Invite | Open House and Meet the Teacher
Parents, legal guardians, and students are invited to join us at our annual Open House and Meet the Teacher night taking place on Thursday September 12, 2024, from 5:30pm to 7:00 pm.
The Grant MacEwan School Council has secured 5 Food trucks for this event with 10% of sales being given back to Grant MacEwan as a fundraiser. Please bring your family to enjoy some yummy food and drinks.
School Council is also asking the community to bring bottles for a fundraiser. School Council will have a truck parked in the Staff Parking lot to collect bottles.
Each homeroom teacher will have a short Welcome to their Class presentation for parents to inform parents of expectations, student learning throughout the year and contact information
Kindergarten, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6 will present at 5:45 and 6:15
Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5 Will present at 6:00 and 6:30
Looking forward to seeing everyone at this event.
Open House and Meet the Teacher Night
Inform | Subscribe to Stay Informed
Due to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), you need to subscribe online if you want to receive email or text messages on “commercial” school topics such as picture days, student fees, field trip costs, yearbooks, fun lunches and more. If you do not subscribe, you will not receive these important messages (or any of my messages containing such content) but you will receive emails on non-commercial topics such as absence and emergency notifications. In addition, if you want to receive any text messages from your school or the Calgary Board of Education, you need to opt-in for texts.
To receive all messages, complete these two steps:
- To subscribe to receive commercial messages, go to www.cbe.ab.ca/subscribe to enter your email address and click Subscribe. Use your primary email address on le at your school.
- To opt-in to receive text messages, use your cell phone to text the word YES to the six-digit number 978338. Your cell number must be on file with the school
Invite | School Council AGM
Did you know that as parents and guardians of students at Grant MacEwan School, you are automatically a member of the School Council? We’d love to have you join us on Thursday October 17 at 6:00 in our Learning Commons for the Annual General Meeting. Information will also be shared about the 2024-2025 school year, school and updates from our Admin Team. We look forward to seeing you then.
Request| Forms
Each year, schools have a variety of forms that parents/legal guardians must complete or review and update, some of which are paper and others online. In CBE, the forms in an online format (SchoolEngage) are:
- Demographic Verification – 2024–25 – This form includes your child’s personal information and parent/legal guardian contact information.
- Citizenship Information Update - 2024-25 – This form becomes available if you change your child’s citizenship information on the Demographic Verification form.
- Annual Authorization - 2024-25 – Combines the following forms:
- School District Use of Personal Information - explains how CBE uses personal information in providing education services.
- Consent for CBE Use of Student Information – provides an option to grant / not grant consent for additional use of student information by school/district and third parties.
- Consent for Use of Student Information by News Media and Outside Groups (Third Party) - provides an option to grant / not grant consent for additional use of student information by outside groups and third parties
SchoolEngage is one of the applications found in your MyCBE account. This is the same account that you use to pay fees, view academic information, book school conferences, etc.
If you do not have a MyCBE account, on the MyCBE page click on Create a MyCBE Account. For online help refer to MyCBE - Creating an Account (includes instructions and a video).
To complete these forms:
- sign in to your MyCBE account
- click on the SchoolEngage icon
- select the form
- complete or review and update the form
- click on Submit to send the form electronically to the school
- repeat steps 3-5 for each form
Please submit the Demographic Verification and Annual Authorization forms in SchoolEngage for your child by Monday, September 16. These forms are mandatory every year for Alberta Education to confirm student funding.
Update | Terry Fox Run
On Friday, September 13, our students will be participating in our 32nd annual Grant MacEwan Terry Fox Run. This event is dedicated to creating awareness and raising money for cancer research. Many people today have been impacted by cancer, either directly or indirectly, so this year we will be asking students to personally dedicate their run to someone. This can be a relative, family friend, a general group, or Terry Fox himself.
This week, students were given a brief presentation on the heroic efforts of Terry Fox in their Physical Education class. Students will be challenged to donate a “Toonie for Terry” to raise funds for the Terry Fox Foundation. This is 100% voluntary. Those students unable to bring in donations are still able to participate in the event.
On the day of the event, students will run a predetermined route our school yard. Please make sure your student has running shoes, a water bottle and athletic clothing for the day.
We are very pleased to be hosting this year’s Terry Fox Run as we encourage our students to develop a sense of volunteerism and goodwill, while celebrating school spirit. Thank you in advance for your support!
Important Dates
- September 12: Meet The Teacher Night from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
- September 13: Terry Fox Run
- September 27: Non-instructional day – no school for students
- September 26: Orange Shirt Day
- September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – no school for students