The Week Ahead – February 10-14, 2025

Families of Shortreed, We hope you have enjoyed this beautiful winter weather out there! Our kids have sure enjoyed the snow at school; be sure to check our social media for a ton of photos of fun in the snow (featured image on this newsletter from Ms. Coghill)! Thank you...
Read moreGood Things and the Week Ahead – February 3-7, 2025

Families of Shortreed, To all those Shortreed families celebrating this week, Happy Lunar New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới, Saehae bok mani badeusipsio, and Gong hei fat choy! We hope your children had a chance to get outside and enjoy some of the white stuff for the first time this...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – January 27-31, 2025

Families of Shortreed, We hope you are enjoying this absolutely gorgeous weather and taking some time to get outside and play and explore! This week is a big week of celebration for many of our Shortreed families with Lunar New Year festivities starting on Wednesday, January 29. We will have...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – January 20-24, 2025

Families of Shortreed, I hope you had a chance to enjoy the incredibly beautiful weather out there this weekend! Our grade 5s continue basketball practices with morning sessions on Monday and Friday this week at 7:45. They are gearing up for their first game of the season (a home game)...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – January 13-17, 2025

Families of Shortreed, We hope you and your children have enjoyed the first week back and the first week of school in 2025. Our focus for the start of 2025 is getting the learning and school routines back in place for the students, families, and staff. Our grade 5s continue...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – January 6-10, 2025

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a wonderful 2 weeks with family and friends and enjoyed celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and/or Kwanzaa. We look forward to seeing the Shortreed kids and families and working to get back into our learning and school routines. Your child was sent home with their Student...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – December 16-20, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Welcome to the final school week of 2024! We are so sad to hear that the parade was cancelled on Saturday. I can only imagine the heartache of the organizers who have been volunteering their time planning and preparing since August. We had over 30 families coming...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – December 9-13, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope your first week of December went well! I am still so full of gratitude to be part of a community that puts on and comes together for such a wonderful event like our Santa Breakfast (more on this below). Our December festivities continue this week...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – December 2-6, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Happy December!!! We hope you enjoyed the final week of November and are gearing up for all the excitement and festivities of December! Don't forget that on Friday, we have our annual Santa Breakfast, where the Shortreed staff cooks for YOU! Santa will be there from 7:15-8:45...
Read moreThe Week Ahead – November 25-29, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely weekend and have had a chance to sign up for Student Inclusive Conferences (SIC) that start on Monday. A reminder that Wednesday is SIC Day, students only attend the timeslot of their conference (if you have a conference that day); if...
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