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