Important Dates for Your Calendar

*Ongoing Parenting Classes for children 2-18 months*

Wednesdays - Parent/movers 9am-10:15am, Parent/infant 10:45am-12pm - with Kristy

Tuesdays - Parent-child music with Kelly, 10:30-11:15am

August

27-28 - YCC Home Visits

27 - Strata Odyssey Information Session - Zoom - 4pm

28 - UE New Student (w/parent) tour classroom & meet guides 10-11:30am

29 - Casa New Student Orientation 9:30-10:30am

29 - Lower Elementary New Student Orientation 9-10am

29 - YCC Open House 10:30-11:30am

September

• UE - Field trips - 6th (McMaster), 13th (UE Conservation), 20 (Crawford Lake), 27 (Rafting) 

• LE - RBG (13th, 20th 27th)

• CYO Cross Country

3 - First Day of Fall Term

3-10 - YCC & Casa Staggered Start

3-10 - Coffee & Kleenex 8:30-9:30am

3-7 - Strata Odyssey

6  - UE to Planetarium/Art Gallery

9 - Strata Parent Orientation 4:30-5:30pm

9-12 - Strata Orientation Week

10 - Strata Photo Day - 9am

12 - Strata Goal Setting Conferences - 4:30-7:30pm

13 - Strata - No School - Goal Setting Conferences

13 - UE - Conservation Area, LE - RBG

14 - Welcome Back Picnic 10:30-12:30pm - Including Elementary Open House 10:30-11:30am

16-20 - LE Meet & Greet with new students 

16-27 - Casa Meet & Greet (by request) - 3:45-4pm

20 - UE - Crawford Lake

24 - MMUN Parent Meeting - 3:45-4:30pm

24, 25, 26 - DVMS Photo Days

26 - YCC Parent Therapy 5:30-7pm - First Weeks of School/Home Environment 

27 - UE Christie Lake, LE - RBG for Truth and Reconciliation 

October

• UE Frisbee

• LE Parkour

• CYO Girls Basketball

5 - Fall Fair Fundraiser at Strata 

7 - Parent Engagement - LRT - 7-8pm - Zoom

11 - No School - PD Day 

14 - No School - Thanksgiving

18 - Strata Parent Dinner

23 - Casa Parent Social/Curriculum - Strata 6-8pm

24 - Parent Observations - 9-10am

24 - DVMS All Staff Meeting 4-5pm

24 - YCC Parent Therapy 5:30-7pm - Toilet Learning

26 - Parent Preparation Course - 9am-12pm 

28, 30 - UE Yr 4 Parent-Guide Interviews

November

• UE - Frisbee (Nov. 1)

• UE - Rock Climbing (Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29)

• LE - Hiphop

• CYO Girls Basketball

• Parent Observations - 7,14, 24  - 9-10am

6 - Parent Book Club - Raising Good Humans -  Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE and Carla Naumburg PhD - 7:30 - 9pm (facilitated by Monica Rosas) 

13 - Parent Engagement / staff PD - Speaker/Curriculum - Paula Lillard Preschlack- Presentation - 6-7:30pm

11 - Remembrance Day

18 - No School - PD Day - External Observation

28 - DVMS All Staff Meeting 4-5pm

28 - YCC Parent Therapy 5:30-7:30pm - Holiday Gift Giving and Family Relations - Strata 

December

• Internal Observations: 3rd - Juliet, Shalyn, Jodi

• LE Hip Hop

• 12 - Parent Observations - 9-10am

2 - Casa North Parent Guide Conferences

3 - Casa East Parent Guide Conferences

4 - Casa South Parent Guide Conferences

5 - Parent Guide Conferences PM

6 - Parent Guide Conferences No School

9 - Parent Book Club: Good Inside - Becky Kennedy - 7:30-9pm (facilitated by Kate Millie) 

