At LKS, we have a staff IT committee consisting of Mrs. Heath, Mr. Elias, Mr. Littlejohn and myself. This year, we had two major goals. The first was to provide professional development opportunities to staff to increase capacity and usage of our wonderful technology at the school and the second was to write an IT curriculum for the school. The ministry really doesn't have a "document" outlining expectations, nor a reporting expectation, compared to other subjects like English or math. This year, we resourced many "curricula" in other regions and have adapted those to meet our expectations at LKS. We are almost at the finish line, knowing that this will continue to be a working document. We already came up with new ideas for next year! I really want to thank all staff for the great effort they are making to continue to learn about our technology, sometimes a foreign world to some, in order to teach these skills to our students.
As mentioned in earlier blogs, the TDSB trustees continue to look at the budget to address our fiscal shortfall. Many cuts in Human Resources have been made. If you are interested in learning more, please log onto the TDSB website. As a result of this process, our local staffing procedures have been delayed. This week, we got our teaching staff numbers, and we did receive an additional ".5" teacher raising our number to 36.5. Based on this number, we were able to create a tentative school model that will be sent to our superintendent for approval. Given the parameters, our staffing committee created the following tentative model: 3.5 kindergarten classes, 3 straight grade ones, 1 one/two split, 3 straight grade twos, 1 two/three split, 2 straight grade three, 1 three/four split, 3 straight fours, fives, sixes and 2 straight sevens and eights. I will discuss this more at the Parent Council meeting on Monday night.
April Dates
16th-Parent Council @ 7:30 p.m. (library); Grade 3 & 6 EQAO Parent Info Night @ 6:30 p.m. (Library); Eco-Warriors Meeting
17th-Grade 4 and 5 Math Contest; Grade 5 Badminton @ LKS
18th-Safety Rep Meeting; Ms. Chandra and some grade 8s to Power Fluids Competition
19th-JK-3 Author Visit; Grade 8 Badminton @ LKS
20th-Pizza Lunch; Grade 8 Grad Retakes; JK-3 Author visit continues; Grade 6-8 Dance
24th-Grade 1-8 Sharing Assemblies
26th-Eco-Olympics; Kindergarten Sharing Assemblies
27th-Primary Track and Field Day; Forest of Reading Breakfast @ 8:15 a.m.
May
1st-"Annie" Performance for student body-afternoon; Grade 4-8 Track Tryouts at ECI before school
2nd-Eco-Warriors Meeting; Annie Matinee and Evening Performance; Grade 4-8 Track Tryouts at ECI before school
3rd-Annie Evening Performance;Grade 4-8 Track Tryouts at ECI before school
4th-Pizza Lunch; Grade 4-8 Track Tryouts at ECI before school
5th-Springfest!
7th-Grade 4-8 Track Tryouts at ECI before school
11th-Grade 6 Soccer Tournament
14th-Parent Council @ 7:30 p.m.
15th-Scientist in the School-Mrs. Raymond; Forest of Reading Lunch
16th-Seeds of Hope at lunch; Jr and Sr Boys Soccer Tournament
17th-Sr Ultimate Frisbee; Jr Girls Soccer Tournament
18th-Jr Ultimate Frisbee
21st-Victoria Day
22nd-Track Meet #2 at Centennial; Book Fair until Friday
24th-Grade 8 Hep B/HPV; Author visit
28th-30th-Grade 3 & 6 EQAO
29th-Grade 1-8 Sharing Assembly
30th-Seeds of Hope
31st-Kindergarten Sharing Assembly; Sr Ultimate #1 Tournament
June
1st-PA Day
6th-Eco-Warriors Meeting
7th-Grade 3s to Kortright Conversation Centre
8th-Pizza Lunch
12th-Track and Field Finals
15th-Grade 8 Graduation
18th-22nd-Grade 8 Quebec Trip; Kindergarten Sharing Assembly
20th-Grade 1-7 Sharing Assembly
26th-Reports Go Home
28th-Year End Assembly and Lunch on the Lawn
