Dear Thorncliffe Families,
What a fun and wonderful week! A sincere thank you to our parent community member Marwa for the beautiful sharing about Ramadan with our students and the lovely gift. Your time and generosity are truly appreciated. Kindergarten 100 days of school was celebrated this week with many different 100 themed activities. Seeing kindergarten students dressed like seniors is pretty adorable! And lastly, we had our third Switcheroo of the year. Some examples of activities were zentangle art, a community nature walk, needle felting, and soup making. We appreciate our school council for their generosity in sponsoring this activity by providing funds for the additional materials. Thank you!
Upcoming this week we have our school conferences Thursday from 5pm-8pm, and Friday from 8am-1pm. All bookings are now open for conferences. It is important to know that all meetings will be taking place ONLINE. No in person meetings will be held. The link for conference booking was emailed to families to the email addresses for parents/guardians on PowerSchool. For support booking conferences, please contact the main office.
Spring break starts for students on Friday, March 21st. The next admin update will be posted on Sunday, March 30th.
Have a beautiful week!
Calleigh and Nadine
Upcoming Important Days
- March 20th – Grade 4/5 Assembly (Omanthi and Larson) 10:00am
- March 20th – Healthy Hunger: Tim Horton’s
- March 20th – Spring Equinox
- March 20-21 – Parent-Teacher Conferences ONLINE
- March 21-March 30th – Spring Break: No School for Students
- March 31st – Eid al Fitr
- March 31st – First Day of School After Spring Break
- March 31-April 1st – Quest Theatre In Class Workshops
- April 2nd – World Autism Acceptance Day
- April 2nd – Healthy Hunger: Coco Brooks
- April 10th – 6:00pm ONLINE School Council Meeting – Grade ½ Teachers Ms. Amanda and Ms. Brianne sharing about student learning
- April 18th – Good Friday: No School
- April 21st – Professional Learning Day: No School
Facility Update
We continue to address emergent maintenance issues in schools during the ongoing labour action. School administration is able to access a variety of internal and external service providers as required.
There was an issue in the basement of Thorncliffe School on Thursday. A plumber was called and the issue was fixed. There was no impact in any classrooms and learning continued in the school as scheduled.
We are committed to keeping schools safe for students and staff and complying with AHS guidelines and occupational health and safety regulations. All building maintenance and safety protocols remain in place.
School Engagement Planning Survey
We know we make better decisions to support student learning when we build understanding and work together. That’s why we are asking you to share your perspectives about our school development plan, school budget and school fees.
The survey is open from February 6, 2025 to March 31, 2025.
Please click on this link to complete the survey.
Watch this short video to learn about the planning work schools do to improve and support student learning.
Your input is important to us, and we appreciate you taking the time to share your perspectives!
February Kindness Month Initiative
February is the month of kindness. Let’s come together as a school community and make a difference to some of our families in need!
Every contribution can help our families experiencing hardships access food to feed their families. Make a donation below, which we will use to purchase grocery gift cards to provide to our families when emergencies arise. We will collect gifts until March 21, 2025.
https://www.educationmatters.ca/project-matters/thorncliffe-school-celebrating-kindness/
Kindergarten and Alternative Program Registration
On January 13th, 2025-2026 school year registration began for community and alternative programs. Please review the information at https://cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/Pages/Get-Ready-Get-Set-Kindergarten.aspx to learn about the process for registration. As always, feel free to contact the main office with any questions you still have about registration. Kindergarten registration is ongoing. Alternative Programs in lottery have completed the lottery process and will be notifying families that submitted an expression of interest in the coming days. Please note that registration is ongoing but new registrations will be placed at the end of the call-back list for programs in lottery.
School Council Updates
- Next meeting on Thursday, April 10th at 6:00pm (Online Meeting) Grade 1/2 Classes will share information about learning in their classrooms and Education Director Tori Healing will be joining us
- Seeking volunteers for the Secretary executive position, email thorncliffesc@gmail.com with any questions or to express interest
- Growing Smiles Fundraiser link: Thorncliffe School (Calgary)
- Plants, baskets, and herbs!
- Delivery date May 27, 2025
- Order by May 11th at 12:00 Noon