April 25, 2025

New UTS Mobile Work Phone Policy and Procedures

Please find the new UTS Mobile Work Phone Policy and Procedures, outlining the use of school-issued phones, cell phone stipends and reimbursement procedures for work-related mobile expenses. Please review the policy to ensure you're familiar with the latest processes and eligibility criteria, as well as the changes that will take place as of July 1 2025.

The policy is located on the Staff Portal in Policies and Procedures for Staff.

UTS Mobile Work Phone Policy and Procedures

Middle School Needs Your Help

Are you available to help with supervision for our F1 exam week programming, F2 dance and/or M3 dinner? We would be eternally grateful if you could volunteer your time! Please sign up to volunteer through these forms:

Contact Royan if you have any questions.

Staff Meeting Items for May 8

Please submit any staff meeting items to jpittlainsbury@utschools.ca by May 2.

Process for Class Walking Excursions

As the weather is getting sunnier and warmer, you may wish to take classes outside. Please be sure to follow the Local Walking Excursion Policy and complete the Local Walking Excursion Approval Risk Assessment Form.

Local Walking Excursion Policy

Local Walking Excursion Approval Risk Assessment Form

Fire Drill Next Week

There will be a Fire Drill on May 1 at 10 a.m.

This will be our fifth of six Fire Drills for the 2024-25 school year.

I’m SO Lonely…

If you have any of my friends at your desk or at home, please bring them back to the staff room. They are dressed in yellow, gray, green, blue and red gingham.

F1 Assembly on April 29

There will be an assembly on April 29 in Period 2 at 10:35 a.m. for F1 students on the n-word. If you are teaching F1s at that time, please bring down your class with their knapsacks to the Withrow Auditorium for 10:35 a.m. Students will leave backpacks at the side and back of the auditorium and should sit with their class. Students will be dismissed from the auditorium for Period 3. Some resources for teachers that can be helpful to address the n-word can be found here:

Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word | Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

CBC’s Teens Talk about the N-Word:

Learning for Justice’s Resource for Difficult Conversations

New York Times Resources for Teaching about Race and Racism and Recent Article on Racist Jokes and additional resources

Facing Our History and Ourselves Addressing Racism and Dehumanizing Language:

Follow up classroom sessions are planned for May 7 and 8 and have been booked with the teachers who are hosting already. Please reach out if you have any questions.