The Week Ahead - November 20

Good afternoon Colonel Irvine School Community.

下午好! 学文学校社区

Next week we will have our first Parent Teacher Interviews for this school year. If you wish to book conferences a separate email was sent this week and information is also below. Please remember to book an interview with any/all of your student’s teachers that you wish to speak with. This time we will hold two in-person evening interview sessions (Nov. 22&23) and an online day session of interviews on Friday (Nov. 24). If you are booking online interviews on the Friday, please connect with the link you receive in your email confirmation. As mentioned last week, we will continue to update you on high school information as it is made available. Please see previous and new information available below our message.

A big congratulations to our basketball athletes and coaches. Both senior teams are playing the finals tonight, last night the junior girls won their final, and the junior boys finished second in their division. Again, well done to basketball teams and athletes. We are so proud of your achievements. Special thanks to our coaches: Ms. Vo, Ms. O’Connell, Ms. Yeo, Mr. Bester, Mr. Prather, Mr. Luu and Mr. Shi for volunteering their time coaching our students. We’d like to thank our scorekeepers, students and parents who came out to show their support, and the teacher supervisors who support at our home games.

We are pleased to share that we’ve raised over $3000 for the Terry Fox Foundation. Thank you to all the students, parents and staff for participating in our fundraiser. We appreciate the generosity of our school community.

Thank you for your continued support,

Ms. Ko and Ms. Dalwood

Updated: Dates to Remember:

Tuesday, November 21 - School Council 6:30pm – Link below

Wednesday, November 22 – Parent Teacher Interviews – 4-8pm In person

Thursday, November 23 – Parent Teacher Interviews – 4-8pm In person

Friday, November 24 – Non-instructional day - Parent Teacher Interviews – 8:30-11:30am and 12:30-3:30pm Online

Monday, November 27 – Vaccine catchups for students with previously signed consent forms

Wednesday, December 6 – Band Concert at John G. Diefenbaker High School at 6:30

Friday, December 8 – Non-instructional day

Monday, December 11 – Trimester 2 Starts

Tuesday, December 12 – School Council 6:30

Friday, December 22 – Last Day of classes before Winter Break

Monday, January 8 – Classes resume

NEW - School Council

Here is the meeting invite for the school council meeting. We are in the process of upgrading the CISC account so that we can have meetings for over an hour.

For Tuesday there are two separate meeting links - one for the first hour and one for the second.

You're invited to CISC/CIPAA Tuesday, November 21, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (MST) https://teams.live.com/meet/9381522874136?p=DzxmkbC60yX76v6N Tap on the link or paste it in a browser to join.

Invite for hour 2

You're invited to CIPAA Tuesday, November 21, 2023 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm (MST) https://teams.live.com/meet/9353187452073?p=DR9TIIshERsgoWhv Tap on the link or paste it in a browser to join.

NEW - My CBE/PowerSchool/School Conferences

Conference booking will be open until November 23.

All parents with children enrolled in the Calgary Board of Education schools have access. Parents must first create a PowerSchool parent account to be able to use this CBE application and the guide link below.

·         Guide: Parents can find support information (including user guides for booking a conference, joining a conference, and a quick reference guide) on the Technical Support for Students & Parents site, under MyCBE / PowerSchool - School Conferences.

Please note that with the new booking system your child’s teachers will automatically populate as an option to book. If you do not see a teacher you wish to speak with, please click on the toggle button to the right “Show All Conference Leads.”

NEW - Cafeteria Menu:

Monday – Potato and cheddar perogies $4

Tuesday – Chicken fried rice $5

Wednesday – Beef and mac bake $5

Thursday – BBQ burgers with fries $5

Scholastic Book Fair Countdown!

Our school’s Scholastic Book Fair is here! It will be open from November 20 - November 23.

Your investment in your reader also helps our whole school. All purchases earn rewards that can be redeemed for books and Education Resources for our school’s classrooms and library.

Grade 9 Optional West Coast Sailing Trip – Information Session

Every year, we try to offer our grade 9 students the opportunity to go on a West Coast trip. For this trip, we fly out as a group to Victoria, BC, and live onboard sailboats for 5 days/4nights in the Salish Sea off Vancouver Island. The cost for the trip is usually around $2,800 (which includes flights, ground transportation and food and activities while onboard the sailboats). We can take a minimum of 13 students and a maximum of 29 students. As such there will be a student meeting to gauge interest for this year’s trip, on Monday, November 20th, during lunchtime in Rm. 25. There will also be a VIRTUAL Parent meeting on Friday, November 24 from 3:00–3:30 pm. The link will be sent out closer to the date.

Updated: High School:

For parents with students going into Gr. 10 next year we will be holding virtual information session for parents during Parent Teacher Interviews.

These will be Wednesday, November 23, 6:30-7:30pm (in-person), Thursday, November 24, 5:30-6:30pm (in-person) and Friday, November 24, 1-2pm (online). If you are new to the CBE or this is your first child going off to high school we would encourage you to attend a session. All sessions will be the same. A link to the Details and links to these meetings will be shared in the Nov. 18th message. In the meantime, the CBE High School website is a great place to learn about high school information. You may also wish to visit the individual high schools’ websites. We will send meeting links in a stand alone message next week.

We will post tour dates and open houses here as we are notified of them.

John G. Diefenbaker

John G. Diefenbaker’s IB program would like to invite any interested grade 9 families to attend our upcoming IB Information Evenings on November 21 and 22nd.

Diefenbaker IB open house

Sir Winston Churchill

Who should attend? All grade 9 students and their parents who are interested in finding out more about our IB program. During these IB information sessions, we will talk about what the IB program is, what to expect and what you need to know about applying. You will hear from former students and have an opportunity to ask questions. These are repeat sessions to allow for a more intimate setting; you only need to attend one. Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Invitation SWC IB presentations 2023.pdf

Forest Lawn & Jack James

Please save the date! Jan 29, 2024 will be Gr 9 Tours & Open House (see school website).

Athletics

The Basketball Season will come to an end this week! The results will be shared next week!

Sports

Practices

Wrestling

Mr. Chang (ydchang@cbe.ab.ca)

Ms. Fan (wefan@cbe.ab.ca)

 

Tuesday & Thursdays 3:45 – 5:00

Meets: TBA

 

Spotlight on Wellness:

Improving student wellness has positive impacts in all aspects of student life – academics, peer relations, self-confidence, and physical health. Each week the Week Ahead will highlight current teachings, community supports, strategies, and other resources to improve wellness. As a collaborative place of learning, we welcome information or suggestions for this section of our weekly update. This week's spotlight is on the Calgary Distress Centre.

Calgary Distress Centre

Offers 24 hr free crisis intervention, professional counselling, and referral services

·         Call: (403) 266-4357 https://www.distresscentre.com/