School Update 

To the students and families of MRS, 

In recognition of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation next Monday, our school participated in numerous Orange Shirt Day events over the past week. These important events included an opportunity for students to share their reflections and connections to this work in an assembly, engage in a book walk to the story “You Hold Me Up” by Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith, and to create a collective school art piece “Feather for “Wings”. The feathers for this artwork were created by Gitxsan artist Michelle Stoney and have been used to create an art piece near our front entrance. Many families used this display to capture a photo of their child during our Meet the Teacher evening. During our assembly students sang O Siem by Susan Agluklark. Their performance brought tears to the adult eyes in the gymnasium. Simply beautiful singers. 

We would like to thank our Parent Association for their collaboration with us on the Meet the Teacher evening. We have heard from many families that they appreciated being able to connect with other families, enjoy the Food Trucks (thank you Avery!) and weather, and meet with the teachers. As the input of our parents is important and helps guide our decision-making process, we ask you to please take a few minutes to answer the following survey:   

September Meet the Teacher Feedback 

We wish everyone a wonderful weekend and look forward to welcoming our students back on Tuesday, October 1st. 

Maple Ridge Staff 

Upcoming Important Dates 

iLab Materials Needed  

We are excited to announce that we are restocking our iLab materials!  

iLab projects promote critical thinking skills and encourage students to use design thinking to solve real-world problems.  

If you are willing to donate any of the following items, please drop them off at the front door (in the wagon) or send them with your child. We will be accepting donations until further notice.  

If you have any questions or think you have something not listed that might be useful to our iLab, please email Mrs. Hildebrand at dthildebrand@cbe.ab.ca.   

Thank you in advance for helping us collect these items and support innovation at Maple Ridge!  

** Not needed at this time: Egg Cartons, Fabric 

The Usborne Bookfair was here! 

Usborne has award-winning books for toddlers to teens, from board books and chapter books to YA novels, from dinosaurs to economics, from sticker books to world history, French editions and much more! 

If you were unable to shop in person, you can browse and order online at any time until midnight on Sunday Sept. 29th  

Please use this shopping link if ordering online, and leave ‘ship to host’ selected in order to avoid being charged shipping.  https://tinyurl.com/yz5ej69a 

If you have any questions related to the fair, our Usborne consultant is Carol Cooper carolcooper@shaw.ca and she’ll be happy to help. 

Lifetouch – School Pictures are ready! 

To order, log in to your account on mylifetouch.ca or create an account using your student's school ID number.  

All families can also log on and order a FREE digital Pictures2Protect Card. 

More about the Pictures2Protect program can be found here. 

Traffic Safety Reminders 

We want to remind our families of some traffic considerations during pick-up and drop-off times as we have noticed some illegal U-turns, and parking too close to the crosswalk, specifically on Mapleton Drive SE. As the safety of our students is of utmost importance, we remind all families to follow the rules of the road. We greatly appreciate your support with this.