Oriole Park Elementary School Newsletter
ABSENCES/LATES
All students must attend
school as per the Alberta
School Act. Our school
phone number is available
24 hours to take your call.
Attendance is sent to the
office to be recorded
twice a day, first thing in
the morning and directly
after
lunch. While the school
makes courtesy calls
home or work on
unexcused
absences, it is the parents’
responsibility to notify
the school when your
child is absent from
school.
CLOSED CAMPUS
NO STUDENTS ARE
ALLOWED TO LEAVE
THE SCHOOL
GROUNDS AT ANY
TIME DURING THE
DAY UNLESS ON
SCHOOL MATTERS
AND ACCOMPANIED
BY A
TEACHER/SUPERVISI
NG ADULT. Parents
must personally sign out
their child if the student
must leave school for
personal reasons. If your
child is sick, the office
5 Oldbury St, Red Deer, AB T4N 5A8
(403) 347-3731
op@rdpsd.ab.ca
will call to notify you. parked cars. Teach
Except for school matters, children how to cross the
ALL students must be street safely. Teach them
signed out by their to stop (before stepping
parents at the office when onto the road), look left,
leaving the school. right and left again, and
listen for traffic before
stepping out into the
VOLUNTEERS street. Teach children to
NEEDED FOR wait until the street is
PICTURE DAY!!! clear and to keep looking
until they have crossed
At least two parent the street. They should
volunteers are needed to also look the driver in the
help with eye before crossing.
collecting order forms https://rdnewsnow.com/
and organizing students 2023/08/08/alberta-
for photo government-updating-
day. If you are available roadside-safety-act/
to assist on September 10
or 11,
Please contact the office.
LIBRARY
POLICY
VALUABLE
ROAD SAFETY
The library strives to
provide resources and
support for educational
excellence to our students
and to instill a passion for
reading that will inspire
Information
them to be lifelong
Teach children about the readers, and therefore
dangers of crossing the
lifelong learners. Our
street between parked
cars or when not at a collection of support
corner. Children should material, both print and
cross only at corners and non-print, enriches and
pedestrian crosswalks, not supplements the
diagonally or between curriculum. The library
supplies both fiction and
non-fiction materials for
the use of staff and
students.

5 Oldbury St, Red Deer, AB T4N 5A8

(403) 347-3731
op@rdpsd.ab.ca