Updates and Reminders for the 2025-2026 School Year

Posted on 2025-12-01 17:59:03.226 +0000 UTC

Update - February 20, 2026 - Mid-year Report Cards will go live in PowerSchool
Update - French and Music - Teachers will be providing comments for all grade 3 and 4 students in the first report card; grade 1 and 2 students will have comments in the second report card
Reminder - CBE has specific guidelines that teachers are required to use to write comments
Update - There are two different ways that Colonel Sanders teachers will write report card comments; homeroom teachers will use one way, specialist teachers will be using a different way
Reminder - June 25, 2026 - End of Year Report Cards will go live in PowerSchool

February 26, 2026 - 4:30pm to 8:00pm and February 27, 2026 - 9:00am to 2:00pm
This modification was made for this school year because Eid should be occurring during the March 19 and 20 timeframe; since many of our families celebrate Eid we wanted to ensure that families could attend Learning Conferences #2, therefore we have made this change for this School Year

December 1 to December 12 - Pasta-tively Saucy (Positively Super) Food and Cash Donation Drive
Students and staff are invited to bring donations to school (food and cash)
Purpose - Students are involved in community action, participate in mathematics, and a bit of competition too!

A Learning Journey is an opportunity for families to see how their student is learning at school and where they are within their learning
In consideration of teacher workload, these have been canceled for the 2025-2026 School Year

Our next School Council Meeting will be held online on December 10, 2025
- 6:15-6:30 - Chat - at this time parents can ask generic questions to either School Council Executive or the School's Administration
- 6:30-7:30 - Formal Meeting
- 7:30 - Executive Members and parents who have joined the meeting will review Request for Funds that the school has put forth (School Administration is not present for this portion)

Students go outside to play twice a day
- lunch recess - 20 minutes
- afternoon recess - 15 minutes
Students need to have all their winter clothing at school ready to go outside for recess breaks
Please ensure that students have all their winter clothing including: a winter coat, snowpants, boots, mittens or gloves, a winter hat (toque)
Students who are not prepared for the weather will be cold when outside during the recess breaks
Students will not go outside if it is colder than -20C including the windchill; this is monitored throughout the day
- ex: students may not go outside for lunch recess because it is colder than -20C including the windchill, yet by afternoon recess the weather may have improved, and students will go outside for afternoon recess
If it is colder than -20C including the windchill, a recess break will occur in the classroom; each classroom has various games for student use

If your student will not be coming to school, please leave a message on the School's Attendance Line
- Name - first and last
- Class Code (ex: 1T)
- Reason for absence
- State if your student takes the bus
If the Attendance Line is full, please call back to leave a message with a person
At times, parents have been emailing in their attendance; if the person you emailed is at work on this day we do receive the email, but if the person is absent, we will likely not receive the email
If you have emailed, then receive a call about your student's absence this is because the person you emailed is not at work that day and the message was not received by the school
If your student will be absent for an appointment on a future date, a message in the agenda could also be written prior to the date of the appointment

Do not leave your student at the bus stop alone
Ensure that your student has their winter clothing because if there is an issue with the bus, the bus could get cold
Ensure that you are checking the Cellular Phone application for your specific bus to note any delays in either direction
Review the Bus Social Story which has been sent home this year
If there are any concerns on the bus, please contact the bus company or the school
Student get very excited when their bus arrives at their stop in the morning, please ensure that your student waits their turn to board the bus