URGENT - STrong Beginnings REgistration K-8Friday, September 6th WAS the deadline for K-8 parents to register their student(s) our annual Strong Beginnings appointments. Thank you to the numerous families who met the deadline. We appreciate your work as it is a large undertaking to ensure all families register for their assessment session(s). If you have not registered yet, please do so before NOON on Tuesday, September 10th. The link to register is https://morris-rrvsd.schoolsoft.com/login.jsf. If you don't register online, the teachers will need to call you directly to book an appointment. That will take time away from preparing and working with your student(s). It is essential for all students to have an appointment by Tuesday. To review, Strong Beginnings is a MANDATORY assessment that occurs early in September for students in Kindergarten to Grade 8. On Friday, September 13 and Monday, September 16, 2019, children will attend school by appointment for approximately 60 minutes to participate in assessment activities. The appointments on these days replace regular classes. This is an opportunity for teachers to extend and consolidate their understanding of each child in order to plan for instruction. This, in turn, will effectively address unique learning needs as early as possible in the new school year. If you have any questions about booking an appointment, please call the school. Grade 5/6's off to CampMorris School has teamed with the Tim Hortons Foundation to provide our Grade 5/6's a great opportunity for leadership development during the next school year. We have applied and been accepted to be part of the Foundation's Community Leaders program for the 2019-20 school year. Our Grade 5/6's will travel to the Tim Hortons' Camp in the Whiteshell twice next year (September and April). In between the two visits, the Grade 5/6's will be responsible for planning and executing a low to no-cost community improvement initiative in Morris. The first trip is set for Tuesday, September 17 to Thursday, September 19. Returning students had documentation sent home with their June Report Cards. New students/families will/have receive/received documents from their classroom teacher. We would ask those documents to be returned by this Wednesday (September 11th). Since all students are invited/expected to attend the camp, formal Grade 5/6 classes will not be offered on those days as our teachers will be at the camp. Please indicate to your respective classroom teacher if your student will be attending the camp. Please do so by Wednesday, September 11th as we need to plan accoridingly. The camp experience is designed to develop life and leadership skills which will provide the building blocks for youth engagement. We hope to build off the camp experience by working with our Grade 5/6's to become larger leaders within our K-6 sub-community within Morris School. The camp is a no cost camp for our students, so we are extremely grateful to the Red River Valley School Division for allowing us to attend, for the Tim Hortons Foundation for providing the opportunity, and for the greater community for donating to Camp Day earlier in the year. Your donations have allowed us to be a part of this tremendous learning opportunity. Safe Arrival - online attendanceFor those families new to Morris School, we use online software to administer attendance. One of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely to school every day. To improve our safe arrival process, we've add SafeArrival to make it easier for you to report and respond to school absences of your student. The app can be downloaded on your digital device (phone, tablet, etc). If you student(s) will be away from school, you can use the App 24/7 to notify the school. The student absence reporting system will let you use a website, interactive toll-free phone line, or mobile app, to report an absence in advance. As a result, it will take the school less time to verify student attendance, and less time to begin to notify parents/guardians of absences that were unexpected or unplanned. This time saving feature makes it faster and more efficient to account for all students and their safety. How does it work? If your child is marked absent, and the absence hasn’t been explained in advance, our new SafeArrival system will be able to rapidly contact you by automated phone call, text message, email, or mobile app push notification (coming soon), and ask for a reason for the absence. Calls and contacts will continue until you choose an option to explain the absence. This new, automated SafeArrival process is part of our SchoolMessenger notification system and will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to make it convenient for you to report future absences. The system with Morris School starts by teachers taking attendance at the beginning of class. Some students will be absent. Those who are absent AND had their parents notify the school will not receive notification from SafeArrival. After teachers take attendance, the front office staff pulls the information from that attendance information and sends home the notifications to families who have not notified the school of their student's absence. If your child is late for class, they will be marked absent, you will get a phone call. We have put a process in place where if a student is late, they must check into the office, get a late slip and bring it to the teacher. This is so we can account for the students that are in the building. The phone call will still go home until the child checks into the office, then they will be entered as late into the system, which means you will then get a notification that your child was late. If you have any questions or are having issues getting logged into the School Messenger App, please call (204-746-2612 ext. 3222 or email lkeck@rrvsd. Picking up students during the school dayWe would ask all parents/guardians need to pick up their student(s) during the school day to please check in at the Morris School Welcome Centre (the office). We will ensure your student meets you in the office in time for you to make your appointment. This applies to all students (K-12). If a senior years' student is leaving on their own for any reason, they should be checking out at the office. The above procedures are for the safety and accountability of our students. If you are coming to the school to visit your student's classroom, please check in at the office first. Picking up and dropping off studentsTo ensure an efficient and effective drop off and pick up process of non-bus students, we would ask you to not park in the circle at the east end of Morris School (by the play structure). An unoccupied circle allows cars to easily turn around and exit. We would also appreciate vehicles not accessing or parking in the bus area before and after school while our students are arriving or leaving for the day. We appreciate your cooperation. Paying student fees onlineA variety of fees will be due during the year (Student Fees, Art Supplies, Band Fees, Hockey Academy, Sport Team Registrations, etc.) at Morris School. The Red River Valley School Division has an online payment system that can be accessed via the school's website (https://morris.rrvsd.ca) to conveniently pay for these fees. You can find it under the For Parents menu item. It is called School Cash. Your ability to pay online also assists our front office staff as it reduces the amount of cash (bills & change) and cheques on a daily basis. This allows our front office staff to directly serve our students and staff more effectively. We would encourage you to use the School Cash payment method as your main method of payments. Thank you! Morris School's Computing ClubThis club is for Morris School students in Grades 5 through 12 inclusive. Our informational meeting will take place on Thursday, September 26 at Noon. Stay tuned for more information! See Mr. Watson if you have questions. Comments are closed.
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