I can’t believe day 100 has come and gone! We are mov-ing into the final portion of the school year.
February and March are al-ways incredibly busy months as we have compressed time with students due to Winter and March Breaks. In Febru-ary, we’ve had a number of great projects and activities that our GSTS staff have spearheaded for our students. The ski/snowboard club just wrapped up over the weekend with it’s trip to Nakiska. A big thank you to Mr. Lo and the other staff members who made this club a huge success. I know after being with the stu-dents on their Canyon trip how much they love being out on the hills. Basketball season also wraps up in February/ March for our teams playing in their season ending tourna-ments. Regardless of how our teams do [It’s so nice that they’ve been winning :)], it’s been amazing seeing how much our students love this game! They’ve really come together! Thank you to all the coaches who have been giving up their time to support these students (sometimes 3x/ week). Lastly, another big thank you going to Mr.
Reits-ma & Mrs. Mathison for their support of the APEGA Science Olympics sending a Grade 8 and Grade 7 team. The stu-dents had a great afternoon at RDC using their innovative problem solving skills. All teams represent GSTS with Gladiator pride and we are so proud.
Our GSTS Science Fair hap-pened during the week of Feb-ruary 15 and we had over 50+ projects competing in our school wide fair! Feedback from parents, staff and stu-dents in the gym was that the quality of the projects was the best to date! Congrats Gladia-tors. We did tweak the format this year - allowing for class-room projects for Grades 1-4 and then all students from Grade 5-8 were able to partici-pate at their classroom lev-el. Ten students per grade were then selected from the classroom presentations to move on to the school wide fair. From this 10 projects were selected to move on to the Central Alberta Regional Sci-ence Fair being held on March 23/24 at RDC! If you have time please go and check out this wonderful fair and support our Gladiators! !
On February 28, we also host-ed our Gladiator Day - with the students selecting their spirit theme (the GSTS Pink Shirt/ Crazy Hair Day)! All students were awesome and most eve-ryone remembered to wear a pink shirt in support of kind-ness and anti-bullying aware-ness. This month’s Gladiator day is March 21. The theme is “Tropical Day!” We will be hosting our Gladiator Awards in the afternoon - students are encouraged to wear/dress something tropical and excit-ingly we will be offering a pizza hot lunch (pay for service) to students/families for that day. With report cards coming out this month, it is incredibly im-portant to touch base with your child’s teachers as we head into the final three months of school. This is a great time to focus on successes and look at ways to support student struggles. With term 2 finishing up in March, this is the im-portant ⅔ check-in. Don’t let your child miss out by not hav-ing the important parent-child conversation. Parent Teacher Conferences are on March 22. You will be able to sign up for Parent-Teacher conferences as of March 14 at https:// gledale.schoolappointments.
A Note From the Principal
Glendale Sciences and Technology
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2018
March Important Dates: Mar 6—City-wide SchoolCouncil mtg at CMS
Mar 19—Report cards
Mar 20—School Council & Parent Assoc mtg 7 pm
Mar 21—Gladiator Awards PM
Mar 22—Parent-Teacher Con-ferences 1-5 & 6-8:00 pm
Mar 22-Apr 2—No school
Principal—Chris Turnbull Vice Principal—Jeff Plackner Counsellor—Cheryl Wowk 6375-77 Street, Red Deer, AB T4P 3E9 Phone—403-340-3100 Fax—403-343-3110
Website: http://glendale.rdpsd.ab.ca
For more detailed, grade specific events, please check the calen-dar link on our school website
http://glendale.rdpsd.ab.ca
April Important Dates: Apr 3—Classes resume
Apr 5—Kindergarten & Grade 8 “grad” photos
Apr 20—No School
Apr 27—Spring Carnival
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in the learning commons! New book displays, we kept track of Canada’s record setting medal count at the
Win-ter Olympics, and the grade 1 and 2 students got the chance to participate in mystery date with a book. Coming in March.. the grade 3-8 students get their
chance to participate in mystery date with a book. Watch for new book dis-plays as well.
Learning Commons
This year we can’t thank Cross Roads Church enough for all their support of our program! They are making a huge
difference. Our next special breakfast will be our St. Patrick’s day breakfast.
