Dear Parents/Guardians,

This Friday is a Board-wide Professional Activity Day and schools will be closed to students. 

Our EQAO assessments have now been completed.  Students did a wonderful job of completing these.  Special thanks to all of them for their focus during these assessments as well as you the parents for ensuring they had enough sleep for these provincial tests.  Special thanks to Mr. Kelly for coordinating these assessments and Mrs. Wiggins and Madame Ross for all their work in preparing for their classes for this K-6 assessment.

We are fortunate to have a library full of resources.  We need your help.  We are currently missing a very large quantity of books totalling $1,677.  If your child has GMS library books at home, please help us save the next steps of having our volunteers call home by sending the books back to school with your children. 

We held our final School Council meeting for this year and I want to thank all of our parents on School Council as well as parent volunteers for their significant support through the year.

Thank you 

Hanif Jamal, Principal, Goulbourn Middle School

School Spirit Wear

GMS School Council is excited to share that spirit wear is available for purchase - just in time to wrap up the school year with some school pride!

You can place your order here:

https://ladybugdesigns.store/collections/gms

Orders placed by Wednesday, June 4th, will qualify for free delivery to the school - the last opportunity to take advantage of this option before the summer break!

OSTA

In order to be prepared for any possible last minute bus cancellations, we highly recommend parents and guardians subscribe to OSTA notifications to stay informed of any transportation changes.  Please visit www.ottawaschoolbus.ca and select subscribe to be added to the notifications list for Goulbourn MS.

We've observed a rise in misbehaviors on the bus, and we're asking for your support. Please discuss bus safety and respectful behavior with your child. Your cooperation helps us maintain a positive environment for our drivers and all students.  

• Stay seated at all times during the journey. Safety.

• No eating or drinking. Safety and cleanliness issue.  

• No use of cell phones to take videos, photos, make social media, etc allowed.

• Be polite, kind and respectful to your driver(s) and everyone travelling with you on your bus.  Your driver is part of our Community.

Important Dates to Remember: 

• June 6th -    PA Day, no school for students

• June 25th -  Grade 8 Leaving Ceremony - Grade 8 families have received a detailed Message

Helpful Links: 

• Elementary Calendar 

• Religious/Creed-Based Days Of Observance 

• Multifaith Calendar

• Days And Months Of Significance