WAAG September 25-29

Important Dates& Information: 

• September 28^th Orange Shirt Day

• Orange shirt day is a movement that officially began in 2013 but in reality, it began in 1973 when six-year-old Phyllis Webstad entered the St. Joseph Mission Residential School, outside of Williams Lake, BC. Young Phyllis was wearing a brand new orange shirt for her first day of school – new clothes being a rare and wonderful thing for a First Nation girl growing up in her grandmother’s care - but the Mission Oblates quickly stripped her of her new shirt and replaced it with the school’s institutional uniform.
• Ms. Webstad’s story is the nucleus for what has become a national movement to recognize the experience of survivors of Indian residential schools, honour them, and show a collective commitment to ensure that every child matters. The initiative calls for every Canadian to wear an orange shirt on September 30 in the spirit of healing and reconciliation.

 

• Sept. 28^th Lockdown Drill 

 

• September 29^th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (in lieu day for September 30^th) NO SCHOOL

 

• If you wish to volunteer at Thorncliffe School and have not filled out a volunteer clearance application please click on the link below.

 

• https://www.cbe.ab.ca/get-involved/volunteer/Pages/volunteer.aspx

 

• Thorncliffe will be implementing Dare to Care Bully Prevention program this year. With this program comes a parent course. Please click on the link below to access the course

• https://daretocare.thinkific.com/enroll/1014104?th__ug=0f815e2c&th__c=sep23-24

• Please click the attachment below regarding walking field trips for students

• Walking Distance Fieldtrip update2023.doc 

• Parents please remember the Demographic Verification and Annual Authorization forms are submitted through the Calgary Board of Education’s online forms platform (School Engage).

• Deadline to complete is September 30^th

 

• To get to SchoolEngage, sign in through the MyCBE portal using this link:  https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/ (an account is required).

 

•  Once signed in, select the tile or link titled “Online Forms and School Registration”.

 

• By submitting the Demographic Verification, the contact and emergency information needed will be up to date.  There are also the Annual Authorization forms available in SchoolEngage.  Providing consent via the authorization forms allows Thorncliffe staff to know whether or not you consent to things such as coverage for when media (eg. TV, radio, print publivations)visit our school).

 

• Technical Support for Parents can be found on this link:
• Https://cbe.ab.ca/support/Pages/MyCBE-PowerSchool.aspx

 

• Reminder school ends at 1:15pm on Fridays (last year Fridays ended at 2:25pm)
• This is a kindly reminder for parents to reinforce the message to students not to bring valuables to school. The school will not be responsible for lost or stolen items.

Important Upcoming Dates& information:

• October 2-6^th International Walk To School Week

• Link: International Walk to School Week

• Oct 2-5^th- Dodgeball intramurals 
• October 6^th Picture Day
• October 9^th Thanksgiving Day No School
• October 16^th Grade 6 vaccinations
• October 20^th PD Day no school for students