New Heights Newsletter
School News
New Heights School is moving!
Next week New Heights will be in our new space across the street!
Our new address is:
2521 Dieppe Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
T3E 7J9

As of June 29 th , 2020 New Heights School is on summer holidays. Regular school office hours will resume on August 17 th , 2020. The first day of classes is September 2 nd , 2020.

New Heights Home and Community Support is open year round. To contact the Home and Community Support office, please call  403-250-1317 .

New Heights Transitioning to Adulthood Branch is open year round. To contact the T2A team, please call 587-439-2272.
Have a wonderful summer!  
Grad 2020
A link to the YouTube video will be sent out on Thursday morning. Grad will premiere at 1:30pm that day.

We will be leaving the video up until Friday morning, at which time we will be taking it down. So if you are unable to view it during it’s premiere, be sure to watch Thursday evening before it is taken off YouTube.
Good-bye to the Athlone Building
New Heights is moving! As of next week, we will be located at our new home at the Bessborough Building (2521 Dieppe Avenue SW).

This is our last week at the Athlone Building, and we have enjoyed our time in this building. We have created a short video to say good-bye to this space and give all of our staff and students one last look at New Heights in Athlone.

A link to the YouTube video will be sent out Friday morning. The Good-bye to the Athlone Building video will premiere at 11:00am on Friday, the last day of classes.
We will be leaving the video up for the summer. 
Way to go!
We have a winner for the month of June:
The winner of the cumulative year end draw is...
Hello from PAC!
To date our Skip the Depot fundraiser has raised approximately $730 ! 
Thanks to the families participating so far. 
We would like to invite more New Heights Families to please consider donating their bottles to this on-going fundraiser - thank you! 
Here’s how: 
• Download Skip the Depot app
• Set up account with your name, address and email
• You will be given the pick up day of the week for your area
 • Enter # of bags to be picked up and you will be given an ID #
• Choose New Heights PAC in the list of donors
•App dispatches crew to pick up bottles
Admissions OPEN!
Despite the building being closed, we are continuing to accept registrations for the 2020-2021 school year. Limited spaces are available in our school and preschool classrooms.
Please contact Alison Black, our Admissions Coordinator at alison.black@newheightscalgary.com for more information.
Tech Spot

Looking for extra practice and enrichment over the summer with Reading and Math?
Check out the sites below:
https://www.abcya.com/ - Grade levels Pre-k through 6 - Students can have fun while engaging in reading and phonics activities
https://readtheory.org/ - Personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12
https://nrich.maths.org/ NRICH – great critical thinking tasks. Covers numeracy, spatial reasoning and data analysis. Includes a digital platform as well as non digital activities (div 1-4)
** And don’t forget to check out the great digital resources on the Calgary Library site. These resources are free and include films, books, audio books and journal articles.
Have a great summer!