BLPS Community Wave - Week of April 28, 2025

New School Website: We are pleased to let you know that our school website will be updated in the coming weeks. The new school website is designed to be more modern, accessible, translatable, mobile friendly and easy to use. It will give you access to important school and school board information. We will let you know when our new website is live and look forward to using it to share information with you. 

Jump Rope for Heart: Today was our kick-off assembly for our BLPS Jump Rope for Heart Event taking place on Friday, May 16. We were fortunate to have an amazing team of student leaders who worked together with our staff team to help everyone learn more about this important fundraiser that will encourage our students to get active, build healthy habits and give back. We are keen to raise funds for Heart & Stroke for several great reasons:

• Money raised by our school helps Heart & Stroke drive important heart and brain research that will save lives, prevent heart disease and stroke and support families living with these conditions.
• Jump is an inclusive event for all abilities to get kids moving and help them discover new and exciting ways to get active.
• Students learn the EASY Healthy Habits that they can use to keep their hearts and brains healthy and
• help reduce their risk of developing heart disease and stroke later in life.
• Jump gives back! Students can earn thank you gift cards from Indigo, Amazon or Walmart based on their fundraising level as a heartfelt thank you for their hard work.

 For all the details and links to donate, please see the flyer.

Parent/Guardian Class Placement Input: As a school team, we highly value input from parents/guardians as we begin to consider class placements for the 2025-2026 school year. 

Parent input that is received via the Class Placement Input Form by Friday, May 4th, 2025 will be considered and shared during placement meetings in May/June.  This form is only for parents/guardians of students attending Bond Lake PS. Please complete a separate form for each child.

A great deal of time and consideration goes into placing students in the most positive learning environment possible, given each student’s skills, knowledge, attitude and work habits.  Our class placement teams include classroom teachers, special education and MLL (multiple language learner) teachers, DECEs, EAs and the Principal/Vice-Principal. 

Classes at each grade level are formed using a variety of important criteria including:

• Class size consistent with Board and Ministry;

• Academic strengths and needs balanced throughout all classes in a grade;

• Placement of English Language Learners and special education students;

• Gender balance in each class; and

• Promoting positive social relationships while minimizing unproductive associations.

Please note:

• Requests for specific teachers cannot be accommodated.

• There will be combined grades in our school organization.

• Final decisions about class placement are the responsibility of the school.

Thank you for partnering with us in this very important task.

Kid’s Kitchen - May: The Kid’s Kitchen specials for May are now available. Check out the flyer for all the details. 

Safe School Zone and Active School Travel: Thank you to all of our families for continuing to support Safe School Zone and Active Travel at Bond Lake. With the warmer weather arriving soon, we are reminding families to follow the Bond Lake PS Safe School Zone Guidelines. We have seen this week a sudden increase in vehicles driving through the bus loop, blocking entrances/exits to the bus loop, cars entering the kiss and ride at unsafe speeds, cars blocking the entrance and exit of the bus loop, children walking through the parking lot unaccompanied. Convenience should never be more important than ensuring the safety of our students, staff and families. We need your help each day! Please review all of the messages and do your part. We also are asking students that ride a bike to school, please walk their bikes on the sidewalks.  Students are not permitted to ride through the parking lot on their bikes. Please review the Ontario Bicycle Safety Information.  

Public Health Reminders: With the Spring weather soon to arrive, please see the following regarding Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus. Please see the following for Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus for more information

School Photos from 2019-2020 School Year: As part of Edge Imaging's data retention policy, images from the 2019/2020 school year will be permanently deleted after June 15, 2025. Place your order online at edgeimaging.ca/order by entering your portrait code and passcode. No codes? No problem! Call our Customer Care team at 1-888-416-3343 or use the LiveChat feature on our website for virtual assistance. If you haven't ordered or need extra copies, place your order before this date as after that, they will no longer be available.

Pokemon Cards: After much consideration, as of Monday April 14, we are asking all students to keep Pokemon cards at home. The cards have become a significant distraction during instructional time and has brought upon many additional issues during recesses as well. We appreciated your support.

Summer Programming from Le Club - Our Before and After School Care provider Le Club is offering summer camp programming. Please see the attached flyer  for more information.

Summer Programs: The York Region District School Board is offering a variety of summer learning programs for elementary students in summer 2025. These include:

• Camp Black Brilliance: for children of Black families entering Junior or Senior Kindergarten in September 2025​. Register by June 1, 2025.
• Elementary Summer School: for students in Grades 6, 7 and 8; designed to reinforce the curriculum. Registration opened Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
• Summer Reach Ahead: for students in Grade 8. This program provided an opportunity for students to earn a high school credit. Registration opened Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
• Summer Institute: for students in Kindergarten to Grade 8. The program included academics, recreational and athletic activities. Summer Institute 2025 registration opened on March 26, 2025.

Please see the Summer Programs page of the Board website for more information. You can click on each of the programs to learn more and to access the registration links.

3rd Annual Anti-Human Trafficking Conference: Parents, caregivers, guardians, community members and youth 11+ are welcome to attend the 3rd Annual Anti-Human Trafficking Conference in York Region. Join other members of our community at Seneca Polytechnic College King Campus on May 13 and 14, 2025 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. for an evening of learning, networking, and collaboration in the fight against human trafficking. Click the registration link for more information.

The Centre for Black Student Excellence - Camp Black Brilliance Summer Program: Registration is open for The Centre for Black Student Excellence - Camp Black Brilliance Summer Program. Black Brilliance will offer families the opportunity to get to know the Kindergarten program and have their children experience their introduction to schooling in a way that is culturally responsive and affirming of their identity, through experiential learning.

Who: Children of Black Families who are Junior and Senior Kindergarten entering school in September 2025.

When: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., July 7 - July 25, 2025

Location: Choose One of the following locations (subject to change based on registration).  Transportation is not included.

• Armadale Public School
• Crosby Heights Public School
• Discovery Public School
• Maple Leaf Public School

Check out the flyer and register today! Deadline is June 1, 2025.

Student Pick-Up: A reminder to all families that the end of the school day is a very busy time and all staff are actively engaged in supporting students to prepare for the transition home. To help ensure student safety, we ask that parents/guardians not pick students up between 2:00-2:25 pm.