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LEARNING ABOUT OUR NEW 2 METER DISTANCINGOur students have been hard at work adapting to the new Code Orange safety guidelines. This past week we focused on making the adjustment to our school routines with the new 2 meter distancing guideline. To help students have a better understanding of this concept, we tapped into our math and art skills, making connections to familiar objects that would allow students to better gauge the physical distance recommended for their safety. We also continue to wear our masks and practice frequent hand washing/sanitizing. Here are a few of the posters students created. SUPPORTING MASK GUIDELINES WHEN ON SCHOOL PROPERTYWe are reaching out to our parent and family community for your help in ensuring the safety of our students and school community. When on school property we are asking that parents and adult family members please wear a mask. This would include when dropping off or picking up items at school, coming to cohort doors or waiting on the sidewalk along the front of the school at end of day dismissal. We thank you for your support for keeping our community safe. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE GREAT OUTDOORSHaving to hold our physical education classes outdoors has added certain challenges to the teaching of this class. Nevertheless, our PE staff have taken on the challenge and are consistently coming up with creative ways to take advantage of the great outdoors with their classes. In many ways, we've gone back to simply having fun playing outdoors. We're bringing back some of our favorite 'old school' games, such as skipping rope songs, scrimmage games of 500, and wall handball. You may have noticed the painted circles on the school; these are to provide game opportunities for kids, to practice their hand eye coordination with ball throwing or hockey shots, and to be used as point counters in their games (why not slide some math into playtime). We've planned the school yard snow clearing to provide students with ongoing access to the tarmacs, soccer fields and walking paths, and to small snow hills. Every cohort has been provided with a storage bin of outdoor equipment. We also anxiously await the arrival of the snowshoes and Drum fits purchased with the generous donation from the Village Connection. It has been wonderful to see an increase in students engaging in active play, inventing their own games, and playing cohesively as cohort groups. We believe this is important to not only their physical health but to their mental health as well. PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES Nov 19/20Parents have received an email survey to let us know their preferences for Parent Teacher conferences this week. If you have more than one child in the school, you may have received more than one link. Some teachers have a different availability schedule; if you don't see your child's teacher on one survey, please use the link in the second email you received. If you have not received the email, please contact the school office to get the link to the survey. Following the survey results, teachers will be communicating appointment times via a Goggle meet or Zoom invite or via email for a phone conference. A reminder that parent-teacher conferences will be 10 minutes appointments on Thursday November 19th, 4-6:45 pm and Friday November 20th, 9-11:30 am. In the event that your child’s teacher is not available on November 20th, other arrangements can be made for your parent-teacher conferences at a later date. ADDITIONAL NON-INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS FOR 2020-2021On November 9th, 2020, the minister of Education announced three additional non-instructional days are to be added to the school calendar for the 2020-2021 year: two of these days are to be scheduled before Christmas and one in the second semester. These additional three non-instructional days will be used to focus on professional development and collaborative planning for school staff. Students will not be attending school on these days. These days have been set in our division for December 4th, December 7th and March 5th. HCSA UPDATEThe HCSA is temporarily suspended during the Code Orange phase in the school. I would like to thank the parents of our HCSA athletes for their feedback in regards to the issue of equipment storage. Further information about the HCSA survey results and plans moving forward will be shared with parents upon confirmation of a restart date for the program and a start date for the on ice portion of the program. SCHOOL CALENDAR OF EVENTSFor more information about school events, important dates and access to school documents, please visit our school web page at https://stmalo.rrvsd.ca/, or click the pic below. Comments are closed.
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