September 26^th Update 

Today we hosted our Orange Shirt Day assembly. Students from room 12 and 17 contributed by hosting the assembly and reading a special story. We come together on this day to remember that Every Child Matters. To demonstrate our belonging, each student was given a fall leaf to put their name on and contribute to a whole school collaborative art piece.  

Monday is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. There is no school this day. Please see the news story that highlights some community opportunities for this day. 

World Teacher’s Day 

October 5^th is World Teacher’s Day. We are so grateful for our group of teachers. We have an exceptional staff who devote their passion and expertise to our school. 

Communication – Subscribe to Allow Content 

We want to ensure that you are receiving messages from the school. Blocks can happen if you intentionally or by accidentally tagging an email as spam or junk, or sometimes email servers sense that an email is coming from an electronic mailing system and try to save you from the spam and the system blocks our emails. It can be helpful if you add your usual senders to your address book, then your system will recognize the messages as safe and not flag them as spam. We recommend adding the current teacher’s email address and the school’s email address. If you also add cbecommunications@cbe.ab.ca that will help to ensure you receive system messages. 

Mark Your Calendars: 

Parent Teacher conferences are coming up in October. October 24^th there will be no school for kindergarten students to allow for enough conference times. There will be some kindergarten conference times during the day. Conference bookings for K-6 will open up on October 9^th. BE prepared by ensuring you have set up your MYCBE/PowerSchool account. Conferences for grades K-6 will be Thursday 3:30-7:40 and Friday 8:00-1:00. 

Family School Travel Survey: Lake Bonavista School is taking part in the Active and Safe Routes to School project that will improve the school journey for our students. Through School Travel Planning, our school community will work with community partners to reduce congestion, address traffic safety issues and encourage more students to walk and wheel for school and local trips. 
 
Please complete this 5-minute Family Survey with your eldest child who attends this school. Your input is important to the success of this project. Knowing what travel choices families are making and why they are making them will help the school create an action plan that considers everyone’s needs.   
 
This survey is voluntary; you may choose not to participate and you have the option to withdraw from this survey at any point. We do not ask for your name. Your responses are anonymous and will be stored electronically in secure password-protected files, only accessible to the school's Active and Safe Routes to School team, Ever Active Schools, and the City of Calgary, who are directly involved in the project.  Family Travel Survey 
 

Traffic Safety: Did you know that the front of the school is marked with No Stopping sections? We have noticed a lot of confusion because so many parents park here. We ask families to choose safety over convenience. Parking or stopping in these zones, particularly by the crosswalk, creates reduced visibility for pedestrian safety. In addition, as this street is so busy at drop off and pick up, stopping and parking in this zone creates a single lane for cars to travel in both directions, considerably slowing down traffic. Thank you for adhering to the signage. 

Upcoming Dates: 

September 27: Non-instructional Day 

September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – schools are closed 

October 5: World Teachers Day 

October 7: Photo Day 

October 7-11: Active and Safe Routes to School Residency 

October 10: Healthy Hunger 

October 10: School Council 

From School Council 

We need YOUR HELP! If you would like to continue supporting School Council and Lake Bonavista Improvement Society, please consider volunteering for the upcoming Casino on Monday Oct 21 and Tuesday Oct 22.  MANY spots remain open.  This event is the largest source of funds for the Lake Bonavista Elementary School Improvement Society.   

Your volunteer time at this event can make a huge impact; one shift at the Casino amounts to around $2000 raised.    No CBE clearance, or prior experience is required to volunteer.  That also makes it a great opportunity for retired or extended family members to help.    

Please sign up here.  Casino Sign Up. 

Casino Update 

When: Monday Oct 21st and Tuesday Oct 22nd.  

Where: Deerfoot Inn and Casino 

Who : Anyone over the age of 18.  No CBE clearance required. 

What: Varying roles - No experience necessary 

Why: To raise funds to support Lake Bonavista School 

How : Sign up to volunteer starting Sept 19th. See info on our page of the school website. 

Our casino fundraiser is fast approaching; our organization is granted a casino about once every 18-24 months and our next casino is on: 

Monday Oct 21 and Tuesday Oct 22 at Deerfoot Inn and Casino 

The event is the largest source of funds for the Lake Bonavista Elementary School Improvement Society.  Each year, School Staff provide our association with a wish list that we have been able to fulfill with this major fundraising event.  Past casino funds have paid for iPads, residencies, field trips, projectors, books, school supplies and much, much more.  

Your volunteer time at this event can make a huge impact.  No CBE clearance, or prior experience is required to volunteer.  That also makes it a great opportunity for retired or extended family members to help.   

Please check website on the school’s page or follow us on instagram to get the sign up info. If you would like any more information, please reach out to lbschair@gmail.com. 

MAPSS, The Montessori Alternative Public School Society, would like to welcome you back to school. We have been working hard behind the scenes to find more ways to increase our impact and support your school.  

If you want to learn more about MAPSS, head to www.mapss.ca 

Lake Bonavista School will be participating in Fun Lunches through Healthy Hunger again this year! In order to get reminders and order lunches you will be required to add/re-add your child/children before the first Fun Lunch day. Please go to  Healthy Hunger and login to set up your child/children or to create a new account. Fun Lunches will be on the following days: 

October 10, 24 

November 7, 21 

December 5, 19 

January 9, 23 

February 6, 20 

March 6, 20 

April 3, 17 

May 1, 15, 29 

June 12 
 

Fun Lunches cannot happen without the support of volunteers to help deliver lunches! Please consider supporting this program by offering your time on fun lunch days to deliver meals to classes. This requires only 45 minutes of volunteering from 11:20 to 12:05 on fun lunch days. If you can help, please sign up and/or email Natalie at funlunchlbs@gmail.com