1. The Primary Experience
École LeMarchant St. Thomas School

2. Preparing for Primary Read to your child daily
Teach your child to zipper, button and/or tie
Play games that require turn-taking and or counting
Look for numbers and/or letters on street signs or on labels at the store
Karen

3. Before & After School Care
YMCA
7:30 am
15:1 ratio
Annex
Lunch Supervision
EXCEL
7:30 am
25:1 ratio
Main Building
The school must provide basic lunch supervision

4. Learning Independence
Iris: Velcro versus laces, backpack sizes, shoes for gym and music

5. Student Safety
For the Safety of our students, the doors are locked at all times.
Parents / caregivers and guests must be buzzed into the building.
It is important to be on time to minimize the number of interruptions during the morning routine.
If you are late, parents or guardians must check into the main office.
Pauline

6. The First Days
One the first day, parents may come into the classroom with your child. Find their name and show them where they sit. Once students are settled, parents should quietly leave.
After the first day, teachers will meet parents and children in the playground.
It is important to let your child enter the school independently.
Teachers are on duty at 8:40am
Lindsey: Establishing routines

7. Making Friends
Code of Conduct: PEBS - Moira weekly assemblies, monthly assemblies
Teaching your child to be assertive “using your words” RESPECT for Self, others and the environment

8. Recess
Parents are asked to supply students with a healthy recess snack (NO NUTS PLEASE)
Students usually eat inside before or after the outdoor break
It is important to listen to weather reports and dress children appropriately for the weather. Please label your child’s clothing. Layers are great for fluctuating temperatures.
Suzanne

9. Literacy
Students will listen to and read/view stories, poems and chants, and books
They will learn the alphabet and words in the context of meaningful written language
Kate and or Mary

10. Literacy
FLA Suzanne oral literacy development

11. Math
Teachers provide a variety of hands on and interactive math experiences for students
The math program focuses on numeration, geometry patterning, measurement and operations.
Iris: At home you may have children count the dishes as the set the table, count the red cars as you drive, play games such as snakes and ladders etc.

12. Mathematics

13. Health, Science and Social Studies
In health, students learn about safety, making healthy choices and conflict resolution
In science students learn about living and non-living things and the environment
In social studies the focus is on the community
Kate

14. Learning across the curriculum
Lindsay

15. Art

16. Physical Education
Students will have gym in the main building two times each week.
Students are asked to wear shorts, t-shirts and sneakers during warmer weather and loose comfortable gym clothes in winter
Please provide an extra pair of inexpensive sneakers to be kept in the main building for gym classes. These should be labeled with your child’s name or initials.
Pauline

17. Physical Education

18. Music Children will have music twice each week
In December, primary – grade three students participate in a holiday concert.
In grade four they may join our school choir
Violin or cello is offered as part of our strings program in grade three or four
Students may join band in grade six.
Pauline

19. Music

20. Parent Participation Parent – Teacher Communications
Parent Rights and Responsibilities
Communicating Student Learning
The Agenda, s, newsletters, and the school sign
Home & School Association
School Advisory Council
Pauline

21. A Plea to Parents We teachers are like the woman who lived in a shoe,
We have so many children, we don’t know what to do.
They all wear boots and boots look the same, so every boot must have a name.
If you go to the mall or some place like that, you can buy some names to sew in a hat, his/her sweater, his/her coat, and his/her mittens too,
These are some of the things you can do.
Coats have buttons and zippers and ties, so many to fasten, oh how the time flies.
Please spend a minute or so each night
Showing your child how to fasten things right.
Then we’ll send them all home with no clothes lost, all buttoned up safe from snow and frost.
And a great big THANKS will come to you, from the happy family that lives in the shoe.