June 3-9, 2024

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Lemonade will be distributed on June 4th! A huge thank you to everyone who participated or donated to help make this event a success!

What a great week we have coming up! Our Monthly Assembly will be this Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., which will be followed by our Lemonade sale over the lunch hour. Our Div. 2 students have been working so hard to ensure they are all ready for the big event! Wednesday is an early out day, and as such a spirit day. The theme this time is “Anything but a backpack day!” If students want to participate, they are invited to get their creative juices flowing to transport their school materials and lunches in a new and different way for that day. If your student rides the bus, please remind them their creation must be safe for the bus. There are always lots of laughs with the creativity we see for this theme day! We hope everyone has lots of fun with it!

We hope everyone has an amazing first week of June!

https://www.epeschoolcouncil.com/hotlunch

Both Ecole Parc School Council and the Fundraising Society play a vital role in supporting a diverse learning environment for all students beyond what is provided by the school board and Alberta Education. School council members meet and consult with school leadership and our local Trustee to provide feedback and guidance. The Fundraising Society raises and manages the funds needed to supplement classroom and program resources, as well as community and cultural events for students.

As we come to the end of this school year, the Ecole Parc School Council needs FEEDBACK ON TWO KEY AREAS: PARENT INVOLVEMENT & FUNDRAISING DIRECTION.

We recognize that families are busy and want to make sure we can provide an inclusive and diverse way of participating in the school in meaningful ways. We also want to support our school financially. As a result, we need to revise how we manage fundraising and this includes the hot lunch program.

Please take a moment to answer the questions below to help us plan for the next school year.

Parent Engagement Survey.

A reminder to our families that please avoid sending nut products to school with your student as we have some very severe allergies. We appreciate your support in keeping all our students safe!

• Please follow this link to watch our announcement: Le 3 juin

ECS A Farewell Ceremony 9:00 am -10:15 am June 24, 2024

ECS B Farewell Ceremony 9:00-10:15 am June 25, 2024

Grade 6 Farewell Ceremony 1:00 pm June 25, 2024

Year-end Assembly 9:30 am June 26, 2024

What's happening this week at École Parc:

June 3

• Class of the week: 2G and 2I
• Last week for library classes.
• Grade 1 Flag Ceremony

June 4

• Monthly Assembly 9:30
• Lemonade Day!!

June 5

• Early Dismissal
• Anything but a back pack day.

June 6

• Orienteering 10:20-11:56 am

June 7

• Grade 5 Field Trip Lois Hole Centennial Prov Park

Upcoming Dates:

June 10

• Class of the week: 1A and 1S
• Fire Drill
• ALL LIBRARY BOOKS DUE!!

June 11

• Grade 6 FLA PAT Part B- 9:00-10:00am

• Grade 1 Teacher's Pet In-Class Field Trip Monkey Business

June 12

• School Council and PTA Meeting 7:00 pm

June 13

• Orienteering to Jubilee Park 10:20-11:56 am

June 14

• Sports Day Grades 1 - 6 in the afternoon

June 17

• ECS A Field Trip Edmonton Zoo
  

June 18

• Gr. 6 Immunizations AM
  

June 19

• Grade 6 Social PAT 9:00-10:00 am
  

June 20

• Grade 6 Science PAT 9:00-10:00 am
  
• ECS B Field Trip Edmonton Zoo
  
• Grades 3-5 at Fort Precinct for Indigenous Peoples Day event 1:00-2:30
  

June 21

• National Indigenous Peoples Day
  
• Grade 4-6 Swim 10-12
  

June 24

• Kindergarten Farewell Ceremony 9:00-10:15 am

June 25

• Kindergarten Farewell Ceremony 9:00-10:15 am
  
• Grade 6 Ceremony 1:00 p.m.
  

June 26

• Last Day of Classes
• Year-end Assembly 9:30 am
  
• Report Cards Available to Parents
  

June 27

• Last operational day.

Ecole Parc has once again partnered with the United Way for the 2024-25 Tools for School campaign. Annually, Tools for School provides backpacks and school supplies to students in kindergarten through Grade 12 whose families have limited resources. If you’re a parent or know a parent who needs access to the program, contact the school directly. Staff will discretely provide the backpack to the child at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year.

