Author: Mme Ghali

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Julie, Carol, and Shauna

Prayer leaders: 3A

Reminders and information:

• Teachers: have you completed both surveys? Support staff: did you complete your survey?
• Sign up Genius – do you need help? Are you ready for Thursday?
  • Celebration of Learning (please don’t use the word demonstration) is on March 19
  • Afternoon start time is 1:30, end for dinner at 5:00
  • Evening start time is 6:00, end at 7:30
  • Carrie will have meetings in the morning as well
• JH homeroom teachers – by Monday make sure you have called (no longer just an email) any parent who hasn’t signed the ski permission form
• Alberta Education surveys for all students in Grades 4 – 9 this week – Chromebooks and Random Access Codes are needed. Homeroom teachers will be contacted by an administrator or Instructional Coach
• IPPs – make sure you set up meetings with parents prior to March 19 – a second signature is required

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Consultant Leanne Hemphill works with Vanessa
• Review March newsletter with students – to improve student engagement, especially about the Burundi project

Tuesday

• Grades 6 and 9 Immunization #2 – Room 157 in the AM
• Azza absent in the PM – at Lumen
• Grade 6 field trip to Winspear, depart at noon – teachers, please make sure your lunch supervision is covered as needed

Wednesday

Thursday

• Sign up Genius email with invitation to parents sent by all teachers by 3:00 PM
• Azza at Lumen
• No staff meeting for teachers – work on your own at school: 1:15 to 3:00

Friday

• Lorena’s last day in 6A
• Junior High Ski trip
• Teachers’ Pet in school field trip for all Grade 2 classes
• COR audit meeting – Azza and Mike with ECSD staff at 1:00 PM

A trio of beauties model their Oilers spirit!

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Gillian, Jordan, and Danielle

Prayer leaders: 4D

Reminders and information:

• Be cognizant of what time you leave school; teachers mustn’t leave the building whilst students are still exiting.
• Annual reminder: If you have spent $150.00 + from your own money for school and have receipts, you can write this off your tax return. I will need to sign the form for you.
• Elementary teachers: remember to find at least 15 minutes this week to play Math Fact Fluency games

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Pink Shirt Day – a day of kindness and acceptance
• Paint chips due to Maya, Suad, or Giulia
• Mark and Ashley – PD on Proactive circles – in school

Tuesday

• Multicultural Day – parade of nations at 1:30 – you will be called prior to the start of the parade
• See Maya’s email from Feb 20 with class activities for the AM
• After lunch – all students will go to homeroom to prep for the parade
• Sign up Genius session by Cheyenne at 3pm for those interested

Wednesday

Thursday

• Teachers’ convention – if you see something for your class that you would like, the school will pay $50.00 per teacher. Please don’t use a credit card, debit only. Give receipts to Danielle for reimbursement.

Friday

• Teachers’ convention

Gisele models her pink shirt of kindness

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Jeannie, Suad, and Claudia

Prayer leaders: 4C

Reminders and information:

• Lent starts – Religion table -all tablecloths are purple starting Wednesday
• Random Acts of Kindness Week
• *Reminder: ECSD staff are not permitted to take empty bottle/juice boxes/cans out of the school for recycling. We are set up with Green Bottle Depot who come to our school regularly to collect our empties. ECSD staff cannot collect money under any circumstances.
• Be cognizant of what time you leave school; teachers mustn’t leave the building whilst students are still exiting.
• Annual reminder: If you have spent $150.00 + from your own money for school and have receipts, you can write this off your tax return. I will need to sign the form for you.
• Please make sure you have medical gloves in your pocket during supervision, just in case.
• Elementary teachers: remember to find at least 15 minutes this week to play Math Fact Fluency games

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Happy Family Day!

Tuesday

• Welcome back, Ashley!
• Shrove Tuesday – Denny’s pancakes for all – please decide where and with whom your class will enjoy their pancakes.

Wednesday

Thursday

• Staff meeting for all teachers at 1:15 in the library

Friday

• COR Safety Audit – meeting #1 – walk through entire school
• Sr. Boys and Girls Showcase games at MMM at 4:30

Thank you to everyone for a very successful volleyball tournament. Julie, your organization and time are much appreciated.

