Sept. 11-15 Update
Upcoming Dates to Remember
- Sept 13 – School Council Meeting – In Person and Virtual at 6:15pm – link will be sent to families on Tuesday
- Sept 15 – Terry Fox Run at Egert’s Park – All students to wear clothing they can run/walk in. No dresses
- Sept 18 – Picture Day – All students MUST wear formal uniform
- Sept 21 – Open House – All families welcome 4:30 – 6:00pm – more information to come. No booking online needed.
- Sept 22 – No School for Students – PD for all teachers
- Sept 28 – Orange Shirt Day – All students to wear orange for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Sept 29 – No School for Students/Staff for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
School Council Meeting
For in-person School Council meetings, please feel free to park in the school's parking lot*. Walk toward the doors that are close to the school's parking lot (facing Northmount Drive). There will be a labeled button, please press this button to alert Council that you are at the door. Someone will then come to the door to open it for you.
*Please do not use the school's parking lot at any other time of the year (ex: Open House, Learning Conferences, Concerts, etc.). The parking lot is for school staff. Family members are able to park in the school's parking lot for in-person School Council meetings because most school staff will not need to park in their assigned spots.
Forms
Each year, schools have a variety of forms that parents / legal guardians are required to complete or review and update, some of which are paper and others online. In CBE, the forms in an online format are:
- Demographic Verification - 2023-24 – This form includes your child’s personal information as well as parent / legal guardian contact information.
- Citizenship Information Update - 2023-24 – This form becomes available if you change your child’s citizenship information on the Demographic Verification form.
- Annual Authorization - 2023-24 – Combines the following forms:
- School District Use of Personal Information - explains how CBE uses personal information in providing education services.
- Consent for CBE Use of Student Information – provides an option to grant / not grant consent for additional use of student information by school/district and third parties.
- Consent for Use of Student Information by News Media and Outside Groups (Third Party) - provides an option to grant / not grant consent for additional use of student information by outside groups and third parties
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).
To complete these forms:
1 | sign in to your MyCBE account
2 | click on the SchoolEngage icon
3 | select the form
4 | complete or review and update the form
5 | click on Submit to send the form electronically to the school
6 | repeat steps 3-5 for each form
Please submit the Demographic Verification and Annual Authorization forms in SchoolEngage for your child by Monday, September 18. These forms are mandatory every year for Alberta Education to confirm student funding. Thank you for completing them.
School Safety
As a school, our job is to ensure that all 370 students are safe. At the end of the school day there is an important way that you can support this work.
At the end of the day, please do not take students out of any line. Teachers place students onto buses. They account for each student. If a student is removed from the line and the teacher was not informed, we then need to call parents and hold buses until we know the student is safe. This then causes our buses to be delayed. It is best if you write a note in the agenda to inform your teacher that you will be picking up your student. You can also call the school prior to 3:20pm to give this information to the office. The school's phone number is 403-777-6034.
Teachers would love to talk to their families, at the end of the school day when teachers are ensuring student safety by taking students to their buses is not the right time. Students who are being picked up are being supervised by our specialists at the ball wall. All teachers are busy ensuring student safety.
If you would like to talk to your student's teacher, please book an appointment. This could be done by emailing your teacher or writing a note in the agenda.
Lastly, tomorrow is Friday. Our school day ends at 1:20pm. If you are picking up your students, please arrive promptly for 1:20pm.
School Council
School Council would like to welcome back all students, staff and families to the 2023/2024
School council is a group of volunteers who help to provide things like: fun lunches (through Healthy Hunger website), extra resources for classrooms, art supplies, website subscriptions, sports equipment, library books, field trips and many other things! We want to let you know about some important events that will be happening in September.
Important Dates:
- Friday, September 8- Popcorn Sale at school. Please send $2 for your child to buy a bag of popcorn. (You can send extra money if you’d like them to buy a second or third bag)
- Wednesday, September 13- First School Council Meeting. This will be both in person at the school and online on Microsoft Teams.
- Thursday, September 21- Open House at Colonel Sanders. Before the Open house School Council invite families to bring a picnic meal and eat together outside of the school so we can get to know each other and prepare for a great year ahead. More details will be shared soon.
Reminder we have a Colonel Sanders Parent Facebook TLC page. This connects parents and allows us to help answer each others questions, connect families for play dates, buy/sell uniforms and reminders about important events!
Website: https://m.facebook.com/groups/747406742602334/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF
Password: friends
We welcome you to get involved by volunteering with School Council this year. Your child will love to see helping out and you have a deeper sense of community in their school.
We are forward to working with all parents this year,
Dorothy Jones and Danielle Schappert, Co-Chairs of School Council
Message from the Office
Soft Entry
Our grade level doors will be open each day beginning at 8:55am and will close at 9:05am. If your student is arriving after 9:05am, they will need to enter the school through the main door, proceed to the office to get a welcome slip and then go to their classroom. School begins at 9:10am which means that students are seated within their classrooms ready to learn. If students are entering past 9:05am, they will not be ready to learn by 9:10am. Busing has been arranged for a target arrival time at 8:55am.
School Hours
Our grade level doors will be open from 8:55am-9:05am, and after this time students will need to enter the building through the main door and get a welcome slip as students will not be ready to learn by 9:10am if they are not in the school at 9:05am.
