Happenings
● November 28 4-8pm: Parent-Teacher Conferences at Branton School
● November 29 (No school): Parent-Teacher Conferences 9am-1pm on TEAM (Online)
Help Us Make a Difference: Volunteer for Branton School's Biggest Fundraiser!
I’m reaching out on behalf of the Branton School Association to invite you to participate in our biggest fundraising event of the year—our casino fundraiser at the Elbow River Casino on February 26-27. This is a wonderful opportunity for our community to come together and raise the $70,000+ needed to support our school over the next two years. Every dollar raised goes directly to resources that benefit your children, helping us continue to provide high-quality educational experiences across all departments.
We need your help to make this event a success, and your involvement will directly impact our ability to enhance our programs and services. Please consider volunteering and being part of this important initiative.
To sign up, simply click the link below:
Volunteer for Branton Casino Fundraiser
Thank you for your support and for helping us continue to make Branton School the best it can be!
Warm regards, Sébastien
Principal, Branton School
Parent-Teacher Conferences
CBE Booking System (MyCBE)
The first Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences for the school year will be held on November 28, 4:00pm-8:00pm and November 29, 9:00 am-1pm. As was done last school year, Conferences will be held using an in-person and an on-line method.
The School Conference scheduler (MyCBE) will open for IPP parents on November 19 at 1pm (only for our IPP parents).
The School Conference scheduler will open for all parents on November 22 at 6pm.
Our teachers do not have a slot for every student. Branton School has made a commitment to ensuring ongoing communication throughout the school year to students and their families so that there is an opportunity for students and parents to get feedback and make adjustments prior to the June report card. As such, grades and comments are uploaded regularly in PowerSchool with further information in D2L/Google Classroom, including the use of rubrics to give a detailed understanding of grades. This can also include graded work sent home. At this time, we encourage families to take time with their child(ren) to review grades and comments posted by teachers, review attendance, and decide if what you already know is all positive and satisfactory that you may not need to book an interview at this time. If you have questions, please reach out directly to teachers. Please use this link to access teacher emails. As a reminder, teachers also post reminders (due dates, current work and other course information) in their respective digital platforms on a weekly basis.
The following are links to assist you in using the digital tools used by teachers:
The link to join Microsoft Teams Virtual meeting will be embedded in your email confirmation.
To support the process on November 29 (Online Conferences) we ask that parents please:
- preload 'Microsoft Teams' onto your digital device.
- review your child's progress in PowerSchool prior to the interview. What question(s) may you have?
- when a teacher invites you into the meeting, please keep your camera on. We would like visual confirmation that a parent is present.
- include your child in the discussions. A conversation with the student, family and teacher tends to be the most effective.
- conferences are 10 minutes long and are back to back. Teachers will do their best to stay on time. Parents can only log in to Microsoft Teams 5 minutes prior to the interview starting.
If you are a CBE employee, using your CBE email, please do not log into your Student Conference until the exact time of your meeting, otherwise you will interrupt the current meeting as you do not have the waiting room access.
See our Parent-Teacher Conferences page for more information.
Jacket Racket - Seeking Volunteers for w/ active CBE Police Check
Branton is once again trying to collect a mountain of coats in support of Jacket Racket! Together we hope to assist in keeping those in need as warm as possible. Through the month of November donations can be brought to the school and dropped off in the front office or taken to room 22. Donations are for coats only as other winter gear is not being collected at this time. Thank you in advance for any coats you can donate.
Dates for Donation Drop-off: November 1 – 18, 2024
Music Notes
Band Concert will be on Tuesday, December 10. It will be at Branton and start at 7:00 pm. Details on arrival times will come out the week before. Please save the date!
We will also start lunch practices next week and mornings the following week. Lunch starts at 12:05 (can eat lunch before) and mornings will be 7:30 am.
Monday lunch – grade 8’s Tuesday lunch – grade 9’s Wednesday lunch – grade 7’s
We do an alternating Woodwind one week and brass the following. We will start November 18 as a WOODWIND week. That will include: flute, oboe, clarinet and alto sax. Brass includes: trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, bassoon, bass clarinet, tenor sax and bari sax. Please help to remind your student so they will have their instruments. Detailed calendar will be in your child’s google classroom.
In-Dey-Go Cookie Dough Fundraiser – this is an optional fundraising event for band camp. Profit for what your child sells goes directly to their cost. This will start on Monday, November 18 and finish December 1. All sales will be online and an info sheet will go home with your child if you wish to participate. It is a great time of year for cookies! We will do the perogies and sausages in the new year. At this time, I am still sorting costs out, but might as well reduce your cost if you can!
Any questions? Please email me at jlbaird@cbe.ab.ca.
Quebec Trip Fundraiser
We are starting a fundraiser today where students who are participating in the SEA and Quebec trips can earn funds to off-set their trip fees. The fundraiser is selling Christmas plants and wreaths from Growing Smiles. The fundraiser is completely done online and students can earn the profit from each item towards their trip fees. When ordering off of the website, simply select your student to support and the profits will be returned to the student after the sale. Please find a copy of the flyer with information and pricing attached. Here is the important dates and information for the fundraiser:
Website: https://brantonschool.growingsmilesfundraising.com/
- Sale starts: Thursday, November 14.
- Sale ends: Wednesday, November 27
- Order pick up date: Thursday, December 12 from 3:15 until 5:30 pm at Branton.
If you have any questions about the fundraiser, feel free to contact me at any time. Thank you. Paul Ormiston pjormiston@cbe.ab.ca
Attention Wrestling Guardians!
If you wish to purchase a wrestling team t-shirt, the Branton online store will be open from Friday Nov. 8 to Friday Nov. 22. The only options are black t-shirts. One is cotton and one is dry-fit/polyester. See attached flyer. T-shirts will only be printed if there are 12 or more orders. If there are less than that, money will be refunded. There is also a hoodie for purchase, if interested.
https://brantonwrestling.itemorder.com
Cafeteria Menu
See our cafeteria and menu page.
Fun Lunches
The third Fun Lunch is coming on November 21 (OPA!). Deadline to order is Saturday November 16. We will be looking for Volunteers. Please follow the link for Volunteers. You can place your order through Healthy Hunger Link Order Food.
Upcoming dates for Fun Lunches are as follows:
Dec. 17, 2024 - Deadline to order is on Saturday, November 16 before midnight
Branton Food Bank Drive Homeroom Challenge | Nov. 18 - Dec. 3
Branton will be collecting food/hygiene products for the Calgary Food Bank. One in 9 Calgarians access the Food Bank; 41% are children. We will be accepting products or cash donations. No glass jars, candy, expired products. The homeroom with the most points will win a pizza party.