Gisele models her TEAM CANADA spirit

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Nadine, Giulia, and Kiana

Prayer leaders: 4B

Reminders and information:

• Please make sure you have medical gloves in your pocket during supervision, just in case.
• If you have a student celebrating a birthday and the name on the announcement slide isn’t the name the used by the student in class, please change it for us.
• Elementary teachers: remember to find at least 15 minutes this week to play Math Fact Fluency games
• Here’s the Principal’s challenge for February:

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Ciara and 4 students at Wellness Sympodium at Lumen
• Shelley Yu (4-6) presents to students on Creating Communities of Belonging (formerly EDIAR)

Tuesday

• School Teams meeting at Lumen – Azza, Melanie, Cheyenne, Mikaela, and Danica absent all day
• Shauna absent in the AM
• 5A/5B – field trip to Aviation Museum
• School Council meeting at 6:00 in the staffroom

Wednesday

Thursday

• Melanie, Kimberly, Cheyenne, and Vanessa – Reframing Curriculum PD – in the PM
• Annual STJ Gr. 6 Elementary Volleyball Tournament at 1:00
  • see sign up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AVdIkO3CxlGsFdESwgtaSdA0Q3wxFPTslDXTaWDibg8/edit?usp=sharing

Friday

• Elementary Hot Lunch – Papa John’s
• Award winners and write ups due to Azza for Chief Sup Award and Lumen Christi Award

Gisele models the Oilers’ Black History Month hoodie

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Julie-Ann, Craig, and Lisa

Prayer leaders: 4A

Reminders and information:

• We are starting our second round of Kitchen Clean- up so it’s a good time to be reminded of the daily/weekly expectations. See file above.
• Elementary teachers: remember to find at least 15 minutes this week to play Math Fact Fluency games
• Here’s the Principal’s challenge for February:

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Wish lists due – all staff are invited to participate

Tuesday

• Azza absent in the PM – principals’ meeting at Lumen

Wednesday

Thursday

• No staff meeting – Grades 1-6 teachers work on your own for the afternoon, JH and K teachers have free time and return for 5:30 PM for Open House. Start times are:
  • 6:00 PM for new students and JH
  • 6:45 PM for Kindergarten

Friday

• Shelley Yu (4-6) and FitzRoy Ford (7-9) present to students on Creating Communities of Belonging (formerly EDIAR)
  • Grade 7 at 9:55 to 10:40 – large gym
  • Grade 8 at 10:44 to 11:30 – large gym
  • Grade 9 at 11:33 to 12:14 – large gym
  • Elementary presentation will be in classrooms

A special thank you to our three instructional coaches Melanie, Cheyenne, and Julie, who created a truly wonderful PD day for us on January 29th. Thank you, also to Jolene who presented to our support staff.

We want to express our sincere gratitude for you all. For your dedication, expertise, and care. You are an exceptional team, and our students are so fortunate to learn from such thoughtful, talented, and inspiring educators.

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Chris, Maya, and Mark

Prayer leaders: 5D

Reminders and information:

• SNOWFLAKES needed to decorate the gym for the Snowflake Family Dance – please have your students make snowflakes if you can. There are two boxes in the office for snowflake collection. Parents will put them up the afternoon of the dance, January 30.
• If students are late for class on a regular basis, contact the parents and log the dates and how late they are each day.
• We are starting our second round of Kitchen Clean- up so it’s a good time to be reminded of the daily/weekly expectations. See file below.
• Please remember the Principal’s challenge for January:

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Happy Monday

Tuesday

• Summary reports are live at 3:00 PM
• Azza absent for meetings at Lumen – AM
• St. Rose visits 6A and 6B – AM
• Cheyenne absent – all day
• YRCA presentations in the AM for Div 2 students

Wednesday

Thursday

• PD Day – start time is 9:00 am and information forthcoming

Friday

• Semester 2 for JH starts
• ECSD Reads Junior High Symposium – Suad attends with 5 students, all day at Lumen
• Snowflake Dance

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Laure, Carrie, and Sharon

Prayer leaders: 5C

Reminders and information:

• SNOWFLAKES needed to decorate the gym for the Snowflake Family Dance – please have your students make snowflakes if you can. Parents will put them up the afternoon of the dance, January 30.
• Teachers who did not do the ECSD survey last Thursday, please see Azza on Monday afternoon
• JH teachers, please remind students about removing shoes, especially after their recess.
• Screener time available for Div 1 teachers – see Cheyenne’s email
• If students are late for class on a regular basis, contact the parents and log the dates and how late they are each day.
• Please remember the Principal’s challenge for January:

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Mary returns – welcome back!
• Running Room games for grade 6 running team – Jenn and Kimberly take students
• Azza absent in the AM

