60 Ingleborough Drive

Brampton, Ontario L6X 0X5 Phone: 905-451-4430

Fax: 905-451-5593

September 2017

Our School Day 7:55—Supervision Begins in the School Yard 8:05—First Bell 8:10—Second Bell —Instructional Day Begins 10:10 – 10:50 1st Nutrition Break:

split into 2-20 minute halves, students are out for one half and eat inside for the other (check with your student to see if they eat first or play first)

12:30 – 1:10—2nd Nutrition Break: 2:30—Final Bell: Students are Dismissed

Important Dates

September 26th Re-org day, no school for students September 22nd School council Elections

September 29th Terry Fox walk October 6th PL day, no school for Students

October 9th Thanksgiving, no school October 19th IEP’s go home

Volunteering at IPS

Volunteering at the school is a great way to become involved with the life of the school. You could help out with special events, reading to students or going on field trips. If you wish to do so, you are required to have a Criminal Reference Check. These are done directly through the Peel Regional Police. Please come into the school office. We can get you the forms you need. You will have to fill them out and bring them to the local police station. It can take 4 to 6 weeks to have completed. Don’t leave it to the last minute!

From the Eagles Nest

We are looking for Lunchroom Supervisors

We are looking for a few supply lunchroom supervisors. If you are available from 10:10-10:50 and 12:30-1:10 and are willing and able to supervise students both in classrooms while they eat or outside while they play, please stop by the office or call and ask to speak with Mr. Clark or Mrs. Workman.

French Immersion Instruction Recent changes to time requirements around math instruction has made it necessary to change the delivery of French instruction for French immersion students. Students still receive French instruction 50% of the instructional time, however, we are no longer able to do one day French instruction the next day English instruction. Please see the chart below to understand the changes.

Day 1 Day 2

Period 1 8:10-8:50 English French

Period 2 8:50-9:30 English French

Period 3 9:30-10:10 English French

Period 4 10:50-11:30 French English

Period 5 11:30-11:50 French English

Period 6 11:50-12:30 French English

Period 7 1:10-1:50 French English

Period 8 1:50-2:30 French English

SchoolCashOnline

Pay school fees online – register today!

The Peel District School Board is excited to announce that your child’s school now offers a new,

preferred method of payment for all school fees. School Cash Online is a safe and secure form of

online payment that allows you to pay for your child’s school items,

like field trips and pizza days, from your computer or smartphone

using eCheck, Visa or Master Card.

Register now

By registering, you’ll have the ability to:

Keep track of your children’s school item and activity fees

Check account history

Print or view receipts

Make donations to school fundraisers online and instantly receive a tax receipt

Pay for school fees with the click of a button

For more information and to register, visit https://peelschools.schoolcashonline.com. If you have any

questions, please contact the school directly.

Spirit Wear

The Ingleborough Athletics Department is excited to offer a new service for Ingleborough students

and families who want to show their Eagle spirit. We have partnered up with Entripy to provide an

online store where you can purchase IPS Spirit Wear directly and have it shipped to your home.

Clothing and accessories come in a variety of kids and adult sizes and colours, and are fully

customizable (choose from a variety of logos, add your name or number). You can also choose

from a variety of styles and brands including Under Armour, Adidas, Russell, Jerzees, and more.

Don't forget to type in the discount code: ENTRIPYSHOPS10. This code is valid for 10% off your

purchase and can be used one time by each individual user.

To start shopping now, go to https://ingleborough.entripyshops.com

**For every online purchase, a 10% rebate will be given to the school to help support our many

extracurricular activities offered**

If you have any questions regarding sizes, customization, or any other inquiries, please contact

entripy directly in the online shop. There is chat button in the bottom right corner that can

connect you to an entripy representative.

*Ingleborough P.S. does not take responsibility for any ordering issues including, but not limited to

sizing, colour, customization, payment, shipping, etc. Please contact entripy directly to resolve any

issues.

