Brown Junior Public School Parent Council
454 Avenue Road M4V 2J1 Toronto, ON, Canada

Schoolyards are crowded at pick up and drop off times. To help ensure safety when physical distancing isn’t possible, parents/guardians are required to wear masks/face coverings outside on school property during pick up and drop off. Learn more here https://bit.ly/2ZeQJtm

Getting on your child's classroom list and signing up for the School Council newsletter are two of the best ways to stay informed of important information, activities, and initiatives relating to your child’s experience at Brown JPS! Fill out this form now to ensure you and your child are on your class list for Brown JPS. https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSd0MAze1JOD6WMBnE/viewform

https://cmho.org/back-to-school/

Some good tips for the return to school. https://www.ahaparenting.com//how-to-decide-school-pandemic

Welcome back students! Today is the first day of staggered starts for Brown. Wishing all of you best of luck for the school year. Have fun and be safe! Thank you to the teachers and administration for all the preparations and ensuring our safety.

Happy Grandparents Day to all the loving and supportive grandparents whether they are near or far. Make sure you let them know you are thinking of them today.

From our Principal and amazing Staff at Brown Junior Public School: Good Afternoon Brown JPS Families, We can't wait to see you all this week! Please watch our back to school video to see some familiar faces and hear about some of the new routines we have in place to keep everyone safe! ... Looking forward to seeing everyone soon! Andrea Goldfarb Principal https://drive.google.com//1tojS8HiXuHw3HZb77uk9A_DnC/view

Our School administration will be hosting a parent information session on Thursday September 10th at 4:00 p.m. This will be an opportunity to hear from the school about the processes and protocols that will be in place when school begins. Please refer to the email from our principal, sent on Monday for meeting details.

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Back to school for our elementary students will look different this year. That's why we have created a daily checklist with our new health and safety measures to help keep students and staff safe from the spread of COVID-19. https://bit.ly/32Uz0Z9

Have kids heading #BackToSchool? Here are some things you can talk to them about to help them prepare:

Starting today we are reaching out to families to confirm their children’s return-to-school plans. - Check your emails for more information - Registration closes August 29 - More information about registration here: https://bit.ly/30JPXps

Dear Brown Community. The latest TDSB’s update should be in your email inbox or you can click the link below to read it in full. Here are some of the headlines: 1. Start date of Sep. 15 for students, with staggered starts over the following 3 days.... 2. Masks / Face covering compulsory for all staff and students, including Kindergarten. 3. In-school class sizes are capped and remote learning will be through a single Virtual School, not based at Brown Hunior Public School . You will receive a new registration email on Wednesday, Aug 26 at the earliest. This supersedes your response to the earlier phone survey, so please answer again before the deadline of Saturday, Aug. 29. https://msg.schoolmessenger.ca/m/getdocument.php

Dear Parents, March break is almost over! If you're sending your kids back to school, here's an old back-pack safety tip that's been updated for the times.... -- If you're personalizing your child's face mask use a symbol instead of your child's name! This helps prevent others from using the name on your child's mask to create a connection and lure the child away from safety. #MaskSafety #CrimePrevention -- MT Dan Ramos @BeardandProtect via Twitter. https://twitter.com/TorontoPolice/status/1295376747417030657 ^vk

Let’s help our kids get ready for school! I’ve been getting lots of questions from concerned parents, so Darren and I have put together some tips that you will ...hopefully find helpful. We have 27 days left....we can do this!!! #backtoschool #safeseptember #pandemicplanning #doctorteachercollaboration See more

Starting this week! TDSB families are invited to join us for a series of engaging and informative conversations on topics we've heard you want to learn more about. Join us to hear from leading experts and ask your questions. https://bit.ly/3abpTXg

As we prepare for back to school in September, we're doing everything possible to ensure the health and safety of students and staff. For the latest health and safety measures, learning models, and more, please visit our website: www.tdsb.on.ca/returntoschool

Joint Ward Forum - Monday 6:30-8:30 From Trustee Shelley Laskin: Please know I am joining Trustee Rachel Chernos Lin for a joint virtual meeting. We will also be joined by Executive Superintendent Jim Spyropoulos. Registration is required. When registering, you will be able to submit your questions in advance. We will attempt to answer as many as possible on Monday. But realistically, with over 750 registered to date, and 200 people submitting questions we will not get to all in the meeting - however, we will note them and follow-up with answers as soon as we can and you can continue to e-mail us directly. And you can "Join in the Conversation" on August 13 in the board run session on re-opening (information earlier in the update). Please register using the link here: https://forms.gle/fWvcJ4SaNSuvDnyUA

Returning to School: A Guide to the Safe Reopening of the TDSB: We found this on the TDSB site. Still lots more questions but it is a good read - really helpful. Let us know what you think! https://pub-tdsb.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx

An important update from the TDSB.