Spotlight:
Truth and Reconciliation Week – Sept. 23 to 30th
UGDSB recognizes and acknowledges Truth and Reconciliation Week each year during the final week in September. Staff are provided with carefully selected content and activities that help students engage respectfully in learning about the Residential School System in Canada. Through age-appropriate texts, media and literature in classrooms, students will learn from survivors and intergenerational survivors about the impacts that the residential school system has, and continues to have on, Indigenous families, communities, and peoples in what is now commonly referred to as Canada.
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School Emergency Response Training and Annual Drills:
Each year our school must conduct drills to ensure staff and students are prepared in the event of a real emergency.
The following number of drills are required each school year:
· Three (3) fire drills in the fall and three (3) fire drills in the spring
· Two (2) lockdown drills
· One (1) tornado drill
· One (1) bomb threat drill
For each of these drills, there is an education component to explain why they are necessary. All drills are conducted in a manner that is sensitive to the needs of our students. (email sent Sept. 17/24 with more details)
Important Dates:
Sept. 23: Book Fair (starts)
Sept. 26: Open House (5:30 – 7:00pm)
Sept. 27: Terry Fox and Rowan’s Law Day (wear purple)
Sept. 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation /Orange Shirt Day
Oct. 14: Thanksgiving
Oct. 16: IEPs go home
Oct. 16: Gr. 7 Vaccinations
Oct. 24: JK,SK, Gr. 2 Dental Screening
Oct. 25: PD Day