Traffic Flow & Parking Zones at Rosemont School

Thank you to all parents who choose safety over convenience when driving children to school. Here are a few friendly reminders about traffic and parking at the school:

• Last year, parents agreed to ease congestion in the alley by treating it as a one way street moving eastbound (see map below for red arrows indicating traffic flow in the alley).
• Please do not stop/park in the back alley lane to drop off children. Instead, please use the parking stalls along the fence for unloading or loading students.
• The staff parking lot is restricted to staff only. By City of Calgary bylaw, loading and unloading students in the staff parking lot is prohibited.
• Please do not park in the posted fire lane at the north west end of the parking stalls in the back alley.
• In the alley, remember the speed limit is 15 km/hr.
• At the front of the school, please do not obstruct and drop off children at the crosswalk or bus zone (see map below for green zones showing suggested street side parking).
• Cars may not block people's driveways and cars may not be parked in the alley in a way that they obstruct intended two-way traffic.

Here is a map showing the suggested traffic flow in the alley, the restricted parking and loading/unloading areas, and the recommended drop off zone for students.

Rosemont School Council and Fundraising Society Meeting - Wednesday, January 17

All parents are welcome to attend the Rosemont School Council (RSC) and Fundraising Society (RFS) meeting on Wednesday, January 17, 2018. The meetings are held in the Rosemont School library. The Parent Council will meet first at 6:30PM, followed by the Fundraising Society at 7:30 PM.

The Rosemont Parent Council and Fundraising Society will be offering complimentary child care for the meeting. It is by RSVP only as we have limited spots available and is only open to school aged children. Please click on this link to register for the free babysitting: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f054ca9ac2fa6f85-complimentary1

The Fundraising Coordinator (Jill) will give an update on the upcoming Spring Fundraiser Art event. Also, the Ground Improvement Committee lead (Hanna) will be providing an update on the committee’s work to date. If you are interested, please click on this link to view the power point presentation from the Ground Improvement Committee (we will not be going through this in detail at the meeting). Please bring your questions to the meeting tomorrow!

The School Council and Fundraising Society meetings are open to everyone. Simply attend council meetings and learn what is happening at our school (eg. Principal's report). You do not need to volunteer or sign up for committees in order to attend the meetings. Feel free to come late or leave early if you need to.

The minutes from the previous School Council and Fundraising Society meeting, held on November 22, can be found by clicking on this link:  https://rosemontschoolcouncil.blogspot.ca/2018/01/november-2017-rosemont-school-council.html

School Council Agenda


Fundraising Society Agenda

Fundraising Society Treasurer's Report

Ground Improvement Comittee Update

See the power point slide show for the latest update from the Ground Improvement Committee:

November 2017 Rosemont School Council & Fundraising Society Minutes

Rosemont School Council

Teacher's reports

The kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Hector, gave a report of the castle investigation center time that has been going on in her classroom.

The Grade 1 classroom report, given by Mr. Careclakis and Ms. Amanda, showed:

• Children working on a rubric to help students self assess their own writing
• Math: numbers 0-20, count to 100, skip counting by 2, 5, and 10 
• Social studies: family groups, Todd Parr art project to create illustration of families
• Science: creating colors, using chromatography paper dip in water and separate colors, seasonal changes

Mr. Careclakis gave an update on the learning commons space. He showed pictures of the type of bookshelves that they would like to purchase. The new shelves have castors and will replace some of the stationary older shelves. This will give a flexible and more accessible space.

Principal's report

The Principal's report discussed the many different events that occurred since the last meeting and the upcoming events to happen in December:

• School Development plan (SDP) to be posted on the school website. Click here for the SDP report.
• Accountability pillar survey was discussed. Click here for results of the PAT's and Accountability Pillar survey.
• Painting of the common areas to be done in the next few weeks with zero VOC paint.
• School branding and colors work is ongoing. School colors to be red and grey. Final logo in place by December.
• Teachers attended a math professional development day with Queen Elizabeth school in regards to complex math problems for elementary kids.
• Season of giving to be held in mid December.
• Ready to purchase robotics for January.

Halloween party at the Rosemont Community center was well attended with a total count of 312 people. It was suggested to form sub-committees to organize food/beverages, games, crafts for future Halloween party.

Child care provided at the School council and Fundraising meetings are not getting the expected numbers. It was suggested to keep it going for two more meetings (January and February) and to open it up to younger children (preschoolers). Eventually, the plan is for Grade 6 students to do the babysitting.

Babysitting and Home alone course at the school, provided by Child Safe Canada, requires 10 children to be registered. It is recommended for the course to run on Friday afternoons.

A fun lunch program was discussed at the meeting. Jodi is looking for volunteers to organize and to help with distributing the lunches.

