Signal Hill Circular - February 4th, 2022
February 4th, 2022
Dear Signal Hill Families,
While COVID-19 continues to be a challenge at our school, we are so pleased to see everyone doing their part to keep everyone safe. Please see a reference sheet/flow chart with information on “COVID-19 Symptoms, Testing and Return to School” based on published Public Health advice.
We are really looking forward to our "Carnaval Winter Festival" next week on February 10th. Students have been working hard preparing activities, and floats for the parade. We will be celebrating Carnival with Ecole de la Vallee outside all day! The students and staff will be playing in the snow, eating maple syrup candy, and generally having “snow much fun”!! Please send your children to school with proper outdoor gear – snowpants, winter coats, gloves and hats will be needed! All families are welcome to attend! 12:30 - 2:30pm.
Thank you to our school and community members who participated in our Literacy Week events. Lots of you were "caught reading!" We appreciate how many students participated in the library’s Look Who Was Caught Reading bulletin board as well as our Family Literacy Week Bingo! Eleven lucky students were recipients of draw prizes from the two contests!
Continuing to work around our theme of Á7xe7ul from our school learning plan and the Lil'wat Principles of Learning, our staff took some time this week during our staff meeting to create a "Museum of Us" bulletin board in the school with staff family pictures that highlight our families' strengths. Ask your child if they've seen it yet!
This student lost her drum & buckskin top during the Fall, but it was found at PSS.
Today she got it back, but before she got it, she went to say a gratitude prayer with cedar, by the trees. KUKWSTUMKACW to everyone who made this girl happy!
Today she got it back, but before she got it, she went to say a gratitude prayer with cedar, by the trees. KUKWSTUMKACW to everyone who made this girl happy!
A few reminders and updates:
OLYMPIC ATHLETES FROM PEMBERTON!!!
Let’s cheer on our Olympic and Paralympic athletes tomorrow, at 10:15 am Saturday, February 5th at Pemberton Secondary School field!!! Our very own Trinity Ellis (Luge) and Ethan Hess (Para Nordic Skiing) are representing Canada at the games! Bring your smiling face, loud cheers, noisemakers and Canadian flags! Please leave your dogs at home if you can, but if you must bring your canine cheerleader, please have them on a leash!
Kindergarten Registration for 2022-23
Kindergarten (children born in 2017) registration continues. Please come to the school to pick up forms and register your children. We also need their birth certificate or passport and their care card to register.
Planning for 2022-23 School Year
Are you planning to move to another school for the next school year? Is your child planning to leave the French Immersion program? Do you plan to enroll another child that’s not in kindergarten? Please inform our office so we can plan for our next school year.
Basketball
Practices have started! The practice schedule is as follows:
Mondays – Gr 4-7 Girls Team 3-5 pm
Tuesdays – Gr 4-5 Boys Team 3-5 pm
Thursdays – Gr 6-7 Boys Team 3-5 pm
If you are picking up your child, please wait outside at the front doors, do NOT enter the school.
If any parents have questions, please email Ms. Montie. Her email is [email protected]
Hot Lunch Order Forms Have Gone Home!
The PAC has a new order form that was sent home! Check your children’s backpacks! These forms are due ASAP!!! Please order your children’s lunch now!
Important Dates Next Week:
Monday, February 7th - Professional Day – NO SCHOOL for students
Thursday, February 10th - Winter Carnival
What Parents and Students Need to Know
Illness Reporting
As you are aware, Provincial Health will be considering student attendance information over the next couple of weeks. To support this, districts have been asked to establish baseline data for monitoring student illnesses.
Therefore, schools are being asked to specify in their daily attendance, absences due to illness. While the type of illness is not to be specified, it provides a comparison between students being absent due to illness versus a number of other reasons (vacation, field trips, medical appointments, athletics, injuries, etc.).
In an effort to best monitor student attendance information, we are asking parents to please specify if their child(ren)’s absence is due to illness. Again, it is not necessary to specify the illness.
We thank you for your continued support in helping us maintain accurate student information.
Learning Connections
Students in Mme Hamonic's class took a First Aid course and were certified!
Students in Mme Chambers' class created French comics:
Students in Mr. Gray's class did a S.T.E.M. experiment looking at different solutions for melting ice. They tested beet juice, salt, and sawdust:
Truth and Reconciliation
Some examples of our continuing journey from this week includes:
Our administration team spent some time this week working through some of Nahanee Creative's Decolonize First courses.
Students in Mr. Gray's class played charades with Ucwalmícwts words.
Skícza7ul’s Word of the Week
pál7altsem - to visit (phonetic - pal7alchem)
pál7altsen i snuk̓wnúk̓w7a - to visit family or friends. (phonetic - pal7alchen ee shnooknookwa7)
wa7lhkan pál7altsem - I am going to visit (phonetic - wa7thlkan pal7alchem)
French Word of the Week
friend - ami(e) m/(f)
Parent Advisory Committee
Health and Safety
Updated Signal Hill Health and Safety Plan
Staff, parents and students are regularly reminded of their responsibilities to complete a Daily Health Check and are provided with resources on how to complete one (e.g., the K-12 Health Check app)
RRT-Case Management and School Notifications, Ventilation, Masks: The RRT has developed the following FAQs to help support consistent messaging on the topics of:
· Case management and school notifications
Illness Reporting
As you are aware, Provincial Health will be considering student attendance information over the next couple of weeks. To support this, districts have been asked to establish baseline data for monitoring student illnesses.
Therefore, schools are being asked to specify in their daily attendance, absences due to illness. While the type of illness is not to be specified, it provides a comparison between students being absent due to illness versus a number of other reasons (vacation, field trips, medical appointments, athletics, injuries, etc.).
In an effort to best monitor student attendance information, we are asking parents to please specify if their child(ren)’s absence is due to illness. Again, it is not necessary to specify the illness.
We thank you for your continued support in helping us maintain accurate student information.