June 16, 2024 QEB Family Communication

June 16, 2024 QEB Family Communication
Posted on 06/16/2024
Class Trips

June 16, 2024

Good afternoon to our QEB families,

HPEDSB School Climate Survey - thanks to all families that have taken the time to provide us with valuable feedback! If you haven’t had a chance yet, we would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete this survey.

Here is the confidential link to the HPEDSB School Climate Parent/Caregiver Survey: https://bit.ly/HPEscs24

Congratulations to our QEB Grade 8 students! Graduation is Tuesday, June 18, 2024 and we look forward to celebrating with our graduates and their families/guests. 

On Tuesday, June 25, 2024 Andy Forgie is gifting us with a Farewell QEB Concert (on the grass). We invite families that can make it, to join our staff and students at 9:00AM on the back school yard - bring your lawn chair and blanket. Looking forward to a great time of singing, dancing and community building! 

Summer weather is here! With daily recess and upcoming class trips we remind families to send your child(ren) to school and trips with the appropriate clothing for the weather, as well as sunscreen (applying at home helps), hats and water bottles! 

Our parent social media awareness evening was informative and full of great action items for families. Thank you to those that could make it! Paul shared valuable resources and the following site has some great information that particularly goes well with the presentation given to our junior QEB students: https://beacons.ai/internetsafety

Belleville Public Library Summer Offerings: All programs are free. Children can also participate in our summer reading challenge. Each week children can report their reading at the library to be entered into weekly and end-of-summer prizes. Children will also be placed on a team. By reporting their reading, they will also help their team progress on a track in the children’s area. We also have a teen summer reading challenge and several teen programs on our summer calendar. For more information and to register starting June 17, visit bellevillelibrary.ca/summer2024.

Student Absences -  Detailed information about SafeArrival can be found at HPEschools.ca/Absence. Please use the toll-free number, website, or mobile app to report your student’s absence in advance. The toll-free number is 1-833-568-2535. Links to the SafeArrival website and mobile app are available at go.schoolmessenger.ca. 

QEB Community Supports & Updates:

  1. Mental Health & Well Being Supports for Families:

    1. Children’s Mental Health Services

    2. Kids Help Phone – 1 800 668-6867 or text CONNECT to 686868 Kids Help Phone

    3. Children’s Mental Health Crisis Line – 613 966-3100 (15 years old and under)

    4. Quinte Health Care Crisis Line – 613 969-7400 (16 years +)

  2. We’re here to help! Please contact your child’s teacher or QEB Administration if you would like to connect with our Child and Youth Worker (Ms. Blakely) and/or have support getting connected to community resources.

  3. Children’s Mental Health Resource Poster: CMHS Resource Poster

QEB Information Items & Updates:

  1. Every Tuesday is QEB school spirit wear day! Wear your QEB gear or our school colours (Blue & Yellow) to show your school spirit!

  2. QEB June Spirit Days:

    1. June 25 - Community Partner Class Colours day (pick a colour with your partner class to wear to the Andy Forgie Concert)

  3. Pizza Days are now over for the school year. Thanks to Ms. Campbell for organizing this lunch for our school! 

  4. June 25, 2024 - Andy Forgie Farewell Concert on the Grass 9:00AM - all families invited (bring a blanket or lawn chair)

  5. June 26, 2024 - BBQ Lunch and QEB Community Building Play Day

  6. June 27, 2024 - Last day of the 2023-2024 school year for our students

  7. Through our Food For Learning (FFL) program, we will be offering a hot lunch every Thursday and Toast or Cereal & Fruit every Friday for all students that would like to participate. Please see the calendar on our  QEB website for specifics regarding each hot lunch day - https://queeneb.hpedsb.on.ca/ 

  8. Kernels Popcorn is available for purchase Tuesdays & Thursdays at second break for $2.25.

QEB Student Teams & Clubs (currently running with staff involvement):

  1. QEB Student Council - Leadership team for intermediate students to further develop the QEB Purple School Community through student voice and involvement in fundraising and event planning for whole school participation.

  2. Rainbow Club - A club for junior/intermediate students with a focus on creating a safe space for student voice while students enjoy a variety of activities and cooperative games in the gymnasium.

  3. JEDI (Justice/Equity/Diversity/Inclusion) Club - A school-based equity club of intermediate students and staff working together to assist and inform our equity plan, considering different perspectives and setting priorities for our school and community.

  4. Blue Jays Club - QEB has been picked to be a Blue Jays Affiliate School and have created a Rookie League for our K-Grade 6 Students: Rookie League provides a platform for a wide range of children and youth experiencing diverse barriers to join together and participate in highly inclusive, mixed ability, safe and fun softball and/or baseball programming. Rookie League is the ultimate safe-space for any young person looking to develop new skills and have fun. The goal of Rookie League is to build a sense of community and belonging for children and youth. It is a club that is focused on students from K-6 where students engage in team building games and baseball development activities.