Red Deer Lake School

October 2016 Newsletter Administrative Message

September has been an exciting month of getting back to routines and learning. It is awe-inspiring to go into classes and listen to students talking about what is happening in their brains, OR to hear students set norms about how they are going to work together in a group, OR to see students completely engaged in a lesson whereby they use Lion King to better understand Shakespeare’s Hamlet, OR to see students excited about taking a quiz because of the new technology they are using. Anyone who is pessimistic about “the next generation” need only spend an hour or two in our classrooms to feel proud of and inspired by our students!

Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting

Our annual plan for communicating with parents/guardians about student achievement is as follows:

Elementary

Learner Profiles will come home three times (end of November, March and June). This year, we will host Parent-Teacher interviews on November 2nd and 3rd. By having the interviews early, we can touch base with parents to explain what we’re seeing in class and ensure parents have a clear understanding of their children’s progress. In February, we will host Student-led Conferences, whereby students share a variety of learning pieces with their parents, speaking about their level of achievement based on the rubric given.

In addition to these “formal” communication times, teachers will send home completed and marked work, with attached rubrics where appropriate, to ensure parents see evidence of student learning on a regular basis. As always, parents/guardians are welcome to contact teachers throughout the year with questions or concerns.

Junior High

Just like Elementary, Learner Profiles will come home with Junior High students three times (end of November, March and June). Fall Parent-Teacher interviews will continue to be immediately after the Learner Profile, on November 30th and December 1st. In Feb-ruary, teachers will choose either the Parent-Teacher interview format OR Student-led Conferences, depending on which way is most effective means of communication for the various subjects areas.

In addition, Junior High students will be bringing home Progress Reports on a regular ba-sis (about once/month when there is no Learner Profile). These focus on the characteristics of a responsible learner, which are aligned to our learner profile. Students self-assess for each class and teachers record their observations as well. Again, parents/guardians are welcome to contact teachers throughout the year with questions or concerns.

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Maplewood Learner Profile Pilot

This year, our school staff chose to be part of a school division pilot project to use an online system (Maplewood) as both a gradebook and as a means of producing learner profiles. Along with five other schools, RDL staff are receiving training to be able to use this system effectively, in accordance with principles of quality assessment practice. Parents will be able to access this online system, in order to see their children’s grades. The timeline for parent access has not yet been determined.

Professional Development Days

On our September 23rd PD Day, we spent the morning working on the development of Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs), and spent the afternoon in training for the Maplewood system. Our October 7th PD day will include time to devel-op our Individual Professional Growth Plans, time to discuss principles of assessment, such as categorical grading and Mastery, and time again to use Maplewood to input student achievement.

Parent and Community Involvement

We would like to thank the many parents who have already given so much of their time to our school and stu-dents. Whether it is helping with hot lunch, barbecuing at the Carnival for Kenya, helping in the classrooms, or driving to volleyball games, we want you to know that we appreciate your commitment. Thank you!

We hope to see many parents at our School Council’s AGM on Tues. Oct 11th at 7pm. Attending these meetings helps parents have a better understanding of how the school operates and gives an important opportunity for dialogue, ques-tions, and clarifications.

If you have any ideas, questions, or concerns, please feel free to bring them forward. We are here for you! We can be reached by phone, email, or in person.

Shannon Culbert, Principal Judy Leyden, Vice Principal

culberts@fsd38.ab.ca leydenj@fsd38.ab.ca

Box 1, Site 22, RR #8

178093 -112 St. W.

Calgary, AB T2J 2T9

T: (403) 938-5984

F: (403)873-9565

Updates from the Office  

 

 

 

 

 

 

*If at all possible, if you have to pull your child out for appoint‐ments, etc., please try and arrange to do this around recess or lunch times (10:45‐11:00 / 12:20‐1:00).  Pulling students during class time is very disruptive to the teachers and students. 

It is very important that we know in the office whether a student is present in the school. This is es-pecially important for emergency purposes. Please ensure, when your child is leaving early, that the person picking up come into the office and sign stu-dent out. Thank you for your understanding.

ADSavings Coupon Books are available for $20 at the office.  All pro‐

ceeds go to the Red Deer Lake Building Hope Society .   

