Our Community Association received a copy of the Development Permit for the Bridlewood Elementary School. This is good news as it means that our school is on schedule. To follow the progress of the school please go to: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/schools/underdev/bridlewood/bridlewood.asp
Construction has started on the Shawnessy Somerset Middle School and it looks like it is on schedule for the September 2009 opening date. Photos of the construction are at: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/schools/underdev/shawnessy/shawnessy.asp
Bussing continues to be an issue for the Bridlewood students in junior high who go to Wilma Hansen Jr. High. The bus company has been unable to hire enough drivers for all of the bus routes. The have also lost some of their drivers to Calgary Transit. The bus routes are all still covered, but often late as the bus company must wait for a driver to finish their assigned routes and then take on additional routes.
Fortunately the Bridlewood Elementary students who are bussed to Midnapore Elementary haven’t experienced the same disruption in their bus service. Only about 3 times during the year to date.
The Calgary Public School Board will be preparing their annual Capital Plan shortly and we will be watching to see where the Bridlewood Middle school is positioned. As the province funded 6 public elementary schools in June 2007 and 5 middle schools in February 2008, the public will still need to talk to their MLA’s to remind them that there are still over 30 school sites throughout Calgary without schools. With the continuing problems of school bus driver shortages we must get these schools closer to where the children live.
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison
publicschoolliason@somersetbridlewood.ca
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, December 3, 2007
Update from Bridlewood School Open House
The New School Open House was held on November 26 at Centennial High School. It covered the Bridlewood K – 6 School and the Evergreen and Cranston K – 4 schools.
Floor plans of all schools were available as well as maps showing the exact location and how the school would be situated on the site.
The Bridlewood School will be at 207 Bridleridge Way. The school will be towards the north end of the site, at Bridleridge Heights and Bridleridge Way. The staff parking lot will be the farthest north with the parking access from Bridleridge Heights. The school bus drop off zone will be on Bridleridge Way in front of the main entrance to the school. There will be a secondary school drop off point for people walking their children to the school. It will be on a pathway running East/West on the south side of the school.
The core building will be built to accommodate 400 – 450 students. The core school can accommodate up to 12 portable classrooms. One group of six are planned to be attached to the core building on the East side of the school. The second group of six portables will be located on the South side of the school. This will bring the opening day capacity up to approximately 600 students.
As per Calgary Board of Education bussing policies the Bridlewood School will follow the 1.2 K walk limits. Children living beyond this limit would be eligible for bussing. The parts of the community outside of the 1.2 K zone are the eastern and southern edges of Bridlecreek, and the southern sections of Bridlewood Manor. Bridle Estates is also outside of the 1.2 zone, but as this is an adult community it wouldn’t be affected. The northern boundary for bussing will be 162 Avenue and the Western Boundary will be Bridlecrest.
The school is currently on schedule for completion in June 2010 and will open for the September 2010 school year.
If you want more information about the school site you can follow it at the CBE site: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/schools/underdev/bridlewood/bridlewood.asp or at the Alberta Education site at: http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/P3Project
If you have any questions, please either let me know and I will try to find the answer, or contact our School Trustee Karen Kryczka at 294-8121 or kpkryczka@cbe.ab.ca
As I find further information I will share it will you and it will also be posted on community association website at www.somersetbridlewood.ca
If you know of anyone who would like to be added to this listserv, please have them email me at publicschoolliaison@somersetbridlewood.ca If you want to be removed from the listserv, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison
Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association
Floor plans of all schools were available as well as maps showing the exact location and how the school would be situated on the site.
The Bridlewood School will be at 207 Bridleridge Way. The school will be towards the north end of the site, at Bridleridge Heights and Bridleridge Way. The staff parking lot will be the farthest north with the parking access from Bridleridge Heights. The school bus drop off zone will be on Bridleridge Way in front of the main entrance to the school. There will be a secondary school drop off point for people walking their children to the school. It will be on a pathway running East/West on the south side of the school.
The core building will be built to accommodate 400 – 450 students. The core school can accommodate up to 12 portable classrooms. One group of six are planned to be attached to the core building on the East side of the school. The second group of six portables will be located on the South side of the school. This will bring the opening day capacity up to approximately 600 students.
As per Calgary Board of Education bussing policies the Bridlewood School will follow the 1.2 K walk limits. Children living beyond this limit would be eligible for bussing. The parts of the community outside of the 1.2 K zone are the eastern and southern edges of Bridlecreek, and the southern sections of Bridlewood Manor. Bridle Estates is also outside of the 1.2 zone, but as this is an adult community it wouldn’t be affected. The northern boundary for bussing will be 162 Avenue and the Western Boundary will be Bridlecrest.
The school is currently on schedule for completion in June 2010 and will open for the September 2010 school year.
