St. Anthony Connects The week of February 9 – 13

 

 

 

part of a math inquiry question worked on by the grade 2-3 class last week

part of a math inquiry question worked on by the grade 2-3 class last week

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 NOTICE

St. Anthony CES

Bell Time and Walk Zone Review – FINAL

In 2012, based on recommendations from the Ministry’s Efficiency and Effectiveness Review, OSTA began its transformation project to harmonize walk zone maps and re-align bell times throughout its system. The first step was to create new policies governing how these steps were to be undertaken, including the consultation and approval process for each part of the project. The result was the Bell Time Management Policy T19, an amendment to the Transportation Services T14 procedure for standardized hazard criteria and assessment methodology and the Consultation Policy G14. This past year, OSTA has conducted consultation with its internal and external stakeholders to get feedback on proposed bell time changes and new walk zone maps. Twenty-five consultation sessions were held at schools throughout the city to collect feedback from April to June 2014. An electronic survey was also made available on OSTA’s website along with information regarding OSTA’s transformation.OSTA took the feedback it received from school communities and revised its recommendations.

Individual concerns regarding safety were carefully evaluated and/or re-assessed, and numerous changes were made to walk zones as a result. In addition, some schools were removed from the bell time review due to various circumstances unique to those school communities. On November 10 2014, the OSTA Board of Directors approved bell time changes of 10 minutes and All changes to be implemented for September 2015 under. On January 27 2015, both the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Ottawa Catholic School Board approved bell time changes of over 10 minutes. This was the final step in the approval process.

Please go to www.ottawaschoolbus.ca/policies/transformation for more information regarding this project.

Bell Time – There is no change

Start Time End Time 8:30 3:00

There is a major change in the Walk Zone Please visit www.ottawaschoolbus.ca/policies/transformation/walkzone- maps to view the FINAL walk zone maps online. Each school also has a summary of re-assessments and outcomes based on feedback gathered during consultation.

A hard copy of the 800m (kindergarten) and/or 1.6km (grades 1-8) walk zone map(s) are available at the school for viewing.

More detailed information can be found on our website at http://www.ottawaschoolbus.ca/policies/transformation

Confederation Education Centre 1645 Woodroffe Avenue, Nepean, Ontario K2G 1W2 Tel: 613.224.8800 / Fax: 613.224.8840 Website: www.ottawaschoolbus.ca

After reviewing the feedback from the Public Consultation Sessions held last Spring, OSTA has identified areas where there are legitimate traffic safety hazards that present a barrier to children walking to school.  Listed below are the FINAL walk zone maps for each school, highlighted in red, which use the same distance measurement for both school boards, and which include a standardized set of walking hazards. A summary of the decision-making process can be found in blue, under selected school communities.

Further information about any changes made for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year will be sent to your child’s school months prior to the changes. Please keep an eye on our Transformation Project webpage for more updates.
Schools below are listed alphabetically. Press Ctrl+F on your keyboard to bring up a search box to help you find your school.
PES = OCDSB (Public) elementary | PSS = OCDSB (Public) secondary | CES = OCSB (Catholic) elementary | CHS = OCSB (Catholic) high

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St. Anthony School 1.6 KM Walk Zone Grades 1-3

 

 

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 St. Anthony This week

Monday, February 9

We will be offering Squirmies again this term – notices should be coming home by Tuesday

Tuesday, February 10

chess club at lunch

table tennis 3:15

Wednesday, February 10

Y Kids Academy – grade 5/6

School Council Meeting – 6:00PM

Thursday, February 11

Report cards and IEPs going home

Friday, February 12

Pizza Day!!

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 Teacher Notes for the week

Ms Myers:

We had a fabulous trip to the Mill of Kintail – perfect snowshoeing conditions! Many thanks to all theparents who were able to assist us. The grade ones now feel they are snowshoe “experts!”

Monday marks the 100th day of school! We will celebrate with a variety of math and language activitiesconnected to 100. As Valentine’s day approaches we will be sharing stories of friendship and renewing our commitment to our “Class Promise.” For those who wish to participate, we will exchange Valentines on Friday, February 13th. A list of classmates can be found on the back of the February newsletter sent home last week. The “Wonderful Ones” will be leading the Morning Announcements this week. If your child has been asked to say a prayer, please have them practice reading it aloud to you in preparation.

Ms Hubert:

This will be another busy and exciting week.  In Language Arts we will continue with our Procedural Writing, EQAO preparation and Literature Circles.  In Science we will continue to learn about flight and build on our knowledge of kites, learned last week. In Mathematics, we will be finishing Measurement shortly and beginning with Data Management and Probability.  On Friday morning we will be hosting a bake sale to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Mr. Cook:
Homework calendars will be sent home Monday in the students agenda bags. Please make sure to try and work on the homework each night with your child. The activities should not take long to complete. After they finish, reading is always a nice thing they can do! Ask your child questions about the book and get them to tell you their favorite part! This week we will be celebrating Valentne’s Day. The students will be decorating paper bags and will trade Valentine’s cards on Friday. There are 18 friends in our class (10 girls, 8 boys), in case you wanted to know when purchasing Valentine’s cards. We will do a procedural writing activity after we make the bags.

We are going to be starting a new science unit on Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures which will lead us into Movement. In Math, we will be reviewing some number sense and numeration concepts. The kids had a blast snowshoeing last week at the Mill of Kintail! Thanks to all the parents who volunteered with us that day! Let’s hope that this week will be just as blessed!

P.S. Report Cards go home Thursday.
Dans la classe de Mr. Chartrand:
Grade 1/2
In Social Studies, the Grade 2’s will finish work on Nunavut and Mexico.  They will complete a chart comparing Canada, Mexico and their country of origin.
Grade 1’s:  neighbourhood map and community helpers.
We are completing our work with the “Oncle Pompon” and “Gaston Cochon” comptines.
In reading, we are working on “Au magasin” and “Les saisons changent”.
In writing, we worked on “Le Jour de la Marmotte”.  The students did a re-tell and a procedural writing activity on the topic.  This week they are finishing a descriptive writing piece on their snowman.
We will also have a Valentines Day centre in the classroom.
The words wall words for this week are:
entrer (to enter), pourquoi (why), quand  (when), quoi (what)
*  Please practice the words at home.  I will be sending word wall work homework again.  Please return it by the end of the week.
*  Please have the Grade 2 students bring their Country projects to school to work on Thursday’s and Friday’s if its possible.
Grade 4 (Immersion)
Two more weeks and we will complete our unit on “Les roches et les minéraux”.
We are completing our lab on how to identify the different types of rocks (Les propriétés physiques des minéraux:  la couleur, le trait, l’éclat, la transparence, la dureté, la forme, etc…).  We will also focus on how minerals are used in everyday life.
UNIT test:  February 26th
Merci,
Monsieur
Ms Rupnik’s Class
This week in the Primary Language Class, we will continue our work on procedural writing. Last week, we completed two shared procedural writing activities together (how to eat an Oreo cookie and how to make a Valentine card).  This week we will move onto independent student practice. They will write or say how to get ready to play in the snow.  We will also read ‘There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Rose’ for Valentine’s Day and complete a sequencing activity.
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