Good afternoon, Ian Bazalgette Community.

Please see important information for this week.

No School

October 25 - Non-Instruction Day.

Breakfast Offering at the School

We are excited to announce that starting Monday, October 28, our school will be offering a free breakfast each morning starting at 7:40-7:55 am in the bistro. This will provide students with a nutritious start to their day, ensuring they are ready to focus and learn. Breakfast will only be available before school at the time designated.

Additionally, due to concerns about excessive waste and garbage in the classrooms, we will no longer be offering snacks in the classrooms during the day. This change will help us keep our learning spaces clean and focused on academic activities. Snacks will still be available at lunch through our lunch offerings.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

Dressing for Fall Weather

With the incredible weather we have been having it is hard to believe it is Fall. However, we know that Fall weather is approaching, and students need to be prepared for changing weather. Please ensure your child is dressed in layers to support the outdoor learning and lunch opportunities we offer each day. This is a great time to remind all students to swing by the lost and found to find those items they left outdoors during a warm lunch break.

Demographic Forms are now Overdue

If you have not already completed your annual demographic form, please log onto your MyCBE account and click on Online Forms which will bring you to the demographic and consent forms. It is important to recognize these forms are a legal requirement from Alberta Education and affects funding.

School Fees

School fees for Term 1/Semester 1 option/complementary course fees have been applied to the students accounts in MyCBE.

Please pay as soon as possible.

More information about school fees can be found here. For information about Fee Waivers and the requirements are located here.

Remembrance Day Assembly Request

As part of this year's Remembrance Day Assembly, we would like to honour our own school community's veterans who have served in Canada's Armed Forces in the past.

For this, we are kindly asking if you could share a digital picture with us of any of your family members that are serving or have served Canada (please specify their relationship to the Ian Bazalgette student). If you have a photo to share, please send it to Ms. Shurvell at ajshurvell@cbe.ab.ca. 

We will put together a slide show to honour our Ian Baz family in our assembly!

Thank you in advance for your contributions.

Scent-Free Environment

Please help us to keep the air we share healthy and fragrance-free. Chemicals used in scented products can make some people sick, especially those with fragrance sensitivities, asthma, allergies, and other medical conditions. 

Please ask your student to refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, aftershave, and other fragrances at school. Also, help them to understand that these products should never be sprayed in the classroom, the hallway, or anywhere in the school. 

Thank you for supporting our teaching and learning at Ian Bazalgette School.

Steven Pike
Principal

Ian Bazalgette Newsletter Oct. 21-25

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Calgary Police Cadet Corps

The Calgary Police Cadet Corps is a youth program designed for all youth between the ages of 12-18 to experience the life of policing. The Cadets develop a great sense of pride and discipline through their involvement and learn other skills such as leadership, citizenship, and fitness. Working with members of the Calgary Police Service, the Cadets are able to become model citizens while being mentored in an inclusive environment.

How to Join:

NOTE: The application process is open from November 1 to March 31 for the following year’s intake.

https://calgarypolicecadets.com/cadets/is-it-right-for-me/how-to-join/

To become a member of the Calgary Police Cadet Corps, you must

  • Be a youth between 12 yrs old and 18 years old (however, you must be under 17 to apply)
  • Be of good moral character
  • Complete an Enhanced Security Clearance, have no criminal record (see link below)
  • Be a resident of Canada for a minimum of 3 years with government identification (birth certificate or Alberta Health Care card)
  • Provide written parental/guardian consent
  • Complete an application form (see link below)
  • Be attending school full time (including homeschooling) and be able to provide a copy of a recent report card and reference letter from school teacher
  • Be a resident of Calgary or a surrounding area (Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane, High River, and Okotoks) 

Cost

  • There is no cost to join the Calgary Police Cadet Corps as it is funded by the Calgary Police Youth Foundation
  • Uniforms and kit are provided during the participation in the Program
  • Potential credits for school through participation

What's Happening In… ?

Research on best adolescent learning has shown importance must be given to creating curricular learning tasks that bring independent ideas and facts together under larger unified concepts - showing how what we learn applies to the world. This year, we will be trisecting the year under three conceptual lenses, using Niitsitapi values (Blackfoot Nation; Piikani, Kainai, Siksika) as guiding thoughts. These big ideas include being aware of the environment though observation, that our universe often contains balance, and that we should aim to transfer what we know to others. 

  • 1.     Kakyosin | Be aware of your environment; be observant 
  • 2.     Aoahkannaistokawa | Everything comes in pairs (balance) 
  • 3.     Pommotsiiysinni | To transfer something to others 

Grade 7

ELA

  • READING - Students will continue working in book clubs with the novels, Front Desk and The Barren Grounds (in the case of two grade 7 classes). They will also continue to develop their expository essay with special focus on the paragraph structure. They will then begin to self-edit and peer-edit their writing using a checklist and rubric.
  • WRITING - Students will continue to develop their expository writing skills. They will use graphic organizers to ensure their paragraph writing is structured appropriately, and then self-edit and peer-edit using checklists and rubrics.

SCIENCE 

  • Students have continued to learn about interactions between organisms (ex: predator-prey) as well as the different niches each individual organism may have. This week, students will learn about nutrient cycles and the movement of pollution through food chains.

MATH 

  • We will begin to review adding and subtracting integers. Students will begin a project to demonstrate their learning so far in integers. 

Students are working on incorporating taught vocabulary and applying scenarios where we might find integers into this project. 

SOCIAL STUDIES 

  • Grade 7 students have finished their Indigenous Peoples Research Poster Project and are now moving on to studying three groups of Indigenous Peoples from Eastern Canada. Students will be learning more about the Mi'kmaq, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe. The focus will be on culture and lifestyle before European contact.

