Don't Forget Movie Night is this Thursday!

Please come this Thursday at 6:30 to watch The Lego Batman at Movie Night! We will also be raffling a real Lego Batman toy set at the end of the movie. We hope to see you there!

February 1 - Family Movie Night!!!

A Message From Our Trustee

Message From Our Trustee

With report cards coming home, this is a good time of year to review your child’s progress and to set goals for the rest of the school year.

As trustees, our goals are set out in the Board Multi-Year Plan. In the coming months, trustees will be reviewing and updating this plan. This process will include opportunities for public input, and trustees will be out in the communities talking about this. More information will be shared about this in the spring.  

Developing and reviewing the Multi-Year Plan is just one of our responsibilities as publicly elected officials. Trustee responsibilities also include hiring the Director of Education, setting Board policies and the annual budget, and communicating with the public.

This is a good time to learn more about the role of trustees with the next municipal election taking place later this year on October 22, 2018. York Region District School Board has 12 trustees, elected by ratepayers. As a trustee, listening and communicating with families is an important part of my role. Students, families and members of the public are welcome to attend and observe any public Board, Advisory or Board Committee meetings and to share their views with us on policy and Board governance.  

As we move into the second half of the year, I hope that you are seeing evidence of your child’s learning and progress, and finding opportunities to get involved in their learning and the life of the school.

I wish you all the best for a successful second term.

Carol Chan 

Daily Land Acknowledgment

As the York Region District School Board moves forward in an effort to reconcile with Indigenous people, it is important we use land acknowledgments relevant to each of our unique school and facility locations based on the two treaty areas that cross our region. The reasons for this are as follows:​

• The treaties are still significant and in practice today. In all cases the descendants of both parties are living in these territories. Those who arrived after their signing have reaped the benefits of these agreements.
• It helps connect people with the very rich history of this region and makes it clear there were a variety of groups who lived here prior to confederation, who managed these lands according to their own customs and ways.
• Finally, it will help people to understand the wide variety of land that they live on and connect them more closely to where they live and are traveling to. At its best, it could help consolidate the feeling of community as urban sprawl melds formerly separate towns into one larger metropolitan cityscape.​

The educational opportunity that comes out of this project is significant. There are opportunities here to help students and staff become acutely aware of where they live and the very real and significant history of this land and their own personal relationship with it.

Each morning at Silver Stream the following Land Acknowledgment is made:

We would like to start by acknowledging that we are on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples, whose presence here continues to this day. We also would like to acknowledge this is the treaty lands of the First Nations of the Williams Treaty and thank them and other Indigenous peoples for sharing this land with us. We would also like to acknowledge the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation as our closest First Nation community and our partners in education.

We acknowledge this land and the people because the first step to reconciliation is recognizing the existence of Indigenous people. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action (numbers 62-63​) speak to the significance of education as the key to reconciliation. A shared understanding of how our collective past brought us to where we are today will help us walk together into a better future.​​

French Immersion Registration

French Immersion Registration

French Immersion registration will take place from January 19 - February 9, 2018 Information sessions for the French Immersion (FI) program will take place at French Immersion schools on January 18, 2018 at 7 p.m. FI registration will begin January 19, 2018. In order to streamline the registration process, parents or guardians of Senior Kindergarten students entering Grade 1 in 2018, and wishing to enrol in the FI Program, can visit or call their home school office (where your child currently attends) and request an Office Index Card - short version. The Office Index Card must be signed by the principal of the home school. Parents or guardians then take this form, along with one piece of identification showing their address to your designated French Immersion school to register between January 19 and February 9, 2018. This eliminates the need to provide duplicate enrolment information or to pre-register Here is a link to the boards web site for more information.

Director's Letter to Families

Looking For Parent Partner (Paid Position)

Equity in Education Speaker Series

Grades 7 and 8 - Arts Camp 2018

Click on this link for more information.

Lunch Programs Still Available!!!

The lunch programs have been reopened on Cash Online until Sunday evening! This is your last chance to order.

Richmond Hill Winter Carnival