Here are the recorded minutes from the November 22 Rosemont School Council (RSC) Meeting:

Rosemont Fundraising Society

The Treasurer's report discussed funds raised and spent since the last meeting:

• Farm to School and Balzac meat fundraiser brought in $2000 less then last year. 
• There was a motion to approve up to $7000, of the unrestricted funds, for moveable shelving units for the Library Commons space. This will make the library commons space a more accessible and flexible area.
• There was a motion to approve funds to continue babysitting for both the January and February Council/Fundraising meeting. The plan is to advertise the babysitting service and to open it up to younger preschool aged children.
• The school is finalizing the purchase of Ozobots and Spheros that will be ready to go in January. This is the first phase and the robotics are funded by the Curricular Enhancement money raised by the Fundraising Society casino.

The Fundraiser Coordinator discussed an adult only fundraiser event to be held on a weekend night (Friday or Saturday) in the spring (date to be determined). The event will be an art lottery where you have the chance to win a painting canvass produced by the students at Rosemont school. The students will work with Marcia Harris to produce one canvass per class. The tickets purchased to attend the event is the lottery ticket to win one of ten canvasses. Food and beverages (cash bar) will be served at the event. The funds raised will go towards the construction of an outdoor amphitheater.

An update from the school ground subcommittee mentioned there was six RFP's sent out to architects to give quotes on the master landscape plan. More details are recorded in the meeting notes below.

Here are the recorded minutes from the November 22 Rosemont Fundraising Society (RFS) Meeting:

Rosemont School Council and Fundraising Society Meeting - Wednesday, November 22

All parents are welcome to attend the Rosemont School Council (RSC) and Fundraising Society (RFS) on Wednesday, November 22. The meetings are held in the Rosemont School library with the School Council meeting scheduled from 6:30 - 7:30 pm and the Fundraising Society meeting scheduled from 7:30 - 8:30 pm.

The School Council and Fundraising Society meetings are open to everyone. Simply attend council meetings and learn what is happening at our school (eg. Principal's report). You do not need to volunteer or sign up for committees in order to attend the meetings. Feel free to come late or leave early if you need to.

Complimentary childcare is available by sign up at https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/20f054ca9ac2fa6f85-complimentary1

School Council Agenda


Fundraising Society Agenda

Fundraising Society Treasurer's Report

October 2017 Rosemont School Council & Fundraising Society Minutes

Wednesday nights meeting was very informative with the teachers giving their classroom updates and the principal, Mrs. Bobenic, showing the grade 6 Provincial Achievement Test (PAT) results from last year (2016/2017).  The highlights from the meetings can be found below.

For the first time, there was babysitting offered to parents who brought their children to the school so that they could attend the School Council & Fundraising Society meetings from 6:30-8:30 pm. Babysitting will be offered again at the November meeting but it is required to RSVP for the babysitting service.

Teacher's report 
Ms. McLean and Ms. Stephenson gave a slide show showing the activities the grade 2 and grade 2/3 students are doing in their classroom. The presentation showed the individual works from the ABC's of Land project, the amazing lobster art from the elements of the land studies (displayed in front entry of the school), math pattern exercises, and the rocks and minerals science unit where students are examining rocks from the kits provided by the Glenbow museum.

For guided reading, the students from grade 2 and 3 classes (rooms 3, 4, and 7) are divided into groups of similar ability level. They spend one hour each day from Monday to Thursday to work on various guided reading activities.

Ms. Stephenson talked about the grade 3 students working on the Student Learning Assessment (SLA) tests. The results from the tests are used only within the school for teachers to help assess their students' learning and identify the students' strengths and areas for growth.

Ms. McLean mentioned the students in her class are making their own diary, called "Diary of a Learner". In the diary, the students answer questions about what and how they learned. On Fridays, Ms. McLean's class has a "Genius hour" where students take one hour to work on a passion project and research topics that interest them (eg. space, Titanic, swimming etc.).

The next Rosemont Day will occur on Friday, October 27th and the multi-grade groups will discuss what it means to go to Rosemont School.

Principal's report 
Here is a summary of Mrs. Bobenic's principal report:

• Rosemont  Day is an opportunity for multi age groups to get to know one another and build community. The next Rosemont Day will be on Friday, October 27.
• Last week at Rosemont School, the Calgary Fire Department participated in the fire drill. It was fire prevention week and the Fire Department demonstrated what they do to rescue people in a fire. They also discussed with the students the importance about fire escape plans.
• The grade 5/6 students participated in Student Votes the week before the Calgary civic election. Global news video taped the students voting in their Student Votes election.
• Class improvement funding is being used to increase staffing levels. Mrs. Arseneault, the resource teacher, will be increased from a part-time to a full time position at Rosemont School. She will spend part of her time with classroom learning to assist teachers. For example, Mrs. Arseneault will help with the grade 6 class for 1 hour every day since this is a very large class of 33 students.
• The naturalization area construction is almost complete. There is plans to remove the gate and add a shrub in the area.
• The proposed budget for the improvement to the Library Learning Commons area is around $30,000. This could be rolled out in two phases: roll out $20,000 now and $10,000 in 2 years. The top priority is to replace the existing stationary bookshelves. The new shelves will be lower with wheels to allow the shelves to be moved to create a more flexible space.
• There are plans for construction to occur in the inside of the school to prepare the common areas for painting. The work will be performed outside of regular school hours (4pm-midnight and weekends).
• Halloween celebration at Rosemont School will consist of a costume parade at 1:30 pm and a Mad Science Fire & Ice presentation to follow in the gymnasium at 2:00 pm.
• The Christmas concert this year will be held on December 20th from 6:00 -8:00 pm. The concert will be a different format than previous years. There will be 4 smaller performances (based on grade groupings) during the evening to allow for parents to come and go throughout the celebration. Families can take part in community building activities while they are waiting to attend their child's performance time.

