Dear Students and Families,

Welcome to your grade 4 or grade 5 year! I’m happy to be working with you this school year, and I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone. This year, part of my job here at UHE will be as head teacher. So during the times I’m working in the office, Ms. Sam will be teaching in the classroom. Also this fall, we will have a student teacher from SFU, Ms. Gammon, teaching and learning alongside us.

Here are a few things to know as we start off:

Arriving and Leaving School

Division 5 will be entering and exiting at the side door near the community entrance. There is a sign in the window beside our door for “Division 5.” If you need to pick up your child early or there is an appointment that will delay their arrival to school, please send me an email as a heads up, and sign in/out your child at the office. I know mornings can be hectic, but please try to arrive to school on time, as late arrivals can be disruptive.

Planners

Students will be bringing home a planner soon. We will write in the planners each day, and the students should be taking the initiative to share their planner with you at home. They should be prepared to answer any questions you have about what they have written. We will be working on recording information clearly and concisely, ensuring we include enough detail to be understood. Your child will bring you a pen to sign their planner, and it is their responsibility to ensure their planner travels to and from school with them each day.

Our class keeps an online planner board linked in the menu of this website, so feel free to cross-reference it at home.

School Supplies

We are hoping that all students have their supplies by the end of next week at the latest. Please find the grade 4/5 supplies list linked here.  Tip: if you have a big box of pencils, for example, it’s a good idea to only send a few to school and keep a stash at home (so they don’t all end up in the lost and found box).

Students need appropriate shoes for the gym, and clothing they can move in. On those rainy/snowy “boots days,” students should have inside shoes (and sometimes even a change of socks and/or clothes). These items can hang in a fabric bag on their coat hook.

More information will come along as needed once schedules and routines become established. Feel free to send us an email if you have any questions.

School Expectations

While we go over these expectations as a class, please also take some time to review them with your child. They can be found linked in the menu on my website, here.

Chat soon 🙂

Ms. Coutts and Ms. Sam