Thank you

What you need to know about busing

Peel District School students may access transportation services if their primary address is within the school's attendance boundary, at a distance of more than:

kindergarten and grade 1 students – 1 km

grades 2 to 4 students – 1.6 km

grades 5 to 8 students – 2 km

grades 9 to 12 students – 3.8 km

Eligibility distances are calculated using appropriate roadways and pedestrian walkways and are measured from home property line to school property line using Board approved software to ensure a consistent and equitable assessment of distance for all students and all schools within the Board. It is also important to note that parents are responsible for safely getting their children to and from school.

How do I know if my child is eligible for transportation?

Student Transportation of Peel Region (STOPR) has a website, www.stopr.ca, where you can find information concerning transportation including bus safety, procedures, late buses, cancellations, and frequently asked questions and as well whether your child is eligible for transportation based on your home address. Click on "Am I Eligible for Transportation" and enter your information.

In addition, if your child is eligible for transportation, beginning the last week of August to the end of June each year, at www.stopr.ca you can securely access your child’s specific transportation information, including bus stop location and pick-up and drop-off times. Click on “Parent/Student Login” and enter the information required. To ensure privacy of information you will be required to enter the Ontario Education Number (OEN), which can be found on your child’s report card.

Parents can now sign-up to receive automatic e-mail notifications of delays or cancellations for their children’s bus run. Go to www.stopr.ca and click on the “bus delays and cancellations” link and then click “subscriptions” to sign-up for this service.

Ingleborough Specific Before and After School Protocols

Morning Drop Off

When driving your vehicle onto school property, please turn to our right and follow the driveway around the outside of the parking lot. If you are dropping off your child, please stay in the right lane and follow it until you reach the fenced in, kindergarten area. There will be staff outside from 7:55 to 8:10 to assist your child in exiting your vehicle. Please ensure that your child can exit out of the passenger side in order to avoid oncoming traffic. We also ask that drivers stay in their vehicles, student should be able to undo their own seatbelts. If you wish to escort your child onto the hardtop, you will need to find a proper parking spot. The area in front of the school is designated as a bus lane and fire route. Please do not stop your car in this area.

Afternoon Pickup

The same expectations apply for afternoon pick ups. Students are dismissed at 2:30. If you wish to meet your child on the hardtop, you will need to find an appropriate parking spot either in the parking lot or on a nearby street. Please do not parking in the Kiss & Ride lane or block cars in. Thank you for your consideration of others!

Going To Be Absent? Arriving late or leaving early? All parents/guardians need to report their children’s full-day absences, late arrivals and/or early departures from school via our automated SafeArrival phone number at 1-855-209-6155, online at pdsb.schoolconnects.com, or by downloading the mobil app for Apple and Anroid devices. These absences must be reported prior to 8:00 am on the day of the absence. For absences longer that 5 consecutive school days, please contact the school office. There is no longer an absence reporting phone line at the school. If you have any questions or require any assistance, contact the school directly.

Students Leaving During the School Day

Students who leave school before the end of the day, need to be picked up at the office. Please contact our SafeArrival program with the time that he or she will be picked up in the office. This process will make the pick-up faster for you, and will reduce the number of interruptions in the classroom.

Lunch Procedures

Students are to remain at school during lunch. If you wish to take your child off school property for

lunch please sign them in and out in the office. This will help us to ensure student

safety.

Many parents like to drop a lunch off for their child. If you wish to do so,

please ensure that child’s lunch is clearly labelled with their name and

homeroom. Lunches can be left on the table outside of the office. Also, make

sure that your child knows that you will drop it off. Calling into class to inform

students that their lunch has been dropped off is very disruptive to classes.

Keeping lunches, snacks peanut-free

Anaphylaxis is a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction that affects some children. We ask that you help us take care of these students by sending lunches and snacks for your child that are free from peanuts or nuts, because these foods are the leading cause of anaphylaxis.

Please read the label of any food you plan to send to school with your child. If the label says, "May contain nuts or peanuts," please do not send it to school.

