Dear Parents,
We have had a wonderful last few days of school at Westgate. Yesterday was our Grade 5/6 Farewell and today we finished the year off with Play Day. The Grade 5/6 students have again claimed the Westgate Cup after our Student/Staff basketball game!
For a third straight year we are shifting our grade configuration, this time from Grade 1 - 5 to Kindergarten - Grade 6. Our French Immersion program will have Kindergarten - Grade 5 while the Spanish Bilingual program will have Grades 3 - 6. The Spanish Bilingual students at Rosscarrock School this year will move up one grade next year which means our Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual prgram will move to Rosscarrock. We are working closely with Rosscarrock to coordinate our calendars and the move of resources so that families with children in both schools will not see too much disruption. We wish our French Immersion Grade 5 students and Spanish Bilingual Grade 6 students the best of luck as they move to their new schools next year - most to Bishop Pinkham or A. E. Cross. You will love it there! It will be an exciting rewarding and stimulating next chapter in your life!
We have a few staff who are currently with us who will not be returning next year. We would like to say thanks to each of them as they have all made important contributions to our school. We will miss you all!
As is our normal practice, you will receive a phone call from your child's 2017/18 teacher in the days before the start of school in September.
This is truly a special school community. Adriana and I would like to thank all of our parents and guardians for helping make this a great place for students to learn. We would also like to sincerely thank the teaching and support staff for their hard work, feedback, input, cooperation and openness.
I wish you all an enjoyable summer!
Scott Fehr
Principal
We have had a wonderful last few days of school at Westgate. Yesterday was our Grade 5/6 Farewell and today we finished the year off with Play Day. The Grade 5/6 students have again claimed the Westgate Cup after our Student/Staff basketball game!
For a third straight year we are shifting our grade configuration, this time from Grade 1 - 5 to Kindergarten - Grade 6. Our French Immersion program will have Kindergarten - Grade 5 while the Spanish Bilingual program will have Grades 3 - 6. The Spanish Bilingual students at Rosscarrock School this year will move up one grade next year which means our Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual prgram will move to Rosscarrock. We are working closely with Rosscarrock to coordinate our calendars and the move of resources so that families with children in both schools will not see too much disruption. We wish our French Immersion Grade 5 students and Spanish Bilingual Grade 6 students the best of luck as they move to their new schools next year - most to Bishop Pinkham or A. E. Cross. You will love it there! It will be an exciting rewarding and stimulating next chapter in your life!
We have a few staff who are currently with us who will not be returning next year. We would like to say thanks to each of them as they have all made important contributions to our school. We will miss you all!
- Adriana McCruden, our Assistant Principal, is moving to Collingwood School as Assistant Principal.
- Maria Parkin will move to Rosscarrock with the Spanish Grade 2 Program.
- Claudia Sasse is moving to Collingwood to teach Kindergarten and to assume a Learning Leader position.
- Olga Jorda and Diego Tellez are returning to Spain;
- Kelly Rathje will move to Griffith Woods to teach Grade 4 and Career and Technology Foundations.
- Kim Sarsons will pioneer the Spanish Bilingual program at A. E. Cross teaching Grade 7 next year.
As is our normal practice, you will receive a phone call from your child's 2017/18 teacher in the days before the start of school in September.
This is truly a special school community. Adriana and I would like to thank all of our parents and guardians for helping make this a great place for students to learn. We would also like to sincerely thank the teaching and support staff for their hard work, feedback, input, cooperation and openness.
I wish you all an enjoyable summer!
Scott Fehr
Principal
