Below are links to some great information for parents and students:
Looking for a list of peanut-free foods for your children...click on this link: Peanut-Free Foods
Homework Guidelines - Looking for some assistance in helping your child with homework?
St Bonaventure Church Web site is now up and running at www.St-Bonaventure.ca.
Practical and spiritual ways to help children understand the effects of the Tsunami.
Toronto Public Health - copy of the newsletter can be found at www.toronto.ca/health under the School Health Services.
Hello
Everyone,
The Draft 2007 - 2017 Long Term Accommodation Plan (LTAP) has
been prepared in response to, and as a requirement of, the
Ministry of Education's "Good Places to Learn" initiative
announced in February 2005. All School boards are required to
develop and maintain multi-year capital plans as a condition of
funding for accommodation needs. On March 27th the Board of
Trustees approved the draft Long Term Accommodation Plan for
community consultation. The approved draft plan is available on
the web site at www.tcdsb.org
with direct links to details from the home page.
A total of 12 consultation meetings have been on-going for each
of the Trustee Wards since May and will conclude on June 18th.
Letters have been distributed in 11 different languages inviting
our parents and Catholic school supporters to attend their
Trustee Ward meeting. Information has also been distributed to
all parishes regarding these scheduled meeting dates as well as
paid ads in local community papers.
For those attending a consultation meeting, a questionnaire was
distributed to receive feedback. This same questionnaire has
been placed on the TCDSB web site on the home page as an on-line
survey. For your convenience, I provide you with a direct link
to the on-line survey:
http://www.tcdsb.org/ltapSurvey/survey.asp
I encourage you to become familiar with the draft long-term plan
and provide your feedback by responding to the survey. All of
the feedback received will be included as part of a report being
presented to the Board of Trustees in the Fall of 2007. I
would ask that CSAC's encourage parents to complete the on-line
survey/questionnaire.
Thank you,
Mary Jo Deighan
Coordinator, Communications, Public & Media Relations
Toronto Catholic District School Board
Parents with special needs children, are invited to the upcoming SEAC meetings. SEAC meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the TCDSB, 80 Sheppard Ave. E. For more information click on this link.
Ministry of Education launches new parent resource website
The Ministry of Education has launched a new website called abc123.
abc123 features simple and valuable ideas on fun, everyday ways to engage children in reading, writing, and mathematics. Parents are more time‑stressed than ever, and need new ideas to support school lessons within the time they have available. abc123 provides information as tip lists that are easy to read and print off.
The site also has information that will help parents partner with their child’s teacher, deal with homework, identify the need for extra help, and understand school readiness.
Parents can also find out what the government is doing to reach every student in a section called “How We’re Helping”.
This is just the beginning. abc123 will be refreshed regularly with new and relevant information, including useful links to other government programs and external sites.
The site can be accessed through the Ministry of Education homepage at www.edu.gov.on.ca or directly at www.ontario.ca/abc123.