This blog is our main communication from the office and replaces a monthly newsletter. The link will be emailed out to you every week (generally on Sunday) so that you can stay up to date with what is happening in our school. Our teachers also blog regularly and will post curricular updates on their classroom blogs so that you can stay informed about your child's learning and other classroom activities. It is really important to keep your contact information current with the office as we email out all of our information using Power School. If you have an email, phone or address change, please let us know as soon as possible in order for us to stay current and on top of things.

Our website: http://rbes.blackgold.ca/ is another fabulous place to get information and is updated regularly. Here you can find links to all teacher blogs, links to directly email staff, calendars, news and other important information.

Another great way to stay up to date with school happenings is to subscribe to our GOOGLE CALENDAR. This of course works with a gmail account. We recommend that all families have at least one gmail email address to communicate with the school. They are free and easy to create if you don't have one. Many people use this for school items only and then you have much less to search through when you are looking back for information. Your child will have a black gold gmail email address for their school career and this allows families to have one platform to operate from. If all of this is GREEK to you, because you have been meaning to catch up and become tech savvy, but that hasn't happened yet - - - that is ok! We are happy to help you. We have a parent computer station in our office for all parents to use when you are in the school. We can also help you set up a gmail app and calendar app on your mobile device so that all the data automatically feeds to your phone. Just give us a call in the office or pop by. WE are more than happy to help!

HOW TO CONNECT TO OUR GOOGLE CALENDAR:

Click on OUR CALENDAR or click on the tab near the top of our blog that says CALENDAR.

Once you are there you will see the "Add Google Calendar" icon at the bottom of the calendar:

Just click on it and follow the instructions to merge it with your own google calendar. EASY PEASY! Again . . . if you would like help with this, please let us know.

Our Google Calendar is updated daily or as soon as something needs to be added or changed. We do not recommend printing the calendar and posting it on your fridge as we don't send out notifications for daily input. However, if you are a subscriber to the calendar, you will receive a change notification if you like. This is something you can control in your settings. We also post the next week or so of important dates at the end of this blog post every week, so you will also have a quick weekly view that way.

You should have received a school calendar magnet this week! On it you will see our big events for each month as well as a reminder that early dismissal starts in October. On the first Wednesday of the month students are dismissed at 2:21 p.m. If you did not recieve a magnet yet, please let us know and we will send one out to you!

Our school (like all BGRS schools) is on an automated call out system. By 9:00 am and 1:00 pm every day the system will email, text and/or call parents of absent students. To prevent these sometimes annoying messages, please contact our school and let us know in advance of a student absence. You can call: 780-987-3705 and leave a voice mail after hours or you can email: maureen.horrocks@blackgold.ca and leave a quick message. You can also let your child's teacher know of an absence as they appreciate being in the information loop as well. Either method is fine and we will enter it in the system so that you are not bothered during the day. Of course the call outs are important so that we can keep all of our children safe. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter! It is much appreciated!