Friday, September 27, 2019

Hello Ranchlands School Community!

Posters have been going up around the school this week celebrating our very special diversity at Ranchlands School! Did you know we have over 37 different spoken languages in our school! For some of our families, English is a third or fourth language. Speaking more than one language can have many benefits for our brain including strengthening memory, increasing focus and attention span, and the ability to multi-task or do more than one thing at time. It is important that if your child is a learning English as another language at school, to continue to use your home language at home. The CBE has a helpful document that outlines the many benefits of keeping the home language alive:

Keep Your Home Language Alive! 

Why? 

-Your child will develop stronger English skills if you continue to use and develop your home language. 

-Your home language will help your child to learn. When a child knows about things in the home language, he or she will learn about things in the second language more easily. 

-Your home language supports your child’s sense of identity. 

-Knowing the home language helps children to communicate easily within the family and the community. (adapted from Coelho, E. Adding English 2004 Pippin Publishing) 

For tips on how to do this at home, the full document can be found here:

https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/supports-for-students/Documents/Keep-Your-Home-Language-Alive.pdf

Patrol News

The new trained grade 5 patrollers are excited to join our grade 6 school safety patrol teams in October. The new schedule has been posted at the patrol station and in classrooms.

RANCHLANDS SCHOOL PATROL SCHEDULE

October 2019 

Monday - Thursday

(Arrive at patrol station)   Sept.30-Oct.4 Oct. 7-Oct. 10

(8:50)     8:55 – 9:10           Team 1               Team 3   

(12:20)   12:25 – 12:40       Team 8               Team 10  

(12:55)   1:00 – 1:15           Team 6               Team 7

(3:45)     3:50 – 4:05           Team 2               Team 4

Friday: only before and after school teams go out.

(8:50)     8:55 – 9:10           Team 1               Team 3

(1:15)     1:20 –1:35            Team 2               Team 4

Monday - Thursday

(Arrive at patrol station) Oct. 15-Oct. 18 Oct. 21-Oct. 25                   (8:50)    8:55 – 9:10           Team  5           Team 2  

(12:20)   12:25 – 12:40       Team  9           Team  12  

(12:55)   1:00 – 1:15           Team 11           Team 13

(3:45)     3:50 – 4:05           Team  1           Team 3 

Friday: only before and after school teams go out.

(8:50)     8:55 – 9:10            Team  5           Team 2

(1:15)     1:20 –1:35             Team 1            Team 3

*Please arrive at the patrol station 5 minutes before you scheduled time in order to be ready.

Friday, September 20, 2019

Hello Ranchlands School Community!

Today and yesterday we held our Parent-Teacher conferences. It was a pleasure to connect with so many families learning about student needs and interests. 

Our school police officer, Constable Rich, was at our school on Wednesday and Thursday morning to train our 76 safety patrollers for the upcoming school year. We are so thrilled that so many grade 5 and 6 students have volunteered their time to keep our school community safe at the crosswalk at Ranchlands Blvd. The new schedule for October will be posted shortly at the patrol station, in classrooms, and on my blog. It will be available soon on the Ranchlands School website under "Extracurricular".

The annual AMA School Safety Patrol Kick-Off Day is this Saturday! Patrollers were given their membership card and an entry form this week. Here is more information on the event from the AMA:

The Kick-Off Day is scheduled for Saturday, September 21, 2019

EVENT DETAILS:

·               Saturday, September 21, 2019

·               Time: 9:30 onwards

·               Special price: Patroller $10 (+ GST) with Patrol Card + Family & Friends $10                      each (+ GST) with School Patroller

·               INCLUDES ALL RIDES!
·               Kick Off Ceremony at 2:00 pm

·               Patrollers - bring your completed entry form for prizes

We hope you all have an enjoyable time!

Please help us to keep our students safe along with our patrollers by following the rules of the road.

Friday, September 13, 2019

Hello Ranchlands School Community!

Wishing everyone a warm welcome back for the 2019/2020 school year!

We have had a very busy and exciting first two weeks of school with students and staff settling in and beginning new teaching and learning. We have approximately 130 English Language Learners that will be supported both in the classroom and in small group settings. If your child is an ELL student, feel free to connect with me during Parent-Teacher Conferences next week on Thursday, September 19 and Friday, September 20. Interviews can be booked online.

We are excited to welcome the The Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth Afterschool Program to Ranchlands School. CBFY is a not for profit organization that offers a variety of services to meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of immigrant and refugee youth. Permission forms to participate in this program are available in the office and are due Wednesday, September 18. The program will be starting in October. 

Patrol News:
Our grade 6 safety patrollers are out on duty! They did a presentation at our Welcome assembly modeling safe school zone behaviours to the younger students in our school. Constable Rich will be at our school next Wednesday and Thursday morning to train new patrollers for the upcoming school year.

The patrol schedule for September is posted at the patrol station and in classrooms.

RANCHLANDS SCHOOL PATROL SCHEDULE

September 2019 

Monday - Thursday

(Arrive at patrol station)   Sept. 12-13        Sept. 16-19

(8:50)     8:55 – 9:10           Team 2               Team  3 

(12:20)   12:25 – 12:40       Team  9             Team 11 

(12:55)   1:00 – 1:15           Team  10            Team 12

(3:45)     3:50 – 4:05           Team 4              Team 1

Friday: only before and after school teams go out.

(8:50)     8:55 – 9:10           Team  2             Team 3

(1:15)     1:20 –1:35            Team  4            Team 1

Monday - Thursday

(Arrive at patrol station)  Sept. 23-27 Sept.30-Oct.4                   (8:50)    8:55 – 9:10           Team 4              Team  1  

(12:20)   12:25 – 12:40       Team  13           Team 11  

(12:55)   1:00 – 1:15           Team  9             Team  12

(3:45)     3:50 – 4:05           Team  2              Team  3

Friday: only before and after school teams go out.

(8:50)     8:55 – 9:10            Team  4             Team 1

(1:15)     1:20 –1:35             Team  2              Team 3

*Please arrive at the patrol station 5 minutes before you scheduled time in order to be ready.

There is no school for students Friday, September 20 due to parent-teacher conferences.