​Happy Friday, everyone! We had another great week of learning here at McAdam Avenue. It was “Safe Schools Week” so we practiced bus evacuation, a lockdown and a site evacuation. Unfortunately, it was raining on Tuesday so we are postponing our fire drill until next week. The pancake breakfast on Thursday was delicious – many thanks to Kiwanis and our Home and School volunteers for providing this for our students and staff! Great news – our Java Moose fundraiser brought in over $1100 for student activities at MAS! Thank you so much to our wonderful school community for all the support with this! We also want to thank our parent, Becky, for coming in on Friday to walk us through an obstacle course while showing us what it would be like if we had visual impairments. Please see the image attached. I also want to thank you for taking the time to fill out the Family Survey that supports our School Improvement Plan. We were very pleased with the results and received some great ideas about how we can do better as a school to be more inclusive. Please see the results of the parent and student surveys attached.

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Family Survey Results.docx 

Student Survey Results October.docx 

Items to note for this week:

1. Monday, Oct. 24 – Picture retakes

2. Wednesday, Oct. 26 – A representative from CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) will be in to present to our students and staff about vision differences.

3. Thursday, Oct. 27 – Student Voice meeting; STAR student assembly

4. Friday, Oct. 28 – Halloween Howl (6-7:30) – Volunteers are still needed to run centres!  Also, we will be looking for donations for treat bags.  Please reach out to our lovely Home and School co-chairs if you would like to volunteer or donate.  Dubayr3@gmail.com (Becky) and Ashley-lynn94@live.com (Ashley)

5. Friday, Oct. 28 – “Friendship Friday” read aloud with Mrs. Jordan

6. I encourage you to follow us on “Twitter” as many pictures are posted there.

Looking ahead:

-October 31 – Halloween Learning Centres & students wear orange and black!

NOVEMBER IS DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH!

-November 2 at 6:30pm – PSSC/Home and School meeting

-November 8 – Diabetes presentation

-November 10 – Remembrance Day ceremony

-November 11 – Remembrance Day (No school)

-November 15 – Student perception surveys open (these are done at school)

-November 17 – WHOLE SCHOOL visit to Chapters to choose some books through our Indigo fundraiser!

-November 18 – NO SCHOOL as it is a teacher PL day

-November 21-25 – Diversity and Respect Week

-November 24 – Student Voice Meeting & STAR student assembly

Thank you for all of your support and have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Christie Jordan

Principal​