Week of Oct 9 -12, 2018

Hello Ridgemount Families!

Thank you to everyone for a very successful Open House last week. It was great to meet so many families. Thanks to our School Council for organizing the food trucks, to our students and staff for showcasing all of their learning about the survivors, victims and lasting effects of Canada’s Residential Schools. Many of our students also participated in Bus Safety Patrol training with Mr. Massie and Mrs. Hart. Our bus patrols are now trained and will be patrolling our buses on a daily basis to assist us with ensuring the safety of all students that ride the bus. A reminder to review the follwoing basic bus rules with your children to support this:

In order to ensure the safety of everyone at Ridgemount please adhere to the traffic / parking signs posted around the school premises. By Law officers have been patrolling the area and are ticketing those parked illegally. Thank you.

A reninder that photo day will take place on Wednesday, October 10th at Ridgemount. Be sure to complete order forms online or using the forms sent home.

Please follow Ridgemount on Twitter to view our work and other Ridgemount highlights at: @Ridgmeount_HWDSB.

In order to ensure the safety of everyone at Ridgemount please adhere to the traffic / parking signs posted around the school premises. By Law officers have been patrolling the area and giving tickets to those stopped or parked illegally. Thank you.

Be sure to register to our school website at www.hwdsb.on.ca/ridgemount (under the school photo in the bottom right corner is the link to “Register”) to keep updated on upcoming school events and news!! Be sure to tell our new Ridgemount families to register to our website as well!

A reminder that if you need to stop by the school you will need to enter at the front entrance on Hester St. As we are a secure facility you will need to push the doorbell button and wait for an office staff to identify you and then open the door.  If you are dropping off lunches for your child you can place it on the lunch cart outside the office labelled “Student Lunches”. Be sure to prearrange this with your child so that they know to come to the office at the Nutrition Break to pick up their lunch as we are unable to keep lunches in the office area.

A special thank you to those parents/guardians that attended our School Council meeting this past week. To view the school council meeting minutes got to our website and click on the “School Council & Meeting Minutes” tab at the top of the page. We invite all parents/guardians to our next meeting on Monday, November 19th at 6:30pm in the library.

Please click on the link below for the Ridgemount Week at a Glance for the week of Oct 9-12 , 2018.

Week at a Glance – Oct 9-12

Important Notice :

Pizza Day will begin on Wednesday, October 17th and is available every Wednesday at  the second nutrition break for $1.25 a slice (cheese only). Please send money in with your child and have them give to their teacher if they want to order pizza. There are no order forms for Pizza Days. A list of those that have brought in money and placed orders will be sent to the office where parent/guardian volunteers will collect and then distribute the pizza at the beginning of the second nutrition break (12:45pm).

Have a great week everyone!

Mr. Carey – Principal

Mrs. Panju – Vice Principal