You can get a complete copy of the Peel board's anaphylaxis guideline from the school office.

Students Leaving During the School Day

Students who leave school before the end of the day, need to be picked up at the office. Please

write a note in your child’s agenda with the time that he or she will be picked up in the office.

This process will make the pick-up faster for you, and will reduce the number of interruptions

in the classroom.

Lunch Procedures

Students are to remain at school during lunch. If you wish for your child to walk home for

lunch on a regular basis, please pick up a special form in the office. We will keep this form on

file. Your child will be expected to sign in and out in the office. This will help us to ensure

student safety. If you wish to take your child off school property for lunch please sign them in

and out in the office.

Lunch Programs

We will be offering Pizza Days and Lunch Lady Days at Ingleborough P.S. Lunch Lady Days

will be on Wednesdays and Pizza Days will be on Fridays. These forms will be coming home

soon. If you choose to participate in these days, please record your orders on your family

calendars at home. This will help to ensure that your family knows when to expect a hot lunch

served at school. These lunches are within the healthy eating guidelines. A portion of these

proceeds support school initiatives.

Join our school council—share your ideas

Every Peel school has a school council—a group focused on helping students succeed. School councils provide a voice for parents and the community and offer advice to the school principal on a number of topics. We are holding School Council elections on Sept. 22 2017. Our first School Council meeting will take place in October. Please stay tuned for information.

Protect your kids—and your finances

The Peel District School Board does not provide accident insurance coverage for student injuries that occur on school property or during school activities including extracurricular sports. Each year, many of our families spend thousands of dollars when their children are injured at school, on field trips, while participating in non-school activities, or at home. If a student is injured, parent(s)/guardian(s) are responsible for any costs not covered by provincial health care or their employer’s health plan. Please check with your provider regarding your coverage.

The provincial health care system does not cover costs which are commonly related to accidents including dental work, ambulance fees, casts and crutches, and physiotherapy. All of these are covered by Reliable Life’s student accident insurance plan. It is strongly recommended that all families consider this coverage, especially if your child participates in extracurricular activities. The annual plans provide 24 hours a day, 365 days a year coverage. The insurance agreement is between you and Old Republic Insurance Company. For more information call Old Republic Insurance Company toll free at 1-800-530-5446.

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Procedures help keep students safe at school

Dear Families,

Peel schools provide a safe environment for students and staff to learn and work. The board has many

procedures to ensure safety including regular fire drills, evacuation plans, criminal record checks for new staff and volunteers, and lockdown, hold and secure and shelter in place drills. Together with Peel Police, OPP and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board, the board developed procedures for critical situations including lockdowns, hold and secure, shelter in place and bomb threats in order to help keep schools safe during a potentially serious or violent incident.

Every school will review the key points of the lockdown process with students. We rehearse the drill twice per year to make sure staff and students know what to do if we have to initiate a lockdown.

During the rehearsal, the principal will make an announcement to "initiate lockdown procedure." The school bell will ring continuously for a period of time and our goal is to make the school appear vacated.

Students and staff inside the school will:

go to the closest room, close the door and lock it, if possible

turn off the lights and lie down on the floor away from doors and windows

remain on the floor quietly until further directions are given

Students and staff outside the school will:

move as far away from the building as possible

remain outside until further directions are given

Depending on the situation, students and staff outside the building may be directed to an evacuation site. When the rehearsal is over, the principal will make another announcement. Students and staff also practice the Bomb Threat, Suspicious Device/Substance drill before October 31st 2017.

Important things to note when an emergency occurs

1. Students and staff must not use cell phones It is important to note that in these critical situations, safety is our number one priority. During rehearsals or in real critical situations, Peel Police have advised that cell phone usage can cause more safety risks and danger than benefits.