Alternatively, if you’d like to donate to the program, you can pick up a few extra supplies when you’re out shopping for back to school in August. Drop-off boxes are located at the EIPS Central Services office, many Staples locations and various businesses in the community. Any supplies donated within the community are invested back into the region.

For more information about Tools for School, contact Sherri Prince at 780-998-3741 or call EIPS Central Services at 780-464-3477.

Tools for School Requests: 2024-25 Family Orders

Every year, Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) publishes an Annual Education Results Report, which outlines the Division’s Four-Year Education Plan, opportunities for growth and how it’s supporting students to achieve the best possible outcomes. Read through this year’s EIPS Annual Education Results Report 2022-23 and discover how EIPS fosters learning environments for all students to learn, grow and thrive—and why it matters.

June Spotlight: EIPS Four-Year Education Plan: 2022-26 (Year 3), which details the Division’s priorities, goals and outcomes over a four-year period.

• Priority 1: To promote the growth and success of all students.
• Priority 2: To enhance high-quality learning and working environments.
• Priority 3: To enhance public education through effective engagement.

The plan also outlines the performance measures and strategies the Division will use to meet each priority, goal and outcome in the 2024-25 school year.

RELATED INFORMATION
EIPS Annual Education Results Report 2022-23
EIPS Annual Education Results Report 2022-23: Overview
EIPS Three-Year Capital Plan: 2025-28

If your child loses a library or home reading book, please contact the school. If the book is not found within 30 days, the cost of the resource will be assigned to the “Fees” section of your PowerSchool account. Please note, if the book is found within 30 days, a refund will be granted. However, if the book is found after 30 days, a refund will not be granted as we will have purchased a replacement for the library’s collection.

Mark your calendars! The Local Author Fair is a great opportunity to meet local authors and stock up on some great books perfect for summer reading or gift giving. Authors will be tabling with their books for sale from 1:30-4:30 pm and there will be a variety of author readings and talks throughout the day. Drop in any time between 1:30-4:30pm.

At Ecole Parc, we continue to build positive citizenship through the guiding principles of the Seven Sacred Teachings. Each month, we encourage students to focus on one principle or teaching. Our teachers are looking for students who display great examples of this teaching in the classroom and throughout their day. These students may be recognized by earning the Citizenship award for their class. We are currently reviewing all the Teachings!

School fees for the 2023-24 school year are posted on the PowerSchool Parent Portal. All fees are due within 30 days of being posted. Throughout the year, fees are often added to cover the costs for various activities, such as field trips, extracurricular activities, and late, damaged or lost textbooks.

To access your fee information, simply log in to the PowerSchool Parent Portal and go to “Student Fees.” There you can view fees and pay them online using a Mastercard or Visa credit or debit card. Make sure to monitor your child’s account on an ongoing basis.

For more information about school fees, waivers and payment deadlines, visit eips.ca/schools/fees. And, if you have questions, think there is an error or need help creating a PowerSchool Parent Portal account, contact your child’s school directly before the summer break.

NOTE: Pursuant to Board Policy 23: School Fees and Administrative Procedure 505: School and Administrative Fees, EIPS will forward any unpaid 2023-24 fee amounts to a collection agency. To prevent this from happening, remember to pay your fees before Aug. 31, 2024.

Planning to use Student Transportation in the 2024-25 school year? If so, make sure your child is registered so Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) can plan routes and send your child a bus pass before the first day of school.

All students who indicated needing transportation services through the returning student or new student registration processes are now registered. Those families have also received tentative route schedules and invoices—fees are due June 30, 2024.

For those students who did not indicate needing transportation services during the registration process and want to now register, contact EIPS’ Student Transportation office at 780-417-8151.

For more information about EIPS Student Transportation, visit www.eips.ca/transportation.

NOTE: Families can pay fees online using the PowerSchool Parent Portal. To pay in-person, visit the EIPS Student Transportation building during its office hours—Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on non-school days.

Elk Island Public Schools is once again planning to run the Little Elk Island Adventure, a fun and informative program for first-time school bus riders.

Annually, Student Transportation offers the Little Elk Island Adventure to new riders and their parents. The program’s aim: To help introduce families to busing so they feel comfortable and at ease before even starting school. Through a series of activities, riders learn about school bus safety, danger zones, tips on boarding and how to sit properly on the bus. After that, both the children and parents hop on the bus to practice what they’ve learned by venturing out on a short ride.

