Happy Beginning of Advent!!! I hope at this busy time of the year, you will take time to celebrate the advent season: "The coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ!"
Skating at Brant Our good friends at Vulcan County have blessed us with an abundance of water for our ice rink this past week. Now, we wait for the water to freeze in hopes that we can start skating next week in both PE classes and at lunch recess. We are asking students to bring skates and a helmet and clothes that are warm enough for a 45 minute PE class on our outdoor rink. If you have grown out of your skates, could you please be generous in carrying on the Brant tradition of donating your skates and helmets that no longer fit to our PE department.
Open House Brant will be hosting an open house on Tuesday, December 3 from 4 - 8:00pm. Feel free to encourage any family member or friend interested in attending to come to the school to see what we are all about.
School Registration It is that time again! Registration for all Brant families opens on December 1st- December 15th. The earlier registration dates are due to the Palliser School Division requesting our 2025-26 numbers by January 1st. The number of registered students affects funding and teacher staffing. Please support our efforts to give the Palliser School Division the best information possible by registering between December 1-15th. The Board will require that all Alternative Program Fee (APF) accounts be up to date before your student’s place in the grade is secured as of December 15th, 2024. There is a waiting list of families that wish to become a part of the Brant Christian family, so please be sure to confirm your accounts are in order. A $100 deposit/ family will be due as well to confirm your student’s spot in the grade you are registering. Couple of details remember: ● All APF’s ($1260/ student) are due by June 30th, 2025 ● If your family is need of financial support for the upcoming year please reach out to treasurer@brantchristian.org
Brant Christmas Production We are excited to announce this year's Christmas production, "Away in a Mango"! Join the passengers and crew of the SS Mango as their shopping excursion turns perilous after a sudden storm leaves them stranded on a deserted island! Will they be found in time for the ship’s big Christmas Concert? Come and find out! Please invite your friends and family to join us for an evening of music and worship as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour! Our worship teams will be leading us in some Christmas singing followed by our play starring the K-6 students! The show begins at 7:00 pm on Thursday, December 12th. Further details for our singers and actors will be sent home to each family.
Student Council School Spirit Days - Dec. 16-19 Please join our school council on the week before Christmas Vacation to dress up and show school spirit! Dec. 16 - Christmas Character Day Dec. 17 - Crazy Hat Day Dec. 18 - Ugly Christmas Sweater Day Dec. 19 - PJ Day and Christmas Parties along with our Secret Santa Gift Exchange.
Navigating Technology With Our Youth Back by popular demand is the Community Education Service session for parents on Navigating Technology with our Youth featuring a new date and evening time, December 11 th , 6-7:30. For more details and info on how to register for this free virtual learning session, please click here: 2024-10-28-20-09-41-Sept-26-Tech-and-Youth.pdf (hmhc.ca)
Hot Lunch Orders December Hot Lunch orders are now closed. January is open for parents who have not yet ordered and will close on Dec. 15th. Sorry, no late orders due to supplies being required to be purchased over that weekend. Thank you
HEALTH AND SAFETY REMINDER Just a reminder Brant Christian is a peanut/nut free school. Please ensure that students are not bringing food with peanuts or tree nuts as part of their ingredient list as we do have several students who have severe peanut/nut allergies. Thank you for your consideration in keeping all of our students safe.
AFTER SCHOOL PICK UP For safety reasons, we would like to ask parents who pick up young children after school, to please refrain from driving into the parking lot while students are making their way to their buses.
The Great Grad Brant Bottle Drive This year’s grad class “Class of 2025” is organizing some fundraisers and one of the major fundraisers will be a bottle drive. Brant Christian Grad has been added as an account at both the Okotoks and High River Bottle Depots. So when you drop off your bottles, just ask them to put the funds under Brant Christian and you will be supporting the grad “Class of 2025”! Thanks so much:)
Brant Society Board Meetings As always, parents are invited to attend Brant Society Board meetings that take place every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm at the High River Alliance. Should you want to come see what all the wonderful things the board is doing to continue to further the Brant Christian School mission, the next meeting is Tuesday, December 10. If you (parents), as society members, have not received an email from the Brant Christian Society Board to please email chair@brantchristian.org.
Parent Volunteer Sign-Up
Here is a quick and easy way to pitch in and become part of the volunteer corps that contribute to make Brant a special place. Just click on the link, sign up and join in the fun:) ● Hot lunch Volunteers needed - runs October to June - volunteersignup.org/DPBYA ● Fundraising Committee Volunteers needed (ongoing) - volunteersignup.org/FCH9H ● Please sign up for our BCS Prayer Team (ongoing) - volunteersignup.org/Q7Q48
A big thank you to all the parent volunteers who help organize all the parent volunteers!
Feel free to reach out to me should you have any ideas or concerns, or just want to chat.
