First Day of School Tuesday September 4, 2018

Looking Forward to Seeing our Families and our Students on September 4, 2018

Classes will resume on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. and we want to warmly welcome back all of our students and our new students.

On the first day of school, there will be supervision in the yard starting at 8:45 a.m.  At this time parents can come with their children and follow the procedures outlined below:

·      All kindergarten children will meet outside in the kindergarten yard.  The children will be guided into their classrooms right away through the kindergarten door. We kindly remind all parents to say their goodbyes outside the Kindergarten Gate, to foster independence in their children. The first day for Year One /JK students only will be a half day from 8:45 to 11:30 a.m. 

·     We are reminding parents of year one (JK) students in Kindergarten to meet in the Learning Commons at 11:10 a.m to learn about School Council before picking up their children at 11:30 a.m.

·     -Students who will be in grades 1 - 8 will be met by teachers in the school yard at the back of the school and will be directed where to line up.

·      Students in grades 1 to 3 will gather in the Primary Yard.

·      Students in Grades 4 to 8 will gather in the Junior/Intermediate yard.

·      Parents will notice that there will be signs placed on chairs to indicate where each grade level is to line up before entry.

·      All parents are reminded NOT to walk through the kindergarten yard to access the Primary yard.  Only students can be in the kindergarten yard.

Please do not drop your children off before 8:45 a.m. All children are expected to walk around the school using the sidewalk and the path to enter the school

yard where supervision at 8:45 a.m. is provided.  The school parking lot is off limits to students and we respectfully ask that parents do not park or stop or enter the school parking lot.

In case of rain, students in grades 1 - 8 will enter the front foyer and go directly to the gym.  All kindergarten students will enter through the kindergarten doors right away in case of rain.

For pick up at the end of the day at 3:30 p.m. students will be dismissed from their dismissal doors into the school yard. The dismissal doors are as follows:

Kindergarten: Kindergarten Door

Grade1 -3:      Primary Door

Grade 4-8:      Intermediate Door

We respectfully remind all parents to wait OUTSIDE the dismissal doors to pick up their children.  Please remember that all doors to the school are locked at all times. Kindergarten students will be dismissed directly to parents from the kindergarten classroom doors at the end of the day.

Please do not call the office or e-mail regarding class placement or to request who your child’s teacher will be for this school year. We are still in the process of registering students and class lists are still being finalized. Students and parents will find out who the teacher is and class placement on the first day of school.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday, September 4, 2018.

We Had a Great First Week at School

We had a fabulous first week of school! Our students spent the week meeting their friends and getting to know their teachers and routines.

At our first day assembly, we talked about our goals for the year and our hopes for ensuring a happy and positive school climate for all our children and staff. To do this, we see ourselves as a community. A community is built on relationships where we are always looking out or standing up for each other. We understand how important it is to develop our own self-regulation skills. We work at being kind and patient with one another and we get help when we need it.

We talked about our school pledge and what that would look like throughout the year.

Here is the pledge for parents to review with their children:

As a JVPS Student I pledge to:

• Be kind to others
• Include people who feel alone
• Take care of others when they are sad
• Treat others the way I would like to be treated
• Stand up for others
• Use appropriate language to make sure that I don't offend others
• Never judge others based on their appearance, their personality, their size, their interests, their gender, their race, or their beliefs
• Say, "Not in Our School" when I see someone being disrespectful toward others

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 othersOur Goals: How to Achieve our Goals? 

·                    Take responsibility for yourself and your learning

·                    Understand and accept the consequences of your behaviour and your choices

·                    Follow the school safety rules

·                    Have a Growth Mindset and always do your best!

·                    Have fun!

  

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