New Heights Newsletter
Upcoming Important Dates
May 15th: Grade 9 PAT L.A. Part A

May 17th: Grade 6 PAT L.A. Part A

May 18th: The annual Talent & Variety Show

May 19th: Organizational Day (Day off for students!)

May 22nd: Victoria Day (All Programs closed)
New Heights Talent & Variety Show
It’s time to start planning for the annual New Heights Talent & Variety Show on May 18!
This year the Talent Show is offering two options for you to display your talent. We will be hosting an in-person Talent Show for the whole school and creating a video package to send out to all the classes the same week.
Here’s how it will work:
1.      Think about what you want to share and have a plan. Bring the planning sheet back to your teachers by May 5.
2.      If you are choosing to perform your talent in-person, start practicing!
3.      If you are choosing to create a video (maximum 2 minutes) to showcase your talent follow the following instructions.
1.      Film your presentation or routine at home and submit the video (maximum 2 minutes) by May 12 to this Google Drive Folder.
2.      We will edit the videos together at New Heights and create a private listing on YouTube for everyone to see.
The video will premiere the week of May 18.
 
Any questions? Feel free to send us an email at info@newheightscalgary.com. 
A Big Hearted Thank you!
Your Parent Advisory Council (PAC) would like to thank everyone for their support and generous participation in the Gala last weekend. You helped us raise over $100,000 for New Heights School, making this our most successful event to date! 

- PAC
Way to Go!
Each month at our assemblies, there is a Way to Go! draw. To be entered, students have to be “caught” going above and beyond for others.
 
Some examples of this might be: helping out another student to solve a problem, holding the door for others on the way outside, or helping to clean up and bring equipment back inside.
 
Teachers fill out a ticket for the students to drop off in the jar in the office, and each month, Mrs Newfield pulls a ticket from the jar during the assemblies. At the end of the year, all the tickets are put back in the jar for a final mega-draw at the end of June.
 
The winner of the Elementary/Middle School Way to Go! draw in February was Joseph from Mount Chester.
The winner of the Junior High/High School Way to Go! draw in December was James from Tower Mountain.
Provincial Achievement Tests/Diploma Exam dates
Students in Grade 6 and 9 will be writing Provincial Achievement Tests in May and June.
Diploma exams for Grade 12 students in 30, 30-1 and 30-2 courses will be written in June.
Dates of tests are listed below, as well as on our “Upcoming Events” page.

May 15th:           9:00am Grade 9 LA Part A
May 17th:           9:00am Grade 6 LA Part A
June 12th:           9:00am Diploma English Part A
June 13th:           9:00am Diploma Social Studies Part A
 
June 16th:           9:00am Diploma Math
 
June 19th:            9:00am Diploma English Part B
June 20th:            9:00am Diploma Social Studies Part B
                               9:00am PAT Grade 6 & 9 LA Part B
 
June 22nd:          9:00am PAT Grade 6 & 9 Math Part A
June 23rd:            9:00am PAT Grade 6 & 9 Math Part B
June 26th:           9:00am Grade 6 & 9 Social Studies
 
June 27th:           9:00am Diploma Science
                               9:00am PAT Grade 6 & 9 Science
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