Transcript Legislative Assembly & Bennett Centre Sky Science Trip

Legislative Assembly & Bennett Centre Edmonton
Parent Meeting
March 12 &13, 2015
Welcome - will begin shortly
Please ensure one parent has signed in.
At the end of the evening please sign out.
February 18th, 2015
5:30 pm
Nellie McClung
Introduction of staff and volunteers going on the
field trip
Teacher in charge:
Ms. Samuelson & Ms
Schmitz
Joanna Yu
Educational Assistant
Gord Hamby Principal
Rich Baverstock Parent
Connection to curriculum Citizens
Participating in decision making
Social Studies
• 6.1.4 & 6.1.5 analyze the structure and functions of local
and provincial governments in Alberta
• through touring the Alberta Legislature building, viewing
a general session and participating in a mock legislature.
• 6.S.4 demonstrate skills of decision making and problem
solving
• 6.S.5 demonstrate skills of cooperation, conflict
resolution and consensus building
• Science 6 & 7
• observe, describe and interpret the movement of objects
in the sky; and identify pattern and order in these
movements
• The cost of the trip, $110, includes bus, accommodations for
Thursday night, dinner, evening snack, breakfast, a bagged lunch
and swimming.
• Not included: morning snack and lunch Thursday accommodations & meals in the case of emergency Friday night
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Follow along with agenda in your Parent packages:
Agenda: What we will be doing for the two days
Pack: What the students need to bring: handout (next slide)
Electronics: Ipods, phones, ipads: Students will not bring
electronic devices or cell phones with them on the trip.
• Any children on medication - needs to be kept with their teacher.
Please fill in the form and submit with the rest of the package –
have all medication sent into school two days before trip.
• Spending money: No money is required for this trip, please leave
cash at home
• Departure: packing up bus and leaving school at
8:30 am - Parents are required to have their
children at the school on time - we are on a
schedule and time frame to be in Edmonton - we
cannot hold the bus
• Students must have a morning snack and a simple
bagged lunch packed in backpack - nothing
requiring warming up or thermos etc. Throw away
would be best - less to pack around
• Friday
• arrival back at school noon
Bennett Centre
Where everyone will sleep: The Bennett Centre is a 64 bed hostel style
residence with a male and female wing each containing a washroom and
showers. There are 4 beds (bunk beds) to a room and 8 rooms in each of the
wings. Students will be required to bring their own bedding and overnight
requirements.
Teachers will make appropriate
groups for sleeping arrangements
What to Bring
• Sleeping bag & Pillow or bedding - packed either in
duffle bag or in a separate bag, please don't have
loose.
• Complete change of clothes
• Swim suit - plastic bag to store wet suit
• Bagged lunch for first day and some snack for bus ride
• Outdoor shoes or boots (weather depending)
• Indoor shoes or slippers for the Bennett Centre
• Weather needs - mitts, raincoat, hat
• Towel
• Shampoo, soap, brush, comb, toothbrush, toothpaste
Emergency Planning procedures
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Ms. Schmitz and Ms. Samuelson have both visited the site and spoken with staff
and are familiar with emergency exits.
911 is active at the Bennett Centre and would be called if emergency services
needed to be call ( police, fire, ambulance, search and rescue)
What steps will be taken if a student
a) needs hospitalization: call 911 for ambulance services, then contact the parents
as soon as possible to involve them in determining next steps in terms of
treatment. Parents would be expected to travel, at their own expense, to
Edmonton to meet up with their child at the Hospital in Edmonton.
b) If a child is too ill to continue on the trip? Teachers would ensure the student is
made as comfortable as possible, contact parents and they would be expected to
travel to Edmonton, at their expense, to pick up their child.
c) in the case of a snow storm on the 12th and unable to drive back to Calgary. We
have been cleared to spend an extra night at the Bennett Centre. The cost of an
extra night would be collected from parents when we return home.
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Hazards
Trips or fall students will be required to wear proper foot wear at all time, no running
indoors.
Getting lost or separated from the group: adult supervisor will be provided with a list
of students in their small group, adult supervisor will do head-count prior to moving
locations and after washroom breaks and report this information to TIC, adult
supervisors will have a list of all adults' cell phone numbers, students will be instructed
to ask an adult to assist them if they find themselves separated from the group and
told never to leave any of the buildings with anyone but adult supervisors from our
school.
Students with medical conditions: TIC will review all medical information provided by
parents and create a master list of medical conditions to be distributed, to and stored
confidentially by adult supervisors.
Fire and evacuation: TIC will provide adult supervisors with a map of the facility, list of
individual students in their group, a master schedule and will review emergency
procedures during the pre-trip meeting; fire and evacuation procedures will be
reviewed with all participants during the initial orientation to the site and at each new
facility.
TIC will provide adult supervisors with a map of the facility, a list of the individual
students in their group, a master schedule and cell phone numbers for all other adult
supervisors.
A fanout phone call will be issued - TIC would phone the school and each parent
through the fanout list would be contacted in case of an emergency .
On the bus: Using Brewster Bus services
• Bus failure or delay: Follow bus driver's instructions if there is a need to
leave the bus; Teachers will initiate emergency fan-out if delay is
expected to be more than one hour and will keep Principal informed of
and further changes to schedule.
• On the bus: Accidents or collisions, poor driving conditions teachers will
check AMA Road Reports; students and parents will be instructed to stay
seated at all times unless moving to washroom
At the pool:
• STUDENTS WILL BE INSTRUCTED TO WALK, NOT RUN, AT ALL TIMES ON
DECK AND IN CHANGE ROOMS
• The presence of the 2 lifeguards on deck. Adult supervisors will be on
deck and in the water while students are swimming. There will be
supervision in change rooms before and after swimming.
• We have called ahead and the pool is expecting us. There will be a short
briefing and swimming test given by the lifeguards for the students prior
to getting into the pool.
Conduct agreement :
• Students are expected to comply the first time a
request is made by any adult; behaviour expectations
are consistent with those of a regular school day, as
outlined in the school agenda (e.g. respect for self, for
others, for personal belongings, treating others with
respect, no aggressive behavior etc.); If a child should
not comply with behaviour expectations, students may
be removed from an activity, adult would communicate
what behaviour was inappropriate, students may be
given a chance to change his/her behaviour and return
to activity; if the behaviour issue is severe, or if
attempts to support the student in altering
inappropriate behaviour are unsuccessful, teacher or
TIC will phone parent, who will be expected to pick up
their child up The Bennett Centre at their own cost.
Questions?
Please have all forms signed and checks handed
into your child's teacher tonight or by February
25th, 2015. Please sign out before leaving.