Hawkwood School Literacy Night

Thank you to all families who attended our Literacy Night this week! It was so great to come together around effective supports for supporting reading and writing development at home. For those who were not able to attend, here is the link to the information provided to parents about the Science of Reading as well as links to the activities that teachers featured at each station: Hawkwood Literacy Night Parent Information.

We would like to thank the Calgary Public Library for partnering with us and attending our event with their Mobile Book Truck. They were very busy signing kids up for library cards and sending families off with books! We encourage all families to visit the Library to help students develop a love of reading! 

We would like to thank the following generous community partners for supporting our school and donating our amazing door prizes! Winners will be notified next week and prizes will be sent home with students. 

• Calaway Park - four one-day passes
• Austin Pham - Gr. 1
• Eddie Ottosen - Gr. 2
• Leandro Govia - Gr. 2
• Marwa Ahmad - Gr. 3
• Cool Drinks- two $20 gift cards
• Santiago Lozada - Kam
• Emily Heal - Gr. 2
• 7-Eleven- five Big Gulp treat baskets
• Ada Molyneux - Gr. 2
• Ewa Rudenko - Gr. 3
• Keon Butcher - Gr. 6
• Ezabella Palomo - Gr. 1
• Elise Randrup - Gr. 3
• Flying Squirrel- two one-hour jump passes
• Cailyn MacKinnon - Gr. 3
• Colton Rewcastle - Gr. 2
• Infinite Creations Dance Studio-  blanket, tote bag, squishmallow and $100 Athleta gift card
• Sadie Martin - Gr. 5
• The MacKinnnon Family- basket of chocolate treats
• Oliver Pitman - Gr. 2
  
  

Thank you sponsors for your support!

Student Led Conferences March 29-20

Kindergarten Conferences Mar 18,19,20 (No School for Kindergarten students Mar 18,19,20th

Booking Opens: March 7^th – Midnight

Booking Closes: March 17th – 4pm

Mrs Alms conferences

Wed Mar 18 8am -1:30pm

Thurs Mar 19^th 9am – 3:30pm & 5pm to 8pm

Friday 8am to 1pm

Mrs Bakker conferences

Thurs Mar 19^th 9am to 3:30pm & 5pm to 8pm

Fri Mar 20^th 8am – 1pm

Mrs. Legere

Wed Mar 18 9am -3:30pm

Thurs Mar 19^th 5pm to 8pm

Friday 8am to 1pm

Grade 1 to 6 Conferences Mar 19^th & 20^th  (No School for all students Mar 20th)

Booking Opens: March 7^th – Midnight

Booking Closes: March 19th – Noon

Thursday Mar 19th 5pm to 8pm

Friday Mar 20th 8am to 1pm

Conferences can be booked through your MyCBE account. If you require assistance booking your conferences, check out the CBE PowerSchool School Conference webpage.

Good Books & Good Eats Coming Up!

📚 March 4–16: Bring in gently used books to donate for our Used Book Sale

🍔 March 11: Treat your child to an A&W Fun Lunch, order at Healthy Hunger. 

📖 March 16–20: Scholastic Book Fair - Online Info HERE!  

📖 March 18–20: Shop our Used Book Sale  

USED BOOK DONATIONS

Please donate books that are:
• Clean and gently used
• No rips or missing pages
• No writing or stains
• No strong smells
• Appropriate for elementary students

Thank you for supporting our readers!

Every purchase and donation helps support school activities!

Books for every child!

Self-Reflection Through Art

What colours would you say represent you? What words would you use to represent different aspects of who you are?

Ms. McLellan’s grade 4’s recently created cool self-portraits while exploring some of these very questions. Students created self-portraits using different types of painting and colouring techniques. This included mixing paint colours to represent their own skin tone and hair colour. 

Inside the folded artwork, students created collages of words and images they felt represented parts of who they are. They also included a bio-poem that they created. This fun activity included different learner outcomes from the Language Arts and Art curriculums.

Calgary Opera Presents Little Red Riding Hood

Earlier this week, we were treated to a great live performance as Calgary Opera presented the classic Little Red Riding Hood. All 700 of our students were very engaged through the 40 minute performance. Big thank you to Ms. MacDonald for organizing this very cool event. This is another great example of how our Hawkwood School Council and Friends Society have a positive impact on our school community every day.

Have a great week!