COBS BAKERY’s in Shawnessy and Okotoks are offering a “Dough Raiser”.  Five percent of sales, from anyone men on‐ing they are from RDL, will be given to our school.   We were recently presented with a cheque from COBS for over $200 in support of this program.   

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

2 3

HL—Subway

4 5 G3-6 X-Country

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X-Country Zones

7

No School—PD Day

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9 10

Thanksgiving Day—No School

11

Parent Council Meets 7pm

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HL—Jugo Juice

13

G1 Field Trip

G3-6 X-Country

14

HL—Hot Dogs

15

Sr. G7B VBall Red Deer

16 17

HL-CocoBrooks

G9 Camp Ever-green

18 Parent Council 7pm

KB Field Trip

G9 Camp Ever-

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KA Field Trip

G9 Camp Ever-green

20 21 Hot Lunch—Hot Dogs

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23 24 HL– EDO

25

26 Quest Theatre

27 G5&9 Shots

28 No School—PD Day

29

Sr. G&B VBall Three Hills

30 31

HL—OPA

Elem Halloween Parade

October 2016

 

Please encourage your child to bring their instrument home for regular prac ce as a part of their homework rou ne. Small chunks of prac ce  me (15 min) work best!  

Parents – please check the band link from the Red Deer Lake School website for up to date informa on on all upcoming band events.  

When paying school fees, please check off the instrument rental box to indicate that your child is in band.  You do not need to pay this fee with a separate cheque to the office.  (Remember to post cheques to Foothills School Division)  

 

Upcoming dates  

Oct 24 – 26th – Chinook Concert Band Fes val – performance and workshop events hap‐pening during this week for grade 7‐9 band students.  Our guest conductor will be Gareth Jones from the University of Calgary. Dates and  mes TBD.   

Wed Nov 9th – Remembrance Day Assembly. The grade 8/9 band will be performing. Please remind your child to wear all black and a poppy this day. Parents are welcome to a end.   

Dec 7th – Winter Celebra on Band Concert 7pm @ RDL. 

 

Mrs. K. Stearn  

  

 

 

 

 

BAND CORNER

Our RDL Dragons sports teams are up and running.  Volleyball teams are listed below: 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Athletics

Senior Girls              Mr. Dubs‐Coach  

Alex Normandeau          Jayden Dixon    Sawyer Remington         Sage Vincent    Taya Green                      Ka e Romaniuk Alyssa Rose                     Payton Neilson Claire Sweeney              Kassidy Molcak Eden Wilson                   Lydia Maximnuk 

Senior Boys         Mr. Wooldridge‐Coach  

Brandon Kruger            Jus n Ple  Brooks Peterson           Brock Richards Ethan Walker                Colton Gerlitz Jace Hebert                   Blue Lee Will Jans                         Jackson Thomas Harry Tu                       Jackson Collard 

Junior Girls        Mrs. LaBrash‐Coach  

Georgia Normandeau      Payten Evans Tenaya Dodsworth           Angie Kierzek Kat Prendergast                Sophia Sloan Chloe McWhir                  Bryn Florence Anna Jackson                    Izzi Ball Cadence Vogt                    Abby Engeland Kate Parsons                     Reece Hall 

Junior Boys       Ms.Timmons/Ms.Lewis                             Mr. Stoddart—Coaches  

Max Lockwood              Linken Leishman Kyler Stoddart                William Cobb Noah Visser                    Alex Nurkowski Jack Sloan                       Ma  Hubbard Liam Small                      Jacob Zwaagstra Parker Hudson               Haven Tanner 

Sr. Girls won the Lindsay Thurber Tournament!

  Athletics continued...

Cross Country—Grades 3 to 6:

The Grade 3-6 Cross Country teams will be competing in two races in October. The first race will be held at Good Shepard School on October 5th and the second race will be held at Percy Pegler Elementary School 13th. Go Dragons!

