​Thank you to School Council for all the fun and excitement in the building! We've had a Popcorn Day, a Healthy Hunger Fun Lunch, and are looking forward to the 80's verison of Cinderella! 

We appreciate all the time and effort it takes to organize Healthy Hunger (popcorn and lunches), as well as the Casino Fundraiser. Without these we wouldn't be able to have materials for classrooms and exciting school presentations. Your efforts and noticed and highly appreciated!

​School Council is a very important part of our school! Please conisder attending our monthly meetings. Visit the Get Involved tab on this website for more information.

​As you know student safety is very important to us. Below are a few reminders:

• There is NO supervision prior to 8:55am, please do not leave your student unattended at the playground; you may supervise your student at the playground prior to 8:55am

• If there is a change to the end of day plan, please write a note in the agenda; we cannot let your child or other adult change the plan without parent notification

• If there is a last minute change to the end of day plan, please call the school

• If you student is ill, please call the school and leave a message on the attendance line

• If your student becomes ill at school, we will call you to come to the school to pick up your student immediately 

• Please proceed with caution at all the crosswalks around our school, do not accelerate when you do not see students in the area; they are little and cars are big, you may not see a student who is beginning to cross the street because of where the car is parked

• We have created our own crosswalk Trafford Drive; this area is well marked with pylons, please ensure that you and your students are crossing Trafford Drive at this location

• Cars should be traveling at no more than 30KM per hour in the school zone

• Please do not park your vehicle in a crosswalk or in front of someone's driveway

• Please do not reverse your vehicle through the crosswalk

If you need to call the school, our phone number is 403-777-6034.​​

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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.​

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What an amazing first day of school!! Students were settled within their classrooms when the administrative team toured the school to introduce themselves and welcome students to the new school year.

This morning we had some difficulty with parked cars in our community. Below are some reminders, as well as a modification to the SchoolMessenger which was sent out yesterday.

Reminders

• 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.
• Do NOT park in front of our neighbour's driveways.
• New - If parking on Terry Road, Thornhill Drive, Trafford Drive or Nothmount Drive on the side which is opposite the school, please do not block community members driveways. Please be mindful of where you are parking.
• New - Please do not park in the crosswalks around the school. This is a safety concern for our students, their families, and our community members.

Modification

• Beginning tomorrow (Friday, September 1, 2023) two staff members will create and monitor a crosswalk on Trafford Drive. This crosswalk will be created and monitored prior to school each morning. This picture will show you where the crosswalk will be located Pylons to Staircase.jpeg. These staff members will monitor this area to ensure that students and families are crossing the road in the crosswalk, as well as ensuring that families are not blocking driveways. Please ensure that you are walking across the street between the pylons. We have created this area to ensure student safety.​
  

Bus A - 2010

Bus B - 2011

Bus C - 2012

Bus D - 2013

Bus E - 2014

Bus F - 2015

Bus G - 2016

​Thursday, August 31, 2023 is the first day of learning for CBE students! Teachers and the administrative team have already been at the school, informally, getting ready for the beginning of the school year. We are all very excited for our first student day!

Thank you Colonel Sanders Families!!  We has a great year learning and growing with you!​

The following staff members are leaving Colonel Sanders School and moving on to new schools: 

• Janice Tetreault (Lunch Supervisor) moving to Belfast School as an Educational Assistant 
• Ijaz Akbar (Facility Operator) moving to Buchanan School as the Facility Operator 
• JoAnne MacGregor (Grade One Teacher) moving on to Retirement! BUT will be on the substitute teacher roster 
• Mugdha Khatu (Grade Four Teacher) moving to Balmoral School as the Grade 6 and 7 Mathematics and Science Learning Leader 
• Lisa Wilson (Assistant Principal) moving to Battalion Park School as the Assistant Principal 

 

The following staff members are wished well on their future teaching endeavours: 

• Amanda Farrish (Grade Two Teacher)  
• Blair Woolley (Grade Three Teacher)  

 

For the 2023-24 school year, Colonel Sanders School is welcoming several new staff members: 

• Harmandeep Kaur (Lunch Supervisor) 
• Lindy Ludwig (Teacher - Job Share Partner) 
• Danna Cook (Teacher - Job Share Partner) 
• Paul Toews (Teacher) 
• Janet Man (Teacher) 

 

As a reminder for the coming school year, families are asked to adjust their schedules in the morning to ensure that students are in the school and ready to learn (which means they are sitting in their classrooms with their teacher) by 9:10am. 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 late slip as they will not be ready to learn by 9:10am if they are entering the building after 9:05am. 

 

Families who have returning students will be receiving a SchoolMessenger on Tuesday, August 29, 2023 introducing them to their teacher for the new school year which begins on August 31, 2023. 

 

Have a wonderful summer! 

​Today students are bowling with their grade level classmates. Our grade 1 students and teachers were the first to board our First Student Charter bus. We had the same driver as our grade one students had when they participated in swimming. This bus driver wanted to recognize the staff and students at Colonel Sanders for the great attitude and behaviour. He purchased Timbits for the staff at the school. It is just so wonderful for our staff and students to be recognized by someone who transports a variety of learners from within and around Calgary. Well done Colonel Sanders!!