Grade 8

ELA

  • READING - Students will continue building their comprehension skills through novel studies activities. They will ask questions, build vocabulary, and make predictions within their groups. Students will continue to develop their expository writing skills. They will use a flow chart to ensure their paragraphs are structured appropriately. Each student will self-assess their writing with an outcome-based rubric and then have a one-on-one writing conference with their teacher. 
  • WRITING - Students will continue to develop their expository writing skills. They will use graphic organizers to ensure their paragraph or essay writing is structured appropriately. Each student will self- assess their writing with an outcome-based rubric and then have a one-on-one writing conference with their teacher. 

SCIENCE 

  • Students wrote a quiz that they will bring home sometime this week. Please look over this quiz with your child. Students will begin learning about fluid properties such as viscosity and density. 

MATH 

  • We will begin to review adding and subtracting integers. As we move into multiplying integer later in the week, we will explore real world scenarios where we might multiply integers. 

SOCIAL STUDIES 

  • Grade 8 students will continue to learn about the challenges that stemmed from the feudal system, including the Black Plague, Peasant’s Revolt (1381), and rise of the merchant class. Students are discussing the changing world views of Europeans during this period of history. 

Grade 9

ELA 

  • Grade 9 students will continue to work on supporting paragraphs of an explanatory essay and will be supported by flow charts to help with structuring and graphic organizers for managing content. They will also work on reading comprehension activities such as providing evidence-based responses around the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The Daily Five activities of writing, reading and word work are done in several ways throughout the week. 

SCIENCE 

  • Students will be introduced to the periodic table and will learn how to determine proton, electron, and neutron number in an atom of a particular element. They will also be reviewing physical and chemical properties and physical and chemical changes of matter. 

MATH 

  • Students will continue practicing the power rules through modeling and real-world applications, along with reinforcing their understanding of the order of operations. On Wednesday, they will complete a unit assessment on Powers. 

SOCIAL STUDIES 

  • Students will begin working on unit two areas of studies. This week, they will be learning about the Youth Criminal Justice Act. They will then work on a true to life case study that occurred here in Alberta before beginning an opinion-based essay around aspects of the topic.

Complimentary Courses

What’s happening in Computer Science? 

Q: Why did the computer squeak? Answer: Because someone stepped on its mouse! 

In the third week of October, Computer Science students continued to participate in the Minecraft design theme “Nightmare before Christmas” image rebuild. The theme build, “Nightmare before Christmas” will be finished next week with students sharing their projects with peers and teacher. Students will then transition into Adobe Animate to convert their builds into animation.

Looking into October, students in Computer Science will continually complete independent work in the following four areas: 3D printing, Coding, Designing. Students will be learning how to 3D print, and create their own gadgets. Students will experience guided design projects based off of the processes that real-world professionals go through every day. 

What’s happening in Foods? 

This week in Foods, we continued our Baking Unit. We looked at the ingredients of baking soda, baking powder and buttermilk in baking.

Baking powder and baking soda are both leaveners, however they are chemically different. When a recipe calls for baking soda, it usually calls for some type of acid like buttermilk, brown sugar, yogurt, lemon juice, vinegar, cream of tartar, to name a few. You need this acid in the recipe to react with the baking soda, which in turn creates carbon dioxide and allows your baked good to rise. Baking powder contains baking soda. It is a mixture of baking soda, cream of tartar (a dry acid), and sometimes cornstarch.

Buttermilk’s lactic acid, as well as its tangy flavour and creamy consistency, does so much for baked goods. It's a great ingredient to have on-hand in your fridge. The acid reacts with baking soda to produce carbon dioxide bubbles, which leaven the batter or dough, resulting in lighter, fluffier texture in biscuits. 

This week in the kitchen

Students made Cheese and Herb Biscuits. This week of making biscuits built upon the knowledge that students learned last week when they made their Bannock. 

Friday Career Chats (A Day)

We looked at the careers of a Dietitian and a Baker. 

What’s happening in Drama and Leadership? 

Drama

This week in drama, students will continue to work on their voice acting puppet projects. Students will craft their own scripts and puppets in groups based on traditional Indigenous stories in order to further develop the communication of emotion and story through vocal techniques. 

Leadership

This week in Leadership, students will be finalizing and rehearsing their scripts for the Public Speaking Assignment. Students will also begin discussing and planning for our Remembrance Day assembly, as well as other upcoming events. 

What’s happening in Construction? 

Grade 7

Students are working away on their second set project of the semester.

Following this project, they will be given the opportunity to design and create their own projects. 

Grade 8 and 9

Students are finishing their set projects and beginning the first of two design and create projects. Many students are picking from cutting boards, chess boards, and CNC projects for their first design and create. 

All students are working on their reflection skills as they complete their project. Each student must complete a reflection to receive a project grade in PowerSchool. If you are missing a grade for your project, please speak to Mr. Aldridge about it. 

What’s happening in Art?

Grade 7

Artists will begin to use oil pastels to explore the colors in the Alberta northern lights. 

Grade 8 and 9

This week Grade 8/9 artists will be finishing up their oil pastel eye projects by completing an artist statement to accompany their artwork on display. 

Physical Education & Intramurals

Physical Education

We are continuing to have PE classes outdoors. All students need to dress appropriately for the weather.

Classes will continue working through Lacrosse, Cricket, Field Hockey and Golf units. 

School Intramurals

Thank you to everyone who participated in dodgeball intramurals! We will have an open gym at lunch for the next two weeks. Grade 7 and 8 students are welcome to come on Tuesdays, and the gym is available for Grade 9 on Thursdays. 

Stay tuned for more information regarding our upcoming basketball intramural season!