Breakfast Club
Counsellor’s Connections
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! May the luckof the Irish be with you this month or better yet…..MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK!!! Some of us seem to be born with lots of luck, others need to work at creating it. “Cool Tool” Tip #1 - Life is about 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you deal with it. If we look at this: TOWER OF POWER I WILL!!! I CAN I WANT I WISH
we realize that we have complete con-trol over our POSITIVITY and the ability to turn wishes into reality. So when you are busy hunting for lucky four leaf
clo-vers this month, look for ones that say…..”The harder I work the luckier I get!” or “Karma - what goes around comes around!” or “You can never go wrong doing the right thing!” or “Always DO your BEST!” or “FEAR is the thief of DREAMS!” or “BELIEVE in YOUR-SELF!”
Be your own little Leprechaun this month and find that magical pot of gold each day by living this “Cool Tool”: IF IT IS MEANT TO BE…..IT IS UP TO ME!!!
General News
Please see the important message later in this newsletter about our launching SMS texting message opt-in. This will be one of the ways we will be communi-cating to parents.March weather can still be very unpre-dictable. Please ensure your child is prepared for all types of weather at school. Outdoor recess still takes place if it is sprinkling or snowing outside. We
only stay inside if it is –20 degrees C or colder including the wind chill.
Principal note continued
com. As parents, we also recognize thatyou too may be looking for support. To meet this demand, we’ve created and are soft-launching our GSTS Parent Hub. This is a site designed specifically with parents in mind and we will continue to
build it. If you have any ideas for support, please do not hesitate to contact us. The website address is https:// sites.google.com/a/rdpsd.ab.ca/gsts-parent-hub/
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Community News
visit: www.reddeermuseum.com or email [email protected] or call 403-309-8405.
The Boys and Girls Club of Red Deer & District is hosting a rainbow bake sale on Monday March 5 and 6th from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm or until sold out. Cup-Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery will
be taking registrations for “A Day at the Museum” and summer camps. To find more information about them please
Caught on Camera
Grade 1s ordering, counting and finding patterns with
numbers—LEGO game. Grade 3 learning about Peru and making Peruvian masks.
March 2018
Dear Parents/Guardians:
Our school district, Red Deer Public Schools is part of a larger partnership called Central Alberta Regional Collaborative
Service Delivery (CA RCSD). (See below for the list of partners.) As part of this partnership we are pleased to inform
you that we have access to a team of therapists/specialists from Children’s Rehabilitation Services (CRS) who can
sup-port our students and the school staff who work with them. Members of this team may include Speech-Language
Pathologists (SLPs), Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Speech Language Pathology Assistants (SLPAs).
Various members of this team may visit your child’s school and classroom throughout the year, working alongside the
teachers and other staff to compliment the school programming. Some everyday activities with which the team may
be involved include:
meeting with school staff to discuss and plan for the needs of students and classrooms;
observing in classrooms and consulting on classroom environment to support learning;
participating in classroom routines/activities alongside the children
providing (and possibly modelling portions of) strategies and materials for the teacher to use with the entire
class
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the SLP and OT who are currently regular members of our
school learning team:
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) - Eden Molineux
Occupational Therapists (OT) - Erin Doyle
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLPA) - Ellen McCaslin
These team members may be in your child’s class from time to time, and may interact with your child in the course of
their work outlined above. Please be assured that you will be consulted if any individual follow-up is being considered.
Individualized services with CRS
therapists require your consent and, typically, family participation.
If you have any questions or concerns about this team of therapists/specialists, please do not hesitate to call Principal,
Chris Turnbull at 403-340-3100.
Yours truly,
Chris Turnbull
Chad Erickson
Principal
Associate Superintendent, Student Services
Glendale Sciences & Technology School
Red Deer Public School District
Note: We are partnered with 8 other school divisions, several First Nations education authorities, Alberta Health
Ser-vices (Children’s Rehabilitation Service and Community Addiction and Mental Health), as well as Children’s SerSer-vices and
Family Supports for Children with Disabilities (FSCD).
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