Tuesday

• Elementary report comments due to Azza – attach a Word doc please
• Azza absent for meeting at Lumen all day
• Shauna at French Immersion in the PM
• Mike at JH New Curriculum meeting – PM
• YRCA presentations in the AM for Div 2 students
  • Grade 4 – 9:00am
  • Garde 5 – 9:30am
  • Grade 6 – 10:30am

Wednesday

Thursday

• Pinocchio performance in the large gym for elementary students – show at 9:30 to 10:30 – please remember, no coffee in the gym. You will be called around 9:15.
• No Liturgical music today.
• Work on your own afternoon – no staff meeting.
• JH concert at West Meadows Baptist Church – students arrive at 5:00, seating begins at 6:00, concert begins at 6:30. Grade 6 teachers and 3 JH teachers needed please. Thank you, Julie for volunteering.
• Sr. Boys McCaffrey Basketball Tournament

Friday

• Elementary Hot Lunch
• Sr. Girls McCaffrey Basketball Tournament

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Gisele, Natalie, and Manuela

Prayer leaders: 5B

Reminders and information:

• JH teachers, please remind students about removing shoes, especially after their recess
• ***Remember to be the first person out and the last person in when on recess supervision. Get your students ready earlier than usual. ***
• If students are late for class on a regular basis, contact the parents and log the dates and how late they are each day.
• Please read the parent blog and review with students

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Oilers Day – wear your jersey
• Blue and Orange Team visit 3A and 3D
• JH Math working group

Tuesday

• St. Joe’s presentation to 9A and 9B – AM in the gym

Wednesday

Thursday

• Work on summary reports in the PM
• Azza at Leadership Academy

Friday

• Pizza lunch for patrollers
• Azza at Leadership Academy

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. ~Donald D. Quinn, 1960s

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Susan, Csilla, and Sabrina

Prayer leaders: 5A

Reminders and information:

• Happy New Year! May 2026 be a happy and healthy year for us all!
• Religion tables have green cloths as we are in Ordinary time
• ***Remember to be the first person out and the last person in when on recess supervision. Get your students ready earlier than usual. ***
• Jackie Hampton is now on staff – she will be here each morning and Tuesday PM. Congratulations, Jackie!
• Teacher Growth Plans due on January 9 – please send PDF with your last name in the document name
• ECSD Annual survey begins this week – schedule forthcoming

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Welcome back!
• Julie-Ann absent

Tuesday

• Epiphany – celebrations in class – Julie-Ann will send you a PPT to facilitate your classroom celebration
• Azza absent in the PM – Principals’ meeting at Lumen
• Julie-Ann absent

Wednesday

Thursday

• Staff meeting for teachers at 1:15 – library

Friday

• Teacher Growth Plans due – email to admin team – please save and send PDF, save document with your last name. Please attach instead of sharing.

And to everyone….

Kitchen Clean-up Team: Robin, Jeannine, and Valerie

Prayer leaders: 6D

Reminders and information:

• Advent week 3
• ***Remember to be the first person out and the last person in when on recess supervision. Get your students ready earlier than usual.***
• Staff fees due by December 12 – please pay using your Student Quickpay account
• Teacher Growth Plans due on January 9
• Check the lost and found

Links:

ECSD SWAG

Schedules

Athletics calendar

Monday

• Advent Celebrations in all Elementary classes this morning and in JH classes during Religion class today. Thank you to the committee for organizing everything.
• Shauna, Sandy, and 9C at Picard all day
• Christmas Trivia- Name that tune

Tuesday

• Elementary – Christmas art project due by 3:00 PM to Shauna
• Christmas Trivia
• Elves of St. John field trip for all JH students and teachers
• Travelling Christmas Party – schedule has been emailed
• Azza absent all day

Wednesday

Thursday

• Full day of classes, use Friday’s schedule for everything – remember supervision, Kindergarten students in class
• Grades 1 to 5 Christmas Concert in the small gym – AM
• Elementary Christmas Movie Swap – PM
• JH Dance – PM

Friday

• Half day of classes, use Thursday’s schedule for everything – remember supervision, no Kindergarten students
• Elementary sing-along at 9:15 to 9:45 – large gym
• Volleyball game – staff vs JH – 10:40
• Azza absent
• Merry Christmas – Joyeux Noël

And to everyone…. thank you for being so wonderful. A school is only as good its staff. You make our school the best!

We appreciate you all!