A Message from the NTCI Parents Mailing List: _______________________________________________
Acknowledgements & Upcoming Events & Dates North Toronto welcomes Peter Smith to the Math department. Mr. Smith will be replacing Mr. Haughton for the remainder of the year on days 2 and 4 (MPM2D, MCR3U and BB4M). Parent Information meeting for next year's Dominican Republic service trip: April 3 at 6:30 pm in room 215. Soda Pop Shop: April 5 Soda Pop Shop takes place next Friday April 5 starting at 7 pm. The event features the Stage Band, singing, dancing, and artwork. The Art show is a competition which will be judged by the audience. There will also be a door prize which has been donated by Jeff Long of Long and McQuade. There will also be all-you-can-eat munchies, ice cream floats and beverages! Tickets are being sold on Wednesday and Thursday at school and at the door on Friday night. It's always a fun and yummy night! Report Card distribution: Wednesday April 10 during Home Form. Please ask to see the report card package! NT's Leadership retreat: April 11-13, 2019 (inclusive) Easter holiday: April 19-22 (inclusive). No classes. Staff meeting: April 24. Classes begin at 10 am. Grade 9 Geography Summative Field Trip to High Park: Friday April 26. Notice to Parents! It has come to our attention that tickets are being sold for a "North Toronto Semi-Formal" to take place on Thursday April 18. Please be advised that this is NOT a school sanctioned event; there will be NO North Toronto staff supervision on site and the school takes NO responsibility for the behaviour and comportment of guests in attendance. School Council news! Next School Council meeting: Monday April 1, 2019 at 7:30 pm<x-apple-data-detectors://0> in room 215. Our guest will be newly re-elected Trustee Shelley Laskin who has served our school for years but who is now also responsible for schools in the area to our north (former Wards 8 and 11 were joined into a single new Ward 8). The much smaller 22-member board, over half newly-elected, faces challenges in maintaining effective connections with the parent community, working with a new Ontario government, and dealing with an uncertain future operating North America's largest school board. Shelley will provide us with an update on where the Board is going generally, and will speak to issues of specific interest to the NTCI community. Mr. Mack will provide us with highlights and "feelings from the building" from the NTCI specific results of the TDSB's 2017 student and parent census. More than 220,000 students and parents across Toronto completed the census, providing a comprehensive picture of students, their school experiences, relationships at school, physical health, and emotional well-being. We are hoping to have a good discussion with parents on these topics and the special attributes and challenges of our school. Your input will be used to formulate future plans for the school. Please join us! Our School Council Meeting on Monday, April 29th at 7:30 pm<x-apple-data-detectors://1> will provide an opportunity for parent input and discussion. Stay tuned for more details. The School Council has several methods of communicating with parents: School Council Facebook Group: Please follow the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/1336801883128478/ to join the group. @NTCI_parents on Twitter: From Twitter, search for and follow @NTCI_parents School Council Email List: Please signup at http://eepurl.com/dyB_p9. >From Toronto Police Services! Toronto Police Services would like to make the public aware of a recent series of street robberies within a one-km. radius of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue. These incidents are mostly swarming-type robberies involving teenagers in which a group of people approach the victims and demand personal property including cell phones, clothing and money. Toronto Police Services is requesting that the public be vigilant in the area. Police are also requesting anyone who is a victim or witness to this type of incident to contact police. Students should not engage or retaliate in these situations. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5300, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com<http://www.222tips.com>, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Please find attached to this email a TDSB Streetproofing Tips sheet for parents to share with their children. This tip sheet was distributed in hard copy earlier this year to all North Toronto students. As well, please find attached a safety alert issued earlier this week by Greenwood school regarding a safety concern in the Rosedale area. William Mack Principal North Toronto Collegiate Institute _______________________________________________ Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive e-mail from North Toronto, please unsubscribe at https://ntci.on.ca/ntparents-unsub/ To contact the school, 393-9180 or e-mail: northtoro...@tdsb.on.ca ________________________________________________ North Toronto Collegiate Institute 17 Broadway Avenue Toronto, Ontario, M4P 1T7 ________________________________________________ NTparents mailing list: NTparents@ntci.on.ca http://ntci.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/ntparents_ntci.on.ca _______________________________________________
