Central Weekly Update – Sept 20-24, 2021

Central Families,

We have had a good second week of school thanks to all of our staff, students and families for working together to make this happen. Thank you for your efforts ensuring that our protocols are being followed. Please review the following protocols with your child : Wearing masks, social distancing, washing/sanitizing , remaining in cohort yards and letting an adult know when you are not feeling well. These are messages we are sharing with our school every day and so far we are very pleased with our students and their efforts to keep our school a safe, healthy and happy place to be.

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Just a few reminders to our families:

Please ensure that you are screening your child each day and signing the daily calendar.  Families will be contacted and asked to pick students up that are showing symptoms on the screener.

As a Nut Friendly school we ask that you not send any nut products or products that may contain nuts as snacks for your child. We also have a severe allergy to pumpkins in our school so please no products that contain any pumpkin. Please ensure that your child’s teacher is aware of any medical conditions, allergies etc. as there are forms that we need to have you complete with us for our records.

Be sure to complete all forms on the parent portal for your child or children. These must be completed for all students attending Central Elementary. 

Please be reminded that we are to limit the number of visitors to the school so be sure to call (905 522 9690 or email at [email protected]) if you require assistance or need to contact us for any reason. 

Please work with us to be at school on time. Our day starts at 8:45 am and please avoid engaging in lengthy conversations with our staff as this interrupts our school day and supervision of our students as our staff are supervising beginning at 8:45 am so if engaged in conversations this becomes quite challenging. This is particularly challenging in the Kindergarten area where it is very busy. We ask that you drop off and pick up as quickly and safely as possible to avoid congestion and difficulties for our staff while supervising. Dismissal is at 3:05pm so please be sure to be at the school to pick up your child or children. Feel free to contact the school or your child’s teacher by email to set up a time to meet if you need to do so. 

Ensure students dress appropriately for the weather and attend with enough healthy snacks for both Nutrition Breaks and that they come to school with a water bottle with their name on it. Our fountains are not operating and we are running out of cups to give students! 

Please ensure that you are screening your child each day and signing the daily calendar. If your child needs to be absent or picked up early please refer to the

Please contact the school using SafeArrival   (click for instructions) to report student absences or if you need to pick up your child for an appointment. If you require assistance accessing the SafeArrival app please contact the school at 905 575 1535. We are unable to release students before the dismissal bell unless you have entered the dismissal in Safe Arrival. 

Please follow the bylaw parking signs posted on the streets surrounding the school. Bylaw officers have been monitoring our area and will issue tickets for those violating parking bylaws.

A reminder that our play structure if off limits at this time. If you decide to allow your child to play on the play structure before or after school they must be supervised by an adult. We again, apologize for the overgrown bushes, grass, weeds etc. in the playground. We are working very hard on trying to resolve these issues to keep our playground safe for our students. Thank you for your patience. 

We have some very energetic and enthusiastic staff that were really hoping to run some extra curricular activities this fall however, due to covid restrictions and various other responsibilities placed on our staff at this critical time we regret to inform you that we will be unable to do so. We are hoping that as things improve we will be able to run some extra curriculars in the near future. Stay tuned for updates on this.

A reminder that September is reorganization month and that some class and scheduling changes could be made over the next couple of weeks as we finalize our student enrolments and staffing.  We will share this information with those families impacted by the changes in a timely manner.

Finally, have a great week everyone!

Be sure to contact us with any questions or concerns (905 522 9690 / email : [email protected]).

Mr. Carey

Principal, Central Elementary School