New Heights Newsletter
Upcoming Important Dates
March 12th: Daylight Savings Time (Spring Ahead)

March 16th: Science Fair

March 22nd/23rd: Annual overnight camping trip (3rd floor classrooms)

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

March 25th-April 2nd: Spring Break! 
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
The Gala is already 74% sold out! Take advantage of the early bird and group pricing rate until March 31st.

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.
The New Heights annual Science Fair
The Science Fair is back in-person and onsite this year!
 
When: Thursday, March 16th from 9:00am-11:45am
 
Where: New Heights School
 
How it works:
 
Participating in the Science Fair is optional. Students who wish to participate in the Science Fair fill out a planning sheet ahead of time, and bring it back to the school by Thursday, March 2nd. When the project is approved, the students can start working on them.
 
Students work on their Science Fair creations, projects and/or presentations at home.
Participants in the Science Fair will be presenting their projects to students and staff in different locations at the school on the morning of Thursday, March 16th.
 
The Science Fair is a student-only event. Videos and photos will be shared on Instagram as well as in the newsletter for parents to follow. To participate in the Science Fair, students should be able to present their project on their own, or have it recorded in advance to share as a 2-3 minute video.
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 Sam from Skoki Mountain.
The winner of the Junior High/High School Way to Go! draw in December was Ryan B from Pyramid Mountain.
Alberta Education Assurance (AEA) Survey
Alberta Education is conducting their 2022-2023 Alberta Education Assurance (AEA) Survey over the next month. Parents and guardians of students in Grades 4 to 12 may receive survey information in the mail from Alberta Education. This information will include links and a code to complete the survey online. Paper copies can be requested if needed.

The results of the Assurance Survey give New Heights and Alberta Education information and evidence about the quality of your child’s education. It informs goals and plans for improvement, as well as celebrates the areas that are done well.

Alberta Education will be conducting their annual Assurance Survey with parents/guardians until March 17, 2023.

Survey results are made available to school authorities, and will inform our New Heights Education Plan as well as be reported in our Annual Education Results Report.
Drop off and Pick up: A note on the parking lots
A reminder that we have the North parking lot at the back of our building, as well as the parking stalls facing our building in the West parking lot, just across Breskens Drive.
 
Our allocated parking stalls in the West parking lot (labelled with New Heights signs) are also used for Access Calgary drop off and fill up quickly. The rest of the stalls in the West parking lot belong to Clear Water Academy.
 
IF you are parking in the West parking lot, and planning to stay past 3:15pm for meetings or to use the playground, we ask that you either use our designated, labelled parking stalls, or that you park in the North parking lot. This allows us to be good neighbours to Clear Water who need their parking stalls for their pick up before 3:30pm.
 
The North parking lot is much quieter at drop off and pick up times, and we encourage you to keep using this parking lot.
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