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St. Andrew Junior School Newsletter OCTOBER, 2018
Phone: 902-863-3046 Fax: 902-863-2273 http://sajs.srce.ca
Principal: Glenn Austen E-mail: [email protected]
Vice-Principals: Lynn Casey E-mail: [email protected] Jerry Delorey E-mail: [email protected]
Guidance : Marie Kennedy E-mail: [email protected] Allana MacGillivray E-mail: [email protected]
Did your child miss our first picture day or did not take that optimum portrait on September 11, 12? The photographer will be here on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in the morning for retakes. PLEASE NOTE - DO NOT send your order back to the teacher for regular
collection – DO return it directly to the photographer on retake day.
To date some of our students have not yet brought in their student fees which were due on September 27 - just a friendly reminder to parents to please send this money in to the office. Fees for a single student are $20, family fees are $30. These fees are used to cover the cost of student planners, combination locks, and presentations through the year. If you have any concerns or payment presents a problem, please contact Mr. Austen at the school. Also Registration forms, Consent for Publication and the Consent re Anti-Spam Legislation should be in by this time. If you need new forms – Registration, Consent for Publication of Work or ‘Anti-Spam’, your child should let the teacher or office know and we’ll see you get them! Thank you for your help!
The SAJS Terry Fox Run/Walk took place on Monday, October 2, 2018, (delayed from Thursday Sept. 27 due to rainy and wet conditions). This year we raised $400.
Thank you to all students and staff who participated and donated to the cause.
We have a few new faces filling term positions at the school. Jason King is in for Mr. Delorey while he is in the office, Lindsay Bowie is filling for Terri Connolly and Barb England is Building Operator while Mr. Mills is off. Welcome – we are glad to have you her!
SAJS STUDENTS ON THE RUN
The St. Andrew Junior School cross country team is half-way through their season. The runners have been working hard, getting fit, and having fun! The team had very successful
races in Trenton on September 19 and Truro on September 25, with several top 15 finishes in both the girls and boys 4km races. They competed on
their home course at St. FX on October 2 with lots of family members and friends cheering them on. Anna Robinson led the girls with a 1st place finish, continuing her undefeated winning streak. She was followed by Mya Artibello in 3rd, Lily MacLean in 4th Bryn Canning in 5th, Jessa Cameron in 6th, Mariah Austen in 9th, and Emma Barrett in 15th. Mya Hines, Catherine Beaton, Elisabeth MacEachern, Ava Rogers, Leah McCarron, Ava MacDonald, Julia Murray, Heather MacNeil, and Nora MacDonald also had strong races. In the boys race, Brody MacPherson placed 1st, Conlan MacKenize 2nd, Rory Walker 4th, Owen Chisholm 6th, Dominic Heighton 11th, Lucas MacDonlad 12th and Jacob Colton 14th. Jesse Fraser, Will MacInnis and Will Thompson also finished strong. The team is now getting ready for the Northumberland Regional Championships that will be held in Truro on October 15. They’re hoping to finish well as a team and earn a spot at the Provincial Championships in Cheticamp on October 22. Special thanks to Mr. Jason King for coming to practice on Mondays and to our races and to Mrs. Shelley Rovers, who has been a great team manager! Students and staff also give warmest thanks to Ms. Terese Chisholm for coaching the team!
EMERGENCY SECURITY
The safety and security of our students and staff are a priority for St. Andrew Junior School and the Strait Regional School Board. As you are no doubt aware, a number of measures have been implemented as part of a comprehensive plan aimed at ensuring our school remains a safe place for our students to learn. Two of the procedures used are “hold-and-secure” and “lockdown”. • “Hold-and-secure” is an action taken to restrict access to the school in response to a safety concern external to the school. • “Lockdown” is a procedure taken to conceal students in a secure location in response to an act or safety concern inside the school. During a lockdown, classroom doors are locked, students remain inside the room until instructed by the teacher to resume their activities. Access to the building is restricted while the school is in lockdown. Just as we prepare our students to properly respond to a fire drill, they also need to be aware of the proper response during a “hold-and-secure” and a “lockdown”. These procedures should be treated with the same level of importance as fire drills. Staff at our school discussed the significance of these procedures with students before our first practice and after the drill students were reminded that the ‘hold and secure’ was only a practice and there was no danger. Please take the time to speak with your son/daughter about these procedures and reinforce their importance. Practice ensures our school remains a safe place for teaching and learn.
