Collingwood Weekly Update Dec 8-12, 2025
La semana del 8 al 12 de diciembre de 2025
The Week Ahead
Dec 11 Gr 3 & 6 – Concert, 8:30am & 1:00pm
Dec 11 Fun Lunch – Boston Pizza & Booster Juice
Dec 12 PM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:00pm)
Upcoming Dates
Dec 15-19 Skating at Triwood Community Centre Outdoor Rink
Dec 19 Last Day of Classes before Winter Break
Dec 19 AM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:00pm)
Dec 20-Jan 4 Winter Break
Jan 5 Classes Resume
Jan 8 Collingwood School Open House – 6:30PM
Jan 9 PM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:00pm)
Jan 12-23 Gymnastics Residency
Jan 15 Fun Lunch – Subway & Booster Juice
Jan 16 AM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:00pm)
Jan 23 PM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:00pm)
Jan 26-29 Mission Impossible
Feb 24 Report Cards available online
Interim Principal Announcement
Please see the attached letter about the Interim Principal who will be starting at school in January as well as a survey to provide input about the ongoing principal who will be hired later in the Spring.
Interim Principal Collingwood School
Skating- We need volunteers
We need many volunteers for two events coming up this month.
- Fun Lunch Volunteers - to help out distributing fun lunch on Dec. 11
- Skating Volunteers the week of Dec 15 - 19
Please note that skating is weather dependent, so if it is too cold or too warm it will be cancelled. Volunteers are needed to help tie up skates for skating on the outdoor rinks at Trwood Community Centre. Helping skaters on the ice is optional. All children and adults on the ice must have skates and helmets. Skates and helmets for children and adults are available in the skate shack. All volunteers must have their police security clearance and completed the annual volunteer registration form. When signing up, please note that the times listed are the on ice times. Please allow 30 minutes before and after to walk to and from the rink. Volunteers to shovel snow are only needed if it snows. An email about snow shovelling will be sent out the night before.
Sign up for both activities is at the link below.
Collingwood Volunteer Opportunities, 2025-26
Thank you for your support!
Lifetouch -Fall individual Retakes
Lifetouch is hosting their last fall retakes date of the school year in their studio on Dec. 12. If interested, please book an appointment at the link below.
Lifetouch Studio - Fall Individual Retake - Book Now!
📍 Studio Location: 5329 72 Ave SE #30, Calgary, AB T2C 4X6
Winter Concerts
This year, our Winter Concerts will take place on Thursday, December 11 at 8:30AM and at 1:00PM. They will feature the grade 3 and grade 6 students. Parents are welcome to attend either concert, as all students in grade 3 and 6 will be performing at both concerts.
Outdoor Skating
All students grade K-6 will be going skating at the outdoor rinks at Triwood Community Centre between Dec 15 and 19. We have booked the “Skate Shack”, which is a large trailer with skates and helmets for students to use. Students are welcome to bring their own skates and CSA approved helmets. No hockey sticks. All students are invited to participate in this activity even if they have never skated before. We will have some chairs available on the ice for students to push around, and the older students and parent volunteers will help the new skaters. Please communicate with your child’s teacher if you have a wagon they can borrow to help transport skates and helmets to and from the rink. Please also make sure your child knows their shoe size so it is faster to distribute skates from the Skate Shack.
Fun Lunch
As previously advertised, our next Fun Lunch for students in Grades 1-6 will take place on Thursday, December 11, 2025. This Fun Lunch will be Boston Pizza + Booster Juice!
- Sign up for Fun Lunches on the Healthy Hunger Website (an account is required).
- Please review the Healthy Hunger Set Up Instructions.
Order Deadline
The deadline to order a Fun Lunch or change/cancel an order is always the Saturday before the Fun Lunch date. For this month, the order deadline is Saturday, December 6, 2025, at midnight. After this time, there is no way to add/change an order.
Volunteer Sign-Up
In order for Fun Lunches to be a success, we rely on volunteers to help organize and distribute the meals. Please note that you can now sign-up to volunteer for Fun Lunches from December to January. We will open up volunteer opportunities for February - May in the New Year. If you have a valid police clearance check, please consider signing up to help using this link:
In the event that your sign-up needs to be cancelled, please provide as much notice as possible as we require a minimum number of volunteers to distribute lunches promptly and will need to replace your position with a new volunteer.
