Welcome to 2022-23 at Billy Green!

BG Families,

We are excited to welcome students back to classes for the 2022-23 school year.

We know that many families remain concerned about safety, and we are too. We continue to take COVID-19 precautions, such as doing daily COVID-19 school and child care screening and staying home when sick or instructed within the screening tool.  We will continue to update families on developments throughout the year.

 

Tuesday, September 6

The first day of school will be Tuesday, September 6 for Grade 1-8 students. JK educators have scheduled visits with JK families throughout the day.

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Wednesday, September 7

All students JK-Grade 8 attend school Wednesday, September 7.

 

Daily COVID-19 Screening

Like last spring, students and staff continue to complete the Covid-19 screener (https://covid-19.ontario.ca/school-screening/) each morning before coming to school. Please stay home if you are unwell.

 

Masks

At HWDSB, we continue to encourage and recommend the wearing of masks in schools, administrative buildings and buses, as an effective public health measure. We will continue to offer free masks for students and visitors to our schools. Although masks are not required, our schools, offices and buses are respectful, welcoming and inclusive environments where individuals can choose to wear or not to wear a mask.

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Testing

We can continue to offer rapid antigen test (RAT) kits for symptomatic students and staff. Tests are available upon request, to be taken home and used when someone is symptomatic at home.

 

Making Wellness a Priority

HWDSB will continue to offer a wide variety of mental health supports for students, knowing that the pandemic has impacted student well-being. This is especially important during the return to school, which can be stressful for some students. See some supportive tips on our recent web post. Explore our We Help web page for more evidence-based and timely school-based mental health services and supports.

Across HWDSB, we are also reintroducing a welcoming, inclusive initiative to help students as they return to school. Reimagining Wellness 2.0 is a series of activities and lessons which address needs arising during the pandemic.

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Transportation

If your child qualifies for transportation, please visit www.hamiltonschoolbus.ca for more information.  Please keep in mind that last minute changes sometimes do occur. It is important to re-check the information prior to sending your child(ren) to their assigned pickup location on September 6, 2022.

 

Communication

The Billy Green website is www.hwdsb.on.ca/BillyGreen and we’re on Twitter at twitter.com/BillyGreenHWDSB. As much as possible, school-wide information will be communicated to families through our website.  If you subscribe to our websites, you will get an email every night with any updates that were made that day.

We also invite families to keep up with communications from HWDSB by subscribing to email updates or following @hwdsb on social media.

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We are here to support every student. Please reach out to your child’s teacher or to me if you have any questions or concerns.

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Sincerely,

~ Ms. Wilson, principal