Message from the School Administration Dear Families of the Brownridge Public School Community, I am excited to welcome everyone back! A special warm welcome goes out to new students and their families who will be joining our school community for the first me. Here at Brownridge PS, our goal is to promote problem solving, respect, and the embracing of mistakes for the purpose of learning. In other words, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Our new theme song for the year is “We’re all in this together” from the movie High School Musical. Our focus this year is to connue to promote a sense of belonging, inclusion, and learning from mistakes. We believe the message in this song is one we want to resonate with students. Check it out at hps:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrbUfYSt0E STAY CONNECTED: This year we will connue to maintain a high level of communicaon with families of Brownridge through email (please provide us with your email address if you would like to be added), through Twier (follow us @brownridgeps), through your student’s agenda, through our website (hp:// bit.ly/2eEUkwP) and through our blog (hps://brownridgeps.com/). SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING: Please join us for our first School Council meeng on Monday, September 17, 2018. We will be meeng in the library at 6:30pm. Our awesome staff are excited to engage your students in a variety of different ways– modern learning, guided reading, mathemacal reasoning and problem solving, and more. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher to discuss your child’s progress at anyme. I look forward to working with you throughout the year. Joe Gold Principal Welcome back! Please take the me to review this newsflash for important informaon. Looking forward to seeing you all soon! Please note: We are a tree nut free/peanut free school. We have students who are severely allergic to tree nuts and peanuts. Please refrain from sending in any food items that may contain tree nuts or peanuts. Visitors and Volunteers, please sign in at the office when entering the building. Brownridge Public School Principal: Joe Gold Superintendent: Chris Sarellas Trustee: Susan Geller September 2018 Newsflash
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Message from the School Administration
Dear Families of the Brownridge Public School Community,
I am excited to welcome everyone back! A special warm welcome goes out to new students and their families who will be joining our school community for the first time.
Here at Brownridge PS, our goal is to promote problem solving, respect, and the embracing of mistakes for the purpose of learning. In other words, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Our new theme song for the year is “We’re all in this together” from the movie High School Musical. Our focus this year is to continue to promote a sense of belonging, inclusion, and learning from mistakes. We believe the message in this song is one we want to resonate with students. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrbUfYSt0E
STAY CONNECTED: This year we will continue to maintain a high level of communication with families of Brownridge through email (please provide us with your email address if you would like to be added), through Twitter (follow us @brownridgeps), through your student’s agenda, through our website (http://bit.ly/2eEUkwP) and through our blog (https://brownridgeps.com/).
SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING: Please join us for our first School Council meeting on Monday, September 17, 2018. We will be meeting in the library at 6:30pm.
Our awesome staff are excited to engage your students in a variety of different ways– modern learning, guided reading, mathematical reasoning and problem solving, and more. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher to discuss your child’s progress at anytime.
I look forward to working with you throughout the year.
Joe Gold
Principal
Welcome back!
Please take the time to review this newsflash for important information. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
Please note: We are a
tree nut free/peanut
free school. We have
students who are
severely allergic to
tree nuts and
peanuts. Please
refrain from sending
in any food items that
may contain tree nuts
or peanuts.
Visitors and Volunteers,
please sign in at the office when
entering the building.
Brownridge Public School Principal: Joe Gold
Superintendent: Chris Sarellas
Trustee: Susan Geller
September 2018 Newsflash
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Reporting Child’s Absences/Planned Absences/Late Arrival through Edsby On-Line
Brownridge Public School uses an online process through Edsby for Attendance. Regular and punctual attendance affects school success and is expected of all students. However, if your child is going to be absent or late, it is important to let the school know as soon as possible for the safety and security of your child.
If you have not already created an account, please contact the office to assist you in creating one.
Families that have created an Edsby account to access the online attendance platform, please log into your account and follow the instructions to report your child’s absence, planned absence, vacation or late arrival. For assistance please visit online video tutorial to learn more (bit.ly/edsbyabsence) to access videos of how to use the attendance platform.
If your child is going to be absent or late, please ensure you indicate this in EDSBY. If you are experiencing difficulty, please call the school at 905-660-3803 to let us know. Please clearly state your child’s name, grade and teacher. Parents, guardians and students are reminded of school entry, recess and dismissal times. We encourage students to be on time for school, as late arrivals cause disruptions to a class that is already in session and students miss valuable instructional time. Additionally, if a student needs to leave early for an appointment, please send a note to your child's teacher that morning with the details thus eliminating the need for the office to have to call into the classroom and disrupt the class. Where possible, arrangements should be made ahead of time. Part of the YRDSB Safe Arrival Program is to ensure we know the whereabouts of each Brownridge student. If we are unable to determine the whereabouts of your child because it is not indicatedin EDSBY nor on the absence line AND we cannot contact a parent or one of the emergency contacts listed, Board policy is for the school to notify York Region Police.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact our main office at 905-660-3083.
Our school office is open from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Bell Times– 8:30 am entry bell, 8:40 school learning begins - 3:00 pm dismissal Morning Supervision- 8:25 – 8:40 am Block 1– 8:40– 10:20 am- 100 minutes Recess- 10:20 -10:40 am– 20 minutes Block 2- 10:40-12:20 pm– 100 minutes Lunch- 12:20-1:20- 60 minutes Block 3- 1:20- 3:00- 100 minutes Dismissal —3:00pm
School Cash on line
Our school is using online payments through School Cash ONLINE for all money transactions i.e., hot lunch, trips, etc. School Cash Online provides the following benefits: • A convenient fee payment option that saves time • Reduces paper • No more need to send cash or cheques to school • A quick way to register. It takes less than 5 minutes to register for NEW users. Click on the School Cash Online button on our school’s website to register.
