Regina Catholic Schools typically operate through all weather, even the worst of the winter cold and storms. All students (and staff) should dress for the weather, assuming outdoor events such as recess will go ahead as scheduled. However, there’s always an exception. Here are the Administrative Applications which cover weather-related impacts to our schools:
If you do miss school because of the weather, please remember to report all student absences to the school.
What would lead to RCSD cancelling student transportation?
- Extreme cold temperatures
- Strong wind, poor visibility, significant snowdrifts, deeply rutted or snow packed roads, torrential rain, flooding or similar weather creating unsafe conditions
- Any circumstances which force the closure of a school or schools
What weather source does RCSD use to make decisions to cancel transportation?
- Environment Canada’s website
- Based on the temperature, with or without wind chill, 6:00AM
How cold does it need to be to cancel RCSD Transportation?
- If the temperature is -45 degrees Celsius or colder, all RCSD Transportation (yellow school buses, vans and paratransit vehicles) is cancelled
- If the temperature is -40 degrees Celsius or colder, we cancel:
- all RCSD Paratransit services
- the use of specialized hydraulic lifts
How do you notify parents of transportation cancellations?
Regina Catholic Schools is no longer using social media as a tool for communication with families. Using email, text and the Edsby platform works without reliance on algorithms or dependence on caregivers to create accounts, find and follow us.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.
– Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
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