Remembrance Day Observance – Monday, November 12,
2018 – NO CLASSES FOR STUDENTS
– Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Report Cards Go Home – Monday, November 26, 2018
Parent-Teacher Conferences – Thursday, November 29, 2018 Session in the afternoon 1:00 – 3:00pm and evening 6:00 to 8:00pm NOTE CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS YEARS – CLASSES WILL BE HELD FOR STUDENTS IN THE MORNING; STUDENTS GO HOME AT NOON
NEXT SAC MEETING – THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 2018
SchoolsPlus is a comprehensive and collaborative interagency approach to educating and providing service to the whole child and family with the school as the centre of service. The focus of SchoolsPlus is to support students and families by helping them in attaining timely and effective services which meet their identified needs. We would like to welcome back all students to SAJS. We hope you all had a great summer and are back feeling rested and ready to take on a new year! In particular, we would like to welcome any new students in grades 5 and 7 transitioning from other local schools, as well as any students new to the area. Antigonish Town and County Recreation will be offering lots of FREE after school programs for students at SAJS starting this fall. Listen to announcements and watch for flyers for more info on registration. You can also visit Tara in the SchoolsPlus room or view the wellness board across the hall to find out more. We look forward to meeting new students and seeing old friends as programming begins again! Stop by the SchoolsPlus room to say hello and find out what’s to come.
Marguerite MacGillivray -SchoolsPlus Facilitator Tara Hassin -SchoolsPlus Community Outreach Worker
Information Sharing Agreement with Department of Health and Wellness
Annually, students across Nova Scotia are offered services delivered by Public Health including the Grade 7 School Immunization Program, Pre-school Screening, Enhanced Vision Screening Program and the Fluoride Mouthrinse Program. Public Health works with the education system to distribute information about these programs and to obtain consent for student participation. Occasionally, Public Health practitioners may need to contact parents/guardians of students where consent information is incomplete or unclear, or when a consent form has not been returned. Public Health will not contact you if you have signed a consent form indicating you do not wish to have
your child participate in one of these programs. The Strait Regional Centre for Education will share limited information such as names of parents/guardians and students, with Public Health for the purposes of operating these public health services for students. Please contact your local public health office if you have any questions about these public health programs. If you have any questions about how your information is shared, please feel free to contact the school or our Regional Centre’s Information Access and Privacy Manager at 902-625-2191.
STRAIT REGIONAL CENTRE FOR
EDUCATION Excellence in Lifelong Learning
POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
MANDATE AND STANDARDS Adopted: March 3,
2010 SRCE Revised: August 31, 2018
1.8 Bus Passes A bus pass is required any time a student is being picked up or dropped off at any location that is different from the one that is recorded as the regular bus stop on the official bus roster. At any time, when parents/guardians are requesting that their child(ren) be dropped off at an alternate location, they shall submit a written request (note or email) to the school administration providing the exact location including the civic number and the name and telephone number of the individual at the drop-off location. Please note that students shall only
be dropped off at the nearest authorized bus stop location. Once authorized, the school administration will issue a bus pass before noon and will only be approved when there is available seating on the bus. Bus pass requests will not be accepted after 12:30 p.m. on the day of the request. Please access a copy of the Bus Pass Request Form found in
Appendix A.
A copy of the bus pass form is attached and may be copied or found on the Board website in the Transportation Policy. A link may also be found on the school website as well.