Calling on all Volunteers
Interested in volunteering? We hope to get many volunteers to help us establish certain programs for our school and support field trips. Volunteers will require a Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) available through York Region Police. First you must obtain a Volunteer Letter from the school and bring it to the police station. See the York Region Police website for more information– yrp.ca. Obtaining this VSS form may take several weeks so we encourage interested volunteers to consider applying for a Vulnerable Sector Screening asap. Please submit the original copy to the office.
SCHOOL INFORMATION
NEED MATH HELP? YOUR ARE IN LUCK!!!
All students in grades 7 to 10 can access free, online math tutoring from a certified Ontario math teacher. It is free,
live, and anonymous. Chats take place Sunday to Thursday evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Other resources are
available online 24/7. Students need their Ontario Education Number (found on their provincial report card) and date
of birth to register. It is recommended that students use an anonymous username and password when registering.
Please visit https://homeworkhelp.ilc.org/
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Transportation
Student Transportation (STS) information is available on our school website or yrdsb.ca. For information on bus routes, stop locations, times, late arrivals, cancellation, eligibility and other general information, please visit www.schoolbuscity.com or contact 1-877-330-3001.
Student Transportation Services Website The STS website, www.schoolbuscity.com, is a valuable tool for schools and parents and contains important transportation information including but not limited to:
-Bus stop location, route information and service times for all schools -Late bus listings -First time rider safety events -Answers to frequently asked questions -STS information brochure -Policies and procedures
Access to Transportation Eligibility and Route Information Transportation eligibility can be determined by referring to the Bus Stop Information tab on www.schoolbuscity.com. This tool enables parents/guardians to enter their house number, street address and select their child’s school from a drop-down box to determine if they are eligible for transportation. Eligibility JK- Grade 8 All YRDSB students in JK - Grade 3 who live within 1.2 km of their school are not eligible for transportation.
All YRDSB students in Grades 4 - 8 who live within 1.6 km of their school are not eligible for transportation.
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
The York Region District School Board recognizes and highlights the significant achievements of our students through a variety of sources — front hall displays, school and board publications, as well as in the media and on our computer website, special fundraising events that attract media attention, recordings and displays for events such as graduations and seasonal celebrations. We believe this recognition is essential to enhance our students’ self esteem and to foster a positive school environment. To enable us to be in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act we request that those parents who do NOT want their child(ren)’s accomplishments recognized, work displayed or photographs taken for this purpose, please notify the Principal in writing.
If buses/taxis are cancelled in the morning, they are also cancelled for the afternoon.
For safety reasons, you may choose whether or not to send your child to school; however, if you keep him/her home and your child is NOT bused, you MUST report the absence on EDSBY or on our absence line. Our Safe Arrival Program dictates that we know where all absent students are — if we cannot reach you, we will contact your emergency contact person. If we cannot reach that person, we are obligated to contact the police.
There may be a modified program in your child's class due to numbers of students attending and absences of some teachers. If your child does not attend school on a day that buses are cancelled due to inclement weather, your child will not face attendance related repercussions.
Please note:
Dress for the weather: bus cancellation does not mean automatic indoor recesses or early entry into the school.
When buses are cancelled in the YRDSB, there are no field trips, meetings, or special events.
Information regarding bus cancellations is posted at www.schoolbuscity.com, conveyed to GTA radio/television stations, and available on the Board’s Twitter feed: https//twitter.com/#!/YRDSB
We strongly encourage you to follow us on Twitter @brownridgeps for updated information.
BUS CANCELLATIONS:
If the condition of the roads necessitates the cancellation of bus service, local radio stations will be informed as early as possible and will broadcast this information to the community. Please be advised that if buses are cancelled in the morning they will not run after school — regardless of the weather. Review your plans as to what your children will do in the event of late buses or cancellations. We encourage you to follow us on Twitter: @brownridgeps. We will tweet out if an inclement weather day is declared and if buses are cancelled. The following radio stations announce cancellations:
AM 640, AM 680, AM 1540, FM 92.5, FM 97.3, FM 98.1, FM 107.1, AM 590, FM 88.5,
FM 90.3, AM 1010, FM 93.1, AM 1050, FM 99.9, AM 1530, FM 100.7, FM 104.5
HOT LUNCHES Our amazing school council will once again organize hot lunches. We would appreciate any help you can offer so that we can offer this program weekly. Hence, we require volunteers to organize lunches. We ask that you spare 40 or so minutes of your time. Again, any help you can offer is appreciated in our efforts to run this program weekly. If you can assist, please let us know by e-mailing your interest and availability to: [email protected]
Our hot lunch program is our main source of school fundraising. We appreciate all of your support.
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Reminders and Important Dates
We appreciate your patience for the next few weeks as you receive lots of information from the school. We are eager for a good start and appreciate your patience in getting certain programs off the ground. Our Google calendar tab in
our blog is updated regularly with upcoming school activities and events.
Upcoming Dates September 4 School begins at 8:40 for SK to 8 and 1:20 for JK students September 6 Welcome Assembly for students September 10 Rosh Hashanah September 11 Rosh Hashanah September 19 Yom Kippur September 24 PA Day– No school for students September 25 Character Assembly September 25-28 Safety Week September 27 Bus Evacuation Training September 28 Terry Fox Run September 28 Curriculum Evening October 4 School Photo Day October 8 Thanksgiving– No school October 9 Immunizations—Grade 7 October 10 Lice Checks October 22 PA Day October 29 Character Assembly
We appreciate your partnership in your child(ren)’s education and look forward to a successful and enjoyable school year!