Student Absence on Fun Lunch Days
If your child is absent from school, on Fun Lunch day, and you are planning to come pick up their Fun Lunch, please send an email to collingwood@cbe.ab.ca with instructions on pickup of the lunch. Note the following restrictions:
- The instructions must be received prior to 10:30 a.m. on the day of the Fun Lunch. Fun Lunches are organized and distributed between 10:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
- Any unclaimed lunch orders (due to student absence), without directions received by 10:30 a.m., will be donated by the Parent Association to the staff room.
- Pickup time for Fun Lunches for absent students will be 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., at the school. This will allow our parent volunteers time to find and set aside the correct order.
Upcoming Fun Lunch Dates
In addition to December’s Fun Lunch, we have now confirmed the following dates for the remainder of the school year, January 2026 to May 2026
- January 15 - Subway + Booster Juice
- February 19 - Panago + Booster Juice
- March 12 - Mucho Burrito + Booster Juice
- April 16 - Boston Pizza + Booster Juice
- May 21 - Subway + Booster Juice
These dates are now active on the Healthy Hunger Platform, and ordering can take place at this time. For any questions, please contact the Fun Lunch Coordinators at funlunchcollingwood@gmail.com.
Clothing Donations
We are in need of gently used children’s clothing. We are running low on socks, (new)underwear, girl pants of all sizes, boys pants (larger sizes). Thank you!
Kindergarten and Grade 1 Open House
Kindergarten and Grade 1 Open House
Collingwood School will be hosting a open house on Thursday January 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM. Please share this information with friends and neighbours who might be interested in our school for next year. We have invited a few daycares who service our school to be available, from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM for a Q&A session and give a short presentation about their program and service.
School Zone Safety
A friendly reminder to our Collingwood parents, to please slow down and take extra precautions when dropping off students in the morning. We understand it is a high traffic area, but please arrive at school early and use the designated student drop off zone.
If you need to park your vehicle on the opposite side of school, please cross the road with your child at the marked crosswalk. We want to ensure that everyone stays safe.
If you have are concerned about school zone safety, you may choose to fill in a traffic- service request using this Calgary Police Service link: Traffic Service Requests
School Field Trips Fees Payable Online
School Field Trip Fees are uploaded online. To view and pay your fees, please log into your MYCBE. Please use this Student Fee Guide to pay the fees online.
If a waiver is not obtained and school fees are unpaid, these costs ultimately come out of the school budget.
Thank you for your ongoing support of Collingwood School.
School Year Calendar
Visit our School Website Calendar to keep up-to date with new events and field trips:
Student Forms Online
All opening school forms have transitioned online to your MYCBEaccount
The following forms can be found in your MYCBE account – scroll to the tab that says “online forms and school registration in the menu field
- Student Demographic Forms
- Authorization Forms – Consents for CBE and Media
- For help in accessing your MYCBE account see our support page.
- For new families who enrolled in Kindergarten and other Grades:
- New families to the CBE and Collingwood School will need to create a MYCBE Account.
- Follow the following instructions to retrieve your student CBE ID number in your SchoolEngage account.
- You will need your email address on file at the school, as well as the student’s CBE ID. This can be found on the SchoolEngage student profile for families that registered their child using SchoolEngage.
- For a visual guide on how to find the CBE ID within SchoolEngage, refer to SchoolEnage CBE Student ID
- See our support page for instructions on signing up for a MyCBE account or accessing an existing account.
- Your MyCBE account is used as long as your child remains at CBE from kindergarten to Grade 12, so please register with an email that will be active during this period.
Ongoing Fundraising for Our School
Flipgive: Shop, Earn, Give. This funding app/site earns cash for thing you already buy at no additional cost to you! Continue to buy the things you need online with family favorites like Amazon, Sport Check, Walmart and a portion of sales will go towards the school. Visit: Here and Enter invitation code XMCQMJ.
Mabel’s Labels Link: Prevent those germy mix-ups and label everything going to school. You can also find those lost mittens a way home. 20% of sales come back to Collingwood. Search “Collingwood School Parent Association”
Donating Opportunities: Did you know? Many employers have donation matching programs. Check with your employer and your donation can be doubled with ase! Tax receipts will be issued for donations of $20 or more.
Visit the EducationMatters online donation webpage to make a donation. (Preferred donation method)
Write a cheque payable to EducationMatters (all one word) and include the name of our school and the specific program, activity or item you want your donation to support in the 'memo' section. Give the cheque to the school or mail it to: EducationMatters, 1221 8 Street SW Calgary, AB T2R 0L4
If you do not require a tax receipt, families may write cheques directly to the Collingwood School Parents Association.
To donate directly to the Naturalization Area, please visit the Education Matters website https://www.educationmatters.ca and ensure that you indicate that the donation is for Collingwood School (Naturalization Area).