Toward the end of May, Owen P.S. will be hosting a guest speaker in support of Mental Health Week. Please see the attached flyer for more information and join us if you can.
Toward the end of May, Owen P.S. will be hosting a guest speaker in support of Mental Health Week. Please see the attached flyer for more information and join us if you can.
Denlow P.S. is hosting an evening event (March 28th) on how adults can help prevent bullying. It will be a session given by Dr. Peplar. They are expecting the session to be quite informative so are opening up the session to neighbouring schools in our F.O.S.
The parents who are organizing this event are asking for an RSVP to
Denlowbullyingseminar@yahoo.ca.
Please see the attachment for further information.
On Tuesday, April 17 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Leaside SS, Annie Kidder of People for Education will be speaking on “Coping with Transitions.” I have heard Annie speak many times and she is outstanding. Please see the attached flyer for more detail. It is specifically geared for parents of children in grades 8-12.
Adolescence The stormy decade Flyer2
Please find attached the flyer for the next FREE workshop for parents organized by the Anne Johnston Guidance Advisory Committee in partnership with Lawrence Park C.I., Leaside H.S. Marshall McLuhan CSS, Forest Hill CI, Northern S.S. and North Toronto C.I.
The event, as you will see, is taking place at LPCI on April 26th and we welcome parents of all of our neighbouring schools to discuss the issues of our workshops- this time concerning the challenges of raising adolescents. Please forward the information to your parent community and contact me if you have any questions about this event.
Please see the flyer attached advertising an opportunity for grade 8 gifted students and their families to visit Northern Secondary School next week. It is a great opportunity if you are able to attend. Please note: this is something that students and/or parents attend on their own as it is not a school supervised trip.
For the past two years, St. Andrew’s has been unable to offer a grade 9 gifted program. The simple reason, there wasn’t enough students to qualify for a staff member. In 2012-2013, the required number of gifted students in order to qualify for a teacher and run a program has increased substantially. We have been told by the special education department that we will not be runnning a grade 9 gifted program at St. Andrew’s in 2012-2013. We know that there has been some interest demonstrated by parents for next year, but unfortunately, it will not be offered at St. Andrew’s. If you have any further questions, plese feel free to contact Mr. Howard or Ms. Drape.
Each year special education placements are reviewed for all exceptional students. This review includes a discussion of the student’s exceptionality and placement.
For Grade 7 Students: In most cases no changes in exceptionality or placement will be recommended for the following school year for our grade 7 Gifted Program students. In these situations, the school and parents may choose to waive the annual review. The School Support Team (SST) at St. Andrew’s Junior High School has recommended that the annual review for all grade 7 students currently in the Gifted Program be waived at this time. This would mean that your son/daughter’s exceptionality and placement, as stated above, are maintained for the upcoming, 2012-2013, school year. A form requesting your signature was sent home with the Interim Report Card in November. An additional copy was sent home last week for students who had not yet returned a signed form. Please note that the receipt of this signed ‘Parent Option to Waive’ form is what is used by the TDSB to generate the class placement into our grade 8 Gifted Program for the 2012-2013 school year.
For Grade 8 Students: Since grade eight is the end of the elementary years and your son/daughter is transitioning into his/her secondary education, an IPRC Annual Review is required. (i.e., the Annual Review Meeting can not be waived) The Identification, Placement and Review Committee (IPRC) conducting this review will consider the current placement and identification as well as the progress. A letter was sent home in November asking if you would be able to attend the scheduled meeting on December 13, 2011. Every grade 8 student currently in the Gifted Program has to have a parent sign the Decision Sheet from this meeting. If you were able to attend on December 13th, you signed the Decision Sheet at the meeting and it is already being processed. Thank you to those parents who dropped into the school this week to sign the form. Please note that the receipt of this signed ‘IPRC Annual Review Decision Sheet’ is what is used by the TDSB to generate the class placement for the next school year. No offer will be made for a placement in a grade 9 Gifted Program without receipt of this signed sheet (original signatures only accepted) by the deadline. (N.B. Once the Co-Ordinator in charge of the Gifted placements has received the Decision Sheet, an “Offer of Placement” at a specific school will be sent to the school and given to your child. This will occur in the first half of February. It is at this point that you are asked to make the final choice as to whether you wish to accept the placement in the Gifted Program in grade 9, or you wish to go to an Optional Attendance school you applied to (if you receive a letter of acceptance), or you wish to go to your home school.)