Ms. Bobenic presented the grade 6 Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT) results from last year.

• The 2016/2017 results showed the students scored higher than the provincial average in all areas. Congratulations to the former grade 6 students and teachers at Rosemont. Well Done!
• The standard of excellence percentage increased in all subjects compared to the previous 4 year average.
• The school development plan, to be developed in November, will continue to focus in math but build on the high complex problem solving, specifically problems that address algebraic reasoning.

Rosemont School Council 

The remaining vacant Volunteer Roles have been filled for the 2017-2018 school year:

• CBE Key Communicator - shared by Dan C. and Sumyu N.
• Farm to School Fundraiser - Kirsten P. and Kim H.
• Movie Night Coordinator - Maren K.

The Rosemont Fundraising Society (RFS) and the Rosemont Community Association (RCA) are hosting a Halloween party at the Rosemont Community center on Saturday, October 28th. There are two party times, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening. It is recommended for guests to RSVP for the event on SignUp Genius: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f054ca9ac2fa6f85-rosemont2.

Home Alone and Babysitting courses are being organized by the Rosemont School Council. The babysitting course are offered to grade 5/6 students and the Home Alone course is offered to grade 5/6 students plus any siblings in the school. The courses will be offered during lunch time or after school and are to be paid by parents who register their children. A minimum of 15 participants are required for the courses to be offered at the school.

Here are the recorded minutes from the October 18th Rosemont School Council (RSC) Meeting:



Rosemont Fundraising Society

The society nominated Diane Myers and Samir Kayande to audit the financials dated for the year end October 31, 2017.

The Treasurer's report showed the Mabel's Labels fundraiser generated $59. In addition,  the society received two donations totaling $338: 2016 RBC donation for John Hsu's time and $150 from Suncor for Dan Collins time

In September's meeting, babysitting was approved for only the October and November Council/Fundraising meetings. It was suggested to extend the babysitting service for future meetings but this topic will be put on the agenda for discussion at the November Fundraising meeting.

The Fundraising Coordinator mentioned the master meats fundraiser this year will be using a different butcher. The owner of Master Meats is having family medical issues and cannot fulfill the fundraiser order this year. Jill is looking to use another butcher, possibly Balzac Meats.

Kirsten P. and Kim H. volunteered to organize the Farm to School fundraiser which occurs at the same time as the Master meat fundraiser in November.

The casino coordinators gave an update about the success of the casino on October 10/11 and lessons learned to make improvements for the next casino. The paper work has been filled out for the Fundraising Society to participate in the next casino, 18-24 months from now.

The Naturalization coordinator is currently writing up a RFP to get an architect to design a master plan for the school yard and naturalization area. Hanna is also working on a parks foundation grant application (up to $5000) to fund the design.

Here are the recorded minutes from the October 18th Rosemont Fundraising Society (RFS) Meeting:

Rosemont Fundraising Society Halloween Party

The Halloween party is a great Rosemont Fundraising Society (RFS) and Rosemont Community Association (RCA) event held every year to celebrate the spookiest time of year! Come out and enjoy the haunted house, face painting, arts, crafts and games. Delicious Halloween treats and refreshments will be provided. Cash bar will also be on the premise.

To get a better idea of how much food, drinks and crafts will be needed, please let us know you are coming by RSVP'ing to this event. It is recommended to RSVP for the event since there is a limit to the number of guests that can attend each party (limit to 180 guests).

There are two party times. The first party is geared towards the younger kids at 2pm–4 pm and the second party for the older kids at 6pm-9pm. Feel free to choose a time that would work best for you and your family. Just a reminder that this is a parented event, so no drop offs please. Thank you!

What:	Rosemont Halloween Pary Hosted by Rosemont Fundraising Society and Rosemont Community Association
Where:	Rosemont Community Centre - 2807 10 St NW
When:	Saturday, October 28, 2017
Times:	2:00-4:00 pm (younger children) and 6:00- 9:00 pm (older children)
RSVP:	Please follow this link to RSVP  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f054ca9ac2fa6f85-rosemont2

To make this event a success, we do need volunteers. If you or someone you know would be interested in volunteering, please follow the link below to sign up:
       http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054CA9AC2FA6F85-rosemont3