If you want more information about the school site you can follow it at the CBE site: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/schools/underdev/bridlewood/bridlewood.asp or at the Alberta Education site at: http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/P3Project
If you have any questions, please either let me know and I will try to find the answer, or contact our School Trustee Karen Kryczka at 294-8121 or kpkryczka@cbe.ab.ca
As I find further information I will share it will you and it will also be posted on community association website at www.somersetbridlewood.ca
If you know of anyone who would like to be added to this listserv, please have them email me at publicschoolliaison@somersetbridlewood.ca If you want to be removed from the listserv, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison
Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association
Friday, November 23, 2007
Bridlewood Elementary School Information Session
The Calgary Board of Education is having an open house to provide information about the new Bridlewood Elementary School – along with the Evergreen and Cranston Elementary Schools.
http://www.cbe.ab.ca/new/pdfs/OpenHouseAd.pdf
It will be held on Monday November 26 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Centennial High School Library. 55 Sun Valley Blvd. S.E.
I hope some of you will be able to attend.
I plan on attending and will send out any information about our school.
Sheila Swan
http://www.cbe.ab.ca/new/pdfs/OpenHouseAd.pdf
It will be held on Monday November 26 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Centennial High School Library. 55 Sun Valley Blvd. S.E.
I hope some of you will be able to attend.
I plan on attending and will send out any information about our school.
Sheila Swan
Monday, October 8, 2007
Ward 11 & 13 Public School Trustee Election
Change is coming for Wards 11 & 13 for our Public School Trustee.
Our current Trustee, Nancy Close, is not running for re-election and as a result 4 candidates have put their names forward for the position. Nancy has been great in the past at responding to questions and helping find out information. I am hopeful that we can establish a similar relationship with the new trustee. We need to find the candidate that will follow up on the issues that affect our Communities. Ie: the lack of schools, bussing, overcrowding at bus receiver schools. Etc.
I would like to submit a list of questions to each of the candidates and have them all respond. Personally I have some questions that I would like to have all the candidates answer, but I would like your input as well. If you have a question that you would like to have answered by the four candidates, please email it to me at http://publicschoolliaison@somersetbridlewood.ca
I will gather together the first 6 questions that are emailed to me by Wednesday, Oct 10 at 6:00 pm. These questions, along with one or two of my own, will be sent to all the candidates with a request for them to answer them by Friday Oct 12th.
The answers will be posted here, on the Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association website at http://www.somersetbridlewood.ca/ on this blog.
If you would like to research more about the 4 candidates – they are:
Deborah Duncan – http://www.deborahduncan.ca
Karen Kryczka - www.kryczka.com http://www.kryczka.com/
Neil Mackie – www.neilmackie.ca http://www.neilmackie.ca/
Kathy Power – www.kathypower.net http://www.kathypower.net/
Thank you for your participation and I hope you will all have the opportunity to vote on October 15th.
Sincerely,
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison, Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association
Our current Trustee, Nancy Close, is not running for re-election and as a result 4 candidates have put their names forward for the position. Nancy has been great in the past at responding to questions and helping find out information. I am hopeful that we can establish a similar relationship with the new trustee. We need to find the candidate that will follow up on the issues that affect our Communities. Ie: the lack of schools, bussing, overcrowding at bus receiver schools. Etc.
I would like to submit a list of questions to each of the candidates and have them all respond. Personally I have some questions that I would like to have all the candidates answer, but I would like your input as well. If you have a question that you would like to have answered by the four candidates, please email it to me at http://publicschoolliaison@somersetbridlewood.ca
I will gather together the first 6 questions that are emailed to me by Wednesday, Oct 10 at 6:00 pm. These questions, along with one or two of my own, will be sent to all the candidates with a request for them to answer them by Friday Oct 12th.
The answers will be posted here, on the Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association website at http://www.somersetbridlewood.ca/ on this blog.
If you would like to research more about the 4 candidates – they are:
Deborah Duncan – http://www.deborahduncan.ca
Karen Kryczka - www.kryczka.com http://www.kryczka.com/
Neil Mackie – www.neilmackie.ca http://www.neilmackie.ca/
Kathy Power – www.kathypower.net http://www.kathypower.net/
Thank you for your participation and I hope you will all have the opportunity to vote on October 15th.
Sincerely,
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison, Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Public School Liaison
Bridlewood Public School Update
Great news for Bridlewood!! We have received funding for a K – 6 Elementary School on June 14, 2007.
The school is scheduled to be built and opened for September 2010. It will be funded through a P3 initiative and will be a core schools with modular classrooms that can be added and removed as our community population changes.
The unofficial school location will be located at:
207 Bridleridge Way SW
Thanks for all your support and encouragement as we have lobbied for our school.
As more information becomes available it will be posted on here on the Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association Web site.
Sincerely,
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association
E-mail Sheila or 873-0221
Great news for Bridlewood!! We have received funding for a K – 6 Elementary School on June 14, 2007.
The school is scheduled to be built and opened for September 2010. It will be funded through a P3 initiative and will be a core schools with modular classrooms that can be added and removed as our community population changes.
The unofficial school location will be located at:
207 Bridleridge Way SW
Thanks for all your support and encouragement as we have lobbied for our school.
As more information becomes available it will be posted on here on the Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association Web site.
Sincerely,
Sheila Swan
Public School Liaison Somerset/Bridlewood Community Association
E-mail Sheila or 873-0221
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