New Heights Newsletter
Upcoming Important Dates
March 22nd/23rd: Annual overnight camping trip (3rd floor classrooms)

March 24th: Organizational Day (day off for students)

March 25th: Spring Break!

April 3rd: Classes Resume after Spring Break

April 7th: Good Friday (all programs closed)

April 10th: All Programs closed
Basecamp Logo Contest
New Heights is having a contest to design our school store logo.

All students, staff, families and alumni are invited to participate.
Big Hearted Gala
Reminder that Silent Auction items are due THIS WEEK to the main office.
The Gala is already 98% sold out! So this is your last chance to get tickets.

About our guest speaker Kodette LaBarbera - https://www.kodettelabarbera.com/about

Unable to attend the event? Have family out of the city/province?
The silent auction will also be available online during the Gala. On the website, simply choose "register" instead of "tickets". Items will be available for viewing 3 days before the event. On April 29th, the bidding starts at 6:00pm and closes at 9:00pm both online and in-person.
TECH SPOT
Featured apps:

Worrydolls
The goal of the Worrydolls app is to relieve stress and anxiety. The user is given a cartoon worry doll and is encouraged to type out their worries and then leave it for the doll to “keep” and to feel the worry for the user. As time passes the User can tap on the doll to let go of the worry if it has gone and to write about it and how they coped with it. Some other features of this app are 
password protection
a log of previous worries
mindfulness and journaling exercises to reflect on one’s past worries.

Owaves: Wellness Day Planner
The goal of the Owaves app is to build routines and habits and to help the user optimize each day according to their personal body clock. The Owaves’ progress bar allows the user to gain an understanding of the time limitations for daily activities. The user can try to time how long specific activities take to complete in order to know exactly how much time to allocate for their own schedule.

To find out more about this app click on the following link:
YYC World Autism Awareness Day
The 10th Annual World Autism Awareness Day is on April 2nd 2023 at Calgary Stampede Youth Campus (1302 6th ST SE). Come out and celebrate all things Autism Acceptance and beyond!

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 March was Theo from Mount Kidd.
The winner of the Junior High/High School Way to Go! draw was Bryce from Tower Mountain and Koby from Pyramid Mountain.
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