IMPORTANT DATES
Jan 7—CCI Grade 8 Info night
Jan 8– CCI Gr. 8 Info Snow date
Jan 13– School Council Meeting
Jan 14– Hockey Day in Collingwood (Gr.
7 & 8’s)
Jan 15– Wye Marsh Trip (Dunbar & Emmett)
Jan 29– Spirit Day Comfy Clothes Day
Jan 30– PA Day
OFFICE INFORMATION:
Please call the safe arrival line at 1-888-885-8065 to leave a message about your students absence.
If you have a change in plans for end of day pick up please notify the office before 2:30 so the teachers and students
can be informed!
Please make sure students have a change of clothes at school, a need for a change of clothes can happen to
students in any grade!
Parents are to come into the office to sign their student out for early dismissal due to illness or appt. Parents are NOT to
walk the students down to class or to pick them up for dismissal.
School Council News
SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING - JANUARY 13th
Our next School Council meeting will be held on January 13th at 7pm in the school library. All families are
welcome; we'd love to have you join us! If you have any questions or topics you'd like discussed during the
meeting, or if you need child minding services during the meeting, please raise them here: https://
forms.office.com/r/ng4YV6CFP6
LIBRARY NEWS
Happy New Year Mounties!
I hope that you all enjoyed time with family and friends and perhaps were able to enjoy a book or two!
January in the library will have books from The Forest of Reading. These books are selected by the OLA (Ontario Library Association) and are some of the best Fiction and Non Fiction new books by Canadian au-thors. Some classes will share many of these books here in the library. Other students may be part of a reading club. I'm excited to share these books with the students.
In February, author Eric Walters will be visiting our Library and chatting to students about his books and the writing process. So we will also be sharing many of his novels with our older classes in Janaury. You can look on line and check out his website. He's got a variety of great novels with a variety of topics.
Happy Reading Everyone!
Mrs. Noakes
HOT LUNCH INFORMATION
Orders must be placed by Sunday at noon to be processed for the following week.
Go to your child’s SchoolCash Online account items page and click “ORDER NOW”. If you need help please see the attached helpful links Creating an Account and How to Order Guide
On days your student is unexpectedly absent please make arrangements with your teacher or the office to pick up food orders. Hot lunch orders will not be saved if the student is away, and arrangements have not been made to pick up on the order day. Orders may be cancelled two days prior to delivery by canceling the order in Lunchbox.
Hot Lunches will be cancelled on Inclement weather days. Families will receive an automatic refund through school cash online.
If a lunch order has not been received, please send an email within (5) days of the scheduled delivery (preferably within 24 hours) to [email protected] so that it can be investigated with the school and the vendor.
Information and updates from the SCDSB
This month, the SCDSB is sharing information related to the below topics. To read this information, visit the
SCDSB website.
• Provide your feedback on the proposed SCDSB 2026-27 school year calendar
• Inclement weather and bus cancellation information reminder
• Kindergarten registration for September 2026 is open!
• Is your child turning four in 2026? Get ready for Kindergarten with us!
• How is your infant, toddler, or preschool child developing?
• Licensed March Break school age child care programs
• Check out the SCDSB News video series
• High school information events for Grade 8 students
• SCDSB families invited to explore math games and activities at Family Math Nights in February 2026
• What is mental health? Introducing By Your Side resource
• Culminating Task Days and Feedback, Recovery, and Improvement Days (secondary)
• Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication on Student Devices
• School playground structures are closed for the winter
• Character recognition nominations
• Interested in learning more about special education in the SCDSB?
• New year, new math activities!
• Your child’s immunization record
• January PA Days
To read this information, visit the SCDSB website: https://www.scdsb.on.ca/news/current_news/
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