All of us at Earl Grey are very grateful for the support you as parents have shown the school. We are grateful for the dedicated and caring staff and are especially grateful for the wonderful students who come to Earl Grey each day. We would like to share some highlights on the power of gratitude with you:
- People who are grateful report increased feelings of happiness, hopefulness, positivity, energy and overall life satisfaction.
- Gratitude helps kids feel better about school and makes educators feel less emotionally exhausted
- Studies have found that keeping a gratitude journal can increase people’s happiness and overall positive mood
- Grateful children are more interested and satisfied with their school lives, are more kind and helpful, and are more socially integrated.
- Studies have found that gratitude journaling in the classroom can improve students’ mood and that a curriculum designed to help students appreciate the benefits they have gained from others can successfully teach children to think more gratefully and to exhibit more grateful behavior
- Gratitude has been described as “social glue” that fortifies relationships
- Research suggests that gratitude may be associated with many benefits for individuals, including better physical and psychological health, increased happiness and life satisfaction, decreased materialism, and more
Every day it is evident that our students demonstrate gratitude. The staff feels this gratitude and all of us are very grateful to our families and community for your continued support. As you gather as a family over the weekend, please pause and take the time to go around the dinner table and express what each of you are grateful for. It’s amazing how powerful these messages can be.
Happy Thanksgiving!
School Council Meeting on Tuesday, October 15, 2024
This will be an In-Person meeting with a Teams online link.
Please see the attached agenda and Teams Link:
Meeting ID: 252 164 044 155
Passcode: YKcs86
Earl Grey Howl-oween Pet Parade!
Where: Behind Earl Grey School
When: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Followed by a Blaze Pizza fundraiser and social. Enter code 1107A into promo code if ordering on line.
All family members including grandparents and siblings are welcome to attend!
Earl Grey Playground Palooza Fundraiser
The Playground Palooza is a fun-filled fundraiser throughout October where each class competes to raise money for our new playground! The winning classroom will celebrate with a Pizza Party, and the child who raises the most funds will get to be Principal for the Day! Please see the attached information sheet and posters:
Casino October 21 and 22, 2024 – We need you to volunteer!
Earl Grey has been lucky enough to secure a Casino date! Casino Fundraising is our single biggest fundraiser. In 2 days, we are able to raise between $60,000- $80,000 for the school. The proceeds go directly towards supporting student learning. Funds are used towards program-related equipment, resource materials, and our Playground Revitalization Project.Thank you to all our past volunteers! I hope we can count on your support again this time!
Dates: October 21 and 22
Location: Elbow River Casino (218 18th Avenue SE, Calgary)
Link to SignUp Genius: Parent Volunteers: Earl Grey School - Casino Volunteer 2024 (signupgenius.com)
Volunteer Information:
Training and Support will be provided. No experience required!
Free meal. Late night shifts may arrive early to have their meal prior to their shift.
Daytime or evening shifts available.
Volunteers may work multiple shifts of one position.
School Office Reminders
- Lunch Supervision - If your student stays at the school over lunch you need to go into your MyCBE account under Fees, Waivers & Service Registration and register them for Lunch Supervision. If your child takes the school bus to and from school this is required. If you don’t wish to pay for lunch Supervision you will need to pick your child up at 11 am and return them to the School at 11:50 am. If this hasn’t been completed by October 1, 2024, the school will complete the registration for those Students who stay at the school for lunch and the fees will be added to your MyCBE account automatically.
- If your child has a medical condition or requires medication to be administered while at school the office needs a Student Health Plan Form completed by a parent/legal guardian.
- Complete online forms in school Engaged: (if you haven’t created your MyCBE account contact Mrs. Patterson plpatterson@cbe.ab.ca and she will email you instructions on how to do so)
- Demographic Verification - 2024-25 – This form includes your child’s personal information as well as parent / legal guardian contact information. Even if there are no changes to contact information you must complete the form online.
- Citizenship Information Update - 2024-25 – This form becomes available if you change your child’s citizenship information on the Demographic Verification form.
- Annual Authorization - 2024-25 – Combines the following forms:
- School District Use of Personal Information - explains how CBE uses personal information in providing education services.
- Consent for CBE Use of Student Information – provides an option to grant / not grant consent for additional use of student information by school/district and third parties.
- Consent for Use of Student Information by News Media and Outside Groups (Third Party) - provides an option to grant / not grant consent for additional use of student information by outside groups and third parties
- If your Child will be absent from school please call the attendance line to report their absent, 403-777-8570 opt 1
- If you are picking up your child early from school please sign them out in the green binder in the office, the office staff will call your Child’s classroom and have them come to the office. Parents should not be going to the classrooms and picking up their child.
- If your child arrives late please have them check in at the office before going to class
- If you child takes the bus, please notify the office if you will be picking up your child at the end of the day.
Reminders
Monday, October 14 – Thanksgiving: No School
Tuesday, October 15 – School Council at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday October 16 - Earl Grey Howl-oween Pet Parade
Thursday, October 17 – Fun Lunch with Subway to place your order go to: https://www.healthyhunger.ca