Bonjour BP families.
I hope that you all enjoyed the May long weekend and had some time to recharge. There are just a few weeks of school left!
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Transportation Registration Begins May 21
All students who are eligible for yellow school bus transportation would have received an email May 21 from the CBE with details on registration and proposed fees for 2025-26.
There are revised walk zones for many schools in CBE. As a result, the CBE is expanding yellow bus service and adjusting walk zones for the upcoming school year. This is in response to Alberta Education’s School Transportation Amendment Regulation for student transportation that comes into effect on Sept. 1, 2025.
The legislation modified the transportation eligibility distance and how it is calculated. Transportation eligibility will now be measured by driving distance from your home to the front door of the school:
- 1.6 km for students in kindergarten - Grade 6
- 2 km for students in Grades 7-12
To find your school’s map, visit CBE’s Find a School Tool and follow these instructions:
- Type in your home address or search by school in the drop-down menu.
- Choose your program under Program Options.
- Click on the grade(s).
- Below the map, in the “Programs” column, click on the grade/program for your school.
- This will display the walk zone for your desired school/program.
- Note: only one walk zone can be displayed at a time.
- Transportation registration is available using the MyCBE account. (If families do not already have an account, click here to learn how to create one.)
- Families must register by Sunday, June 22, 2025 for students to be added to routes for the start of the next school year.
- Transportation can be cancelled with no financial impact by submitting the cancellation form by Sept. 30, 2025.
- Fees are due later in October. There are flexible payment options. Families can apply for waivers if they cannot afford to pay fees.
To learn more about the changes to transportation, please see Walk Zone Changes for the 2025-26 School Year - News Centre - CBE.
24-25 Yearbooks
Yearbooks are now ready to pre-order on your parent MyCBE account.
Please go to your MyCBE parent account, click on your student name(s), scroll down the page and click on “School Based Optional Fees”. You will see a box with “School Store Sale-Yearbook” and then “submit” to add the yearbook to your account for payment and proceed to the payment page to complete payment.
Yearbooks arrive approximately October of the following school year. The deadline for ordering yearbooks will be Monday June 9 at 6:00 pm.
Important Dates
- May 27- FLA grade 9 Part A PAT, 9-11 AM
- May 29- ELA grade 9 Part A PAT, 9-11 AM
- May 29- BPPC/BPPA meetings online 6:30-8 PM
- May 30- Wellness day for all BP students
- June 2- Grade 9 Three Herons Field Trip
- June 4- Spring Band Concert, 7-8:15 PM
- June 5- Track and Field day
- June 5- Healthy Hunger Mary Browns
- Order here
- June 10- Grade 7 French Drumheller Field Trip
- June 10- Grade 9 Farewell to Heritage Park. Details to follow
- June 11- Grade 9 FLA PAT part B, 9-10:15 AM
- June 11- after school farewell for Grade 9's and families 4-7:00 PM.
- June 13- Grade 9 Math Part A PAT 9-9:30 AM
- June 16- Grade 7 English Drumheller Field Trip
- June 16- Grade 9 ELA PAT Part B, 9-10:15 AM
- June 17- Grade 9 Math Part B PAT 9-10:20 AM
- June 18- Grade 9 Social Studies PAT 9-10:20 AM
- June 19- Grade 9 Science PAT 9-10:15 AM
- June 19- Healthy Hunger Papa Johns
- Order here
- June 23, 24, 25- Grade 9 Three Herons Field Trip
- June 25- Report Cards available in PowerSchool
- June 26- last day of instruction, early dismissal (noon)
- June 27- Appeals Day 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
- June 27, 12PM- School closed for summer
Have a wonderful weekend!
Rishma Hajee
Principal | Bishop Pinkham School