We recognize that when an emergency occurs, students and staff may feel the need to communicate immediately with their families. However, increased cellular traffic in these critical situations can result in more dangers and the following consequences:

- Cause signal delays for emergency services to attend to the situation. - Prevents police from being able to communicate with each other and other important

personnel in a timely manner. - Public posts and messages may identify where individuals are in the building and a pose a

safety risk. - Cell phones can create a safety hazard by attracting attention to the area of the school where

the phone is being used. Parents are requested to NOT call the school or your child’s cell phone during emergency procedures.

2. How parents can get updates during emergency procedures There are a number of ways that parents can stay connected and get important, timely updates in the unlikely event of an actual lockdown, hold and secure, shelter in place or bomb threat. We will try to make every effort to keep parents informed using the methods listed below.

- Monitor your child’s school website. - Get updates by following posts on the Peel District School Board Twitter account

(@Peelschools), www.twitter.com/peelschools - Visit www.peelschools.org. All important updates are posted on the homepage under the

What’s New section. - Listen to local media

3. Parents are requested NOT to go to the school

In the unlikely event of an actual lockdown, hold and secure, shelter in place or bomb threat, police ask that parents do not go to the school. For safety reasons, you will not be allowed to enter a school that is in lockdown, hold and secure or shelter in place and students and staff cannot leave the school. In some cases, police will designate a Parent Information Site for you to attend and get up-to-date, accurate information. Please monitor your child’s school website and do not come to the school unless requested to do so. If you have any questions about our lockdown drill, or any of the procedures we have in place to keep students and staff safe, please call the school.

Schools use many strategies to keep children safe Peel schools provide a safe environment for staff and students to work and learn. The board has many procedures to ensure safety. To keep students safe, schools use many strategies including: requiring all parents and visitors to check in at the main office and obtain visitor passes the use of a "buddy system" – students can only leave the classroom if accompanied by another

student (for example, going to the washroom) assigning teachers to supervise inside and outside the school during recesses, before and after

school

locking all exteriors doors, including the main entrance, during school hours [elementary schools only]

encouraging staff to regularly review streetproofing skills with students expecting staff and students to report unidentified individuals to the office immediately holding fire drills and "lockdown" rehearsals having evacuation and bomb threat plans in place ensuring that all staff and volunteers have up-to-date criminal record checks working with the police to provide education on street-proofing

We feel that it is important that you also take this opportunity to review safe procedures with your child. Peel Regional Police have provided the following safety guidelines: Tell your children to never go anywhere with a stranger, not to talk to strangers and never take

anything from them. You also have to teach them what a "safe stranger" is in case they need help. A safe stranger includes a police officer, a cashier, a fire fighter.

Develop a "what if" game for children to get them thinking about how they would respond if they felt threatened or afraid.

Know who your children play with and where they go. This includes keeping a list of their friend's addresses and phone numbers.

Do not leave your child in unsupervised locations, such as cars, parks, public washrooms, arenas, malls and plazas, etc.

Teach your children where and how to get help. Go with them on their regularly travelled routes. Your child's body is private. Tell your children that no one may touch the area their bathing suit

covers. If someone tries to touch them, they should tell you immediately. Teach your children to talk to you immediately when someone does anything that makes them feel

strange or uncomfortable. Listen when your children are trying to tell you about something that bothers them and provide them with support and understanding.

Communicate to your children the importance of following the teacher’s instructions during a lockdown, hold and secure, bomb threat, shelter in place or fire drill and to not use cell phones to ensure their own safety.

For more information about safety at your school, review your school handbook or speak to your principal or teacher.

Peel Region High Performers

Train More. Rehearse More. Learn More. New Peel District School Board program offers flexible school options for student athletes, artists Does your child/teen have an intense sports or arts training and competition schedule that makes it difficult to attend school regularly? The Peel District School Board’s new Peel Region High Performers Program will offer flexible timetabling to accommodate student athletes and artists with demanding practice, competition, rehearsal and/or performance schedules.

As of September 2017, the Peel Region High Performers Program will be offered at:

Britannia Public School (grades 4 to 5)

Dolphin Sr. Public School (grades 6 to 8)

Mississauga Secondary School (grades 9 to 12) For more information on the program, visit www.peelschools.org/HighPerformers

We inspire success, confidence and hope in each student.

