Dear Families,

Thank you for supporting our Halloween Colour Day, students demonstrated HEART while creating an inclusive environment for all students. Thank you for supporting the Grade 6 Candy Fundraiser, it was a huge success and will help in the overall cost of the Grade 6 Outdoor Camp this spring.

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic book fair is coming soon – Nov 22-24!

We run this event to build excitement for reading, support literacy and to help raise funds for books for the Learning Commons. All purchases help support our Learning Commons.

Book sales are:

Wed Nov 22 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Thurs Nov 23 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Fri Nov 24 8:00pm-12:30pm

We are still looking for volunteers! The event is a lot of fun, but it also requires a lot of people to make it work and we are hoping you can help. Please consider signing up for one or more shifts here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E45AAA729A1F49-45643833-scholastic

We run this event to build excitement for reading, support literacy and to help raise funds for books for the Learning Commons. All purchases help support our Learning Commons.

We hope to see you at the fair!

If you have any questions, you can contact Mrs. Rae at karae@cbe.ab.ca

Thanks for your support!

Alien Inline Skating

An important message will follow shortly regarding volunteers needed for Inline Skating.

Winter Celebration

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. For more information, refer to the SchoolMessenger sent on Wednesday or reach out to Mr. Goodridge (adgoodridge@cbe.ab.ca). Thank you to all families that have completed the Winter Celebration Parent/Guardian Survey so far! The survey may be found here: https://forms.office.com/r/uTTEANHx43. Due to the large number of responses, we are able to open ticket reservations early. At 8:25am on Wednesday, November 8 you will be able to reserve your ticket(s) for this year’s Winter Celebration. The ticket reservations will be handled through this link: https://forms.office.com/r/UJZZW4bnFW on a first-come, first-served basis. In order to support us in accommodating all parents and guardians, limit tickets to parents/guardians and school-aged siblings not attending Richmond School. Once reserved, tickets will be available for pick-up from the music room during Parent-Teacher conferences on November 23 and 24.

Dungeons & Dragons Club

The adventure continues on Mondays.

Demographic Forms

Thank to those families that have completed the Demographic Verification Forms online on your MyCBE account. If you have not yet completed, this, please do so as soon as possible. Copies were sent out on November 1 to those families that had not completed the forms online. Please ensure that they come back to the school/office as soon as possible. It is extremely important that we have the correct information on file for your student. Thanks.

Next Week

Tuesday, November 7 - School Council Meeting (Presentation on Mystery Science and Curriculum Connections Grade 1-3: Presenters Ms. Stern & Miss. MacFarlane)
Wednesday, November 8 – Remembrance Day Assembly
Wednesday, November 8 - Indigenous Veterans Day
Wednesday, November 8 – I Read Canadian Day
Thursday, November 9 – No School for students (System Professional Indigenous Learning Day for staff)
Friday, November 10- 14 - Fall Break No School

Looking Ahead

Wednesday, November 15 - Classes Resume
Wednesday, November 15 – 17 - Alien Inline Skating (all classes)
Wednesday, November 15 - Parent-Teacher Conferences (Please note that online sign up opens at 9:00am and closes on Monday, November 20 at midnight. Conferences sign up is done through your child’s MyCBE Account)

School Council Update

There are ONLY 6 spots left to fill the volunteers needed for the casino. With a school of 325 students we would hope that 30 volunteers would be able to step forward to help. The funds raised support many activities for ALL students at Richmond School. Please consider helping out for a few hours to make a big difference for our community!

Today is the last day to place an order for next Wednesday’s fun lunch - Boston Pizza. All parents who have children who would like to participate in the school's fun lunches will have to visit the webpage https://healthyhunger.ca and follow the instructions on that page. Please note you will choose RICHMOND SCHOOL (not Richmond Elementary) from the drop down.

Today is also the last day to order Richmond School apparel, so please get your orders in right away if you are interested.

Please note that the following topics will be presented by teachers at School Council Meetings.

November 7 – Mystery Science (Stern & MacFarlane)
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)
June 11 – NA

Richmond School has Heart!

Mary Ann Fullerton, Principal
Shanley Nguyen, Assistant Principal
Kelly Klassen, Administrative Assistant