COLONIALE CROSS COUNTRY

KISS AND GO 

Just a friendly reminder that the front of the school is a kiss and go area.  It is marked with pylons.  This means, you drop off your child and not get out of your car. It is a 2min max waiting period.  If we follow these guidelines, the traffic will go a lot smoother in the mornings.  There is plenty of parking along the street in other areas. 

SICK AT SCHOOL

We cannot have sick kids at school.  If you child is displaying symptoms of illness, you will be notified and we will ask them to be picked up.  This helps keep everyone healthy.  If your child is coughing, runny nose, fever, etc.  We ask that you keep your child home until they are symptom free.

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION WEEK
We will be doing a variety of activities throughout the week to honor Truth and Reconciliation.  We have a hoop dancer presenting on Monday.  We have many activities throughout the

BRSC LIBRARY PASSES

Your family can now sign out a Beaumont Sport and Recreation Centre pass from our school library.  You can use it to go to the BSRC  with your family for a 7 day period.   Inquire with in the Learning Commons.

FAMILY MUSIC NIGHT AT ÉBS

Please sign up to come to the Family Music Night

Technology Fee 

BGSD has increased our technology fee to help cover the growing costs of technology for our students. Our goal is to improve our ratio of students per device and provide for software that they would not otherwise have access to. The long term goal over the coming years is to get to a ratio of students per device near 1:1 for our grade 4 – 12 students. Standard BGSD funding is able to achieve a 2:1 ratio (students per device) and part of the technology fee is being used to lower that ratio in schools. 

Current fees:

Division 1 (Grades 1 – 3) – $20

The fee structure is as follows:

Division 2, 3 and 4 (Grades 4 – 12) – $50

The technology fee covers all or a portion of the following software costs:

• Assistive software – readers, image dictionaries, word predictors
  • Read Write Chrome
  • PDF reader/Orbit Note
• Premium Google Education+
  • Documents, Sheets, Slides, Forms, etc.
  • Features not available in free google accounts.
• Creative educational software – Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign, Adobe Express.
• EquatIO – Math made digital – graphing and formula writing, scientific tools 
• Bandwidth over and above the basic Alb Ed funding
• Management tools to improve efficiency
• Teacher Controls for in classroom management
  • LanSchool, GoGuardian – these give the teacher control over the BGSD managed devices in the classroom, keeping students on task.
• Mental health AI monitoring.
• Backup software – students won’t lose their work.
• Canadian content media

Most of this software is available to the student 24/7, at school and at home.

The technology fee also covers a portion of the following hardware costs:

• The purchasing of chromebooks to lower our ratio of students per device.
  • Our goal over the coming years is to get near a 1:1 ratio of managed devices in grades 4 – 12.
• Touchscreen Chromebooks and Chrome Tablets in grade 1 – 3
• A management fee for each chromebook of $45
• The fee is NOT spent on any network infrastructure. No switches, servers, access points, etc.
• The fee does NOT cover any filtering/blocking software or infrastructure management software.
• The fee does NOT cover any staff devices or classroom displays.

BGSD has over 8,500 devices used by staff and students with over 900 access points, 150 industrial grade switches, 80 servers, fiber optic connections and bandwidth needs for a small city of 12,000. There is over 5 million dollars of infrastructure that is evergreened on a rotating 5 – 7 year timeline. Providing students with access to information in a safe and secure environment while meeting their curricular needs.

IMPORTANT DATES

Sept 29- Wear Orange for Truth and Reconciliation Day 

Sept 30- Truth and Reconciliation Day- No School

Oct 10- Thanksgiving- No School

Oct 11- PD Day- No School