Category Archives: Teacher News

Interesting news from our amazing teaching staff

April is Cooperation Month

Hi Gledhill families!

The Character Trait for April within the TDSB is Cooperation!  Check out the great video that our Kindergarten Team made to promote and show our students how they are working cooperatively together!

https://drive.google.com/a/tdsb.on.ca/file/d/1B2YoA9rnjn9JVBa6Hdn5xg4TQSOvk6am/view?usp=drive_web

GLEDHILL TIGERS

Can you volunteer for Gledhill’s book fair??

Gledhill Jr PS will be hosting our annual Scholastic Book Fair from November 14th until November 21st.

The Book Fair will be open to students, staff and parents during the day.

We will host a family event on Thursday, November 14th after school from 330 to 6pm.

The profits made from our book fairs are used to develop our library collection, purchase classroom resources, and support our makerspace culture. Every year, our book fair is a huge success due to the support from our wonderful parent and teacher community.

If you are able to volunteer during our book fair this year, please take a few minutes to sign up for a shift or two, every little bit helps.

Here is a link to the schedule – http://bit.ly/scholastic18.

Thank you so much and happy reading!

GLEDHILL’S BOOK FAIR

Gledhill Jr PS will be hosting our annual Scholastic Book Fair from November 14th until November 21st.

The Book Fair will be open to students, staff and parents during the day.

We will host a family event on Thursday, November 14th after school from 330 to 6pm.

The profits made from our book fairs are used to develop our library collection, purchase classroom resources, and support our makerspace culture. Every year, our book fair is a huge success due to the support from our wonderful parent and teacher community.

If you are able to volunteer during our book fair this year, please take a few minutes to sign up for a shift or two, every little bit helps.

Here is a link to the schedule – http://bit.ly/scholastic18.

Thank you so much and happy reading!

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Curriculum Night

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Universal Screening Process for Grade 3 Students

Looking for more info on the Universal Screening Process for Grade 3 Students going on at Gledhill this week?

Effective September 2016, the Toronto District School Board introduced a universal screening process for all Grade 3 students across the board. The purpose of this universal screening test is to:

  • Provide information to classroom teachers about the strengths and learning needs of each student in order to better support teachers in programming for students
  • Help teachers to know when to bring a student forward to In School Team (IST) or School Support Team (SST) for programming suggestions
  • Improve equity of access for all students to differentiated programming including the potential identification of students with a gifted exceptionality

There are several useful FAQ and Parent Information documents available on the TDSB site which may contain answers to your questions:

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/ElementarySchool/SpecialEducation.aspx

Appreciate those teachers!

Today is World Teachers’ Day — a day to show our appreciation for all the hard work that teachers do, day and night, to educate, encourage and inspire our children.  SACA put apples in teachers’ mailboxes on Friday, and we are bringing in treats for them on Monday.  Feel free to add to the goodies in the staffroom yourself!

Day of Protest tomorrow

Schools are closed tomorrow (Friday) for the elementary teachers’ Day of Protest.  Here’s the letter you should get in the backpacks tonight.

 

No school Tuesday…

Teachers in the TDSB will be on a one-day strike on Tuesday, December 18. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1301941–teacher-protest-tdsb-elementary-teachers-to-walk-off-job-tuesday