Dear Families,  

Thank you once again to School Council for covering the cost for Inline Skating, ALL students enthusiastically participated in the physical activity and fun! Thank you volunteers for supporting students during this activity and Open Minds as students have been engaged in a variety of activities. Please see Ms. Rae’s Book Fair update below and thanks again for your support.

Richmond School Winter Celebration 2023

Our Winter Celebration is taking place this year on Thursday, December 14, 2023. We are excited to gather as a school community and share our talents through a series of short performances from all classes from Kindergarten to Grade 6.

Ticket reservations began on Wednesday Nov. 8 using this link:

Tickets are free and are being distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. In order to support us in accommodating all parents and guardians, limit tickets to parents/guardians and child siblings of performers until Monday, December 4. Once submitted, your ticket request will be reviewed and Mr. Goodridge will contact you to confirm the reservation of tickets. 

December 1 Update 

• The evening performance is now sold out and there are no further tickets available to that performance. Parents/step-parents/guardians and child siblings of performers may still reserve tickets to the Morning (10:00am) or Afternoon (1:15pm) performances. Please use this link for parents/step-parent/guardian tickets only: https://forms.office.com/r/UJZZW4bnFW. 
• A limited number of tickets will be available for grandparents/aunts/uncles/etc. for the Morning and Afternoon performances only. The reservation form for extended family tickets will “go live” at 8:25am on Monday, December 4. The link for extended family tickets is https://forms.office.com/r/8DfUCGYkwJ. Please make sure that you submit your request to the correct form by ensuring the name at the top is "Richmond School Winter Celebration 2023 - Extended Family Ticket Reservations". Ticket requests submitted before 8:25am, or submitted to the wrong form will not be processed.
  • Extended family tickets are in addition to any tickets you may already hold and they do not need to be for the same performance as your existing tickets. For example, the parents may attend the afternoon while the grandparents attend the morning performance.
• Reserved tickets will be confirmed by email first, and then sent home in your eldest student’s agenda. Please check the agenda each day and keep your tickets safe.
• Please email Mr. Goodridge to let him know if your child(ren) will not be present for the Evening performance.

Please contact Mr. Goodridge (adgoodridge@cbe.ab.ca) with any questions.

Annual Christmas Hampers (ONLY 1.5 weeks away)

In preparing for the Holiday Season, we would like to show HEART by supporting our families in need. We would like to request gift cards (preferably to a grocery store or Walmart) or cash (any cash donations will be used to purchase gift cards).  The donations will be distributed to 18 identified families. Mrs. Kelly Klassen will accept donations up until Wednesday, December 13, in the Main Office.

We thank you in advance for your generosity.

Book Fair Results

A great big thank you to all the families and staff who supported the Scholastic book fair!!!  With your help we sold about $8,600 in items at the fair, which is about $2,000 more than last year! As well, some families generously adopted about $457 in books for the Learning Commons. Thank you so much! 

Another great big thank you to the volunteers who helped set up the fair, sell items, and pack up the fair when it was finished! We had 14 volunteers helping with this event and what a difference these extra hands made! We are lucky to have a community that is so supportive of this literacy initiative. 

From the fair, we were able to donate $205 in books for 16 Richmond School students. 

For the Learning Commons, 

• we took $231 in Scholastic books from the fair
• we earned $1,848 in cash to spend on books 

Note that all of the books that were ordered from the fair were delivered to the classroom on Thursday, so check with your student(s) to ensure they made it home. For the adopted books, once these are added to the collection, they will be put on hold for the student whose family adopted the book for the library so they have the first chance to borrow the book.

The next book fair will be a year from now, so I hope to see you then.

Thanks again for your tremendous support!

Mrs. Rae, Library Assistant

Holiday Luncheon

Holiday Luncheon provided by Meals on Wheels on Wednesday, December 6. Hosted by School Council (Parents)

A hot turkey lunch will be served to Richmond students. The menu includes turkey, mashed potatoes*, vegetables, gravy, cranberry sauce, buns, and some treats like oranges and cookies. 

*Please note that the potatoes and cookies contain allergens such as eggs and dairy but there will be some gluten free cookies available!

Thank you to everyone who signed up to volunteer, and provide the items we require to make this event a success. 

Richmond Families have HEART!

We would also like to acknowledge Garrison Woods Safeway, and Glamorgan Bakery for their generous contributions. 

Christine Cowieson 

Event Coordinator - Richmond School Council 

Week Ahead   

Monday, December 4 – Ms. Alderson’s Grade 5/6 class at Open Minds
Monday, December 4 -7 – Ms. Parker’s Grade 3 class at Open minds (Zoo School)
Wednesday, December 6 - Holiday Lunch - NO need to send a lunch to school for your child(ren).
Friday, December 8 - Professional Development Day | NO SCHOOL for students

​​​​​​​Looking Ahead

Monday, December 11 – 15 – Ms. Kim’s Grade 3 class at Open Minds
Tuesday, December 12 – School Council Meeting (Open Minds Presentation)
Thursday, December 14 – Winter Celebration (three performances)
Friday, December 15 – PJ/Comfy Clothes Day

School Council Update  

Fun Lunch

The remaining fun lunches for the year have been scheduled.  All parents who have children who would like to participate in the school's fun lunches will have to visit the webpage Healthy Hunger and follow the instructions on that page. Please note you will choose RICHMOND SCHOOL (not Richmond Elementary) from the drop down. 

Orders MUST be received by the end of day on the Friday before the fun lunch. Unfortunately, once midnight hits, Healthy Hunger closes the ordering window and we are no longer able to add to it.

McDonalds - Wednesday, December 13

Upcoming Topics/Presentations

December 12 – Open Minds (Alderson & Rae)
January 16 – Spelling For Life (Parker & Kim)
February 13 – Math Up (D’Aloisio)
March 12 – Human Sexuality (McGown & Yurchi)
April 9 – Kindergarten (Topper & Bauer)
May 14 – Literacy (Ryan & Birkholz)

​​​​​​​Richmond School has Heart!       

Mary Ann Fullerton, Principal
Warren Johnson, Assistant Principal     
Kelly Klassen, Administrative Assistant