Dance Residency to begin Wednesday November 26th, 2014

The long awaited Dance Residency instructed by Pulse Dance Studios will begin Wednesday.  The residency is cross-curricular learning that will include Art, Music, Language Arts, and addresses the individual pursuits  and dance and movement strands of the Physical Education curriculum.  A number of artists will be in the school to work with students around all of these disciplines. Mr. Rattan, our music teacher, has been working with students to provide accompaniment through the use of the school musical instruments and through regular music class instruction.  The exciting outcome of this residency will be that the school will be divided into two performance teams that will present our Winter celebration on the evenings of Wednesday Dec 10th and Thurs Dec 11th . Both performances will begin at 6 p.m.

Parent council will be providing beverages and selling cookies and fundraising after the performance. Winter raffle tickets will be also be sold.  Parents should check the list below to determine when their child is performing. The list provided gives your child's teacher's name and the performance date:

Dec. 10th: P.M Kindergarten (Hay), Young, Gaspar, Binks, Laberee Lee, Sadowsky, Anderson, and Paschalis

Dec. 11th: A.M. Kindergarten (Hay and Fisher), Nelson, Brink, Grainger, Maher, Grant, Quon, Tam and Cheng.

We ask that during the residency, students are dressed in appropriate clothing that allows for ease of movement while still providing coverage. Appropriate shoe for dancing will also support student success.

We want to thank Parent Council and the Alberta Foundations for the arts for their support of this residency.  Without the financial support from these sources this residency would not be possible.

DURING THE PERFORMANCE

The level of performance by our school as a whole is expected to be of a high quality and we want to thank families that have made arrangements to attend the performance in its entirety. Our goal is to honour the work of the school and recognize the efforts of all our students here at Beddington Heights.

We will be providing a photo area for parents to use to record their child's performance. If parents wish to use their own camera's or recording devices, we ask that you use this area to avoid disruption of the performance.  Please note, that parents are only to record their own child as there are many children within the school who are unable to be recorded. We ask for your help in protecting the privacy of others in our school community.

So I guess it is time to start wishing you all Happy Holidays and along with your children we look forward to your attendance on Dec, 10th or 11th.

Beddington's Responsiveness to School and Community Safety

With the recent events that have taken place in Ottawa, and the power outages that have occurred this past September, we want to reassure all parents that student safety continues to be planned for proactively at Beddington Heights School, and throughout all CBE schools. "Emergency Response Plans" are revised annually, and are reviewed regularly with staff.  As well as being sent to Area Office, a copy of this document is also sent to Corporate Security downtown.  Fire drills and lockdowns are scheduled and practiced as we move to continually plan for student safety. In addition to lockdowns, we also work closely with our Occupational Health and Safety staff at CBE. This work is continually revisited with safety being a primary concern. We do our best to keep all students safe.

Beddington Heights - New Logo

Schools throughout CBE are given the opportunity to have their logos redesigned when a building is repainted.  Beddington has recently finished being painted, and we have had a new logo designed that reflects both the history of the school, as well as gives a fresh new design that is easily recognizable.   The Beluga tail has remained, but the pillars of care logo, which was no longer accurate (due to having the historical three pillars instead of four) has been replaced by the stylized letters "BHS".  The letters of the school name have given inspiration in the form of three new guiding verbs, which students will work towards. These will be combined  with the pillars of care (Care for Self, Others, Place and Learning) as students continue to develop character throughout their experience with us here at Beddington Heights.  "Believe, Honour and Strive" have been chosen to symbolize inspirational qualities we continue to value  Belief in self and others, honouring what has gone before and what is to come, and striving to be our very best personally and academically will be guiding virtues we will espouse as we move forward as a school community.  The new logo can be found on our webpage and it also found on the back wall of our gymnasium.  We encourage you to take a look.

Free Movie Day at Cineplex Sunridge Spectrum this Saturday!

On Saturday, October 18th, Cineplex is hosting a FREE community day with $2.00 concession items. 100% of proceeds will be going towards "Free the Children".  Please see the flyer below for more information on the movies that are playing and select show times.

Homework in Community Schools

The amount of homework schools assign is regulated by the Calgary Board of Education.  Homework is considered to be an extension of the projects that are worked on in the classroom environment and is usually assigned after the teacher has provided an adequate amount of time for the assignment to be completed in school. “The assignment of formal exercises for completion is the prerogative of the teacher, but every encouragement shall be given to pupils (and parents) to set aside some regular time

each evening for home study.” - Administrative Regulation 3066

The nature and amounts of home study recommended within the Calgary Board of Education's Administrative Regulation 3066 are as follows:

Kindergarten to Grade 3:

“The motivation which comes from parental interest in children's school work can be valuable to a child. Parents and teachers should encourage children to read from books suggested by the school.  Pressures can bring about negative results. No formal assignments shall be made, but from 5 to 10 minutes of systematic study per night is recommended.”

Grades 4 to 6: 

"Formal assignments may be given at the discretion of the teacher, particularly for pupils who need special attention or help, but in general, assignments should be of the reading or study type. Parents should be made aware of the teacher's general requirements with respect to home study, and the Board's expectations as set forth.   No school requirement should exceed 20 minutes in length.”

   

At Beddington Heights, we have listed a number of resources on our school website that can support learning and provide skills practice at: http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b372/students.htm. These can be utilized by parents in the home environment.  You may also find websites or resources that reinforce Math and literacy concepts on your child's homeroom teacher's on-line agenda. You are also encouraged to check the agenda daily for updates. 

Lots of Information!

This week, our students should have brought home many forms in their plastic folder:

- Swimming Forms for grades 1 to 6 (due by Wednesday, September 17th)
- Digital Citizenship agreement / On-Line Agendas Acknowledgement (for grades 1 to 6) (due as soon as possible)
- Allergy Information Handout from our school nurse
- Meet the Teacher Pre-Conference Information Form for grades 1 to 6 (due by Wednesday, September 17th)
- Information about free glasses at Superstore for children 4 to 10 years of age (offer only until September 20th)


Meet the Teacher Conferences will be:
Grades 1 - 6:  
Thursday, September 18th from 3:30-7:30 and Friday, September 19th from 8:00 - noon for grades 1-6.
Kindergarten:
Thursday, September 18th and Friday, September 19th during the day & Thursday evening.

Please see our school website (www.cbe.ab.ca/b372) for information on the Pick-a-Time on-line conference booking system starting at 6:00 am on Monday.  We look forward to seeing you at this month's conferences!

Welcome Back Assembly

Welcome Back Assembly:

Please join us Monday morning, Sept 9th, at 10:30 a.m. for our welcome back assembly. We will be introducing our new teachers to the community, as well as welcoming back our veteran teachers. In addition, we will be introducing our new logo which is on the newly painted gym wall.  The assembly will be a short but important one as we set out to set the tone for the new school year. As always we look forward to seeing as many parents and guardians as possible so that together we continue to provide the best community learning experiences for our students. We hope to see you Tuesday.