Lanor New Student Info

Information for students & guardians @ Lanor JMS

There are a lot of new things when switching schools or when your child is just starting out in Kindergarten. Please see the list below for tools and services utilized at Lanor to help with your child's education.

• Lanor Parent/Guardian Handbook for 2025/26

• Safe Arrival/Attendance Phone

  • 1-833-250-2290 (toll free, 24/7)

  • Please phone in any student absences to the TDSB Safe Arrival automated phone system OR report through school messenger.

• School Messenger

  • Control how you want to be notified about things at the school - i.e. child absenses

  • Log-in with contact details that you provided to the school when you registered your child

  • Apps available to download for Android & Apple

• Lanor JMS digital calendar 📅

  • All events for the school, parent council, sports teams & clubs, and days off.

  • Subscribe and add to your own calendar

• School Cash Online

  • Used for anything requiring payment at the school - field trips, pizza lunch, math contest, ...

  • Log-in or create an account. Click "My Account" > "My Students", and then click "Add another student" if your child is not showing in the list with "Lanor Junior Middle School (1061)"

• Excursion Management

  • Permission forms for any extracurriculars from school - field trips and school sports teams

• Students Online Account

  • first.lastname@student.tdsb.on.ca

  • Access to email, google calendar, google classroom, virtual library

  • Google classroom

    • Message board for tasks and assignments from teachers to students

  • Virtual Library

    • Lots of online resources that students able to acces when signed in with their tdsb email

  • Student TDSB Email - notifications about google classroom assignments 

  • Student Calendar - teachers usually share a classroom calendar with students

• Nutrition Programs

  • 🍕Pizza Lunches - Bi-weekly school pizza lunch on Friday's. School fundraiser organized by parent council. 

  • Subway Lunch - Available for order every Monday lunch.

  • Lunch Lady - Third-party hot lunch program. Available on Wednesday's

  • Morning Munch - Inclusive morning student snack program

• Volunteers & Police Checks

  • To go on class field trips or volunteer in the school, you need to complete a police record check with the TDSB. This process takes a while so please consider doing it sooner rather than later. 

  • For those who already completed a police check for Lanor, please submit your Annual Offence Declaration.

  • First time volunteers, please see the bottom of the volunteers page for details to initiate the process.

• Lanor parents' Facebook group

  • Discussion between Lanor parents/guardians

• Childcare options - Before & After school care

• Lanor School Council

  • Partner with the school to help improve our children’s school experience, fundraising initiatives, and community-building events.

• School Photos 📷

  • School photos are taken in October / early November. School photo Re-take day is mid November. The deadline to order your photos is about a week after photos are taken to get them delivered with the rest of the school. All students receive a free class photo. Photos were done by Clear Images.

  • Gr 8 grad photos are taken in March/April

• School Schedule

  • Grades 1-8 

    • 8:20am – Entry Bell

    • 8:25am – Instructional day begins 

    • 9:35-9:45am - Recess

    • 11:05am – Recess & Lunch 

    • 11:55 - 12:05pm – Student entry for those returning from off-site lunch (via main doors)

    • 12:05pm – Afternoon instruction begins 

    • 1:25-1:35pm - Recess

    • 2:45pm – Dismissal 

  • Kindergarten 

    • 8:20am – Supervision and lining up in the Kinder Yard 

    • 8:30am – Entry 

    • 11:00am – End of Morning routine 

    • 11:00am – 12:00pm – Lunch and Outdoor Play 

    • 12:10pm – Afternoon entry 

    • 2:40pm - Dismissal

• Cell Phones/Personal Devices

  • As per the TDSB policy on personal devices:

  • Students in Grades 6 and Below

    • At minimum, students’ personal mobile devices are stored out of view and powered off or set to silent mode throughout the full instructional day, except when their use is explicitly permitted by the educator under the circumstances outlined above.

    • If an educator sees a personal mobile device that is not stored out of view, they must require the device be handed in for the instructional day and the device must be placed, by the student in the office.

  • Students in Grades 7&8

    • At minimum, personal mobile devices are stored out of view and powered off or set to silent mode during instructional time, except when their use is explicitly permitted by the educator/school under the circumstances outlined above.

    • If the educator sees a personal mobile device that is not stored out of view, they must require the device be handed in for the instructional period and the device must be placed, by the student, in a storage area in a location in the classroom designated by the educator. Students who do not follow the direction of the education will be sent to see the principal.

• Lost and Found

  • Items found in and around the school will be placed in the Lost and Found, outside the main office. Small items, such as jewellery and keys will be kept in the office. We encourage you to remind your child to keep valuable items at home. In order to assist us in ensuring that your child goes home with all of their belongings, please be sure label all clothing that comes to school.

• Parking @Lanor JMS (see image below)

  • The staff parking lot on the east side of the school is for teachers & staff ONLY

  • The visitors parking lot is on the west side of the school off Lanor Ave.

  • "Kiss & Ride" drop off is on Sheldon Ave. This is a drop off zone and not for parking.

  • DO NOT park between the "No Parking - Bus Stop" signs in front of the office on Lanor Ave.

  • Student's use the 2 walk-in entrances to enter the school at the start of the day. DO NOT walk through the visitors parking lot 🚷.