Family Movie Night
Thank you to everyone who came out to share in University School’s first Family Night. There was a great turnout and lots of laughs as students and families enjoyed watching Despicable Me on the big screen in the gym. We look forward to hosting more nights like this in the upcoming school year! A big thank you to University School’s School Council who put on this community building event.
Save the Date - Sports Day and Picnic
On the morning of Monday, June 24 our school will be having its annual sports day. The event will run from approximately 10:00 AM to 11:40 AM, and it will be followed by a family picnic. To ensure that the day is a success, we are looking for parent volunteers to help run various activity stations and support staff members. If you are interested in volunteering and have up-to-date volunteer clearance with our school, please reach out to Mr. Cater at mdcater@cbe.ab.ca or your child’s teacher at your earliest convenience. Thanks for your support!
School Travel Planning Follow-Up Survey - Student Safety
In order to make things safer for students to go to and go home from school, we are continuing to work with Ever Active Schools and the City of Calgary on a School Travel Planning (STP) project. STP is a process that involves school staff, parents and students working with transportation/traffic staff, police and public health to develop a plan to address parental concerns and challenges about school routes and get more students walking and cycling for the school journey.
You can already see some of the impacts including the new schoolyard entrance, street paint, and the sign on the crosswalk.
To help us see if there has been an increase in positive travel behaviours of our school community, we ask that you complete this Follow-Upclick Family Travel survey https://forms.office.com/r/ykHYGMBHrW by Wednesday, June 19 .
To find out more about STP and to answer your questions, clickwho on this link for a School Travel Planning for Parents information page.
Adding Beauty to the Community
It is amazing what can happen when a community comes together to enhance what is already an incredible place. Thank you to all of the students and families who came out last weekend to Paint the Pavement and add some colour to our streets while improving safety and awareness. We would also like to extend our thank you to the University Heights Community Association and in particular Andrea Trainor who organized the event!
Cut or Coins
Inspired by an eight-year-old boy named Colton and his story of courage facing his fight with cancer (Leukemia) and Hudson (one of our grade 4 students, his cousin) who has decided to cut and donate his long hair to support Wigs for Kids Canada.
To support this University School is participating in its first ever year-end community outreach campaign connected to compassion, camaraderie, and community.
The goal of Cut or Coins is to raise funds for The Alberta Children’s Hospital and to also collect donation of hair for Wigs for Kids Canada.
We began with classroom presentations this past week from Cynthia, Colton’s Mom, connected to Colton’s journey with cancer and the Children’s Hospital.
Students have started collecting donations for the Children’s Hospital. If you wish to donate please go to this donation link: https://my.childrenshospital.ab.ca/UES. Donations are invested in the health and well-being of our kids in our community and the advancement of care for children across Alberta and the world: Patient and Family Centred Care, Advancing Child Health, Education, Training and Research.
They have also started recruiting students, parents, teachers, or family members who may be willing to donate their hair to Wigs for Kids Canada.
This will all culminate on June 17 with an assembly celebrating the success of the campaign together as a community, including Hudson, and hopefully, others, having their hair cut to donate.
Opa! Fun Lunch - June 13
Thursday, June 13 is the next Healthy Hunger Fun lunch if the year and it is from Opa!.
The last day to order this fun lunch is today, Saturday, June 8. Please go to Healthy Hunger to register for your lunches.
Please note there is no PM Kindergarten this day and all AM Kindergarten students are gone on a full-day field trip and will be unable to receive their food. Please do not order food for students in Kindergarten unless you make other arrangements for the food to be picked up. If PM Kindergarten student are attending Summit Kids food can still be ordered.
All students will be eating lunch at 11:40 and then going outside together for lunch recess.
LEGO for UES Maker Space
University School is looking for LEGO to add to our Learning Commons and Maker Space! This will allow students another tool to create and build with as a way of demonstrating their learning.
If you have any spare LEGO or LEGO that you no longer want University School would be happy to have it. All donations can be brought down to the office. Thank you for your help!
This Week
Monday, June 10
- Field Hockey Residency Begins and runs all week
Tuesday, June 11
- Grade 6 - ELA Part B Practice PAT
- Drama Club
Wednesday, June 12
- Calgary Police Service Presentation Grade 4, 5, & 6 - Bullying and Kindness
Thursday, June 13
- Drama Club
- Fun Lunch - Opa!
- AM Kindergarten - Full Day Field Trip
- PM Kindergarten - No School
- Grade 6 - Math Part A Practice PAT
Friday, June 14
- Grade 6 - Math Part B Practice PAT
Month Ahead
June 17 - Whole School Assembly - Cut or Coins Celebration (Wear Gold Colours)
June 19 - Frisbee Rob - Presentation and lessons
June 19 - Grade 6 PAT - Social Studies
June 20 - Grade 6 PAT - Science
June 24 - Sports Day and Picnic
June 25 - Grade 6 Farewell Assembly and Celebration (1:30 pm)
June 26 - Kindergarten Last Day
June 26 - Whole School Farewell Assembly
June 26 - Report Cards Available Online - PowerSchool Account
June 27 - Last Day of Classes (Early Dismissal - 12:05 pm)
June 28 - No School - Non-instructional Day
Dates of Significance
June - Pride Month
June - National Indigenous History Month
June - Italian Heritage Month
June - Filipino Heritage Month
June - Portuguese Heritage Month
June 11 - Shavuot
June 17 - Eid al-Adha
June 20 - World Refugee Day
June 20 - Summer Solstice
June 21 - National Indigenous Peoples Day