IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

September 4 – No school (Labour Day)

September 5 - Apple Fundraiser orders due (See news story for details)

September 7 (Thursday) - SPIRIT DAY: Wear Your Grade Team Colours (Kinder=Red; Grade One=Orange; Grade Two=Yellow; Grade Three=Green; Grade Four=Green; Grade Five=Purple)

September 15 - Completed Parent Questionnaires due back to the school

September 15 - Grades 2, 3, 4, 5 - Digital Citizenship Forms due back to school with signatures

 

LUNCHROOM SUPERVISION SERVICES

Lunch supervision services provide participating students with supervision while they are eating and during the lunch period activities. Families of students staying at school during the lunch period are required to pay the annual Lunch Supervision Fee. Revenue from these fees are used by schools to hire lunchroom supervisors. Income tax receipts are issued for Lunch Supervision Fee: Receipts may be included as childcare expenses for income tax purposes.

 

Children are not required to participate in lunch supervision services if other arrangements are made for their supervision outside of the school and families have taken responsibility for ensuring care is provided.

 

At Northern Lights School, lunch supervision is provided for students in Grades 1 and 2 from 11:30 am – 12:10 pm and for Grades 3, 4, and 5 from 12:15 – 12:55 pm.

 

Students have approximately 20 minutes to eat and 20 minutes outside to play. If a child requires more eating time, this is permitted and accommodated for. No children are told they have to be done eating and must go outside before they are finished.

 

If you notice that your child is not eating their lunch, please reach out to your child’s teacher so they can communicate with the lunch supervisor. This will help us address the situation. 

 

Families can register and pay by using MyCBE/PowerSchool. 

 

For questions on waivers parents can email feewaiver@cbe.ab.ca  

For general program inquiries parents can email noonservices@cbe.ab.ca  

Information for parents can be found at this link: Fees & Waivers

 

REMINDERS

• Students need to bring their own spoons and forks for their snacks and lunch.
• Pack in, pack out - Lunch garbage and uneaten food is to be taken home. (With the exception of open yogurts or apple sauces, etc. that would make a big mess.)

 

WE ARE AN ‘ALLERGY AWARE’ SCHOOL

Northern Lights School is an Allergy Aware school and has many safety protocols in place for students with severe or life-threatening allergies. Due to the extreme wide range of food allergies (including peanuts, tree nuts, sesame seeds, milk, wheat, strawberries, eggs, soy, fish and shell fish just to name a few), we are not allergen free. 

 

While we are not allergen free and do not ban any foods, in many classrooms that have students with severe allergies, many families attempt to reduce the allergen present by choosing to send other foods with their child.

 

If your child has medical needs, severe allergies, or medications / Epi-Pens that they will be storing at school, please fill in the Student Health Plan and the Student Health Emergency Response Protocol, and send the forms in with the medications as soon as possible.

 

Mrs. Michelle Brinson, Principal

Mrs. Charney Docherty, Assistant Principal