The Little Elk Island Adventure is for first-time school bus riders entering the 2024-25 school year. The tentative session dates and times are as follows:

Location Date Time

EIPS Central Services August 12 5 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 12 6:30 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 14 5 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 16 2 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 16 5 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 19 2 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 19 5 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 20 5 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 20 6:30 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 21 5 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 21 6:30 p.m.

EIPS Central Services August 14 2 p.m.

* Special Education session for PALS and Project Unit Funding students only.

SouthPointe School August 13 5 p.m.

SouthPointe School August 13 6:30 p.m.

** SouthPointe School locations are for students attending schools in Fort Saskatchewan.

SouthPointe School August 22 5 p.m.

* Special Education session for PALS and Project Unit Funding students only.

A.L. Horton Elementary August 15 5 p.m.

*** The A.L. Horton Elementary location is for students attending schools in Vegreville and the surrounding area. This session is a combined session for regular busing students and Special Education students for PALS and Project Unit Funding students.

EIPS Central Services is located at 683 Wye Rd., Sherwood Park

SouthPointe School is located at 11 SouthPointe Blvd., Fort Saskatchewan
A.L. Horton Elementary is located at 5037 48 Ave., Vegreville

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Space is limited and pre-registration is required.

More information about busing for kindergarten children is available at: eips.ca/transportation/kindergarten-busing-faq.

If your student is absent, being picked up early or will be arriving late, we ask that you please email our attendance email at EPEAttendance@eips.ca or call the school at 780-998-3741. Please send any DQ permissions to this email as well.

If your child requires any medication, please click here to access the form. Please note we have 2 medical forms. We have a Personal Care Plan and an Administering of Medication Form. Please do not send medication with your child for safety reasons.

For information about our School Council and Fundraising society, please visit our website at:

https://www.epeschoolcouncil.com/

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: On Wednesday, June 5th at 6pm Ecole Parc student, Rylan, along with his dad Gil, will be delivering a truck load of donated mulch for our trees and courtyard area. The mulch has been generously donated by GCS Construction for a second year in a row.

We could use a few people to help distribute the mulch to the needed areas. The job should take us about 30 minutes. Email jennifer.dechaine@hotmail.com if you are able to join us with a wheelbarrow and shovel.

NEW RAISED BED FRAMES

We have new garden box frames in the courtyard. They replaced the old frames that were vandalized at the end of last school year. They look so much better and were built by the same skilled carpenter who built our mud kitchen, Ricky Solamillo.

DID YOU KNOW?

The courtyard and front door garden boxes have perennial indigenous plants such as Yarrow, Wild Bergamot, and Goldenrod. More will be added as the years go on, and various annuals are planted amongst them each spring by staff and students with the garden club.

MUD KITCHEN SUPPLIES NEEDED

The mud kitchen is still a very popular play spot at recess, but it is hard to keep it stocked with equipment. Pots and spoons tend to travel to the sandbox and never return, and a small number of students intentionally bend or break utensils. But fortunately we have generous families who will donate their old kitchen supplies and we can supplement from the thrift and Dollarstore as needed. Below is a list of equipment we accept. Please drop it off at the office and let Sherri know it is for the mud kitchen. She will put it in our storage cupboard on the stage for a controlled delivery.

Accepted Equipment:

Small metal pots or pans (no lids)

Baking sheets or trays

Bowls (metal is most durable, no lids)

Utensils - spoons, tongs, flippers, etc. (nothing sharp)

Hand whisks, small brooms, scrub brushes.

Chalk

During the 2022/23 school year staff identified that the playground structures were not meeting the needs of all the students, both in type of structure, and space available for students to play. When the playground structure was first built in 2013 there were 180 students in the school. We now have 326. The population has doubled and we have a larger group of students in the PALS and Division 1 (K-3) age group. The existing play structure is designed for ages 5-12. We need an additional play area that meets the needs of students aged 4-8. The goal is to have the project completed within 3 years.

We are excited to hit the ground running with this and officially kick things off this year. We are always looking for more volunteers to join the committee. We meet once a month, time commitment is flexible and there is always lots to do and input needed.

