FIRST WEEK BACK
We had a great first week back! It was wonderful to see all of the students back in their new classes. Welcome to all of our new families and we look forward to another great year. Please refer to our website for all important information. This Weekly News is intended to help keep families informed about all of the great things happening in our school on a more timely basis. We plan on creating weekly updates and we will include a Principal's Message once a month.
REMINDER ABOUT NEW BELL TIMES FOR 2019-20
Regular Day Morning Warning Bell: 8:25 amLunch Hour Times: 11:55 am - 12:20 pm (outside) 12:20-12:45 pm (inside eating)
Regular Day Afternoon Warning Bell 12:42 pm Afternoon classes resume: 12:45 pm
Regular Day Dismissal Time: 3:05 pm
Early Dismissal Time (1st Wednesday of the month October - June): 2:20 pm
TECHNOLOGY FEE
You will notice that the school district has added a new Division Technology Fee of $10.00 for students in Grades 1-3 and $20.00 for students in Grades 4-12. We have included a note from central office describing the rationale for the fee and what it covers.
The BGRD technology access fee will cover a variety of new software tools for students. The first such tool is assistive technology software, this will help students by reading text on the screen from websites they visit and documents they create, listening to your work read back to you helps catch writing errors and having text read from other content helps with understanding. The program also provides word prediction for struggling writers, standard and visual dictionaries, highlighting and organization tools and speech to text abilities. A second new software application will be a self assessment tool that uses machine learning to provide writing feedback for the student to help improve spelling, grammar, sentence structure and provide suggestions for improvement. Lastly we will be providing creative publishing and charting tool to enable students to increase creativity and capability beyond a standard document or drawing.
Another use of the technology fee is for internet access. Our internet costs are increasing and a new contract by Alberta Infrastructure is greatly increasing the cost to school divisions. The funds will help manage that access, provide increased bandwidth for BYOED and improve protection for students accessing the internet.
You will notice that the school district has added a new Division Technology Fee of $10.00 for students in Grades 1-3 and $20.00 for students in Grades 4-12. We have included a note from central office describing the rationale for the fee and what it covers.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROTOCOL
At school, we practice a variety of emergency response protocols throughout the year. Information can be found on our website or using this link. Next week we will be practicing evacuation procedures with the students.
OFFICE CHECK INS
For the safety of our students, we ask all visitors to our school, to check in at the office. Please use the front doors and refrain from entering our school through any of the other doors.
For the safety of our students, we ask all visitors to our school, to check in at the office. Please use the front doors and refrain from entering our school through any of the other doors.
KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION
Staggered entry dates are complete and we welcome all Kindergarten students on Monday. Parents, please wait outside the front doors and the teachers will come and get the students.PRE-KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION
Morning Classes(Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs) 8:20 - 11:20 amAfternoon Classes(Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs) 12:05 - 3:05 pm
1st day for funded students: September 9
1st day of prekindergarten for non funded students: (Mon/Wed): September 16 (Tues/Thurs): September 17
GRADE 3-6 RUNNING CLUB INFORMATION
For running club information, please click on this link to sign up. Practices will be after school from about 3:10 - 3:35 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
SCHOOL CLOTHING
If you are interested in purchasing Bellevue School clothing. Use this link with Custom Sports Swag.UPCOMING EVENTS
September 13- Safely on Board Presentations for Kindergarten and Grade 1.
September 18 - School Council (6:15-7:15) and Fundraising Society Meeting (7:15-8:15)
September 20- PD Day (No School)
COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES- click picture for information