The Dragon’s Cross Country Team ran at Lloyd Park for the X‐Country Divisionals on September 27th.  The following students qualified for Zones on Oct 6th: 

Midget Boys & Girls (Grade 8)  

Brodie Seaborn               Zack Crook Connor Poffenroth          Jus n Ple  Brooks Peterson              Caden Brown  Ma  Christofferson  Sawyer Remington          Sara Frostad                                                                  

Bantam Boys & Girls (Grade 7)  

Connor McCormac          Jack Sloan Linken Leishman              Zach Renwick Max Lockwood   Tayah Kloster                    Ashley Krulc Tatum Tanner                   Anna Jackson Payten Evans                    Kaitlyn Gibbs Georgia Normandeau     Reece Hall                               

PeeWee Boys & Girls(Grade 6)   

Sam Sloan                         Caden Jensen Luke Normandeau          Ben Lacey Matus Liska                      Tyson Sopp   Bailey Neilson                                                                                                                

Juvenile Boys & Girls (Grade 9)  

Colton Gerliz                 Seth Brown Brandon Kruger  Jayden Tanner              Payton Neilson  Maddy Williams           Jayden Dixon Angelina Whitney        Paige Dunham Lydia Maximnuk           Brooke Shannon 

Dragon 500 Running Challenge:

The Dragon 500 Running Challenge was a huge success throughout the month of September. The Grade 5AB students have ran a total of 356km! We look forward to more of their hard work, dedication and team spirit throughout the month of October. Way to go Grade 5 Dragons!!

Fine Arts

Learning Commons News

The Learning Commons is off to a great start for September with lots of new looks, a few new books and a book chute monster that eats up returned books! His name is “Draak Ibhu‐ku”! Draak (drawk) is dragon in Afrikaan and Ibhuku (eebookoo) is the Zulu word for book, but Draak to the kids! 

The fall bookfair will be held November 1 (set up and viewing only) and November 2nd  and 3rd un l 8:00 pm during parent teacher interviews.  

Please follow the RDL Learning Commons on Twi er @dragonsreader and find out what new books and events are on their way! 

 

Parent Council meets the second Tuesday of every month in the Learning Commons at 7pm. The next meeting will be held on October 11th, which includes the Annual General Meeting.

Time to update your family/friends magazines subscriptions? Our magazine fundraiser will be held once again. Watch for more infor-mation in the next few weeks.

A call out for volunteers: if you are interesting in volunteering please go to the RDL website and click on “Parent Volunteer Form” in the blue box on the left.

Please visit the Red Deer Lake website under “Parent Council” in the yellow header for meeting minutes, newsletters, etc.

http://reddeerlake.fsd38.ab.ca/

Parent Council

Peer Mediation & P.A.L.S.  

Peer Mediators   

The Peer Media ng program begins on Monday, October 3rd.  There will be a total of eight peer mediators on the playground during the morning recess and lunch recess.  The team looks forward to being a part of keeping our Dragons safe and happy on the playground.  The first peer media ng team consists of all the students in 5A.  This team will be on duty un l February and then the 5B team will take over.  Thanks in advance to all the peer mediators this year. 

 

P.A.L.S.   

The P.A.L.S. Team will also begin on Monday, October 3rd with a "Meet the Team" event planned.  There will be three or four team members on the playground during each lunch re‐cess.   The team has a number of Thanksgiving and Halloween ac vi es planned.  Be sure to look at the calendar on the P.A.L.S. bulle n board outside the gym.  Thanks in advance to all the P.A.L.S. members this year. 

 

P.A.L.S. Team 2016‐17  

McKenna Gibson‐Brack 

Tyson Sopp 

Jessica Duffill 

Madison Groenewould 

Emily Lucas 

Julia Anc l 

Alainya Hart 

Selena Adams 

Owen Williams 

Sophia Xerri 

Nicholas Hubbard 

Rylee David 

Zoe Baillargeon 

Isabella Thompson 

Aus n Lapp 

Sara Kinghorn 

 Terry Fox Run & Tug-o-war

Photos by Karen Rice 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cross Country

Grade one has created a Thanksgiving  

bulle n board made from unwanted  es.  

They would like to wish you all a wonder‐

ful Thanksgiving. 

Miscellaneous FARM TO SCHOOL THANKSGIVING FUNDRAISER was very successful and was able to raise $1500 and donate 700 pounds of vegetables to the Food Bank in Okotoks.  Thank you to everyone that par cipated.  Your generosity this Thanks‐giving has helped many families in need. 

Photos by Karen Rice