Thank you to all the parents who came to interview night. It was a good opportunity to discuss your child's academic progress and/or concerns.
A few facility updates for you as we had a quick inspection today. Please refer to the last blog for roof and playground updates; we've put in orders for the windows to be cleaned, especially the mess at the front of the school and the washrooms will be scrubbed tomorrow. Although we do have some areas of concern, overall the school is in pretty good shape. Our computer lab is to be moved over to the new lab tomorrow, and then we are almost finished with the renovations. We still need to put up our plaques in the front hall.
Next week brings an art performance for the junior/intermediates grades on Tuesday; The Comedy of Errors Play on Wednesday (student matinee & parent performance @ 7:00 p.m.); Author visits for grades 3(Thursday) and 5 (Wednesday); Junior Swim meet on Wednesday and Senior on Thursday and Sharing Assemblies on the 11th.
Please don't forget about the Parent Council Dinner Dance next Friday, and if you want to be in the Parent Council School Directory, please get your form into Lianne Hill, our chair. You can return those to the office also.
We also got our final numbers for staffing and we will be held at 36.5 teachers for '08/09. We have yet to hear about special needs assistants, and the number of lunchroom supervisors is status quo.
Next week, we will also finish up our Special Education Annual Reviews. Every year, all students who are indentified with an exceptionality (i.e. Learning Disability, Gifted, etc) are discussed at a meeting to review progress and plans for the following year. We started in the Fall with our grade 8 students, and are now completing the process. Thank you to all the parents and staff involved as these meetings are such an important part of our school process.
Finally, Mrs. McGee downloaded some library data, and we have read 1091 more books in the first three months of '08 compared with the same time last year! Congratulations to our readers!
*Also, our April Newsletter is on our website: http:/schools.tdsb.on.ca/LambtonKingsway
