Principal’s Message:

I want to thank you all for doing your best to take part in our annual Parent-Teacher Conferences, last week. While Powerschool allows us to share your child’s grades almost immediately, we know that educating your child involves so much more than assignment scores. As we focus on their physical, spiritual, and mental wellness as well, these opportunities afford us a chance to connect and work together for the betterment of our children. 

As an administrator, I really appreciated the hard work and effort each homeroom teacher put into being ready for their appointments, and as a parent by how well they knew my children, not only by their grade book, but by who they are in Christ. 

As we team up together to build God’s Kingdom Builders, these conferences were a great opportunity to see a little deeper into what is going on in the classroom, and in our students’ lives. 

I have also included a great article on the importance of Parent-Teacher Conferences that can be found here. We look forward to our Student-Led Conferences that will take place in late February. 

Announcements:

Winter Weather Attire

Well, we knew it had to happen eventually! After a mild October, winter has found us. This means that we need to bundle up to enjoy being outdoors at breaks, as well as being safe on bus rides to and from school! Earlier this week, we noticed there were a number of students who were not properly dressed for the weather. As fresh air and a body break outside are very beneficial to our students and their ability to sit and learn throughout the day, we want to make sure all are dressed appropriately and able to be outdoors. For those that ride the bus, it is important that they are dressed appropriately in case of a breakdown or other delays. Please make sure to send your student with snow pants, warm boots, mittens, toque, scarf, and winter jacket. Having an extra pair of pants or socks tucked in their backpack/locker for times their clothes may get a little wet would be a great idea too! Thank you for helping our kids get outside and enjoy God’s creation!

School Directory

Good news! We have received 100% of our Verification Forms!! Thank you for your cooperation in getting this task completed! As such, we will begin working on our school directory. This is a complimentary service we provide each year for our school community. The directory will be digital again this year. If you do not want your address or phone number included in the directory, please let the office know by emailing [email protected] before Wednesday, November 24. Our hope is to have it completed and sent out within the next week or two.

Celebration

We continue to do weekly virtual assemblies, which we call Celebration. Celebration will be held on Thursdays for the month of November.

Please click on the button below to join us on Zoom tomorrow morning!

Giving Project – Hope Mission

Greetings from the PR Committee and 2GM!

With the Christmas season upon us, we would like our CCS family to show our community how we can be Justice-Seekers!  We will do this in 2 ways this holiday season.

First of all, we would like to collect new or gently used items for the Hope Mission.  They recently lost many winter items due to a warehouse fire.  We would like to replenish their supply by collecting the following items:  coats, boots, sweaters, sweat pants, gloves, thick warm socks, scarves, toques, snow pants, blankets, and hand warmers.  The PR Committee will be placing wrapped boxes in each classroom for these items.  The classroom with the most donated items will receive a pizza lunch courtesy of the PR Committee!

Along with Hope Mission, we will have a Christmas tree at the front entrance of the school where students can drop off non-perishable food items that will be delivered to the local branch of the food bank. 

All items can be dropped off until December 17. 

Thanks, everyone!!

Junior High Advent Assignment

As we strive to teach our students to be the hands and feet of Jesus, we wanted to let you know of an amazing formational learning experience (FLEx) that is going on in our Jr. High. Between Friday, November 19, and Wednesday, December 15, 2021, our Jr. High, led by the Grade 8 classes, will be gathering items to stuff stockings for residents of Extendicare in Leduc.  As we know, the last few years have continued to be challenging for our seniors and we know the effects of isolation and loneliness have been significant during the pandemic. Our goal is for our senior community to know that we care and that we are thinking of them. We would then deliver these stockings during the last week of school prior to Christmas to these locations!  

From our School community, we are asking for the following items:

Disposable Camera Wallet or Change Purse
Hand Lotions

Keychain
LED Flashlight

Sunglasses
Keepsake Ornament

Stress Ball
Puzzle Book (Crosswords or Suduko)

Hobby Supplies
Photo album

Small Tools
Magnifying glass

USB Drive
Gloves Slippers

What we already have and will place in each stocking:
The Stocking
Pens
Coloured Pencils
Playing Cards
Package of Flower Seeds
Buttons
Colouring Pages
Christmas Word Search
Crossword Puzzles

Students in elementary grades can bring donations to the office.

School Clothing – Deadline to Order is TODAY at 4:00 PM!!

We are once again offering school clothing for our school community to purchase! This year we will keep things simple and just have a couple of hoodie options. The order form is now available on PowerSchool for you to complete. Orders need to be in by 4:00 pm on Wednesday, November 24. Delivery will be on Friday, December 17. You MUST pay for your order online at the time of submission for it to be processed. You can order as many times as you would like. If your order is a gift for your child(ren), you can mark that in the form as well.

School Council

A reminder that School Council will be today at 2:30 pm under the pergola. We will brave the cold and wind one last time and probably have our next meeting in January over Zoom. Unless, of course, we get an unusually warm January! We hope to see you there! If you have any questions please email Shauna Balehowsky at [email protected].

Lost & Found

In order to continue to limit the number of visitors in the school this year, we will continue to post a photo of our Lost & Found each week in the Chronicle. If you see an item that is your child’s, please have them pick it up the next day or email the office and we will make sure it gets home with them. We will only be holding items until the next Chronicle.

Athletics:

Basketball

Basketball tryouts will begin in the next couple of weeks. In order to get ready for the basketball season open gym time for girls in grades 7-9 was held on Tuesday, November 23 from 3:30 to 4:45. Open gym time for boys in grades 7-9 is being held today from 3:30 until 4:45.

Calendar:

November:

• 24 – Deadline to Order School Clothing

December:

• 1 – Early Dismissal @ 2:30 pm
• 3 – PD Day – NO SCHOOL
• 17 – School Clothing Delivered
• 17 – Video Recording of the Christmas Concert Released
• 20 – 31 – Christmas Break

Community Events:

Please click on the image below to learn more about community events in our area! Also found under our Parents menu on the website.

Odds & Ends:

Sign In/Out Form:

In an effort to reduce the amount of shared touched surfaces, we will be using a QR code that you will need to scan with your phone for signing in and out of the school. You can also use this link if you are in your vehicle and need to sign out a student but can’t scan the code. This means that students/parents/visitors can scan the QR code when entering or leaving the office/school to sign in or sign out on their own phone/device.

Parents will also be able to sign their kids out from their vehicle in the parking lot when they arrive to pick them up for appts. etc. please use the link above if you can’t scan the QR code. We do ask that parents pull into a spot (not bus lane) where you can contact the office to let them know you have arrived and we can make eye contact with you
from the staff/office door. Students must also stop by the office before leaving the school. At that point, once a connection is made, we are able to send students out to you.

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