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Archive | School News
Fall Food Drive
This year, Allenby will participating in the North York Harvest Food Bank’s Thanksgiving Food Drive. As an independent, charitable organization, it is one of the largest food banks in Toronto, distributing 1.6 million pounds of food in 2010 through 60 community programs. Last year, families and individuals in northern Toronto received nearly 150,000 food hampers […]
Curriculum Night Change
Because we are working through realignment of classes in Grades 1 – 3 and are most likely going to be reorganizing in kindergarten, we will postpone Curriculum Night to Wednesday October 5th. The Book Fair scheduled for next week will also be rescheduled to happen during that week.
First Day of School
Kindergarten During the first week, all kindergarten staff will be in the playground to welcome the students. Grades 1 – 6 On Tuesday, classroom numbers will be posted along the fences in the schoolyard and we ask you to take your children there to meet up with the teacher. The teachers will explain the line […]
Teaching Staff Update
Grade 1 French Immersion, Room 007: Due to unexpected circumstances, Caroline Rosta will not be returning this September. We have hired Eva Chau-Wolpert, who comes to us from the York District School Board where she has had 7 years experience in early French Immersion. Grade 1 Room 204: In case you missed the news in […]
Code of Conduct
During the first weeks of school, teachers will be revisiting Allenby’s Code of Conduct, which is as follows: At Allenby we show respect. We are safe. We are caring. We are responsible. We use our hands, feet and objects in respectful ways. We treat others the way we would like to be treated. We follow […]
June message from the Principal
Dear Parents/Guardians, Here are some final news items for the year from the school. Grade 6 Graduation This exciting event in the lives of our Grade 6 students will take place on June 28th. Some students will be selected to take a role in the proceedings and three awards will be given. The Allenby Cup, […]
Year-end sports news
It has, as always, been a busy term in sports, with many of our students participating in Track and Field, and our Soccer Teams participating in conference games. Here is Mr. G’s update. Track and Field There were about 50 participants from Allenby in this year;’s South Conference Track and Filed Meet at U. of […]
Staffing update
We have determined the teaching staff assignments for next year, with two vacancies still to fill, as follows: Regular Stream French Immersion JK (Rm 108ª) Elva Alvarez SK (Rm 108b) Adrienne Duncan JK/ SK (Rm 110) Rachel Kanarek SK (Rm 101) Michelle Lalanne JK/SK (Rm 109) Cathy Britchford Gr. 1 (Rm 103) Gail Zuill Gr. 1 (Rm […]
Class Models
For those that missed the March APA meeting, there was a lengthy discussion on proposed Class Models for the 2011-2012 school year. It was quite productive in that the attendees were able to comment on possible scenarios in both English and French and ask a variety of questions and give direct feedback to Jennie Ucar […]