TDSB Safe Schools and Engaged Communities Forum

In October 2014, a steering team was established to conduct an independent review into the circumstances surrounding the death of a student inside North Albion CI. In addition, the team is also reviewing how the Toronto District School Board can be responsive and current to best support safety and care for all students and staff, both before and after critical incidents.

As a part of this review, parents/guardians, students and community members are invited to participate in a Community Forum to discuss how to improve school and community safety.

You are invited to the following Safe Schools and Engaged Communities Forum:

13 January 2015
David and Mary Thomson CI
2740 Lawrence Ave E, Scarborough, ON
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

15 January 2015
Thistletown CI
20 Fordwich Cres, Etobicoke, ON
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Please contact 416-395-8155 if you require an interpreter or childcare at the meeting.

Your feedback is very important and will inform the team as they prepare a report and provide recommendations on how the Toronto District School Board can continue moving the gains made in creating safe and caring school environments out to our school communities.

If you are unable to attend one of the above meetings, you can email your feedback to tdsb@executekinternational.com. 

Ogden's Gift of Hope

On January 9, 2015 Ogden Junior School completed our fundraising drive for PlanCanada. Our “Gift of Hope” was a clean-water well for a classroom in an underprivileged country. Ms. Kwan-Kirton's Homeroom Classroom completed research projects, made posters, collected and counted spare change and did mini-fundraising drives. In one short month, we exceeded our goal and raised enough money to build not one, but two wells at $175 each. As each well costs $700, our gift of $350 was matched 3:1.

        This is only one of Ogden’s many “think outside the box” projects. With a population of approximately 200 students, this “little school with a big heart” does not hesitate to generously dig into its pockets to help others.

In 2005, we raised $300 to buy fruit trees, chickens, and school supplies for Worldvision. In 2009, we completed our brick-by-brick campaign to build a school in rural China through Free the Children. It took us 1 ½ years to raise $6000 through pizza sales, bake sales, and fun fairs. In 2011, our fund-raising project raised $200 for the Red Cross Japanese Tsunami Relief fund. Locally, it has become an annual winter tradition since 2005, for Ogden to collect non-perishable food items for our Local Food Banks.

We are very proud of our students, our staff, and our community for their limitless compassion and generosity in helping those in need wherever that need may be.