This Week at CN Gunn Mar. 3-7 | Cornerstone Families, Ramadan, Lost & Found, Volunteers Needed, Cybersafety

Posted on 2025-03-04 18:20:08.062 +0000 UTC

Cornerstone Families, Grade 6 Students

Grade 6 students from Cornerstone will be attending Terry Fox School in the coming year. Overflow from Terry Fox school will be Ian Bazalgette School. Information about next year for your children will be forthcoming in the weeks to come- please watch and read emails from your child's teacher.

Ramadan Kareem!

Some of our families are celebrating Ramadan for the next few weeks. This is an important event in the lives of our Muslim families. For families seeking accommodations for Dhuhr prayer, please watch for an important letter from the school administration team. This will be sent home with children who self-identify as Muslim on Monday afternoon.

We are asking that all families discuss the importance of respecting the values and religious practices of other children and their families in their school community.

At Catherine Nichols Gunn, we follow the guidelines as set out by AR3067: Religion in Education and AR6031: Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning and Work Environments

Lost and Found

As space is limited in our building, an effort to remove lost and found items and bring them for donation will be made at the end of this week. Families can come into the school to go through items and take what they need Monday to Wednesday. All remaining items will be donated. Thank you.

School Council – Needs Volunteers

School Council held a small meeting this week but were unable to get a quorum. Our School Council is in desperate need of volunteers. This small but might group of volunteers raise large amounts of money through casinos and other fundraising endeavors throughout the year and the money is use to pay for school field trips, additional technology and resources for students, and most recently, towards building a new playground.

Without them, these opportunities for children would be highly limited. This year, our School Council Chair and Treasurer will be moving on as their children move to Sir John A MacDonald. Many opportunities are available to help. Please let me know if you are willing to take on a role within our school council.

March's School Council meeting will be held online due to labor action. Conversations about keeping online meetings will be part of this meeting as well. Please plan to be there:

March 20, 2025 7:00 pm

From our Community

Free Community Tax Clinic

Flyers for these events have been attached:

Monday April 7, 2025 12:30- 2:00 pm
Monday April 14, 2025 1:30 pm- 4:30 pm

Thornhill Recreation Center 6715 Center St. NW

Limited spot- contact information for appointments found in the flyer.

This Week's Cyber Safety Conversation

Our hope is to help families have small opportunities to talk about cyber safety- and find tools to help you. We hope to include a resource each week for you to watch and use.

This week: The Impact of Age-Inappropriate Games on Children: What B.C. Parents Need to Know is a short article to help parents understand the risks of letting children play video games beyond the age suggested. ESRB Ratings Guides, Categories, Content Descriptors provides an overview of what the ratings indicate.