Dates To Remember

November 18-22- Swimming for all grades! Please ensure forms are returned by tomorrow!

November 20 and 21- Child Youth and Well-Being Webinar (more infor below)

November 22- TRS Spirit Day- Tropical Day

November 25- Photo Retakes

November 28 Evening School Conferences 4-8 (1:1 booked online through mycbe/powerschool) and Fun Lunch

November 28- Webinar- Mental Health for Highly Sensitive Teens

November 29- Daytime Conferences 8-1 (1:1 booked online through mycbe/powerschool) -No School for Students

December 4th & 5th- TRS Casino (Please consider signing up at the link below!)

December 12- Winter Concert and Healthy Hunger

December 20- Last Day of Classes before winter break

Hello families, and welcome to our week of swimming! I hope that everyone was able to stay safe on their commutes, drives, and walks today!

Just reminder that we are swimming every day this week and that families need to ensure that their child's swimming supplies are coming on a daily basis.

Take care!

Dan

Winter Concert

Mark your calendars! Students will perform this year's Winter Concert, Songs for a Season on Thursday, December 12th. Everyone, K-6,  will participate in two performances of the concert, one dress rehearsal in the morning (time TBD) and a performance in the evening at 6:00pm. Details about arrival time for the evening will be sent before the concert. Students do not need any special costumes or clothing for these performances. They may dress up but this is not a requirement. 

To support capacity challenges, this performance is for students and immediate family members only. We are asking each family to limit their attendance to 2-3 people as a maximum so that all students can have supporters in attendance. Should other family members wish to see the show, please consider attending the dress rehearsal during the day. There will not be tickets issued for either performance. Seating is first come, first served. Our intention in doing a whole school performance is to celebrate TRS spirit as we build community across all grades. The focus of these performances, as always, is to support musical understanding in a warm and welcoming environment that is fun and meaningful for the students.


Thank you for your ongoing support and for making time in busy schedules to come together and celebrate the students at Terrace Road School. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Katie McMillan at kamcmillan@cbe.ab.ca. 


Wall Decal Assistance Call-Out!

We have a beautiful new decal to lay out on our wall--- the decal was designed here in Canada, and is of our new Terrace Road School Pledge. We would love to have some help from our greater community in ensuring the decal is put on straight and properly in our hallway outside of room 3.

Please email Dan if you can support or if you have expertise in this area! djbuchanan@cbe.ab.ca

Conferences

We will be having our fall conferences on November 28th and November 29. The conferences will be booked for 15 minute one-on-one intervals in order to allow teachers and families the time to meet and discuss student progress to date. The November 28th conferences will be during the evening, starting at 4:00 p.m. and with our last appointment being 7:45 p.m. We will email once conferences go live on November 22nd.

Child Youth and Well-Being Webinar Series

The Calgary Board of Education invites all parents and guardians to join us in a pre-recorded and live online series focusing on child and youth well-being. These sessions will be hosted in partnership with experts from Alberta Health Services and Recovery Alberta and will explore topics such as Peer Pressure, Healthy Relationships, Mental Health for Highly Sensitive Teens, and navigating Parent-Teen relationships.

November 20- Healthy Relationships

November 21- Building Resiliency in Today's Youth

Register here: LINK TO REGISTER

Staffing

The TRS family is growing and changing!  We would like to welcome the following new staff members:

Ms.  Margaret Gray- Education Assistant and lunch

Tracey Tran- New lunchroom supervisor

Ms. Rachel Ferguson-Farrar- Education Assistant and lunch supervisor

Ms. Renette Kurz- Literacy and Numeracy Teacher

Ms. Farhana Dar will be moving sites for lunchtime in order to take on a lead lunch position. We wish her all the best in her new role! Ms. Farhana will continue to run our breakfast program in the morning!

Purdy’s Chocolate Fundraiser

Our new fundraiser will be starting soon, with flyers being sent home later this week. The flyers will have qr codes on them that will take you to the site to order: fundraising.purdys.com. Our customer number is 78301. Orders need to be places by December 3, 2024. If you have any questions about orders, or the fundraiser in general, please connect with Mareea Ali at mareea.taqi@gmail.com

Casino

Our TRS Fundraising Society Casino is coming up on December 4th and 5th. We are able to provide so much for our students because of these two nights!  We typically raise between $70000 to $80000 which provides:

1.      Field trips

2.      In-school experiences

3.      Technology

4.      Library Books

5.      Resources

Because this Casino fundraiser can not run without volunteers, please do consider signing up to volunteer HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040B48ADAB23A4FB6-52238685-trscasino

Also, Casino Volunteers often get a good meal and great company!!! We are still short a few volunteers, so please consider signing up to make a difference at Terrace Road School!

Family Survey

Part of our commitment to families at Terrace Road is that we are open, clear and transparent with communication. Family voices matter and are always into consideration when decisions are being made. If you have not already done so, please take 5 minutes to complete this Fall Family Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/1AR3rwZUcx

Terrace Road Pledge

We are the Terrace Road Tigers. 

We are kind, responsible and considerate. 

We are accountable for our voices and our choices. 

We show respect for ourselves, others and the land.  

We honour our Spirit, Heart, Body and Mind.

We embrace our differences and recognize our gifts. 

We strive for excellence, give compliments, and lift each other up. 

We are a resilient community with integrity in all that we do. 

We are the Terrace Road Tigers. 

Clothing

We have had several families reach out and ask if they can donate food to our school. We believe we have enough snacks for now in order to ensure that no one goes hungry while at school. However, we could use some donations of gently used or new clothing—sweat pants, t-shirts and boys and girls underwear, are particularly low (more in our kindergarten-Grade 3 bins). If you have any gently used items, or if you happen to have new gear that you do not need, we would gladly accept it!

Lost and Found

The irony is not lost on me that in my second update, we are communicating that we have an abundance of unclaimed clothing in our lost and found—it is a giant mass of clothing that will be donated in the next little while. We will send home pictures this week, or if you feel you are missing any items at home, please feel free to come in and take a look!  We have two lost and found locations… near our k-2 entrance, and right near our main entrance.

Art Card Fundraiser

“The children's art is online and we are ready to launch the fundraiser!

Families can see their child's art online at www.TheCardProject.ca

with the school's access code: TR78

The priority order deadline is Sunday, October 27.

The final order deadline is Monday, November 11.”

Communication

Each Friday, teachers have time to update their blogs and make sure that families have a window into the learning of their child’s classroom!  Please do take time to read through the short messages, see the pictures, and use the update to engage in conversation with your child about learning happening at school! When we are all all-in on student learning, students feel supported, safe, and secure in taking risks in their learning and we all have a clear understanding of what students are currently able to do in their learning.

Communication Folders will be a key aspect of our vision for communication this year between home and school. These folders are zip-up, durable plastic folders that will contain student artifacts of learning for parents to look through with their children, ask questions about, and engage in learning from the home. When there is an artifact of learning, there will be a signature page attached, with room for a parent comment as well.


Thank you for your continued support of our programming at TRS!

New Picture Day images and data for Terrace Road School are now available on the Lifetouch Portal.

To download the images and data:

  1. Log in to the Lifetouch Portal.
  2. Go to Image & Data Management.
  3. Select the information you want to view and download.
  4. Click the Download button.

If you have questions or need assistance, contact your Lifetouch representative or call the local Lifetouch office. You can also contact Lifetouch Technical Support at 1-800-598-2466 or lnssfieldops@lifetouch.com.