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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Superintendent ..................... 2
Human Resources ................. 3
Curriculum ............................ 4
Transportation ...................... 5
Technology ............................ 6
Around BTPS......................7-11
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BUFFALO TRAIL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1041 10A Street
Wainwright, AB T9W 2R4
P: 780.842.6144
F: 780.842.3255
www.btps.ca
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Superintendent’s Memo
For the Week of November 20h - 24th, 2017
FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT...
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Your Board of Trustees has been very busy! Last week they attended the Fall General Meeting of the Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta. The PSBAA is an organization of 28 public school boards that advocates for public school education. This was a very busy couple of days and evenings attending to the important work of this association. Trustees had the opportunity to engage our MLA’s in conversation about the challenges experienced by school boards in the current educational climate. The message carried by your trustees echoed the importance of rural school programs and how there needs to be a focus on ensuring that students in all of our schools have opportunities that are available to other students in the province. Another part of the PSBAA event, Student Voice, was particularly exciting. This event provided opportunity for students to interact with other students from across the province as well as engage trustees and MLA’s in conversation and share their perspectives on educational issues. One of the highlights was the face-to-face interaction with Minister Eggen and the opportunity to share ideas! BTPS was very pleased to have four of our students as active participants. Edgerton students, Evan Fenske and Heidi Spornitz, along with their teacher, Brande Manzer, as well as Irma students, Easton Gwinn and Katelyn Jones with their teacher, David McKillop participated in Student Voice. We appreciated their enthusiasm and commitment to sharing their perspectives with all who attended. We will gather some of their impressions of this event and share them with you in an upcoming memo.
MISSION: Buffalo Trail Public Schools is committed to maximizing student learning,
in a safe and caring environment, supported by a highly effective team.
SUPERINTENDENT CONTINUED…..
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On Sunday and over the next two days, your trustees will be attending the Alberta School Boards Association Fall General Meeting. This organization is an assembly of the 61 public, separate and francophone school boards in the province. During this FGM, the ASBA membership will elect their slate of officers, discuss current issues common to all school boards and address policy positions on a variety of topics. Topics are thoroughly debated and a wide variety of perspectives contribute to the conversation. The wishes of the ASBA are forwarded to government for their consideration. Currently policy positons being tabled at this year’s FGM include:
Funding Framework Review Wrap Around Services School Zones/Playground Speed Limits High School Redesign Funding
There are also proposed emergent issues that were brought to the floor for the consideration of the assembly and decisions will be made to determine if they will be allowed. All in all, it is a very interesting event and your Board of Trustees is heavily involved in the decision making process. Typically, these are long days and require a significant amount of work for trustees in attendance.
Take care,
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Support Staff Conference 2017
Registration is now open!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the Support Staff Conference being held on
November 24th at JR Robson High School is now open!
There are two options of registering for the conference:
1) Register on-line by clicking the link below:
https://www.learning-network.org/conference-register/5
(If you click on the title of the workshop you will see the session description)
When registering on-line you have the option of paying the registration fee with a credit card.
2) Print the last page of the attached conference brochure and fax it to the Learning Network office @: 780-623-2278.
When registering via fax there is not an option to pay your registration fee’s with a credit card.
PLEASE NOTE: When registering by fax for the Support Staff Conference it is
important to select three choices in the morning and three choices in the afternoon.
Many of the sessions fill quickly and when registrants don’t select more than one
choice Learning Network staff then have to follow up with registrants by phone to have
participants select additional choices.
We would like to encourage all staff to use the on-line registration system as it is very user
friendly and easy to use.
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CURRICULUM
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November/ December Learning
Network Sessions can be found
here
Canadian Geographic has great education re-
sources for classroom teachers K—12. Subscribe to
their free newsletter to get monthly activities and re-
sources delivered right to your inbox. Especially cool are:
World Maps, designed/drawn by kids
geographically based
games
interactive maps
Canadian Geographic, along with many others, is also
sponsoring this amazing project: A Kids’ Guide to Cana-
da—By Kids, For Kids (grades K—8). From January 1,
2017—June 30, 2018, elementary students from across
the country are being challenged to collaborate together,
to increase peer-to-peer connections, inquiry and to
deepen learning.
The First Page...
CBC books is hosting a new
creative writing contest for
students in grades 7 – 12.
Contest closes Nov.30 @ 6
p.m. Full contest details
here.
Ag for Life has great classroom resources for teach-
ers. Especially great are the lesson plans and support
resources for Growing Food at school; a great project for
the long Alberta winters! Alberta curriculum links to Sci-
ence, Social Studies, ELA and CTF! Teaching AG in the
classroom is also a wonderful way to invite intellectual
engagement and make authentic learning connections to
local producers/ business people.
Kindergarten—Grade 3, Lesson Plans for Growing Food
at School
Grade 4—6, Lesson Plans
for Growing Food at School
Grade 10—12, Lesson
Plans for Growing Food at
School
First Nations, Métis and
Inuit Education Resources
Indigenous artists
from Saskatchewan
and around Canada
collaborate and create
educational workshops
that will broadcast
online to students in
grades 3 to 8 in
schools from coast to
coast. You can access
these broadcasts here. Check them out!
