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Hi everyone,

It’s Lisa Jardine calling from Leatherbarrow Primary School with your last Tuesday talk mail of the school year!

We made it! Thank you so much for all your support this year! Together, we have continued to educate and care for our children through a year of ever- changing rules, restrictions, protocols and procedures. I want to sincerely thank you for being so wonderful. We are very grateful! With your support, your children have continued to thrive.

I also want to publicly thank this incredible staff who have done their best work in the most challenging of circumstances. I am so proud to be Principal of this school!

This week is STEAM week. This means that each class will dedicate a day this week to science, technology, engineering, art and math. We have planned many fun, hands-on science experiments, and other activities including, but not limited to, Rube Goldberg machines, coding, a fossil find, and an egg drop! It’s a very educational and fun week!

Friday, our last day of school, is a full day. There is no hot lunch on Friday. If you send your child to school on Friday, please send them with a lunch. Report cards will be distributed Friday. As always, classroom teachers will be calling prior to report card distribution if your child is receiving a 1, or 2 so that you can discuss next steps for learning.

Congratulations to Mrs. Brenton who has been selected to be the District’s Physical Education Coach. This means that she will be supporting and mentoring teachers of physical education for at least the next year. We will miss having her at Leatherbarrow, but the entire district will benefit from her expertise.

Finally, looking ahead to next year-we will be doing whole school staggered entry again next fall. This means that on the first week of school 1/3 of our students will come on Tuesday, 1/3 will come on Wednesday and 1/3 will come on Thursday. Everyone will come together on Friday. I will be sending you a letter this summer letting you know on which day your child will start school next year. School supply fees will be able to be paid online in August. We have not received word as of yet as to whether we will be able to have an open house for students and their families in August or September, but I will let you when plans for next school start up are finalized.

That’s it for today. Thanks for listening. And again, thanks for everything!