I am writing this week about a subject that isn’t very exciting, in fact it will result in you feeling itchy at best…I am writing about lice. This fall we did a whole school lice check with Nit Works and we have another planned for January. Over the last week letters have been sent home with children from a few classes at Allenby and we have had a number of reported cases of lice within one of these classes. Office staff inspected students in this class and Nit Works visited the class on Tuesday in addition to siblings of students within this class. The class carpets are vacuumed nightly.
As a precaution we encourage parents to check your child’s hair periodically and report to the school any presence of head lice. This allows us to send home the appropriate information regarding treatment and follow-up. Additionally, if your child has been treated for lice we ask that you report to the office following their return to school.
Head lice can be passed to others and stead by head to head contact and sometimes by contact with clothing: hats, brushes, hairbands, etc. Please remind your child not to be sharing such items and thank you for helping us control this condition which is a common problem at this time of year.
If you would like some more information here is a fact sheet by Toronto Public Health and Nit Works Info Sheet.
Please note that there has been some resistance to the medical shampoos on the market and the lice comb (metal comb with no space between the teeth) is a great product to use.
Are you scratching your head yet?
Allenby Showcases
We have three Showcases over the course of the year providing opportunities for Allenby students to perform musical pieces. We will also have a Music Night showcasing our itinerant music programs and our primary and junior choirs. In the spring, we will also have a kindergarten concert.
There will be a dress rehearsal on the Monday before each Showcase at 1 pm providing all students the opportunity to see the Showcases. Parents who cannot attend on the evening of the Showcases are welcome to come to the dress rehearsal.
Each family will receive two tickets to attend the Showcase. We must limit the number of tickets given the fire code for the gym.
If your child is performing they should arrive to their classroom at 6:30 pm in order to ensure we start on time.
We will NOT be providing childcare this year for the Showcases given concerns with supervising the number of students who attend. Please make childcare arrangements. If any students attend as part of the two tickets per family, they are asked to remain seated with their parent and not to sit at the front of the gym.
Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to our performances this year. Here are the dates and classes performing over the course of the year.
SHOWCASE #1 – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 AT 7PM (STUDENTS PERFORMING TO CLASSES AT 6:30 PM; DOORS OPEN AT 6:45)
Primary Classes Junior Classes
1. Room 202 1. Room 111
2. Room 107 2. Room 112
3. Room 006 3. Room 113
4. Room 007 4. Room 114
5. Room 004
SHOWCASE #2 – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 AT 7PM (STUDENTS PERFORMING TO CLASSES AT 6:30 PM; DOORS OPEN AT 6:45)
Primary Classes Junior Classes
1. Room 005 1. Room 214
2. Room 002 2. Room 215
3. Room 104 3. Room 207
4. Room 212 4. Room 204
5. Room 211
SHOWCASE #3 – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 AT 7PM (STUDENTS PERFORMING TO CLASSES AT 6:30 PM; DOORS OPEN AT 6:45)
Primary Classes Junior Classes
1. Room 103 1. Room 208
2. Room 108B 2. Room 203
3. Room 003 3. Room 210
4. Rom 206 4. Room 205
5. Room 201
MUSIC NIGHT – WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 AT 7 PM (STUDENTS PERFORMING TO CLASSES AT 6:30 PM; DOORS OPEN AT 6:45)
1. Band
2. Strings
3. Primary Choir
5. Junior Choir
KINDERGARTEN CONCERT – FRIDAY, MAY 13TH AT 1:30 PM