October 9, 2023 

Dear PHS Families, 

I hope you have all enjoyed the long weekend and time with your families!  

At school, many classes were focused on gratitude and giving thanks as a way of recognizing Thanksgiving. In keeping with our overarching question of “What is our impact?”, students engaged in reflection about what they're grateful for to experience greater happiness and positive emotions as identified through the Harvard Medical School: 

“In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships”. Harvard Health Publishing, August 2021 

We continue to experience a high volume of traffic during school dismissal. Panorama Hills School is participating in the Active Transportation residency with Ever Active, which will promote walking, biking and wheeling to school when possible.  

When communities work together to request traffic calming measures, the city often responds with additional support like traffic calming, speed education, and bike and safety education when they have received enough submissions. If you would like to report a concern or make a request for permanent traffic calming measures to be strategically placed around the school crosswalks, then please follow these steps: 

 

Visit www.calgary.ca/311 

Navigate to ** 311 online requests ** 

Select ** Request Service ** 

Search / and Select ** Roads - Safety and Education ** 

*Please fill out the service request as directed* 

*alternatively, you can place a call into 311 and the operator can fill the request form out for you directly* 

Sincerely, 

Shannon Muir 

 

Acting Principal 

Panorama Hills School 

 

Up Coming Events  

Date	Event	Comment
October 10	Alien Inline	Residency begins – please have your Acknowledgement of Risk forms returned by today.
October 20th	No School for Students	This is a professional learning day for school staff.
October 31st	Halloween
November 9th	No School for Students	This is a system wide professional learning day for school staff to engage in Indigenous Education.
November 10-14	New School Break	This is a school break that has been added to the calendar for the 2023-24 school year
November 8	PHS Remembrance Day Assembly
November 11	Remembrance Day
November 20-24	Scholastic Bookfair	Students will have opportunities to look at the bookfair during the week. It will be open to families during conferences.
November 23 and 24	Parent, Teacher, Student Conferences	These are student-led conferences that will share student achievement and they will be booked online through Conference manager.