The Week Ahead
- Oct 12 Deadline to Order Fun Lunch at Midnight
- Oct 14 Thanksgiving Day (No School)
- Oct 17 Fun Lunch/Panago Pizza and Booster Juice
- Oct 17 AM K Circus Show
- Oct 17 PM Grade 3, 4, 5 Circus Show
- Oct 18 PM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:15pm)
- Oct 18 Grade 1, 2, PM K Circus Shows
Upcoming Dates
- Oct 21 Grade 1, Room 12 Teacher’s Pet/Math- Coding Exploration Mazes
- Oct 21-24 Grade K,/3/4 Swimming at Sir Winston Churchill Pool
- Oct 22 Grade 1, Room 6 Teacher’s Pet/Math- Coding Exploration Mazes
- Oct 22 Grade 5 Field Trip/Library – Explorando Español
- Oct 23 Grade 1, RM 7 Teacher’s Pet/Math- Coding Exploration Mazes
- Oct 24 Family Movie Night 6:30 PM
- Oct 25 Non-Instruction Day/No School
- Oct 28 Picture Retakes/class photo
- Nov 1 AM Kindergarten Attends (8:00-12:15pm)
Circus Residency
Our Circus Residency with Green Fools Theatre Company is in full swing. Students have been learning a variety of circus skills led by a professional theatre company. Students will need to wear comfortable clothes that will allow them to easily move and to avoid wearing dangling jewelry during the residency. Parents are invited to a circus performance on October 17 or 18, see times below. Grade 3 and 4 classes will be performing musical numbers to accompany their circus performance. We are grateful to the Collingwood School Parent Association for their financial support for this residency. We are also pleased to announce that the school has been successful in receiving a grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for this residency.
Times for Circus Show Performances
Parents are invited to circus performances at the times below. Doors to the gym will open 5 minutes before show time
Thursday, Oct 17
Time | Class |
9:20 – 10:00 | AM K: Navarro/ T. Martinez |
12:05 – 12:50 | De Benito/Chavez/ Vargas |
12:55 – 1:45 | Lara/ Rekhson/ Schmidt |
1:50 – 2:35 | Grade 5: Gugliotta/ Gomez/ Portero |
Friday, Oct 18
Time | Class |
8:10 – 8:50 | PM K: Navarro/ T. Martinez |
8:55 – 9:35 | Gr 1: Lopez/ Sanchez |
9:40 – 10:20 | Gr 1 E. Martinez/ Barron |
10:45 – 11:25 | Gr 2 Bradley/ Lam |
11:30 – 12:10 | Gr 2 Fuentes/ Sundset |
Annual CBE Online Forms- Now Overdue
We thank our families for taking the time to complete the opening forms on their MYCBE account. We still have 10% of families yet to complete the forms.
Forms are completed in SchoolEngage.
SchoolEngage is one of the applications found in your MyCBE account. This is the same account that you use to pay fees, view academic information, book school conferences, etc. If you do not have a MyCBE account, on the MyCBE page click on Create a MyCBE Account. For online help refer, to MyCBE - Creating an Account (includes instructions and a video). These forms are mandatory every year for Alberta Education to confirm student funding
Dressing for the Weather
As we begin experiencing cooler mornings and variable weather conditions throughout the day, please make sure that your child has the appropriate clothing for recess, lunch break, and / or community walks. You may consider packing a pair of light gloves and a toque along. Please make sure that they have an appropriate jacket to wear and /or an umbrella if the forecast calls for rain.
Safety in the School Zone
For the safety of all of our students and families, we ask that everyone respect the law in the school zone, this means not jaywalking, not doing u-turns and respecting the speed limit. If families witness poor driver and pedestrian behavior, please call 311 to seek bylaw enforcement.
Musical Sharing
Every grade will be featured at one point during the year to share some of their learning from the music program. These concerts will be held during the school day. The dates for this year’s music sharing are as follows:
Kindergarten and Grade 1 – December Concerts - December 11, 12
Grade 2 – Remembrance Day - November 7
Grade 3 & 4 – Musical Accompaniment to Circus Performance - Oct 17 PM
Grade 5 – Que Pasa – May 7
Clothing Donation
We are in need of clothing for all grades, K-Gr 5. Pants are our most used item but socks, T-shirts and new underwear are needed as well Please have your child bring them to the main office. We appreciate any items donate. Thank You!
Fun Lunch Oct. 17
Our October fun lunch for students in grades 1-5 will be Thursday, October 17, 2024! This fun lunch will be Panago Pizza and Booster Juice. In order to sign up for Fun Lunches, families need to have an account on the Healthy Hunger Website(www.healthyhunger.ca) . Please see the set up instructions here, Healthy-Hunger-Set-Up-Instructions.pdf
The deadline to order fun lunch or change/cancel an order is always the Saturday prior to the fun lunch date. So, for this month, the deadline to order or cancel is Saturday, October 12, 2024 at midnightt. After this time, there is unfortunately no way to add/change or cancel 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 help students contain any leaks/drips!
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.
Student Absent on Fun Lunch Days
If your child is absent from school on fun lunch day and you were not able to cancel their lunch order by the deadline you can come pick up their fun lunch. If you are planning to do so, please send an email to collingwood@cbe.ab.ca before 10:30am 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 organized and distributed between 11:00am - 12:25pm.
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 - 12:15pm 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.
Upcoming Fun Lunch dates and Lunchtime eating schedules can be viewed on our school website - Lunchroom Supervision and Fun Lunch
For any questions please contact fun lunch coordinators at funlunchcollingwood@gmail.com
Open House Jan. 9, 2025
Please share with your families, neighbours and friends to join us for our information night and Open House on Thursday, January 9, 2025 to learn more about our Spanish Bilingual Program and the opportunities for your student at our school.
Our doors will open at 6:00 pm with a presentation by before and after school programs followed by our Open House focused on Kindergarten and Grade 1 starting at 6:30 pm which will include information on our Lottery process.
Registration for the 2025/26 school year begins in mid January 2025. Children can start Kindergarten in the fall of 2025 if they turn 5 years old on or before December 31, 2025. Children must start school if they are six years of age or older on September 1.
There is no requirement for students to have prior exposure to Spanish to begin in Kindergarten or in September of their Grade 1 year. Parents are not expected to understand Spanish either.
Please contact our office staff by phone at 403-777-6180 or by email at collingwood@cbe.ab.ca if you have questions about our Open House.
Family Movie Night on Thursday, October 24
Collingwood Parent Association is hosting a Family Movie Night on Oct as part of the lead of to Day of the Dead. All families are invited to enjoy the movie, “Coco” at school with family and friends. Doors open at 6:00PM and Movie starts at 6:30 PM
- Admission is by donation and concessions will be available for cash purchase.
- Bring your dinner and a blanket or chairs.
- Please note that apples from our fall fundraiser will be available for pick-up that evening.
Gracias,
The Collingwood School Parent Association (CSPA)
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Commercial Messages
From time to time, the school sends out messages with commercial content, such as fun lunch notices, ordering pictures or special fundraisers. For example, the Parent Association is hosting an exciting new apple fundraiser this fall. In order to receive these emails families need to subscribe to receive commercial messages from the school.
Fundraisers and Donations
Visit the Fundraiser & Donations page which will provide you with up to date information about any Collingwood School fundraisers or Parent Association Fundraisers. It also explains the process the CBE uses for other donations. Please take a few minutes to check out some of the exciting plans of the Collingwood Parent Association.