Week of Feb 19-22, 2019

Ridgemount Families,

Please remember to review your child’s report card with them, especially the Learning Skills and Work Habits. Please complete ,sign and return the section that is to be sent back to the school and contact us at 905 575 1535 if you have any questions. Congratulations to our school basketball teams and Dancefest dancers for their successes over the last week. We are very proud of their accomplishments!

We have had several  Ice/Snow days over the last couple of weeks and this has resulted in a great deal of icy patches around the schoolyard. Please remind students that they are to stay away from the icy areas to prevent falls and injuries and that the snow stays on the ground. We are doing our best to send this message to students but would appreciate your support with this reminder.

Our buses have been arriving at various times and not in the order that they usually arrive so please be sure to remind your children to make their way to their bus lines in the gymnasium as quickly as possible to avoid missing their buses. Announcements are made to gather all students and our staff and Bus Patrol Team do a great job ensuring that our students transition to and from buses. As there are a large number of students that take buses please let your child’s teacher or the office know if you have concerns about your child making their way to the bus on time and we will pair them up with an older bus buddy.

As the weather becomes colder we will monitor our alerts and ensure that students remain indoors once we have beeAs the weather becomes colder we will monitor our alerts and ensure that students remain indoors once we have been notified.  Please ensure that students are dressed appropriately for this colder weather and feel free to let us know if your child requires any winter clothing as we do have some on hand thanks to our school support EA, school EA’s and staff for organizing this.Please remind students to check the lost and found for items that have gone missing as there are many articles of clothing looking for their owners.

Students have been following our Ridgemount Roadrunner Road to Success expectations. Please review these expectations with your children and have them share with you what they are. A reminder that cell phones are not to be used without permission from staff and are not to be used during Nutrition Breaks. Students are to place cell phones in bins in the classrooms provided or keep in lockers or backpacks. Please remind students that they are not to take photos or recordings of others without consulting with staff first.

Ridgemount Road To Success Expectations:
Always keep your hands and feet to yourself
Be where you’re supposed to be
Treat others how you want to be treated
Calm and quiet movement in the hall
Listen to and follow instruction from all adults in the school

Please also be reminded to follow the signs located around the school regarding parking and school bus loading zones located at the front and east side of the school as well as in the back parking lot. We would like to ensure that safety of all our students and staff and our Bylaw Officers will be monitoring and giving out tickets to those.

We will ask that parents/guardians not enter the parking lot during entry/dismissal as we have had a couple of close calls with accidents and we must allow safe access for our school buses that drop students off in the parking lot. Please drop students off in the desiganted areas on Ronaldshay Street and avoid blocking the entrance/exit to the school parking lot to allow for our

Please click on the link below to view the Week at a Glance for the week of Feb 19-22, 2019:

Week at a Glance Feb19-22,2019

A reminder that Friday, March 1, 2019 is  PA Day so there will be no school for students.

The best way to keep updated is to register to our school website at: www.hwdsb.on.ca/ridgemount  to keep updated on upcoming school events and news!! Be sure to tell our new Ridgemount families to register to our website as well!

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

Thanks and have a great week everyone!

Mr. Carey – Principal

Mme. Kucic – Vice Principal