11 - Casa New Parent Orientation - 8-9pm  - Zoom

12 - YCC New Parent Orientation - 8-9:30pm - Zoom

13 - LE Hip Hop

14 - Strata Market

19 - Elementary Joy Day 

20 - No School - Holiday Concert

• Parent Observations - 9-10am

6 - First Day Winter Term

6 - Re-Enrolment Out

6-10 - YCC Home Visits & Staggered Starts

17 - LE Skating 1-2pm, UE Skating 2-3pm

24 - LE Skating 1-2pm, UE Skating 2-3pm

January

• LE and UE - Skating (17, 24)

• 16, 23 - Parent Observations - 9-10am

6 - First Day Winter Term

6-10 - YCC Home Visits & Staggered Starts

9 - DVMS All Staff Meeting 4-5pm

20 - Re-Enrolment Out

29 - Elementary seeing Mary Poppins at Theatre Ancaster

30 - DVMS All Staff Meeting 4-5pm

30 - YCC Parent Therapy 5:30-7pm - Freedom and Limits

31 - Strata Ski Trip

February

• UE - Hip Hop (31, 7, 21, 28)

• LE - Karate (31, 7, 21)

• 6, 13, 20, - Parent Observations - 9-10am

12 -  Parent Engagement - Montessori Curriculum Night - 6-7:30pm - The Mathematical Mind 

14 - No School - PD Day 

17 - No School - Family Day

19 - Parent Book Club - Love and Logic  - James and Charles Fay - 7:30 - 9pm (facilitated by Zach Martin)

18 - 22 MMUN (Yr 6s)

27 - LE Show Me Day - 9 - 11am

26 - YCC Parent Therapy 8-9:30pm - Sleep with Rebecca Mendoza - Zoom

March

3 - Casa North Parent Guide Conferences, UE during prep

4 - Casa South Parent Guide Conferences, UE during prep

5 - Casa East Parent Guide Conferences

6 - Parent Guide Conferences PM

7 - No School - Parent Guide Conferences

10-21 - No School - March Break

17-21 - March Break Camp

April

• 3, 10, 17, 24,  - Parent Observations - 9-10am

3 - Parent Engagement - LRT - 7-9pm

10 - Parent Engagement - Elementary and Strata- Social Media Speaker- 7-9pm - ZOOM

12 - Parent Preparation Course - 1 - 4pm 

16 - Parent Engagement - Casa - Curriculum - 3:45-5pm Revisit the Mathematical Mind 

18 - No School - Good Friday

21 - No School - Easter Monday

24 - YCC Parent Therapy 5:30-7pm - Tantrums

30 - Parent Book Club - Anxious Generation - John Haidt - 7:30 - 9 (facilitated by Kate Millie)

May

• 1, 8, 15, 22 - Parent Observations - 9-10am

• 5,6,7,8 - UE speeches - 10 - 11 am

1-3 - Strata Play

8 - Parent Engagement - Speaker - 6:00 - 7:30

13 - Casa/LE Moving Up Day, UE6s Shadowing and Canadian presentations at Strata

13 - Strata New Family Orientation - 4:30-5:30pm

15 - Casa/LE Moving Up Day, UE6s Shadowing (and projects) at Strata -

16 - No School - PD Day -

19 - No School - Victoria Day

21 - Casa New Parent Orientation - 8-9pm - Zoom

22 - DVMS All Staff Meeting 4-5pm

22 - YCC New Parent Orientation - 8- 9:30 - Zoom

23 - Grandparent’s Day - YCC/Casa (3-4) - YCC Social with parents /Lower Elementary 

28 - 30 - Strata Summit

June

2 - Casa North Parent Guide Conferences

3 - Casa South Parent Guide Conferences 

4 - Casa East Parent Guide Conferences

4 - UE Science Fair/

5 - LE/UE New Parent Orientation - 4-5pm in person

5 - Parent Guide Conferences PM (YCC/Casa)

6 - No School - Parent Guide Conferences for YCC/Casa, report card writing day El/Strata

9 - Strata & Elementary Reports Due

7 - DVMS/Strata Benefit concert & silent auction!!

10, 11 12 Uppers Camping Trip

12 13 Lowers Camping Trip

13 - Strata Graduation

16-20 - Strata Odyssey

19 - Last Day of School

20 - Bonanza - 10 - 1pm -