Updates For January 23-27, 2023

Posted January 25, 2023

Hello Alma Families!  Here are the 5 things you need to know today to keep up to date this week:

 

  1. There is a PD Day on Friday, January 27 for teachers to work on report cards.  There will be no school that day.

 

  1. Kindergarten pre-registration for new students happens online from January 10-27, 2023.  Children born in 2019 may attend Junior Kindergarten and children born in 2018 may attend Senior Kindergarten.  For more information, please visit https://www.ugdsb.ca/kindergarten/. It is important to our staffing process to have everyone we know with a new kindergarten child to register by Friday.  Thank you for sharing this with the community.

 

  1.   Friday, January 27 is a PA Day, but it is also Family Literacy Day!  Our students have been working on a display about what literacy looks like in their family.  Comments have been added like, “We snuggle up and read together at bedtime”, “I listen to my grandpa’s stories”, “I write letters to my sisters”, “We read recipe books and online recipes then cook food together”, and “I play board games with my family.”  There are so many ways to build literacy fun into your everyday life.  Thanks for trying some fun ones this weekend!

 

  1. As we get into this next snowy stretch of winter, please remember that the most accurate way to determine if it’s a no bus day is to check daily at https://stwdsts.ca/.  If you are a bus student, you can also sign up for email reminders.  This is the most up to date and accurate way to check for all changes in transportation.  If transportation is cancelled for the morning, it will be cancelled for the entire day.  Families choosing to bring their children to school will need to pick them up at the end of the day at 3:30 PM.  If your child is a walker regularly, please remember to contact the school on a no bus day if they will be absent.  As a reminder, if there will be a school closure due to weather, it would come as an email or call from the school.

 

  1. Mark your calendars!  Alma PS is planning a Book Fair in coordination with Magic Pebble Books in Elora.  The Book Fair will run from February 20 to March 7 to help facilitate families visiting the store prior to or during March Break.  Everything will be run virtually and you can pick items up at the store.  Details about the rest of the Book Fair will come out closer to the date.  You can learn more about what the Bookstore has to offer here:  https://magicpebble.ca/?q=h.

 

 Thanks as always for your continued support.  If there’s anything the school can do to help, please let us know.  We’re here to help!

 

Take care,

 

Jason Boyce

Principal Alma PS

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