School Spirit Days 

The Leadership Club has planned some School Spirit Days for the month of December: 

• Friday, December 13 – Light it up for Hanukkah – wear blue and white for Hanukah 
• Tuesday, December 17 – Sweater Weather - Show off your best festive or ‘ugly’ holiday sweater 
• Friday, December 20 – Pyjama Day - Wear your comfiest PJ's for the whole school day. 

For each Spirit Day, Leadership Club students will visit K - 6 classes in period 1 to count the number of students participating.  The class with the most participation for all 5 days will have a special visit on Friday, December 20 from Rocky, our school mascot.  An "official" class photo with Rocky will be taken and displayed on the Leadership Bulletin Board and/or the winning classroom. 

Winter Clothing Drive  

This year, Rideau Park will be hosting a Winter Clothing Drive. From Dec. 2-13, families can bring gently used winter clothing items that they would like to donate. These can include boots, jackets, snow pants, mittens, etc. Donations boxes will be collected by the front doors of the school  

Important | Winter Concert, Dec. 12 

The Rideau Park School Winter Concert is scheduled for the evening of December 12.  All elementary students and the Grade 7 – 9 Band students will be performing in the concert.  Please review the information below: 

Build a Bike Program 2024

Build a Bike Program 2024 wrapped up successfully yesterday after school. Students learned valuable skills to build bicycle a bike from parts. All participants were delighted to take home the bike they built themselves as the program wrapped up.

Thank you to Mr Long who is the teacher sponsor and to Two Wheel View and their Build a Bike Program.

Information | High School Programs

Applications are being accepted for the Performing and Visual Arts (PVA) program at Central Memorial High School. Applications are due by January 15, 2025.  

More information at this LINK  

Western Canada High School is hosting an Open House on January 27, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.

More information at this LINK

Learning Commons | Library Books 

Snowflakes are white, 

the sky is blue 

Winter Break is around the corner, 

library books will soon be due: 

Monday December 16 

Fun Lunch, Healthy Hunger | on behalf of RPS’ Parent Society 

The Rideau Park Parent Association is once again coordinating bi-monthly ‘Fun Lunch’ with Healthy Hunger.  This is also a great fundraiser for the school with a portion of sales being returned to the school.  Participation is completely voluntary with a variety of healthy lunch vendors to choose from. 

Parent Volunteer Opportunity

for each fun lunch Thursday, parent volunteers are needed to help sort orders and deliver to classrooms.  Time commitment is about an hour, with the start time at 11:00 am.  If available to help on one or some Thursdays, you must complete the annual volunteer registration, which includes a valid Police Information Clearance. 

Volunteers are needed for: 

• January 9 – 1 volunteer 
• January 23 – 2 volunteers 

Sign Up to volunteer for the above dates and/or future dates.  

Language Interpretation Service 

The school can provide language interpretation services for any parent / guardian who would like to speak with their child’s teacher(s) at parent teacher conferences, or other times throughout the school year. The teacher can access LanguageLine Solutions to request a language interpreter at the start of the in-person or online conference or meeting.  

Student Drop-off & Pick-up  

For students being driven directly to school, the drop-off zones are labeled on this map on the school’s website.  There is no car-accessible front door drop-off availability at our school entrance, the alley or the staff parking lot.  The same applies for student pick-up at dismissal time (ie front of school, alley & staff parking lot is not available for pick-up).  

More information at the Parking & Drop-off page.   

Looking ahead – Calendar of events