{"id":2637,"date":"2025-03-02T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2025-03-02T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:55:41","slug":"march-3rd-update-to-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/march-3rd-update-to-families\/","title":{"rendered":"March 3rd Update to Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Laity View Families,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are coming to the end of our second term and time is going too quickly.\u00a0 Even though there are still two weeks left until spring break, the time will fly past.\u00a0 Be sure to schedule your term 2 reporting conference with your child\u2019s teacher.\u00a0 Please review the information below for some details about the upcoming week. \u00a0\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan. 14 \u2013 Mar. 14:\u00a0 Grade 5 Middle Years Development Instrument Timeframe<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 1 \u2013 May 2:\u00a0 Student Learning Surveys Timeframe<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Mar. 3 \u2013 7<\/strong>:\u00a0 <strong>Book Swap Collection<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 students bring in gently used books to donate (see criteria below)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Tues., Mar. 4:\u00a0 <\/strong>Ski and Snowboard field trip \u2013 all day (for those students registered)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Wed., Mar. 5<\/strong>:\u00a0 10:35 am Laity View Grade 4 &amp; 5 Reading Link Challenge (Library)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fri., Mar. 7<\/strong>:\u00a0 12:25 pm PAC Hot Lunch \u2013 Subway (pre-order required)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lost &amp; Found DONATED to charity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sat., Mar. 8<\/strong>:\u00a0 11:30 am PAC Neufeld Farms Fundraiser PICK UP (front parking lot)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sun., Mar. 9<\/strong>:\u00a0 Daylight Savings Time (clocks spring ahead one hour)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Laity View Book Swap<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 We are so excited to announce our\u00a0<strong>first ever Book Swap<\/strong>!\u00a0 This event will be a great way to get some exciting new books into students\u2019 hands.\u00a0 For this event to be a success we will need lots of book donations from our families.\u00a0 Get a jump start on your spring cleaning and send in all the books that your children have already read so they can swap them out for some new and exciting reads!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Please only send books that are in GOOD used condition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; age appropriate for K-7 (we will have a separate swap for primary and intermediate)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; no board books<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; no ripped covers or pages<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; no writing\/stains in books<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; no colouring or activity books<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Teachers will be collecting books this week from March 3<sup>rd<\/sup> \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t hesitate to reach out to Mme Clark (<a href=\"mailto:natalie_clark@sd42.ca\">natalie_clark@sd42.ca<\/a>) if you have any further questions about this exciting event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lost and Found <\/strong>\u2013 Our Lost and Found is overflowing again.\u00a0 The items will be on display in the front entrance until Friday this week.\u00a0 Please encourage your children to take a look for items that may belong to them.\u00a0 <strong>We plan to pack up everything on Friday to donate to charity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Three Way Reporting Conferences, Mar. 13 (early dismissal at 11:30am) and Mar. 14<\/strong> \u2013 Our teachers have put out a sign up for term 2 conferences on the parent portal.\u00a0 Please be sure to sign up for your desired allotted time of either online or in person conferences.\u00a0 This is an important time where your child will be showing their learning for the term and setting goals for term 3.\u00a0 As such, please try to find alternate arrangements for your other children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Student Learning Surveys <\/strong>\u2013 If you have a student in Grade 4 or 7, parents are invited to complete a Student Learning Survey.\u00a0 This year, parents do not need a logon code to access the online Student Learning Survey.\u00a0 Electronic surveying is available until May 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 The website to access the electronic survey is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bced.gov.bc.ca\/sat_survey\/access.htm\"><em>www.bced.gov.bc.ca\/sat_survey\/access.htm<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Please do <u>not<\/u> use Safari as there is currently a glitch with this browser.\u00a0 We invite you to take 15 minutes of your time to fill this out.\u00a0 The more parents who complete these surveys, the higher quality of feedback we will receive.\u00a0 Your input is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs. Lawrance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Laity View Families, We are coming to the end of our second term and time is going too quickly.\u00a0 Even though there are still two weeks left until spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/laityview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}