Home Based School

Parent Directed Year End Meetings can be scheduled now!

Wednesday, May 8 - Hats ON for Mental Health Day

Sunday, May 12 - Happy Mother's Day!

Friday, May 17 - No School for students. PD day.

Monday, May 20 - No School - Victoria Day

Friday, June 21 - National indigenous Peoples' Day

Wednesday, June 26 - LAST DAY FOR STUDENTS!!!

The Home Based Students had a wonderful time over two days making their very own animal clay mugs. They shaped the clay into something very special. They turned out pretty awesome, too! See some pictures of the process below:

You Dance Livestream on Friday, May 3

The National Ballet of Canada is pleased to offer your students the opportunity to join us for a livestream direct from our residency at York University in Toronto on Friday, May 3, 2024.

All grades, with a focus on grades four, five and six, from school boards across Canada are invited to sign up for the hour-long livestreamed performance featuring specially selected pieces danced by the National Ballet’s RBC Apprentices.

Included in the livestream are pre and post-performance discussions as well as a chance for the entire class to get moving.

The livestream will be hosted by Lisa Robinson, Senior Manager, Education and Community Engagement and Tanya Howard, Teaching Artist and Former First Soloist.

Date: Friday, May 3, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Advance registration is required and curriculum-based resources will be available prior to the livestream performance.

Please note, if you have previously registered for YOU dance livestreams, you will be required to re-register.

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About YOU Dance
YOU dance, the National Ballet’s signature education and community engagement programme, introduces ballet to children inspiring creativity and imagination. To date, YOU dance has reached over 360,000 students across Canada.

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Online registration will open for all Black Gold students on April 27, 2024 @ 9 am

To register CLICK HERE

For more information about Black Gold Summer School, please call: 780-722-0988 or email: summer.bgsd@blackgold.ca

Welcome to Black Gold’s Grade 3 – 8 Summer Boost Camps!

This is a one-week camp dedicated to boosting your child’s numeracy and/or literacy skills. Students will benefit from a small classroom environment, focused instruction, along with hands-on learning activities and experiences. At the end of the week, students will be sent home with physical resources and strategies that can be used to extend their learning.

Who can attend?

Any student who has just completed grades 3-8, and are interested in working on their literacy and/or numeracy skills.

Current Grade 9 students who are interested in taking a Summer School course should enroll in either our Module-Based or Classroom-Based High School programs.

Note –

If parents are registering their child in both the Math Boost Camp and Purposeful Reading & Writing Boost Camp, they MUST pack their child a lunch. Lunch-hour supervision will be provided.

Courses Offered at:

West Haven Public School (325 West Haven Dr., Leduc Alberta) or

Ecole Dansereau Meadows School (5907 Rue Eaglemont, Beaumont, Alberta)

Program Fee:

The fee is $125.00 for a one-week session, per camp. The cost for both camps is $250.00 total.

** If the program is not full by June 30th, the program may be cancelled. Please register Promptly.

Courses Offered July 8-12, 2024

Math Boost Camp
Grades 3 – 6

July 8 – 12

9:00am – 11:45am

Purposeful Reading & Writing Boost Camp
Grades 3 – 6

July 8 – 12

12:30pm – 3:15pm

Math Boost Camp
Grades 7 – 8

July 8 – 12

12:30pm – 3:15pm

Purposeful Reading & Writing Boost Camp
Grades 7 – 8

July 8 – 12

9:00am – 11:45am

Reading and Writing Boost Camp

The focus of the Reading and Writing Boost Camp is to provide targeted opportunities for students to work on and further develop their reading and writing skills. By the end of the week, the goal is for students to leave feeling more confident in their reading and writing abilities!

Reading: Students will receive instruction about specific reading comprehension strategies to use when reading fiction and nonfiction texts. Students will have the opportunity to practice and apply strategies to accomplish various reading skills throughout the week.

Writing: Students will receive instruction about each aspect of the writing process. They will practice and apply the aspects of the writing process as they write for various purposes (persuade, inform, entertain). Students will incorporate specific strategies that are tailored to each writing purpose as they create various pieces of writing.

What do students need to bring?

• pencils/pens/highlighters/eraser
• lined notebooks
• duo tang
• scissors/glue
• Something they enjoy reading (ie. novel, magazine, graphic novel)

Math Boost Camp

The focus of the Math Boost camp is to develop foundational numeracy skills. This camp will offer hands-on activities in areas including place value, operations with whole and decimal numbers (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing), fractions, basic facts, and problem-solving. By the end of the week, the goal is for students to leave feeling more confident in their math skills.

What do students need to bring?

• Pencils, eraser, highlighter
• A deck of cards
• Dice
• Masking tape – 1 roll
• Whiteboard marker
• Grid paper notebook

Good to know information!

If the program is not full by June 30, the program may be canceled, so please register promptly. If you would like to be put on a wait list because a camp is full, please email summer.bgsd@gshare.blackgold.ca

Registration

Calendar

Grade 3-8 Summer Boost Camps CLICK HERE

The course selection handbooks for High School Students are posted on the Opaho and Leduc Composite High School website for students to look through.

Please see the website links below. (PDFs for LCHS and OSS have also been attached to this email.)

