School Council – Tuesday, November 25

Please join us at 6:30 p.m. in the staffroom to hear what exciting things are happening around the school and get updates from our School Council on how they support our amazing school.

Picture Re-Take Day

Students will be given an opportunity to have picture re-takes on November 27 in the a.m. This is also our Spirit Week PJ day. Students may not wear PJ’s for their photo.

School Fees now available in your MyCBE Account

Wanted to remind families that your Arts-Centred Learning, Instrumental and Band course fees are now available for payment. These important fees support the amazing programming that occurs at WPS on a daily basis.

Did you know you can make partial payments? Log in to your account for details.

IPPs

If your child(ren) have an Individualized Program Plan (IPP), please check their backpack today for this important document. An email was shared yesterday regarding IPPs.

School Development Plan & School Improvement Results Report

Did you know that every school is responsible for creating a learning plan for staff and students? This year we have focused our team meetings and professional development around disciplinary literacy and building academic resilience through a student wellness lens.

Check out these guiding documents here:

https://willowpark.cbe.ab.ca/school

Spirit Week

Next week’s dress-up schedule is as follows:

• Monday – Beach Day
• Tuesday – Career Day
• Wednesday – Hat Day
• Thursday – PJ Day
• Friday – NO SCHOOL – Parent-Teacher Conferences

Food Bank Donations – Class Challenge

Grade 8 leadership has been organizing our next whole school Classroom Challenge for the Calgary Food Bank.  The challenge runs from Monday, November 24 to Thursday, December 11.  Point values vary depending on the donated item(s). See list at the end of this newsletter for the specific items and their point values.

Families are encouraged to give what they can to this very important local charity that helps 1000’s of Calgarians each year.  

Yearbook

Our Yearbook and Photography class is very excited to be working on our new and improved yearbook for the 2025/26 school year. Attached is a QR code to purchase your yearbook that students receive in June. Trust me your kiddo wants one of these. There is a deadline to order so get your order in NOW!

Visit Buy Your WILLOW PARK SCHOOL Yearbook

Parent-Teacher Conferences – November 27 and 28

Parents/guardians can book their 10-minute conference with any of their child’s teachers using the MYCBE portal. There will be offerings of online and in-person conferences.

Conferences are:

November 27 IN-PERSON from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

November 28 ON-LINE from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. via MS Teams

Healthy Hunger – Fun Lunches Available

Check out www.healthyhunger.ca to register your child(ren) for fun lunches. WPS will offer 1-2 fun lunches each month. Fun lunches are part of the School Council’s fundraising activities for the year. Fun lunches not picked up by the beginning of lunch the next day, will be donated or thrown out; the exception being Boosterjuice which does not keep overnight so will be thrown out the same day.

Note – we have moved our October 29 Boston Pizza lunch to January 28/26

SAVE THE DATE(S):

• Nov 25 – School Council at 6:30 p.m. in Staff Room
• Nov 27 – Picture Day Re-take day
• Nov 27/28 – Student Conferences
• Nov 28 – No School for Students
• Dec 3 – Subway Fun lunch
• Dec 17 – A&W Fun Lunch
• Dec 10 – Grade 8/9s to Theatre Calgary’s - Christmas Carol
• Dec 15/16 – Grade 6s to YouthLink
• Dec 15/18 – Grade 7s to COP for skiing/snowboarding
• Dec 17 – A&W Fun Lunch
• Dec 17 – Winter Wonderland Dance for 5/6s and 7-9s
• Dec 17 – Winter Band Concert @7 p.m.  Grades 7-9
• Dec 19 – Last day of School before Winter Break. School resumes Jan 5

Food Bank Donations - Items