On March 1st, the government of Alberta will lift many of the COVID restrictions throughout the province, continuing the process that began a few weeks ago. For schools this will mean the following:

Adults in schools will not be required to wear masks, though they are welcome to do so. This applies to staff and parent volunteers.

Students wearing masks in school is a parental choice. ( If you would like masks we have some to give away please let me know.)

Schools will begin the process of re-integrating classes beyond cohorts. This will mean the return to school assemblies, parents, in school, in-person school functions, spectators at school events, field trips that intermingle with the public etc.

• Cohorts can mix at recess.
• Masking is not required by any adults in the building.
• Field trips can intermingle with the public.
• For parent-teacher interviews, March 23 & 24, parents will choose how they want to participate in interviews. Realizing we have students whose parents have never been in the school many parents may want in the building. Parents will have the option of an in-person, or virtual meeting. (more information to sign up will come out next week)
• Parents will continue to drop off and pick up children outside their child's designated doors.
• Gathering as a school for assemblies will start after spring break.

It has been a long two years of varying levels of restrictions. The next month or two will represent a time of transition to what we all hope is a return to normal.

THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING AHS & EICS's Covid Protocols!

If your child is ill or is in close contact, please follow the AHS Daily Checklist guidelines.

If you are not sure what to do, you can call 811.

PLEASE CLICK THE LINK below for EICS Plan

Please click the blue box below ... this will take you to AHS Daily Check List

1. NEW Kindergarten FULL DAY EVERY DAY 8:30 am - 3:15 pm ... FEE $425 month

will run if there is community interest.

2. Kindergarten is full days 8:30 am to 3:15 pm

Monday, Wednesday, and designated Fridays

3. Kindergarten full days 8:30am - 3:15 pm

Tuesday, Thursday, and designated Fridays

4. Kindergarten Pathways (5-year-old students with specialized assessments)

... criteria or entrance https://www.eics.ab.ca/programs/pathways-program

5. Pre K - PUF Pathways (3 & 4-year Early Intervention with specialized assessments)

... criteria for entrance https://www.eics.ab.ca/programs/kindergarten/early-intervention

MARCH

9 - class 2/3 H field trip to Telus World of Science

10 - Swimming Lesson 1F, 1N

10 - Last Swimming Lesson 2/3H, 2S Final Lesson

10 Tournament of Books ... continuing

Sat. March 12th @ 5:00 pm Mass at OLPH First Holy Communion for Madonna Students

16 - No Library

17 -Last Swimming Lesson 1F, 1N

17 - Wear Green -- St. Patricks Days

21 - Indigenous Floor Map of Canada ... will be in the school for this week

23 - 3 Way Conferences

24 - 3 Way Conferences

24 - Gotcha Assembly

25 - No School ... Day In Lieu

SPRING BREAK MARCH 25 - APRIL 1 ....STUDENTS COME BACK ON APRIL 4

April

4 - Students Back at School

6 - Early Dismissal School is out at 2:15 pm

7- School Spirit Day

15- Good Friday No School

18 - Easter Monday No School

22 - Earth Day ... Students Wear Blue and Green

25 - Kinder M/W Spring Fever Event

26 - Kinder T/TH Spring Fever Event

28 - EASTER MASS our school only

29 - Gotcha Assembly

May

2nd - 6th Catholic Education Week

2 - Rosary Walk

6 - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ... PD day for staff

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting. We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ's will more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ's death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ.