This Week @ Journey September 14-18

First Full Week Back!

We were excited to see our students last week and very impressed with their enthusiasm to return and follow safety protocols! 

Online https://consent.sd62.bc.ca/apps/OnlineConsent?logout=1 and paper-base consent forms (envelopes sent home by Monday, September 14)– please fill out the consent forms as soon as possible for your child(ren).  The daily health form needs to be filled in once; however, followed each day.  Online permission is also needed for students to use technology at school.  Please also note that your child’s pictures and name will not appear in the yearbook if you do not give consent.

There are no fees at this time.  If you would like to order a yearbook, (delivered in June), you can send a cheque or cash to the school in the form envelope or Please refer to the instructions for online payment  https://sd62.schoolcashonline.com/

Air Quality (information sent from District)

As a result of the wildfires in Washington and Oregon, air quality ratings for the Greater Victoria have been rated as “very high risk”.  The forecast is for the rating to adjust to “high risk” later today and “low risk” for Monday morning.  In case the rating does not change, we are planning for the possibility of a continued air quality advisory into next week.  If this were to occur, we will be asking students to stay inside our schools rather than being outside during instructional and non-instructional time. 

What to Wear to School when you live in a RAINFOREST– Except when there is an extreme air quality issue, (as stated above), students will be going outside for recess and lunch breaks.  This also includes before school and learning opportunities outside, (creek, fire pit, forest, ocean etc.).  Students should be prepared for all kinds of weather – this includes outerwear and footwear.  This year, (so far), students will not be changing for PE so please wear comfortable clothes on scheduled days.

Buses: you should have received information from the Transportation Department regarding bus routes. You can look at routes https://www.sd62.bc.ca/our-district/transportation/school-bus-routes.  The school does not have busing information.  Please contact Transportation at 250-474-9845 if you have questions.

If you have any Journey library books at home from the 2019-2020 school year please return them as soon as possible!  There are never any fines or consequences for a late book, we would just love to have them back to share with our school community.  Thank you!

Monday all FAST, (Fine Arts, Applied Skills, and Technology) will begin.  FAST teachers will be travelling to each classroom and some programs have been adapted.

Message from our Tech Teacher, Mr. Donegani, (your child may or may not have him for this rotation and more information may be coming home from other FAST teachers):  Tomorrow, your child will start their Fine Arts/Applied Skills/Technology (FAST) rotation with me, Mr. Donegani. I will be teaching the technology portion of FAST to your child through my computer science course. As you may assume access to the internet is helpful for this course. Please be sure that you have looked over the district’s internet and Google Apps for Education consent forms. Further, I use Google Classroom to deliver course material to students. In the first week I will set up this Google Classroom for the course. If you would like I will add you as a parent/guardian to receive email updates to the course. Let me know if you are interested in getting updates through email: ndonegani@sd62.bc.ca. Regardless, you may keep track of what we are doing in the course, and other classrooms by asking your child to open Google Classroom together. In doing so you will see the classroom assignments the way your child sees them, and follow your child’s progress in the course. Finally, one aspect of the course is to teach proper typing skills as these skills will only become more important as they move through school and onto employment in this digital age. I will provide a link in Google Classroom to a typing practice website – no need for an account. We do not have much classroom time to practice typing, so I ask that students take the time at home to practice. If students have access to a keyboard at home please encourage them to practice ten minutes a day, and to use proper typing skills: posture, home row, and EYES UP!

We are looking forward to our first full week back.

  Wash your Hands, be Kind, and don’t Chew Gum at school.