Dear Parents & Guardians:
In this post you will find information for the following:
- Important Dates
- Engineering for Kids STEM Residency
- Green Fools Theatre Group – PE Circus Skills Residency
- Alberta Education Assurance Parent Survey
Important Dates –
- March 11 – Booking (6:00 a.m.) Student Led Conferences using MyCBE Conference Manager
- March 13 – Fun Lunch (Papa John’s Pizza)
- March 13 – School Council Meeting
- March 14 – Student Led Conferences (4:00-8:00 p.m.)
- March 15 – Irish Dancers Presentation (Parents welcome)
- March 21 – Last day of classes prior to Spring Break
- March 22 – Professional Development Day (No School)
- March 25-April 1 – Spring Break (No School)
- April 2 (Tuesday) – Classes Resume
Engineering for Kids STEM Residency
Over the next three weeks, our Grades 1-6 students will be working with Engineering for Kids in their classrooms. Students will be learning how to code and program Lego EV3 Robots as computational thinking is now a part of the new Alberta Science curriculum.
Our Grades 1-2 students will be first to work on this followed by our Grade 3-4’s the following week and the Grade 5-6’s during the week of March 11.
Green Fools Theatre – Circus Skills PE Residency
Also during next week, our K-6 students will be working with the Green Fools Theatre Group learning basic circus performance skills during they Physical Education classes.
Alberta Education Assurance Survey – Grades 4-6 Parents
This survey closes March 1 and to date we have had 18 parents complete it.
Results to the last survey (Spring 2023) were shared at our last School Council meeting on January 17. The results summary is posted on the School Council webpage.
Each year Alberta Education conducts a survey. The Alberta Education Assurance Survey is open on January 22 and closes March 1, 2024. Alberta Education uses the Assurance Survey as a way for school authorities to measure their success and assess their progress towards meeting their learning goals.
Parents / Legal Guardians of children in grades 4-6 at Elbow Park, will receive their survey package in the mail in late January from Alberta Education. It will include the survey link and random-access code for you to complete the survey online. You are encouraged to complete the survey online. Students and all teachers will complete their surveys online at school. Please see the linked AEAS Info for Parents for more details.
The survey may be accessed at: Alberta Education Assurance Survey Link
In the 2023-24 Alberta Education Assurance Survey, students respond to 25 questions about their experiences at school related to quality of education, teaching and learning in the areas of Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and aspects of a safe, caring and welcoming school.
- Questions on the survey are accompanied by a scale of responses (e.g., Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree, Very Satisfied to Very Dissatisfied, Don’t Know and N/A). Students will complete the online survey during school hours using a link provided by Alberta Education.
- If a question is not applicable or if the respondent does not feel comfortable answering, they should leave the response blank or fill in the circle under “N/A”. A blank response or response under the “N/A” category does not count toward the total number of responses
Your voice matters. Your participation in the survey helps provide important information on the quality of education your child is receiving. Alberta Education and Calgary Board of Education thank you for returning the parent Assurance Survey promptly.