The
November 2010 • Issue 3 • VOL . 8
The Calgary Science School
Principal’s Message I want to thank last year’s school council, who wrapped up a very successful and busy year at the annual general meeting in early October. Our school council undertook many initiatives last year and provided school administration and our teachers with incredible support and sage input. School council and its sub-committees organized the volunteers for the school, assisted with the development and administration of the annual parent survey, organized the very successful annual parent conference, began work on such things as traffic safety and providing input into our three year education plan, ran a variety of highly successful fundraising activities, did a lot of work on the cabin at Camp Sweet as a thank you to Mr. Sweet, just to name a few things. I valued the work that last
year’s council did and I appreciated the opportunity to work with such a dedicated and invested group of parents. Thank you. As I mentioned above, we have a sub committee of the school council that is working on traffic safety. We recently had another close call in a cross walk adjacent to our school. I want to remind parents that, whatever the reason for wanting to hurry when picking up or dropping off your children, and whatever the reason someone might have for parking on or too close to a cross walk, there is no reason sufficient to jeopardize student safety. Parents, please respect traffic laws about not parking on or too near crosswalks, ensure that you are not double parking – regardless of how quick you think you may be, and please slow down around the school. Of course, there is only a
very small minority of parents who occasionally forget or forgo pedestrian safety for convenience, but I wanted to provide a good reminder to our whole community about the primacy of pedestrian safety. Lastly, as this is the last Spectrum before our November report cards and student-led conferences, I want to encourage parents to contact your child’s teacher if you have any concerns about your child’s achievement and progress. We don’t want to leave such questions until after the report cards have been completed, and know also that teachers welcome the opportunity to connect with parents before a small issue expands to something more significant. Darrell Lonsberry
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