École Maple ES Family Update

Week of November 11 -15

Dear Families,

We will begin our week on Monday November 11th, which is Remembrance Day. We have 2 assemblies planned at school that day to accommodate classes and families that may attend. Ceremony 1 will be at 10:00am for all classes from grade 3-6. Ceremony 2 will be at 12:15 for all students Kindergarten to grade 2. We look forward to honoring our veteran and active military for the sacrifices they have and continue to make in protecting freedom around the world.

On Tuesday November 19th, we are fortunate to continue our learning around the life and challenges of military families with a special reading to our grade 1 students in both French and English, hosted by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.

We also have our Progress Reports going home on Friday to all students, so please keep an eye open in backpacks and communication bags and binders for these.

Please see our 'looking ahead' section below to see what's coming up over the next few weeks as well!

Have a great week!

From the Ecole Maple Team!

p.s. Check out the fun photos from our Terry Fox Fundraiser Event. Ecole Maple raised over $15,000, and resulted in some staff getting pies in the face, scooter raising, beard and moustache shaving, and a big race outside with Radio Announcers Reid and Ben!

What Is Happening This Week

Monday, November 11th:

10:00 - Remembrance Ceremony 1 for grades 3 to 6
12:15 -Remembrance Ceremony 2 for Kindergarten to grade 2
11:15-11:55 - Gr. 4-6 Girls Lunch and Learn - Queen's Connection
1:55-2:15 - Grade 1/2 Knick Knack Club in Makerspace
2:15-3:00 - McNaughton / Pottier - Come Play with Me

Tuesday, November 12th:

11:15-11:55 - Gr. 4-6 Girls Lunch and Learn - Queen's Connection
12:30-1:15 - Sullivan/Matheson - Come Play with Me
2:15-3:00 - McNaughton / Pottier - Come Play with Me

Wednesday, November 13th:

1:55-2:15 - Grade 1/2 Knick Knack Club in Makerspace
12:30-1:15 - Sullivan/Matheson - Come Play with Me
2:15-3:00 - McNaughton / Pottier - Come Play with Me

Thursday, November 14th:

12:30-1:15 - Sullivan/Matheson - Come Play with Me
2:15-3:00 - McNaughton / Pottier - Come Play with Me

Friday, November 16th:

11:15-11:55 Handwork Club in the MakerSpace
1:55-2:15 - Grade 1/2 Knick Knack Club in Makerspace
2:15-3:00 - McNaughton / Pottier - Come Play with Me
Student Progress Reports go home

Looking Ahead

11/20 Pizza Hot Lunch
11/22 PA Day
12/02 - 12/04 Book Fair
12/04 Pizza Hot Lunch
12/05 SAC Movie Night
12/10 SAC Meeting
12/9, 12/11 - 12/13 Piano Recitals
12/18 Pizza Hot Lunch
12/23 - 01/03 Winter Break

Spirit Wear Store Link

NEW for Maple: Established Meet-Up Locations for Walkers

In collaboration with the City of Kingston and KFL&A, Ecole Maple is excited to offer an opportunity for families to access established meet up locations for their student (s) who are walking from the neighbourhood indicated on the meet up location map. Families may decide to walk with the group, or set up a network where this could be scheduled with other families in the neighbourhood. At the end of the school day, students can also access the meet up location at the Gazebo for their walk home. As indicated, there is the advantage of increased safety when traveling in numbers as well as an opportunity to make friends and build community.

MABEL'S LABELS - FUNDRAISING LINK

Community Safety Zones

SchoolMessenger App

Why Use the SchoolMessenger App?

When you join SchoolMessenger, you will be able to:

receive imporant information from LDSB
join classrooms and extra-curricular groups
report a student's absence (same day and in advance)

Reporting A Student's Absence:

The new student absence reporting system will let you use a mobile app, a website, or an interactive toll-free phone number to report an absence in advance. These options are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Future absences can be reported at any time.

If your student is marked absent and the absence hasn’t been reported in advance, our new SafeArrival system will attempt to reach the student’s priority contact by telephone to confirm the absence. If our system is unable to reach the designated contacts, school office staff will follow up.