Text Box: Text Box: vehicles. Also, by leaving the parking lot promptly after dropping off your child you are freeing up a space for the next parent dropping off children. As an alternative, please note that you also are welcome to use the parking lot across Erbsville Road, where we have an agreement with our good neighbours at the Chinese church. Our staff park there every day. Text Box: Getting out of the house for any family can be a rush in the morning. But arriving just a couple of minutes earlier can make all the difference in the amount of traffic you encounter in the parking lot. The lot is much quieter and more spacious if you can get there before 8:45 a.m. The parking lot can be a crowded, busy place in the 10 minutes before school begins, so please remember to watch out for parents and children walking across it and for other Text Box: Beating the Clock …. Parking Lot Strategies Text Box: by making "jam" for breakfast out of drink crystals. And she has gently removed so many loose teeth from the mouths of anxious children that one graduating grade eight student said in her speech that Mrs. Ambrose had pulled more of her teeth than her own dentist had! Mrs. Ambrose has three sons who attended the school, and two of her seven grandchildren, Bryan and Kelsey, are now students here. It seems fitting that when Bryan receives his grade eight diploma this June, he will be the first child of a graduate to graduate the school himself. Text Box: Since then, Mrs. Ambrose has been fully involved, as a parent and volunteer, and as our school secretary, where her chair is framed by a huge black-and-white photo of a monkey cuddled up in a blanket! "I guess you could say I have a monkey on my back!" she jokes. There's nothing she won't do for our children. She makes the vegetable soup for hot lunches according to her own personal recipe. She once stayed overnight at the school when students and staff, including M. Poinot, were trapped during a huge blizzard in the early seventies and made everything more home-like Text Box: Page # Text Box: KW Bilingual Newsletter Text Box: Mrs. Ambrose (Continued from page one)

Traffic Update:

We're all looking forward to less traffic on Erbsville Road when it is dead-ended at Royal Beech Drive after the Ira     Needles extension is   complete. Redirection of traffic in our neighbourhood should reduce the number of cars outside our school from 6,800 to just a couple of hundred per day.

 

First Annual KWBS

Back-To-School  BBQ

Parents, students,    teachers, staff

 

Mark you calendars for    September 22 for a      welcome barbecue over the supper hour. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and mingle with new and returning       families and staff.

 

Details to follow.