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the homeroom teacher or me at 416-395-3090.
Sincerely,
Mrs. D. Drape, Vice-Principal
Each year special education placements are reviewed for all exceptional students. (e.g., LD, Gifted (regular class), MID, DD, etc.)This review includes a discussion of the student’s exceptionality and placement.
For Grade 7 Students: In most cases no changes in exceptionality or placement will be recommended for the following school year for our grade 7 students. In these situations, the school and parents may choose to waive the annual review. The School Support Team (SST) at St. Andrew’s Junior High School has recommended that the annual review for all grade 7 students currently in the Home School Program (HSP) or in regular class be waived at this time. This would mean that your son/daughter’s exceptionality and placement, as stated above, are maintained for the upcoming, 2012-2013, school year. A form requesting your signature was sent home in November. An additional copy was sent home recently for students who had not yet returned a signed form. Please note that it is very important that every IPRC’d child have either a signed ‘Parent Option to Waive’ form or the parent chooses to attend the IPRC meeting to show that this mandated review was done for the 2011-2012 school year. In the case of students in HSP, this signed ‘Parent Option to Waive’ form is what is used by the TDSB to generate the class placement into our HSP Program for the 2012-2013 school year.
For Grade 8& 9 Students: For grade eight students this marks the end of the elementary years and your son/daughter is transitioning into his/her secondary education, an IPRC Annual Review is required. (i.e., the Annual Review Meeting can not be waived) For grade nine students, your are transitioning out of one school and into another and therefore an IPRC Annual Review is required. The Identification, Placement and Review Committee (IPRC) conducting this review will consider the current placement and identification as well as the progress. A letter was sent home in December asking if you would be able to attend the scheduled meeting. Unfortunately, we rushed to get this information out to you only to be told shortly thereafter that the turnaround time was too short considering the placement of the break. (I apologize to those who received inaccurate data on the form that was sent home for your child at that time.) Every grade 8 & 9 student should have received a brown IPRC envelope to take home this week, inviting parents to the IPRC Annual Review meeting scheduled for January 26th. Once this school letter has been returned to me in the office, if you wish to and are able to attend the meeting, an IPRC invitation will be sent home with the specific time for your child. (Meetings will be no more than 10-15 minutes in length.) If you did not receive this very important envelope or you wish to contact me directly to make sure that the information is received in a timely fashion, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at deborah.drape@tdsb.on.ca or by phone at 416-395-3090.
Sincerely,
Mrs. D. Drape, Vice-Principal
York Mills Collegiate, the main feeder school for our grade 9 graduates will be hosting an “After 9 Night” on February 9th. They will be having a special session for parents of ESL students prior to the plenary session. The evening begins at 6:00 p.m. with the plenary session for all at 7:00 p.m. A flyer will be distributed early next week that will provide more information. We will attempt to also receive an electronic copy from York Mills that we can put on the school blog.
During the after 8/9 information evening back in December, students and families were introduced, briefly, to an outstanding resource entitled, myBlueprint. In the next few weeks, staff and students at St. Andrew’s will continue to be educated on this terrific document.
My Blueprint can be used to:
Set short and long term goals and plan for the future
Plan courses for secondary school
Discover what post-secondary programs are available to you based on your secondary school choices
Explore what secondary school choices and programs are out there
Explore various careers and job opportunities and find out what kind of training is required for each and what kind of money you can make
On January 26, 2012, a session will be held at York Mills Collegiate from 1:00 – 3:00 for teachers, administrators, a few parent representatives from each school in our family. So, we are looking to have anywhere from 3-5 parents join us for the afternoon. If you are interested, please contact our parent council chair, Lisa Slan. Unfortunately, we will only be able to take the first 3-5 parents that express an interest to Lisa. She can be reached at lkslan@rogers.com.
