​Please find below important reminders regarding field trips, bussing and outdoor recess.

Reminders:

Grade 3 Parents & Caregivers: please complete the Learn to Play registration.  Contact your child's homeroom teacher or Mrs. Palmer if you have any questions.

Grade 4 & 5 Parents & Caregivers: please return the Interschool Basketball permission forms to Mr. McKennzie by January 10th. (Practices will take place from 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.)  The Interschool Basketball Friendship Tournament takes place on Friday March 1 from 1 - 3:00 PM.

Grade 1- 3 Parents and Caregivers: please return the WSO January 15th, 2019  Afternoon Field Trip permisson forms to your child's homeroom teacher.  The cost is $6.25 per student (https://sjsd.schoolcashonline.com) Thank you to Parent Council for covering the cost of the bus transportation.

Grade 4 & 5  Parents and Caregivers: please return the WSO May 15, 2019 Afternoon Field Trip permisson forms to your child's homeroom teacher.  The cost is $6.25 per student (https://sjsd.schoolcashonline.com) Thank you to Parent Council for covering the cost of the bus transportation.

Bus Cancellations

When the weather is too cold for buses to be running (a wind chill hazard of -45°C or greater) the Metro Superintendents make a decision to cancel buses and relay this message to their transportation departments and administration. This decision is determined based on the weather conditions at 6:00 a.m. taken by Environment Canada at The Forks.

Outdoor Recess Guidelines

1. Recess will take place out-of-doors whenever possible.

2. When the weather is questionably cold, principals or their designate will contact the nearest Environment Canada weather office (983-2050) and determine the "wind chill hazard", at the Forks, at that time.

3. Having determined the wind chill hazard and its relative movement, the principal will announce "indoor recess" if the wind chill hazard is at or over -28°C. When the wind chill hazard is between –25°C and –28°C, outdoor recess may be allowed but under no circumstances will children be allowed outside for longer than ten minutes.

4. On days when there is insufficient wind to produce a wind chill hazard reading, temperature will be the determinant concerning indoor recess. If the temperature is -29°C or lower, recess will be indoors. If the temperature is between -25°C and -28°C, outdoor recess may be allowed, but for no longer than ten minutes.