LCHS course handbook link

OPAHO course handbook link

OUTREACH course descriptions

If parents have questions or would like to meet with someone from Ohpaho, please reach out to Shelley Hamilton (Assistant Principal) 780-955-6046 shelley.hamilton@blackgold.ca

If you would like to set up a meeting with LCHS or Outreach Leduc, please reach out to us, so we can connect you with them.

Please ensure you have let us know what your current plans are for grade 10, so we can link you with the appropriate school counselors to ensure a smooth transition.

Here are the links to the School websites:

Leduc Composite High School

Opaho Secondary School

Outreach School Leduc

Did you just finish a course? Bring back your books please!

Don't forget to return your textbooks & modules as you finish with them to avoid charges being added to your account. Please log into PowerSchool to see if you have any outstanding fees!

Parent Directed Home Ed Year End Meetings can be scheduled now. Please email Mrs. Melnyk to set them up tracy.melnyk@gshare.blackgold.ca

Are you enrolled in the Parent Directed Home Education Program with us? We have included an easy checklist for your Home Education Reimbursements. The PDF below is attached. The reimbursements are for this school year only. Receipts must be dated for August 31, 2023 - June 2024. Deadline to submit reimbursements June 1, 2024. For all other information, check out our website here: https://hbs.blackgold.ca/parents/standards-for-home-education-reimbursement/

Self Compassion

Self-compassion is a practice of goodwill, not good feelings… With self-compassion we mindfully accept that the moment is painful, and embrace ourselves with kindness and care in response, remembering that imperfection is part of the shared human experience.

(Neff, 2019)

6 Tips to Practice

1. Treat yourself as you'd treat a friend.

2. Become more self aware

3. Self acceptance

4. Let go of the need for outside validation

5. Reaching out to others

6, Let yourself make mistakes

Kickstand Connect is a virtual walk-in clinic for Albertans aged 11-25 (but they said their age range is soft; kids will not be denied if they are older or younger than that). Their services are provided by Alberta-certified providers, and there is NO COST associated with them.

There is NO limit to how many times a kid can access the walk-in services; they will be directed to further support if their needs are more intensive. This program has a TON of connections to other mental health support programs in the province.

https://mykickstand.ca/connect/

PARENT COUNCIL! Fun Fact: We do NOT do any fundraising and there are no committees.

We have started a Parent Council for Black Gold Home Based and Outreach!

Meetings are kept to a ONE hour time limit and are a great opportunity for parents to learn about their child's school and have a voice. The goal of parent council this year is to build community and improve communication so that everyone has a voice at the table and our students can have the best educational experience possible.

Here is your chance to be involved in the education of your child.

Email any questions to: bgos.council@gshare.blackgold.ca

Meetings are at 6:00 pm at Beaumont Outreach!

There will be snacks!

Upcoming meeting dates:

Tuesday, June 4

May 24-26 will be the Annual Beaumont Days Celebrations! Parade, Midway, Soap Box Cars, and More!

Beaumont Library Calendar - Art Escapes, Book Clubs, Chess, Teen Resume Help

Beaumont Drop-In-Sport link

Loaner BSRC Family Membership - Want to borrow a family membership for a week? Contact the HBS!

CARC Virtual Webinars (Link) - Free & online!

Leduc City Guide

Leduc Fieldhouse Schedule

Leduc County Calendar - Family Paint Nights, PD Day Hangouts, Family Fun Sports Days, Grief Support
Leduc Library Calendar - Lego & Gardening!

Telus World of Science Edmonton - https://telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/

Royal Tyrrell Museum - link for more info

The April 24, 2024 Board Highlights are attached and have been posted to our website at: News. They are also posted to our Board Highlights website section.

The Board Highlights are a summary of our Board of Trustee meetings to communicate pertinent information to our staff, school councils, parents, students and stakeholders. To be environmentally friendly, paper copies are not provided to the schools and School Council Chairs. The minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees are also posted to our Division website.

If you cannot access the Board Highlights from the links above, please view them from our website as follows:

• www.blackgold.ca
  
• Board
  
• Board Highlights
  
• Board Highlights - April, 2024 & School News

School phone: 780-929-5784

Principal - Mr. Stan Travnik - stan.travnik@gshare.blackgold.ca

Coordinator - Mrs. Tracy Melnyk - tracy.melnyk@gshare.blackgold.ca

Secretary - Mrs. Jennifer Hay - jennifer.hay@gshare.blackgold.ca

Grades 1-5 & Personalized - Mrs. Marla Kniesel - marla.kniesel@gshare.blackgold.ca

Grades 6-9 - Mrs. Kristen Gilchrist - kristen.gilchrist@gshare.blackgold.ca

Educational Assistant - Mrs. Kiran Shaikh - kiran.shaikh@gshare.blackgold.ca

Black Gold is a leading school division in creating innovative programming to inspire and create success for students. Black Gold Home-Based School is committed to providing flexible learning options so every student can achieve. Home-Based education choices work in cooperation with students, parents and Black Gold Schools to ensure quality program planning and transition. Home-Based School provides opportunities for Parent-Directed or Teacher-Directed programs and is respectful of parent choice and collaboration. We believe to achieve their full potential, children must be the center of all decisions related to learning and provide course work online or in print in a variety of environments. Home-Based education allows for a personalized learning opportunity for students who require flexibility.