Families of grade 6 students who will be attending Glenview in the fall are welcome to attend Glenview’s final School Council meeting on Tuesday, May 21 starting at 6:30 p.m.
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Free Pollinator Plants from the City and Other School Garden News
Did you know that the City of Toronto is providing three free pollinator-friendly plants? If you aren’t interested in them for your own garden, please consider signing up and donating them to Allenby’s garden. Imagine the plants we could get with 500 Allenby families! Sign up here with PollinateTO. Every morning recess we have a drop-in garden […]
Used Book Drive
Spring is finally here and with it usually comes some spring cleaning. We would love you to take a look at your children’s bookshelves and consider donating and gently used books the kids have out grown to a wonderful Children’s Book Bank. The Book Bank provides free books and literacy support to children living in low-income […]
Calling for All Old Crayola Markers
Room 102 is looking for your old dried-up Crayola markers! Please drop off any dried-up markers to the labelled box outside of Room 102. We will be sending them to Crayola where they reuse the parts for new markers. We noticed how our classroom has used a lot of markers, and we thought that all […]
Monthly Math Challenge
Dear Allenby Parents and Guardians, We are now in Year 2 of our school-wide Monthly Math Challenge at Allenby P.S. As you may know from past Principal’s Messages, the idea of the Math Challenge is to share an open-ended math question at the beginning of each month with all classes, K–6. Students communicate their computational […]
Allenby Math Challenge
As with every month, our school-wide Monthly Math challenge/Défi du Mois for November elicited much creative reasoning and explanation of mathematical thinking through writing, diagrams, models, QR codes and use of video responses. In addition to the sample responses posted on our display board in the main entrance, teachers and educators are using an array of innovative […]
Halloween Reminders
If your children are participating in Halloween on Wednesday, please remember: Snacks for classroom parties should be nut free. Allenby’s Annual Halloween Parade will start at 2:45 p.m. for the kindergarten students and 3:00 p.m. for grades 1–6 students. Parents are requested to watch from the field. Costumes are to be worn in the afternoon only and […]
Library and Eco News from Ms. Julian
BOOK FAIR WAS A SUCCESS! Thank you for supporting the Allenby English and French Book Fairs this fall. We had many families visiting after school sharing their love of reading! A double thank you to the seven parents who spent hours setting-up, re-stocking, selling, and organizing the books and our customers. We are so grateful […]
Congratulations Principal Tracey O’Toole – Winner of TSAA Leadership Excellence Award 2018
It is with great pleasure that we share that our principal, Tracey O’Toole, is among the recipients of the inaugural Toronto School Administrators’ Association Leadership Excellence Awards. It is truly an honour to be nominated by peers who are also school administrators in the TDSB for this type of distinction and we would like to […]
Last Spirit Day of the Year
We couldn’t think of a better final Spirit Day at Allenby than Pride. A celebration of equality, diversity, acceptance and an acknowledgement of the efforts made by the LGBTQ community and the world to recognize and accept who people choose to love. Today we will take a whole school photo with staff and students dressed […]