Parent Information

For the Whistler Waldorf School parents, here you can view school policies, guidance handbooks, access community resources, parent information on Waldorf education and much more.

BigSIS – The Parent Portal

Things you can do with BigSIS:

Update family details and student information
Receive and review school reports (academic and attendance)
News for various School Directories (parent to parent or family to family connections)
Online form features school permissions and admissions forms. (Coming Soon)

Contact us if you have any difficulties logging in. BigSIS replaces our previous ParentsWeb application and is your online portal for school data. Did you know? – BigSIS was built by a Waldorf Grad!

School Information & Forms

Who to Contact?

Questions you may have:	Who to Follow Up with:	Contact info.:
I have a general question about the curriculum, discipline, homework, progress reports, academic standards, field trips, class meetings, etc.	Your Teacher / Guardian And then if required:	Early Years Chair: Nina Moore Lower School Chair: Ali Blancher High School Chair: Ellen Maclean
Financial matters including invoicing, fees, payment errors, bursaries, etc.	Director of Business & Finance	Brian Gohlke
More about a policy and/or procedure at the school?	Head of School	Rubeena Sandhu
Question/Concern with a teacher or staff member	Head of School	Rubeena Sandhu
General communication about student absences, short-term withdrawal, important school events & dates, or any other questions or concerns you do not know who to ask.	Receptionist	Maeve Bellmore
Questions regarding school communications, marketing, public relations, etc. To be added to WWS’ weekly E-news	Director of Enrolment Communications Manager	Jen Dodds Cristiana Spooner
Admissions/Withdrawal information	Director of Enrolment	Jen Dodds
Student Records request	Registrar	Maude Ash
Concerns from parents or staff regarding an unresolved situation or process	Head of School and/or Director of Business Finance	Rubeena Sandhu Brian Gohlke
Questions about the Whistler Waldorf School Society	Chair of the Board	Geoff Telfer

Policy & Procedure Documents

Specific Individual Forms/Policies for parent use:

Student Prolonged Absence Form – Download this fillable pdf if you require a prolonged absence release for your child during school session periods.

Immunization Record for Early Years – This form is only required for Early Years students as it’s required by the B.C. Government for non-school age students. Ask your teacher for more info. if questions.

School Transcript Request Form – For students who require their transcript such as graduates of WWS to forward school transcripts to post-secondary institutions.

WWS-Communications-Policy-with-Grievance-Procedure 2020 – Any questions on communications within WWS? The answers can be found here.

Anaphylaxis Policy – Policy and Procedures for dealing with Allergies requiring Anaphylaxis treatment.

Image Release Consent Policy – An understanding of how images and your privacy are respected here at WWS.

Personal Information Privacy Policy – Policies and practices of the Whistler Waldorf School regarding the collection, use, disclosure and security of personal information about WWS members including but not limited to parents, students, employees and volunteers.

School & Parent Information

Parent Handbook – All of our parent information is located in the parent handbook from curriculum expectations to daily schedule and policies on school life at WWS.

Student Support Handbook – A support manual for students and for their parents on what procedures and options there are to help with student support at WWS.

Peer Conflict – Mean Behaviour – Bullying – What is the Difference? – A resource for Student support to help with differentiating peer behaviors.

Testimonials

“When we bring to the child, just at the right moment, matter that is appropriate to his faculties, to his disposition, then what has been thus introduced will become a re-creating source of inspiration for the child throughout the whole course of his life.

If the parents of our children perceive that we have the will to work in such a way that we place into the decades lying before us people capable of dealing with the ever-increasing difficulties of life – yet still having questions to ask of life – then the parents will stand in the right relationship to the school. For it is upon the parents’ understanding that we must build. We cannot work, as do other schools, protected by the state or by any other authority. We can only work supported by a community of parents who share this understanding.

We love our children; our teaching is inspired by knowledge of man and love of children. And another love is being built up around us, the love of the parents for the true essence of the school. Only within such a community can we work towards a future of mankind able to prosper and withstand.”

Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf EducationSpoken to parents at first Waldorf School, Stuttgart, Gemany,1921

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