It’s important to know how your child is doing in school. Knowing more about your child’s interests, strengths and areas for development are critical to help you support your child’s learning.  This Thursday and Friday are Parent Teacher Conferences.  This is an opportunity to have formal conversations with your child’s teachers to ask questions, discuss specific concerns and learn more about your child’s learning, progress and achievement.   

In addition to Parent Teacher Conferences, there are numerous other ways we strive to have ongoing communication with you so that you understand how your child is progressing and learning.  These include both informal (e.g. teacher weekly updates, feedback Fridays) and formal (e.g. conferences, report cards) communications.  Through these various forms of ongoing communication between you, your child and the teacher, we are able to build an understanding of your child’s achievement through the course of the year. 

We also would like to highlight all the hard work that our grade 1 students have put in for music.  Over the past month, Grade 1 students have been learning a song for the CBC Canadian Music Class Challenge. This is a contest run by the CBC to encourage students to learn Canadian music and enter for a chance to win prize money towards new instruments for their school! You can view our Grade 1 entry here.