New Heights Newsletter
Upcoming Important Dates
September 20th/21st: PT interviews/IPP meetings

September 22nd: Organizational Day (day off for students)

September 29th: Orange Shirt Day at New Heights

September 29th: PAC Welcome Back BBQ
The Other End of the Phone
Our Front Office administration team is Alison Black and Dulaine Lough. These are the two that you will be hearing from when you call the school, when you send a message to info@newheightscalgary.com, or when you ring the doorbell.

Alison Black, also our Admissions Coordinator, is in the Front Office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.
Dulaine Lough is in the Front Office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. 
If your Student will be Absent
When your student will be late or absent due to sickness, appointments, or other, please contact the main office by leaving a message at info@newheightscalgary.com or 403-240-1312 to let the school know.
Welcome to New Heights: Parent Information Session
This session is for our families who are joining us for the first time this school year, with a student in Grades K-12.
 
To help welcome you to the New Heights school community, we are holding an in-person session for parents who are new to our school program. This session will take place on Wednesday, September 20th at 5:30pm and will provide information on who we are and what we do.
 
Topics that will be covered include:
  • September and onwards at New Heights: what are the students doing and learning in the classroom
  • Who is the therapy team and how do they work with the students and in the classroom
  • New Heights terminology
  • Parent Teacher interviews: what to expect, what questions to ask, and information to communicate to the school team
The Therapy Team and the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) team will also be available before, during and after this session to meet parents and share about how they work in the classrooms at New Heights. 
 
To attend this information session, please RSVP to info@newheightscalgary.com by Friday, September 15th for planning purposes.  
 
If you are a returning parent who would like to take part in the session, you are more than welcome to join. Please RSVP to info@newheightscalgary.com by Friday, September 15th.
Parent Teacher Interviews / IPP meetings
Our first round of Parent Teacher Interviews/IPP meetings are coming up on the evenings of Wednesday, September 20th and Thursday, September 21st.

Meetings can be booked on each half hour between 3:30pm and 8:30pm. These meetings can be held virtually or in-person. Please specify your preference when signing up. 
 
The Office will be contacting you next week to book a time to meet with your teaching team.

Note for High School parents/guardians: These meetings will be scheduled your homeroom teaching team.
You will have opportunity at the PAC Welcome Back BBQ to meet the other subject-area teaching teams. 
Meet the Therapist & Meet T2A
Our Therapy Team and the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) team will be onsite to meet parents the evening of Wednesday, September 20th before, during, and after the New Heights information session. If you are curious who the Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, and Psychology Team is at New Heights and what they do in the classrooms, plan to stop by the auditorium! 
A message from PAC
  • Parent welcome coffee in the parade square during drop-off on September 12th

  • First PAC meeting September 14th on Google Meet, email pac@newheightscalgary.com to get a link

  • The PAC BBQ is tentatively set for lunchtime on September 29th
Drop off and Pick up
A reminder that we use the North parking lot at the back of our building, as well as have the parking stalls facing our building in the West parking lot, just across Breskens Drive.
 
Our allocated parking stalls in the West parking lot are labelled with New Heights signs and also used for Access Calgary drop off. These fill up quickly. The rest of the stalls in the West parking lot belong to Clear Water Academy. The North parking lot is easier access at drop off and pick up times, and we encourage you to keep using this parking lot.
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