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Fridays |
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8:55-9:05 Soft Entry (grade level doors close at 9:05) 9:10 Instruction Begins |
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12:00-12:40 Lunch and Lunch Recess |
11:45-12:15 Lunch |
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3:43 End of Day |
1:20 End of Day |
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A 15 minute recess break (including 3 minutes of transition time) will be taken either in the morning |
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Transportation (Yellow Bus)
If you registered for busing, you should have already received transportation information regarding your student's bus letter, stop location, pick up and drop off times. Please arrive at least 5 minutes early and wait with your student (do not leave them unattended). At the end of the day, please also arrive about 5 minutes early and wait for the bus to arrive. The bus does not need to wait for you to arrive, students in grade 1 and up are let off at their bus stop. If you have not yet received information, please access your MyCBE account and click on transportation.
FIRST Student - Bus App
Please download the FIRST View application for First Student Transportation and sign up for an account using the prompts provided. The district is Calgary Board of Education. You will then receive an email from First Student which will then ask you to confirm your account. You will then log into your account, click the button that says 'Click here to add new student', you will then enter the district code: F6GU. You will then add your student's first and last name into the correct boxes. Then follow the prompts to add your student's bus letter, please see below (this information is also in your student's MyCBE account). Please ensure that you have added three routes: morning (am), afternoon (pm), and Friday pm.
Bus A - 2010
Bus B - 2011
Bus C - 2012
Bus D - 2013
Bus E - 2014
Bus F - 2015
Bus G - 2016
You will now be able to track your student's bus to and from school.
The link to access your MyCBE account is: www.sis.cbe.ab.ca
Drop Off and Pick Up - Car
Parents please do not park on Northmount Drive on the side that is closest to the school, this is the bus zone. We need to keep this area clear before and after school for our yellow school buses. There is also a city bus that stops on Northmount Drive. Great places to park your car to walk students to their grade level door are on Terry Road and Thornhill Drive, there are breaks in the fence that enable your student to walk safely to their grade level door without walking across a street.
Beginning on Tuesday, September 5 a staff member will create and monitor a crosswalk on Trafford Drive. Please ensure that you are walking across the street between the pylons. We have created this area to ensure student safety.
Uniforms
Colonel Sanders School is a TLC and as such, students are required to wear a school uniform. The formal uniform is worn on the first learning day of each week. The remaining days students are to wear either the formal or informal uniform.
Thursday, September 1 - Formal Uniform
Friday, September 2 - Informal Uniform (or Formal Uniform)
Tuesday, September 5 - Formal Uniform
Wednesday-Friday - Informal Uniform (or Formal Uniform)
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Labels on all Items
PLEASE label all your student's items (ex: coat, cardigan, school bag, indoor shoes, water bottle, etc.) with their first and last name. If a name is on the item, we are able to return it to your student. Items without names are placed into our Lost and Found. Emails are sent to families prior to donating all items in the Lost and Found.
Volunteer Clearance
Calgary Police Services and Volunteer Alberta has modified the process for attaining an ePIC (volunteer clearance). More information to come.
Fees - Beginning on October 16, 2023
Agenda - Each student will receive an agenda, it is important that you access your MyCBE account and add the agenda to your shopping cart. This will enable you to pay for the agenda that your student will receive.
Noon Supervision - All Colonel Sanders Students stay for lunch, please go into your MyCBE account to register for this service. Noon Supervision will be visible in your MyCBE after October 16, 2023 and can be paid at that time. This can be paid as a lump sum or month at a time. The fee is used to cover the costs of Lunch Supervisors.
Transportation (Yellow Bus) - Colonel Sanders Students who have registered for transportation, this fee will be visible in your MyCBE after October 16, 2023 and can be paid at that time. This can be paid as a lump sum or month at a time.
Field Trips - Once you receive a field trip notice from your student's classroom teacher, you will be able to pay for the fee. These are paid for through MyCBE
The link to access your MyCBE account is: www.sis.cbe.ab.ca
Cutlery
Please ensure that your student's lunch contains the fork or spoon that they need to eat their lunch. Students should not be packed with a knife to cut food at lunch time. Please ensure that you have cut your student's lunch for them.
CBE Education Plan
https://cbe.ab.ca/about-us/policies-and-regulations/Pages/education-plan.aspx. On the right-hand side of the page, under the heading 'Literacy' you will see links to the videos.
Important Information Regarding Attendance for TLC Students
As per section 7 (I) of the Education Act, it is mandatory for all students between the ages of 6 and 16 to attend school regularly and it is the parent(s)/guardian’s legal responsibility to ensure this happens.
TLC students MUST attend school for the first three days of September. If a student does not attend for the first three days, they will be withdrawn from the TLC program and replaced with someone on the callback list.
For example: If your student attends the first day, then is absent on the second day, they will be withdrawn from the TLC program and replaced with someone who is able to attend on a regular basis.
TLC students MUST attend school for a minimum of 70% of the month of September. If a student attends for less than 70% the student will be withdrawn from the TLC program. At times, depending on the reason for the absences, an Attendance Improvement Plan will be created to increase attendance.
If you are planning on traveling during the school year, a conversation must occur. The conversation needs to be with the Principal and/or the Assistant Principal. An email to the school is not considered a conversation; a conversation is a scheduled in-person meeting, a scheduled Microsoft Teams meeting, or a scheduled telephone conversation.
Please note: if you are travelling for longer than 1 month at one time, you MUST cancel your transportation fees for that month prior to your departure. Please email cbetransportationservices@cbe.ab.ca or log into your MyCBE account to cancel your transportation for the months that you are away.
Absences
Please continue to call in any absences to the school. Accurate attendance is needed, please provide a reason for your child's absence (ex: medical appointment, ill or parent concerns regarding COVID).Without a reason, the absence is marked unexcused. It is important that we know why your student is not attending school and this information is in PowerSchool accurately.
Please ensure that your child is dressed for the weather (including snow pants), as this supports a productive play during recess