early next year during AFO.** One
person per triad can enter this goal and include all names.
Yearbooks
The yearbooks will be distributed to classrooms
on Monday, all currently enrolled students will get one. For students who left
earlier, we will be giving one per family from the section of the oldest
sibling in the family (ES/MS/HS) .
Please hold
Yearbooks - do not give out to children on this list with missing Library
books.
Here is a current list of those of ES students and parents who still have books out.
"The library team
is sending each homeroom teacher an automated daily update at 7:00 a.m. to show
what his or her students still have out for books (if any). This report also
shows what the titles of the books are so you can remind students if needed.
You should have already received two of these emails. If you have not, please
contact Jet. Please note that students and parents are also receiving these
daily reminders as well (to the primary email address listed in PowerSchool)
and know that yearbooks are held until books come back or are paid for. In
addition to the daily updates you are getting for your homerooms, starting
Wednesday morning, this info will also be viewable as a Google Doc which can be
accessed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pB6EqhTJhTGxPKJQybVxwEyYwbP-GpYLJF0rbO_3aVA/edit?usp=sharing. The library staff will continually
update this Google Doc as books get returned/are paid for."
Gift of Time Read-aloud (repeat announcement -
last chance to sign up!)
As we offered before winter break, optional times
are available here if you would like a guest reader/teacher to come into your
class and offer a read aloud or activity for up to 30 minutes. You can use this
time for packing or completing other end-of-year tasks during the final week of
school. Just sign your name up in the white box under the time you’d like.
Congratulations to Evelyn and her new son, Ezra
J!
Congratulations also to Ms Gayathri
who has signed a full time TA contract with us for next year!
Have a spectacular weekend everyone!
Warmly,
Keryn & Lori
Warmly,
Keryn & Lori
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