JUNE is National Indigenous History Month and Pride Month

June 13/14 – Intermediate Trip – Camp Iawah

June 14 - Vreeken to BSS - Coding

June 16th – Ultimate Frisbee Tournament @ Woodbine Park

June 17th - SPIRIT DAY - Rainbows and Unicorn Day

June 17th - Discover Kindergarten Event 3:30-4:30

June 19th: Father's Day

June 21st - Vreeken to Treetop Trekking

June 23rd - Jarbeau, Tidman, Dowdell, Boriotis to Buzz Lightyear

June 24th - Hamilton, Ewing, Barling, Vreeken to Henderson Pool

June 27th - Queen's Engineering sessions with Junior classes

June 28th - Grade 8 Graduation and Boat Cruise

June 29th - End of Year Assembly

June 30th - PA day - no classes for students. Staff appreciation from School Advisory Council

Creating class lists is a shared task by our team of educators who spend a significant amount of time getting to know your child, discovering their academic, social and emotional needs in educational settings both inside and outside of the classroom. Each year we want to build the best possible learning environments for all learners. Our school team considers a wide range of factors including overall number of students in each grade (if a split grade), student learning styles and personalities, number of boys and girls, academic strengths and needs, peer relationships, learning skills and work habits, and social/ emotional strengths and needs.

All classrooms, whether a single grade or a combined grade, include students performing at a wide range of achievement levels. We meet the needs of all learners in a classroom through differentiated instruction with a focus on developing critical thinking skills, and by providing modifications and accommodations for various learning needs. In every case, Lancaster staff put great thought into creating responsive classroom learning environments that will support the success of all students.

If you wish to make a request for class placement for next year we ask parents to communicate to your child's classroom teacher about his/her needs as a learner rather than a specific teacher's name. Teacher assignments can change for many reasons (illness, transfer, leave of absence, etc.) and what does not change are your child's needs. This sharing can serve to further inform our team of educators while creating class lists but does not guarantee a particular placement.

Please also keep in mind that our school organization may change before the first day of school, based on new registrations from families moving into our catchment area, or those who may have moved out of our catchment area over the summer. As a result, information about your child’s class placement will not be available until the first day of school.

TENTATIVE ORGANIZATION FOR 2022-23

JK/SK

JK/SK

SK/1

Grade 1

Grade 1/2

Grade 2/3

Grade 3

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 4/5

Grade 5

Grade 6

Grade 6/7

Grade 7/8

Grade 7/8

Parent, guardian and community volunteers play an essential role in our school communities. We welcome the participation of volunteers who bring a wide range of talents and skills to school life that enrich and support both students and staff.

Board policy states that people wishing to volunteer are required to complete a mandatory screening process that includes a police criminal record check, sometimes better known as a CPIC. This excludes guest speakers or presenters but does include parents/guardians attending school field trips who will be assuming supervision responsibilities for students. Where, at the request of the principal, a parent/guardian is participating on a field to attend to the needs of their child, a CPIC may not be required (a condition of this situation must be that this parent is never alone with children other than their own). In this case, an offense declaration would be acceptable. These situations must be discussed in advance with the school principal.

CPICs must be updated and approved every three years. During interim years, volunteers must complete the annual Offence Declaration Form. Volunteers are encouraged to complete their CPIC application forms early in the school year, as there may be a waiting period involved with the processing and approval. Currently, there is variability on whether or not school volunteers are charged for the police criminal record check.

Kingston Police offers an automated online system for submitting your CPIC for approval.

Ontario Provincial Police requires you to download the form and then take it to your nearest OPP Detachment for approval.

You may also obtain copies of the applications from your school.

For the 2021-2022 school year, all volunteers are required to follow the LDSB Mandatory Vaccination Disclosure Protocol.

All volunteers are required to sign in and out of the office as do all school visitors. You may be asked to wear a visitor pass while in the school.

The School Advisory Council for Lancaster Drive Public School would like to invite you to join our Lancaster Connect community directory. We want to connect with you and provide a way for you to find people or resources within our school community. The School Advisory Council funds a wide range of activities for the school and we would like to utilize and support businesses within our school community wherever possible. Please join us in creating this community directory by providing your business and contact information below. Once we collect all of the responses, we will share the link to the directory in the weekly school newsletter "Together in Education". You can print out the paper copy and send it in with your child to school or use the Google link in next week's newsletter.

Did you know there is a function available that will allow you to translate our newsletter into a preferred language? Use this feature as indicated in the image below.

Need labels for your kids belongings – simply hop onto www.mabelslabels.com and click on “support a fundraiser” scroll through until you see our school then do your shopping – 20% of all sales go to our school fundraising efforts – how easy is that!!