The Week Ahead
Apr 15 - 19 Mission Impossible
Apr 17 School Council Meeting- In-Person at the School (6:30-8:30pm)
Apr 17 Gr 1 (Rooms 6 + 7) In School Field Trip/Felting Workshop
Apr 18 Gr 1 (Rooms 12 + 13) In School Field Trip/Felting Workshop
Apr 18 Fun Lunch- Tim Hortons & Booster Juice
Apr 19 Non-Instruction Day- No School
Upcoming Dates
Apr 24-26 Feria del Libro
Apr 22-26 Earth Week
Apr 26 AM Kindergarten Attends (8:00am-12:15pm)
Apr 29 The Hoop Dancing Presentation by Dallas Arcand (1:00pm)
May 3 PM Kindergarten Attends
May 3 In-School Field Trip- Teacher’s Pet/Wood Bee House Project
May 7 Grade 5 Performance- Que Pasa
May 8 Hats on for Mental Health
May 10 AM Kindergarten Attends
May 10 In School Field Trip- Teacher’s Pet/Wood Bee House Project
May 14 Gr4 Field Trip- Telus Spark/Action Reaction Contraption
Gymnastics Residency/ Mission Impossible
It has been exciting to watch children develop their skills during our gymnastics residency the past two weeks. We are grateful that we are able to offer this residency at no cost to parents, thanks to the financial support of the Collingwood Parent Association. This week, Sr. Vargas’s grade 5 class will be designing a Mission Impossible Obstacle Course. For the next week, please ensure your children wear comfortable clothes that they can move and roll in and that they refrain from wearing dangling jewelry.
Fun Lunch April 18
Reminder! Parents please ensure your child has a snack for morning nutrition break on fun lunch day. We are noticing an increase in students who do not bring any snack to get them through the morning, thank you.
Please see the following alert from Subway restaurant in relation to the June 27 Subway fun lunch. You can edit/cancel orders for Subway on www.healthyhunger.ca up until June 22, 2024.
"Please be advised that Subway will now be using chicken strips as the official substituted for grilled chicken. This new product is dairy free and gluten free so there shouldn't be any allergy concerns."
The deadline to order fun lunch or change an order is always the Saturday prior to the fun lunch date. So, for this month, the deadline to order is Saturday, April 13, 2024 at midnightt. After this time, there is unfortunately no way to add/change an order.
As a reminder, we are a litter free school, so kids will be asked to bring home all leftovers and garbage from the fun lunch. Parents may wish to send a bag to contain any drips to help kids with this!
Volunteer Sign Up
In order for fun lunches to be a success, we rely on volunteers to help check and distribute the meals (kids are always very excited to see you!) Please consider signing up to help using this link.
Fun Lunch Volunteers Sign Up Link
Student Absent 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 pick up of the fun lunch.
The instructions must be received prior to 10:30am on the day of the fun lunch. Fun lunches are distributed between 10:30am and 11:30am.
Any unclaimed lunch orders, due to absence of student, without directions received by 10:30am will be donated by the parent association to the staff room.
Pick up time for fun Lunches for absent students will be 11:45am - 12:00pm at the school. This will allow our parent volunteers time to find and set aside the fun lunch.
A parent association volunteer will assist you with the lunch collection during this pick up time.
Bee Logo Contest 2024
There were many outstanding entries for our 2024 Bee Logo Contest. The winning design was drawn by Kaden H. in Grade 3. Congratulations Kaden!
Dallas Arcand Presentation Rebooked for April 29 - 1:00pm
Collingwood School is excited to welcome Dallas Arcand on Monday April 29. Dallas is a 3x world Champion Hoop dancer, storyteller and musician. He specializes in education and healing workshops, anti-bullying and Hoop Dance 101. He is from the Alexander First Nation in Northern Alberta. We are grateful to be able to offer this presentation at no cost to Collingwood Families thanks to the Collingwood Parent Association.
Volunteers Needed
Thank you to the many volunteers who came to stamp and tape books over the past few weeks. We are about two thirds of the way through this major project. We welcome any parents who can come to school and continue to help us with this project this week. No volunteer clearance or sign up is required, just come by the school to help.
Earth Week Activities
April 22 – Earth Day. Collingwood Students and staff are invited to wear Earth colours of green and blue to mark this special day of environmental awareness.
OUTDOOR Tuesday, April 23 - Spend quality time outside in nature, pick up litter, read outside, play in the Timbernook area.
Black Out Wednesday, 24 – Classes will try to learn without the use of electricity to build student awareness of energy use. Students will be asked to reflect on how often lights and electricity are used.
WASTE-FREE Thursday, 25 - Which class in Collingwood will have no waste for a whole day?
NATURE ART Friday, 26 - Use materials you find in Nature to create art.
Class Placement
Creating balanced classes is an involved process that we take very seriously at Collingwood School. Many factors are considered, including teaching and learning styles, social needs, group dynamics, class size, etc. The teachers from the current grade know the children very well and they create the lists for the following year. We appreciate that families trust us to make the best possible placement for your children. The school will make every effort to ensure that every child has a classmate they are familiar with and who they can learn well with in their class. Teachers will be asking students for a list of children they work well with, who they would like to be in their class next year. If families would like to share something about their child's learning style or needs that you feel the school is not already aware of, then please send an email to your child’s teacher and cc Collingwood@cbe.ab.ca. by Friday, April 26. Emails received after this date will not be considered. Please remember that requesting a particular teacher is not the purpose for this communication. All of the above factors will be considered as we make classes. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to honor student or family requests.
Feria del Libro – Books Wanted!
We will be holding a “Feria del Libro” or Book Fair from April 24-26. For this event, students will be asked to donate gently used books to the school. All of the books will be on display in the gym during the Feria del Libro. Students who donate two books or more will have the opportunity to take home two books. All students will receive 1 book whether they donate any books or not. At the end of the book fair, students may have the opportunity to choose additional books. Students may bring books in to the classrooms starting Monday, April 15. No baby books please.
Feria del Libro – Volunteers needed
Volunteers are needed to help organize the books and run the book fair the week of April 22-26. If you have your police security clearance and are available to help, thanks for signing up at the following link. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0945AAA929A3F85-48968429-feria
Order your Yearbooks
The deadline to get your Lifetouch orders in for the 2023-2024 yearbook is May 10, 2024. Collingwood’s Yearbook ID Code: 14876024. To order go to ybpay.ca or click on the link below.
Abejas Bilingües de Collingwood
To see the comings and goings of our Collingwood bees, check out the blog at the Collingwood MyHive link: https://myhive.alveole.buzz/calgary-board-of-education-collingwood-school.
School Fees
There is a fee for all in-school and out of school field trips. These field trips are very popular and valuable learning experiences for students. Fees are uploaded to your MyCBE account throughout the school year. Please take a moment to log on to your MYCBE account to check if you have outstanding school fees. We need your support by paying these fees so that we may continue to offer these enrichment opportunities for students.
Collingwood School Council Facebook and Instagram Sites
Collingwood parents Spencer and Catherine Wight do an excellent job keeping a School Council Facebook and Instagram site updated. Check out the pages below.
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