On Friday, March 27, for Allenby’s Earth Hour, the Grade 4/5 students in room 204, along with their student teacher, Madame Xuereb (Mme X.), painted birds to raise awareness for the Toronto based FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Program). Since 1993, the non-profit organization FLAP Canada has raised awareness about the dangers that our bright city […]
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Principal’s Message
Tomorrow is Pizza Day and Allenby’s CRAZY HAIR DAY Spirit Day. Come to school with your craziest hair-do ever! Congratulations go to Brian Aber who placed 2nd in the 2015 Concours Oratoire du TDSB. The speech was about his experience at Le camp Kennebec.
Principal’s Message
The Allenby staff wish all of our families a wonderful March break and hope that everyone gets outside for daily physical activity. Fitness levels of children and youth have declined significantly and meaningfully since 1981, regardless of age or sex. This decline in fitness may result in accelerated chronic disease development, an increase for health […]
Principal’s Message
Earlier this week, the Minister of Education released the updated Health and Physical Education Curriculum, with changes to the sexual education segment of the document. Also released was a Parent’s Guide to help discussing the new elements of the curriculum with kids at home. While acknowledging that teaching about some topics should be between parents […]
Principal’s Message
Everyone knows that Allenby promotes walking to school as much as possible, particularly for our older students in grades 4 through 6. If, however, you do need to pick up a student at the end of the school day, we ask that you park one block west of the school OR if your child is […]
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Allenby is striving to maintain its GOLD ECO Schools status with various new programmes being implemented or planned for 2015. Currently, we are having students read a daily ECO tip of the day (e.g., turning down the thermostat in the winter and wearing warm clothing indoors while remembering to use less A/C in the summer […]
Principal’s Message
The Allenby school yard is supervised from 8:45 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. each school day morning. Students are not to arrive at school before 8:45 a.m. unless they are accompanied by an adult who will remain in the school yard until 8:45 a.m. Thank you for your cooperation and support.
Principal’s Message
Progress Reports went home in November and First Term Report Cards for all students in grades 1-6 will be sent home on Tuesday, February 10. This Report Card will continue to communicate your child’s strengths, weaknesses and next steps relative to achievement of the curriculum expectations for each subject area as well as the learning […]
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It has been a busy week at Allenby with Gord Martineau from CityNews visiting a Grade 4 Project Give Back class on Tuesday to hear Leah Riczker talk about her charity of choice, the Herbie Fund, AND our Showcase #2 on Wednesday night. Spelling Bee practices started this week for students who are interested in […]
Principal’s Message
Allenby is very excited to be preparing for Showcase #2 using our new sound equipment which was purchased with APA funds. In order to provide seating for all and also adhere to Fire Regulations, the school will have to continue to limit tickets to TWO for each performing student. The APA will once again be […]