With spring upon us, warmer weather and longer daylight hours result in students wanting to stay after hours to play in the schoolyard. Please remember that the yard is only supervised by staff until 3:50 pm. After this time, students remaining in the yard should be supervised by a caregiver. We have had a number of incidents recently involving unsupervised students in the yard after school hours. Although the yard is only to be used by Allenby students up until 6:00 pm we cannot monitor this on a daily basis. If you ever have concerns, please call or visit the school office, or if after hours, contact TDSB’s Call Centre at 416-395-4620. Working together, we can help make our school community as safe as possible.<\/p>\n
The office staff have been fielding many calls in recent weeks with messages from parents to be given to their children throughout the school day. There are over 800 students at Allenby and I know that you can appreciate the number of calls that Jamie and Renee field daily. These calls should not include reminders for children, play date information, check ins or anything that is not urgent as they not only take Jamie and Renee away from their work, but disrupt the learning taking place in the classroom (as the classroom phone rings in the middle of a lesson) and don’t facilitate the independence and responsibility we are trying to instill in our students. Please use your child’s agenda for reminders and plan play dates, etc. in advance. <\/p>\n
Thank you for your ongoing support and assistance with these two items.<\/p>\n
Tracey O’Toole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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