Upcoming
Learning
Opportunities
Blanket Exercise- Train the Trainer
Presenter: Glenda Bristow
November 28, 2017— St. Paul Regional
High School
Cost: $55.00 More Info/ Register
Teacher Talks: Deconstructing the
TQS Webinar
Presenters: Shannon Loutitt & Cheryl
Devin
December 5, 2017 —online
Cost: Free! More Info/ Register
Indigenous Canada
A U of A MOOC (Massive Open Online
Learning Course).
Course starts Nov. 27, 2017 & runs for 12
weeks
Cost: Free! More Info/ Register
Education for Reconciliation—ecourse
Presenter: Donna Ross
January 15—March 15, 2018
Cost: FREE More Info/ Register
TRANSPORTATION
The Transportation Department is pleased to announce the BTPS winners of this year’s School Bus Safety Week Poster Contest. All entries were also sent to the ASTAC provincial poster contest. Thank you to the teachers who submitted their student’s entries, they represented the theme of Rider Rules = Safe to School very well. Please let me know when you have an assembly or class that Mason or I can present awards to the winners.
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School Grade Winner Teacher
AMK 1 Piper Pearson Emma Thomas
2 Mercedes Redekop Jeanene Dewald
3 Cayden Lunseth Kelsey Pillman
CHV 1 Emilie Grenier Allison O'Callaghan
2 Gabrielle Snow Allison O'Callaghan
3 Rayna Schaffer Brenda Chapman
4 Emily Prokopetz Brenda Chapman
CLD K-3 Grace Wyness Geralyn McCormack/Janice Jackson
4-6 Khye Jackson Janice Jackson/Geralyn McCormack
KES 4 Cassia Severin Bryna Hamilton
5 Jayna Garnier Miranda Drew
MAN 3 Julianna McKillop Denise Campbell
4 Racheal Shubert Gisele Amero
5 Ashlyn Hinton Nicole Riedel
6 Josslyn Smith Erin Hinton
MAR 1 Oliver Wood Raelle Kissick
2 Molly Yustak Raelle Kissick
5 Orysha Saskiw Jennifer Quist
6 Janae Clayton Carmen Unland
PV 5 Ainsley Willis Darci MacMillan
6 Joel Davidson Loni Sittler
VES 4 Haylee Cusack Greg Haslehurst
5 Kirsten Selte Brian Harvey
WES 3 Aubrey Ruptash Angela Golinowski
TRANSPORTATION CONTINUED…
The Student Transportation Association of Alberta (STAA) is requesting nomina-tions for their annual Bus Driver of the Year Award. If you or your school has a bus driver that goes above and beyond the call of duty to transport students safely to and from school you can nominate them for Bus Driver of the Year. Click here for details on who is eligible and how to nominate.
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EXTRAS
How many of our
students attended
Student Voice?
Answer here.
DEB WRIGHT @ CENTRAL OFFICE
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Congratulations to the Marwayne Jr Girls Volleyball players shown here with their winning banner for the BTJHAA.
I challenged the Grade 6 students of Hughenden Public School to donate six boxes for Christmas
wish.
Well this group surpassed this challenge and they achieved 15 boxes and $40 donated towards the
shipping! Congrats to them!
Submitted by: Lara Ledger
Players Left to Right: Taryn Faltermeier, Tiana Stafford, Daryn Hines, Kyla Person, Molly Froehlich, Shelby Hames, Mackenzie Stafford, Isabel Shin, Shae Strunk and coach Deb Froehlich.
Submitted by: Marina Stafford
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Grade 4 CR at PPS kicked off community
by opening their box of SWAG and putting
on gorgeous new t-shirts and wristbands
that identify them as members of the Class-
room Champions Community! Thank you!
For their November visit to the Continuing
Care Center, they were very proud to ex-
plain to all who asked why they had match-
ing t-shirts and what they meant. After
splitting up to join residents at tables, stu-
dents helped them to use recycled juice
cartons to make winter bird feeders. These
handy crafts tied in nicely to their study of Waste and Our World and helping the residents and the birds
to get through winter was seen as a great way to improve our community! Hearing about how different
squirrels do not have a true hibernation and only some birds migrate from the former Conservation Of-
ficer who now lives there was a perk of our visit with seniors this week. Discussing different kinds of
seeds to attract different feathered friends over the winter was helpful. The children and residents look
forward to hanging these in their windows in the months to come to welcome the birds to the
community.
Submitted by: Laureen Clarke-
Rennie
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Some great CTF projects from Marwayne School on display for Parent Teacher Interview night.
Submitted by: Wayne Lewin
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Some great CTF projects from Marwayne School on display for Parent Teacher Interview night.
Submitted by: Wayne Lewin
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Thank you to Gayle Soucy. She taught the Irma School Grade 7-8 Home Ec class to decorate with different techniques. The results were amazing!!
Submitted by: Jennifer Falle