Principal’s Message
Queridas familias
Our younger grades celebrated 100 days of school engaged in various fun and educational activities! Donde va el tiempo? Where does time go? It seems that we just had report cards. In a month, we will host parent-teacher conferences to continue sharing and strategizing for continued student learning.
La ultima semana/Last week, on Thursday and Friday, teachers attended the Alberta Teacher’s Association Convention. It was an amazing opportunity to hear from experts in various educational fields. I went to sessions around gifted children, students at risk, literacy, and students with anxiety. Like all teachers, I will be able to implement the newfound knowledge immediately to strengthen my role and thus impact our students positively.
La proxima semana/Next week, Carmen and I will be speaking with teachers and support staff regarding their wishes and hopes for the next school year. We have been fortunate not to have much turn around in school staff. While this is a good sign, we respect and support teachers’ professional aspirations and hopes.
Hoy/Today, we had an unfortunate situation where an elderly family member fell in the courtyard, and EMS was called to the scene. The incident occurred right after school. The person who fell is under good care and will recover well. We appreciate the parents/guardians, one of them being an EMS of duty paramedic and staff who supported the situation.
Tengan un lindo fin de semana
Ray Suarez
Principal
Healthy Hunger
Don’t forget to register for Healthy Hunger, save yourself making a few lunches this year and support the school society!
The deadline for next week’s (Wednesday) order is Friday, February 23 at midnight.
To set up and order food for the weeks to come, first set up an account for your child(ren) through the Healthy Hunger website.
Pink Shirt Day
On Wednesday, February 28, we invite all Glenmeadows students to wear a pink shirt/ camiseta rosada.
Volunteers Needed
Escuela Glenmeadows has an online signup page, please check it out often to see all new opportunities.https://signup.com/go/uvCtNgp
Reminder - current police clearance with the school is required to volunteer for all events.
FundScrip Fundraiser – Starting today!
Today the oldest child of each family will come home with a FundScrip order form. Please make copies for work, family, sport teams, or wherever else you think you could collect some orders.
You can buy gift cards to your favorite shopping places you already buy from and then use them at those places when you go. You don’t pay anything extra, and the retailers give money back to Glenmeadows for your shopping where you already shop! It’s a win/win!
FundScrip is a fundraising program that lets us raise needed funds simply by purchasing gift cards to the stores you are already shopping at. You purchase a $100 grocery card and your will receive a $100 gift card and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to our School.
What are we raising funds for? Currently we have a couple big ticket items we would like to get this school year if possible. First, is a cool Robot cube set for our Stem related learning program and second, is a lighting package for all our amazing concerts. We rent lighting each concert and that money adds up quickly. With our own lighting, we can take good care of it, know how to use it more efficiently and make our kids concerts even better. Plus, stop throwing away money with renting year after year.
Questions, please reach out to our Society Chair at Chair@EGMSS.onmicrosoft.com.
Glenmeadows Spirit Wear Store
Order your Spirit Wear fr your students now!
To order online: https://egs.domuchconcepts.com/
Special Event: Free Live Webinar with Spanish interpretation on March 4, 2024 | 12:00-1:30 pm
Alberta Health Services is offering a free live webinar with Spanish interpretation: “Children learning more than one language”
Visit: https://together4health.ahs.ca/35269/widgets/147335/documents/123129
Caregivers will learn what happens when children learn more than one language and get answers to frequently asked questions.
To check out other resources and promotional material visit: https://together4health.albertahealthservices.ca/35269/widgets/147335/documents/119574