New Norway School

Our hearts are heavy as we remember and mourn the loss of Xander and his dad, Dayce. This has been an incredibly difficult time for their family, our school, and our entire community.

As Spartans, we stand together. We support one another, we lift each other up, and we find strength in being part of something bigger than ourselves. In difficult times, we may not have all the answers, but we can be there for one another.

Thank you for showing what it truly means to be a Spartan. Together, we are stronger.

Join us in person on September 28 at 5:30 PM for our Parent Council Annual General Meeting!

At the AGM, we will be holding elections for:

• Chair
• Vice Chair
• Secretary

Come out, get involved, and be part of this wonderful group of parents who support our students and school programs

We want to send a heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out to support our school's Terry Fox Run! Thanks to your incredible generosity and enthusiasm, we successfully met our goal and raised an amazing $2,000 for cancer research. We are so proud of all our students for their hard work and dedication!

We want to give a special thank you to our Volunteers for helping cook and serve a delicious pancake breakfast for our school community.

We also want to give a huge thank you to Stacked Pancake House in Camrose for their generous donation of pancake mix that made our post-run breakfast possible!

Your support makes a real difference in the fight against cancer. Thank you for showing once again what an amazing community we have!

We have had so much fun getting to know one another in our Grade 4/5 classroom! Students recently showcased their “Me Museums,” sharing their interests, talents, hobbies, and the things that make them unique.

We quickly discovered that we have an amazing variety of strengths and interests in our classroom—from fashion design, LEGO building, violin, skipping, knot tying, skating, and baseball to 4-H and so much more! It has been wonderful to see students proudly share what they love and learn more about their classmates.

We are off to a great start and are excited to continue building a classroom community where everyone’s strengths, interests, and individuality are celebrated!

Thank you for your patience as Ms. Miller works through the busy cross country running and illness attendance. Sometimes Powerschool notify parents of the change in the app prior to her getting in the absence code and our phone call to go out. We will work to see if we can get this rectified. if your child is going to be absence please send an email to Ms. Miller. Thank you again for you patience

In this project, students began by completing a questionnaire about themselves. Students then transformed these ideas into a 3D paper sculpture, using shape, colour, form, and construction techniques to create a unique artwork. The project encouraged students to think creatively about how personal information can be communicated through visual art.

To help us keep lunchtime running smoothly, please send your child to school with their own cutlery each day.

We do not have extra cutlery available at school, so bringing a fork, spoon, or other utensils needed for their lunch will help ensure everyone is ready to eat.

Thank you for helping us make lunchtime easier for our students and staff! 💚

Please take a few minutes to complete your child's demographic forms on PowerSchool.

It is important that this information be kept up-to-date every year, especially if there is a change in medical status, parent/guardian/emergency contact information, and/or address.

If you need assistance with using PowerSchool - including completing and submitting yearly consent and demographic forms online - please contact Miss Miller in the office.

Student success and a sense of belonging starts with consistent attendance at school.

On October 14, our Grade 4 and 5 classes are heading out on an exciting full-day field trip to study our local watershed and learn how solid and liquid waste impact local streams. Our tour stops will include the Wastewater Treatment Facility, Aberhart Bridge, Dried Meat Lake, Center-Cam Recycling Depot, the City of Camrose Landfill and the Water Treatment Plant.

Thanks to the generous support of the Battle River Watershed Alliance (BRWA) and the Government of Alberta, this hands-on learning experience comes at no cost to our families!

This trip connects directly to Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (AEPA) as well as our Grade 4 and 5 Science and Social Curriculum.

Permission forms and full schedule details will be sent home soon. For more information on local environmental stewardship, visit www.aep.alberta.ca.

Quite literally! Donations of supplies and labour from Central Valley Furniture and Home Building Center Wetaskiwin helped put new roofing on our storage garage and our Spartan Track and Field Shed. Thank you so much!

Emails have gone home to families with students receiving awards.

Alberta government has an order around the use of personal communication devices in schools. https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/Documents/MinOrders/2024/Education/2024_014_Education.pdf. New Norway School aligns with this ministerial order and BRSD's Administrative Procedure 135.

We also ask families to review our expectations for personal mobile devices with their children. Students may not use personal mobile devices bell to bell . Devices must be powered off or set to silent and stored in a backpack, bag or locked locker during the day.

New Norway School's mobile-device expectations will be reviewed with students during the first week of school. We appreciate families reinforcing these expectations at home and helping us keep instructional time focused on learning.

To ensure a safe environment for all, we kindly ask that all parents and guests come to the school office upon arrival during school hours. Please refrain from using side doors to enter classrooms or the gym unless it is during authorized after hours event. The school hallways and instructional areas are reserved exclusively for students and staff during drop off, pick up and instructional time.

We appreciate your support and understanding as we prioritize the safety of our school community.

Pick up and Drop off areas:

To ensure the safety of our students we are asking parents to not use the staff parking lot area. While we understand that this takes away some convenience, we are concerned about the safety of your children.

Thank you for your attention to this.

Spartans take on all challenges! This is something that our school had never done before and was very exciting considering the growing popularity of women's flag football on the heels of the incredible success of our National Women's Team, the introduction of the sport into the Olympics and the ASAA maybe adopting into their sports seasons. A group of young Spartans showed great courage, volunteered, and formed a team to play flag football in Spruce Grove at the SSA /Alberta Football Girls Flag Football Demonstration Tournament! Over 30 teams participated and our amazing Spartans battled, learned and adapted to make it all the way to the Bronze Division Finals! Truly exceptional! Massive thank you to the Wedgwoods and The RTOC Group a Division of Cadillac Consulting Incorporated who generously donated the entry fee and paid for all the bussing. Without their support the girls would have not got this opportunity.

The Volleyball Season is in full swing!. Our Senior Teams have already competed in the Augustana Tournament and in Lacombe. League play is underway and the Spartans are establishing themselves as contenders in the Central Zone. Our Junior teams have also started league play. We have four Junior teams in operation. Girls Junior A and B and Boys Junior A and B teams. Here we go Spartans! Here we go!

I’d like to acknowledge that we are on Treaty 6 territory, a traditional meeting grounds, gathering place, and travelling route to the Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Métis, Dene and Nakota Sioux. We acknowledge all the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries.