COVID-19 Information
COVID-19 School and Child Care Screening Tool (click here)
You must screen for COVID-19 every day before going to school/child care, after 5:00 a.m. each morning.
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Sick Child At Home Decision Chart
Sick Child At School Decision Chart
Lyonsgate COVID-19 Advisory Page
COVID-19 Supplemental Parent Handbook
Our Mission
Lyonsgate Montessori School is a fully bilingual, CCMA-accredited Montessori programme for children 18 months to 12 years of age. At Lyonsgate we believe in education of the whole child. We believe that each child develops at their own individual pace and that through guided experiential learning and hands-on activity, we can help them reach their full potential. We encourage children in a positive way, setting the foundation for a lifelong love of learning.
Parent-Teacher Conferences in November
Happy November Spring Lyonsgate Families, A short update for you this week as we head into November. There is a PD day on Friday, Nov. 13, and a PA day on Friday, Nov. 27. On the Nov. 13, PD day Lyonsgate staff will spend the morning working with their cohort teams to refine and plan for the rest of the fall term; during the afternoon all Lyonsgate staff will continue anti-bias/anti-racism training through a workshop led by Ateeka Khan, the owner of Stoney Creek Montessori School and parent of an Elementary student at Lyonsgate. Ateeka has an academic background in Caribbean, Middle Eastern, and African history, and experience with anti-racism work in the community. This is traditionally the PD day we attend a large Montessori conference put on by the Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators and the Canadian Association of Montessori Teachers; unfortunately, that conference will not be taking place this year. The Nov. 27 PA day is for our first set of Parent-Teacher…
Lyonsgate Updates — Boo! Oct. 30, 2020
Hello Lyonsgate Families, The children are all very excited about Halloween, even if it may be a little different this year. However you are choosing to celebrate, or not, have fabulous family fun this weekend and we look forward to hearing all about sore candy tummies on Monday. We have a few updates for you this week: Return Attestation Form Starting next week, when children are away from school due to illness, parents are required to complete a "Return Attestation" form. You can find it here, on the Home page at lyonsgate.ca, and in the updated COVID-19 Supplemental Parent Handbook. This is the same form used by the HWDSB and provided to us by Hamilton Public Health. It presents six different scenarios based on possibilities related to symptoms and testing and asks you to check the one that suits your child's illness, the course of action taken, and confirms that all criteria for return are met. Updated COVID-19 Supplemental Parent Handbook This supplemental handbook contains all…