A Parent's Guide to High School Get ready for what could be the most exciting and important years your teen spends in school. For the first time, teens will have to make choices about what they will study and what career pathway to choose. Whatever path your teen chooses, we want to make sure your entire family is ready to meet the challenges and embrace the many opportunities that await your teen upon graduation. Our Parent’s Guide to High School will provide you with a snapshot of what you need to know to help your teen be successful. To view the online booklet, visit www.peelschools.org/parents/helpyourchild/parentguide. For more ways on helping your teen make a smooth transition, visit www.peelschools.org/parents/helpyourchild.

Regional Learning Choices programs unlock passions Regional Learning Choices Programs offered by the Peel District School Board empower students by providing them with opportunities to develop and explore skills in a particular area of interest. Regional programs are open to all students who meet the criteria for acceptance. Students and their families are encouraged to attend the information night for the program of their choice to receive more information about the program and application details. Transportation is not provided for students in regional programs. If students have been accepted into a regional program and they live within the school boundary, they are eligible for busing only if they meet the distance criteria outlined in the board’s Transportation Policy #39. All regional programs include annual fees, including an $40 application fee for all regional programs. The application process for secondary regional programs opens Nov. 6, 2017. Application dates for middle school programs vary from school to school.

Programs Starts in grade: 6 7 9

Actively in Motion (AIM) – Royal Orchard MS

Advanced Placement – Central Peel SS, John Fraser SS

Arts – Earnscliffe Sr. PS (starts in grade 6), Queen Elizabeth Sr. PS (starts in grade 7), Cawthra Park SS, Mayfield SS

Arts and Technology – Morning Star MS

Graphic Design Management – Gordon Graydon Memorial SS

International Baccalaureate – Bristol Rd. MS, WG Davis Sr. PS, Erindale SS, Glenforest SS, Harold M. Brathwaite SS, Turner Fenton SS

International Business and Technology – Allan A. Martin Sr. PS, Lisgar MS, Williams Pkwy Sr. PS, Meadowvale SS, North Park SS

International and Executive Leadership Academy – T.L. Kennedy SS

SciTech – Centennial Sr. PS, Macville PS, Tomken Rd. MS, Chinguacousy SS, Port Credit SS

Sports – Applewood Heights SS

Strings – Central Peel SS, Port Credit SS

Truck and Coach Engineering and Technology – Bramalea SS

A number of other specialized programs that extend beyond the regular curriculum are available to Peel high school students. Learn more: Co-operative Education Program Dual Credit Programs Explore High Skills Extended French/French Immersion

Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program Peel Region High Performers Program Regional Co-operative Education Programs Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) Programs

For more information about program information nights, busing, fees and the application

process/dates, contact the school or visit www.peelschools.org/RegionalPrograms.

Immunize your grade 7 children for better health with the HPV-9 vaccine

On August 17th, 2017, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care announced that HPV-9 vaccine will replace the HPV-4 vaccine for grade 7 students starting on September 5th, 2017. You may recall completing an immunization consent form for your child to receive Hepatitis B, Meningococcal ACYW-135 and HPV-4 vaccines in the spring. Since HPV-4 vaccine will no longer be offered, we require your consent to immunize your child for HPV-9. If you have already spoken to a Peel Public Health Nurse and provided verbal consent for HPV-9, please disregard the consent form that will be sent home at the beginning of the year. The HPV-9 vaccine provides protection against nine strains of HPV. A fact sheet with more information on the HPV disease will also be provided to each student for parents. Please review the fact sheet with your child and return the signed consent form to the school. Completed consents will be given to Peel Public Health Nurses who will give the vaccines at clinics held in your child’s school this school year. If you have questions, you can find more information on our website at www.immunizepeel.ca or you can talk to a Peel Public Health Nurse at 905-799-7700. Caledon residents can call toll-free at 905-584-2216.