Sydenham Storm Updates
- Save the Date - December Talent Show - Wednesday the 17th at 6 pm! Bake Sale starting at 5 pm.
- Intramurals are loved by all participating - thanks to Ms. MacDonald for organizing and supervising!
- Congrats to our Volleyball teams! Fun was had by all and our senior team won their division - way to go! Thanks to Ms. Reid and Mr. Richards for coaching and supervising! And to Mr. Emmerton for running all the administrative tasks!
- Thank you to our SAC for purchasing sports pinnies for our athletes to use on sporting event days! We appreciate all you do for our Storm Kiddos!
- Spirit Days - This Friday (and all the Fridays in December) will be PJ Day!
School Advisory Council
Our next meeting is Monday, February 2 at 5:30 pm - babysitting provided! All Welcome!
Save the Date!! We are hoping to have another event on Friday, February 6th! Stay tuned for more info!
Mental Health Resources for Youth and Families
[The section below will be at the end of every newsletter - so if you have arrived here - thank you for reading our full newsletter - we appreciate you!]
How Do I Report An Absence?
Please use the Safe Arrival system to report your child's absence; if you need to call to report an absence, please call 1-855-257-9349 (see instructions below)
If your child will be late, please report a full day absence and then we will sign them in when they arrive.
Computerized call outs occur around 9:30 for students absent with no reported absence in our system. This call out system is a mandatory safety feature to ensure you know your child is not at school and can follow up as needed. For this reason, if your child is late, it is important that they stop into the office so that Mrs. Thompson can change their absence to 'Late' so that you don't receive an unnecessary and worrisome phone call that your child is not at school
How to report your absence:
1. Toll-free telephone
- Call 1-855-257-9349 toll-free to report an absence using the automated phone system.
2. School Messenger App
- Use your mobile device to download and install the free SchoolMessenger blue app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, the SchoolMessenger website portal, or from within the LDSB mobile app.
- The first time you use the app, you must select Sign Up to create your account. Please ensure you use the same email address your student’s school has on file. If you do not use that same email address, you will not be able to create an account, or may not be able to see the "Attendance" option. You may have already created an account when we introduced the Communicate broadcast system.
- Select Attendance, then select Report an Absence and follow the prompts.
3. SchoolMessenger SafeArrival Website Portal
- Visit the SchoolMessenger website portal.
- The first time you use the app, you must select Sign Up to create your account. Please ensure you use the same email address your student’s school has on file. If you do not use that same email address, you will not be able to create an account, or may not be able to see the "Attendance" option. You may have already created an account when we introduced the Communicate broadcast system.
- Select Attendance, then Report an Absence and follow the prompts.