Signal Hill Circular - February 25th, 2022
February 25th, 2022
Dear Signal Hill Families,
The sun has been shining this week and so has Signal Hill! We observed Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday - it was was great day to lift each other up and celebrate diversity and caring. It was neat to see so many students and staff wearing and displaying pink. Many of our intermediate classes were on field trips this week to go skiing and believe it or not, we are starting to look forward to spring break!
We are also feeling optimistic about the rescinded addendum to our communicable disease plan. Please see our updated Communicable Disease Plan on our website. Part of this means we can again welcome spectators to our sports games and upcoming tournament. Please continue to make an appointment with the office and following other safety protocols like wearing masks and washing hands. Thank you for your continued support and flexibility!
We had some super help cleaning up the school grounds this week! ;)
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]
Important Dates for Next Week:
Wednesday, March 2nd - Collaboration Day – Early dismissal at noon, buses will leave Signal Hill at noon, please make sure you are at the bus stop for your little ones.
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.
Truth and Reconciliation
Some examples of our continuing journey from this week includes:
Cina, one of our Cultural Support Workers, is teaching classes about traditional ways Indigenous peoples fished in our surrounding communities and the differences between fishing on the Fraser and Lillooet rivers.
Learning Connections
Students in Ms. Belyea's class are making "rock candy"! Yum!
Students in Ms. Farrell's class have been celebrating Kindness Week leading up to Pink Shirt Day. They wanted to recognize helpers in the community and chose to focus on PAWS, Pemberton's volunteer run animal shelter. Their class raised $22.25 to donate towards helping animals in need. We encourage anyone who's looking at adopting a pet to check out PAWS website. There's a sweet senior named Bubba currently looking for his forever home!
Skícza7ul's Words of the Week
stéxwkan t̓u7 wa7 xát̓mintsin! - I love you!
(Phonetic - Shtexwkan klu7 wa7 xaklmeencheen)
(Phonetic - Shtexwkan klu7 wa7 xaklmeencheen)
French Word of the Week
happy - heureux/euse
Parent Advisory Committee
Health and Safety
Updated Signal Hill Communicable Disease 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.