Signal Hill Circular - February 11th, 2022
February 11th, 2022
Dear Signal Hill Families,
We had a fantastic week with Professional Development for our teachers on Monday and our school "Carnaval" on Thursday. We were blessed to have amazing weather for a day of activities with our school and école La Vallée. Students, staff, and families participated in a float parade, winter sport competitions like sled races, and snowball throwing, dance routines, and were treated to la tire d'érable (maple taffy made in the snow) and hot chocolate and fresh bannock. Saying a lot of fun was had would be an understatement! Merci, Kúkwstum’ckacw, and thank you so much to all of the staff and volunteers for making such a special day possible. A special thank you as well to Pemberton Valley Supermarket for their support and donations.
Teachers took part in professional learning on Monday. Some of the learning our staff took on included:
"Five Paths of Student Engagement" with Andy Hargreaves
Mathology
Decolonizing Practices with Nahanee Creative
Ozobots Robotics in the Classroom
We are so fortunate to have these days to continue our professional growth!
OLYMPIC UPDATE!!!
Congratulations to our Trinity Ellis who came in 13th overall today at the Women’s Single Luge event at the Olympics! We are all so proud of her!
News, Updates, and Reminders:
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!
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
As part of building a culture of inquiry, students in Ms. Cameron and Ms. Madsen's class had 4 different kitchen chemistry stations that the students were free to choose based on their questions. They collaborated by assigning jobs such as filmer, mixer, ingredients adder, etc. They got to decide how much to put and if they wanted new ingredients, they would advocate for their group by asking for it. They were given colourful papers of all sizes to document the story behind their science.
Truth and Reconciliation
Some examples of our continuing journey from this week includes:
Ms. Marining's K/1 class is learning about First Nation’s stories and the characteristics of the animals in them. Below is a pop-out art project we created to present the characteristics of Raven.
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.