Dear Parents of our Kindergarten Students:
We would like to welcome you to Edgemont School and look forward to working with you and your child(ren) in the upcoming school year. We know that you will have many questions and have tried to anticipate many of them here so that you can make your own plans for June and September. Registration Registration will begin on Monday January 9, 2017, at 8:30am in the Panorama Room in Edgemont Community Centre (attached to Edgemont School). Welcome to Kindergarten: An Information Meeting for Parents & Kindergarten Children: We will hold information meetings after school and in the early evening on Thursday, June 1st, 2017. Please set aside the date and we will provide more information about times by the end of April. A.M. or P.M. Class Placement: At Edgemont School we offer half day Kindergarten classes and parents may express a preference for either the AM or PM program. The academic content of both programs is the same. The process for determining who attends which program is as follows:
School Fees & Bus Transportation: Fees are determined by the CBE Board of Trustees in the spring of each year and we encourage all families to set up an online CBE account in order to pay the fees. Transportation is offered to those families who live beyond the walk limit. There is a transportation fee for this service and forms need to be completed in June. We will provide all the details on setting up an online CBE account and bus registration at “Welcome to Kindergarten.” School Calendar: We operate on the CBE traditional calendar which can be accessed at http://cbe.ab.ca/registration/calendars/Pages/default.aspx. Please look on the right hand side for the tentative 2017-2018 calendar. We will personalize this calendar for Edgemont School by adding 3 additional professional days and will post a copy of the final calendar on our website in June. School Hours: Kindergarten students receive approximately 475 hours of instruction. Each year we adjust our school hours depending on the number of school days there are during the year. We anticipate that our morning classes will run from approximately 9:00 to 11:40 and our afternoon class will run from approximately12:50 to 3:30. Homeroom Teachers: We staff our school in June and August. Parents and children will learn who the Kindergarten classroom teachers will be on the day before school starts. Students will be assigned a specific classroom teacher by the end of the first week of school. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): We have attached the questions which parents most often ask so that you can review them now (under the Resources button in the upper right corner of this webpage). If you have further questions that you hope to have answers for would you please add them to the google doc link so that we can attend to them during Welcome to Kindergarten or in a future communication: Kindergarten Questions from Parents. We have added important resources on the buttons on the top right. Please click the link to see. We look forward to meeting with you and answering more questions at Welcome to Kindergarten. The Staff of Edgemont School Comments are closed.
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