If you are interested in joining the committee or would like more information please feel free to email us at ecoleparcplaygroundexpansion@gmail.com.

The student transportation routing and planning software used by the Division is getting an app update! The new My Ride K-12 app, which is replacing Ride 360, helps families stay up to date on your child’s bus schedules, route times and scans. Download My Ride K-12 from the App Store or Google Play by April 30.

For more information, visit www.eips.ca/transportation/apps. If you have any questions, contact Student Transportation at st@eips.ca or 780-417-8151.

Is there a preschooler in your life experiencing developmental delays or challenges with speech-language or motor-skill development—big or small? If so, Elk Island Public School’s Play And Learn at School (PALS) program could help.

Early learning lays the foundation for success in primary grades and beyond. As such, EIPS offers the pre-kindergarten PALS program in five of its elementary school locations—including Ecole Parc. Applications are now open for free speech-language assessments for those interested in registering in the PALS program this fall. The assessment helps determine if PALS is appropriate for your child.

If you know a preschooler, born in 2020 or 2021, who could benefit from pre-kindergarten programming or want to book an assessment, fill out the PALS Program Request Form or call 780-417-8219. For more information, visit eips.ca.

Do you have a child registered in kindergarten next year? If so, make sure to attend École Parc's upcoming Kindergarten Information Night on May 29, 2024. You’ll get to:

· tour the school;

· meet the teachers;

· gain insight on play-based learning; and

· see what a typical day looks like.

To make the transition to school as smooth as possible, Elk Island Public Schools has put together a toolkit for families. The kit includes information about registration, important dates, programming options, what to expect, eligibility, finding your designated school, transportation and more. Find it at: Welcome to EIPS Kindergarten.

Additional information about École Parc’s kindergarten program is available on the school website. www.Ecoleparc.ca.

Kindergarten Registration is Now Open!

Is your child turning five on or before Dec. 31, 2024? If so, it’s now time to register for kindergarten. To register, simply complete the online registration form at eips.ca/kindergarten.

To help families prepare, Elk Island Public Schools has put together an online EIPS Kindergarten Tool kit to make the transition as smooth as possible. The kit includes information on registration, important dates, programming options, what to expect, eligibility, how to find your designated school, transportation and more.

Additional information regarding Ecole Parc’s kindergarten program is available at www.ecoleparc.ca.

Every year, Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) publishes an Annual Education Results Report, which outlines the Division’s Four-Year Education Plan, opportunities for growth and how it’s supporting students to achieve the best possible outcomes. Read through this year’s EIPS Annual Education Results Report 2022-23 and discover how EIPS fosters learning environments for all students to learn, grow and thrive—and why it matters.

May Spotlight: the EIPS Annual Education Results Report: Overview. Learn about EIPS’:

· mission and belief statements

· Alberta Education Assurance Measures results

· successes and challenges;

· four-year education plan;

· plus, more.

RELATED INFORMATION
EIPS Four-Year Education Plan: 2022-26
EIPS Three-Year Capital Plan: 2025-28

Have you recently moved or has your contact information changed? EIPS encourages families to review the information the Division has on file to ensure it’s up to date. Using the Student Information Update available through the PowerSchool Parent Portal, families can review the current information on file for each student—including addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, parent and guardian information, emergency contacts, medical details and other related information—and submit any updates needed.

Reviewing and updating the form ensures the school and Division have the most up-to-date information regarding your child. Your review is especially important as the Division prepares for 2024-25 registration processes beginning in the new year.

NOTE: Only submit updates for the changes that have already taken place. If you’re moving later this school year, you’ll submit the necessary updates to your information through the Student Information Update after you’ve moved.

If you have questions about the form or any trouble with your Parent Portal account, contact the school office at 780-998-3741.

EIPS is collectively committed to ensuring all members of the school community are provided with welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environments that respect diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Specifically, the Division believes that all individuals within EIPS have the right to learn in settings that promote equality of opportunity, dignity and respect regardless of race, age, ancestry, place of origin, colour, religious beliefs, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, marital status, family status, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation. Learn more:

· Board Policy 19: Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning and Working Environments

· Administrative Procedure 170: Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning and Working Environments for Staff

· Administrative Procedure 311: Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning Environments for Students

To register: Groups, Programs, and Workshops