Friday, September 28th, 2012

I'd like to thank Mrs. Gibson for organizing our wonderful Terry Fox Walk on Thursday. It was a beautiful day for a great community event! So far, around $16, 000 in donations has been raised. Thank you so much for your support!

A big thank you to Mrs. Barrett, Mrs. Teti and Mrs. Painting who organized our first Pizza Lunch. It was a great success! Thanks to all the parents who supervised the classrooms.

I'd also like to thank Mrs. Adair, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Olson and Mrs. Zappi for leading our Seed of Hope Club. Today, the teachers attended the annual, "Me to We" Day downtown with 31 of our students. For those of you who don't know, the Seeds of Hope Club is a club that older students can join and it focuses on social justice issues.  They purpose of the club is to help bring awareness to issues and concerns around the globe.  This is a wonderful club as it allows the older students leadership opportunities. Discussions tend to develop abstract and higher level thinking skills.

This week, staff had the opportunity to begin analyzing our data from last year, namely our report card summary and EQAO. Although, we will look at it further, it is evident our students do well overall in reading, writing and math, usually achieving above Board and Provincial levels. We will continue to focus on teaching implicit thinking in reading and making connections; two areas that require more direction instruction. We will talk more about this as the year progresses.

Good luck to our grade 1-8 cross-country team as they compete in the first meet next Tuesday and to our grade 7 classes as they are heading off to their three day outdoor trip next week!

Hope to see you at the Book Fair!

OCTOBER 2012
1st-3rd-Grade 7 Outdoor Ed Trip
1st-4th-Book Fair-Library
2nd-Cross Country Meet @ Centennial
8th-Thanksgiving
16th-Individual Education Plans (IEP) go home
24th-Photo Re-take Day (a.m. only)
26th-Pizza Day
31st-Hallowe'en Parade

NOVEMBER 2012
9th-Remembrance Day Assembly
12th-Report Cards Go Home
16th-PA Day
30th-Pizza Day

DECEMBER 2012
7th-PA Day
20th-Pizza Day
24th-January 4th-Holidays

JANUARY
7th-School Begins
24th-Pizza Day
25th-PA Day

FEBRUARY
11th- Report Cards Go Home!
15th-PA Day
18th-Family Day!
22nd-Pizza Day

MARCH
11th-15th-March Break
28th-Pizza Day
29th-Good Friday

APRIL
1st-Easter Monday
26th-Pizza Day

MAY
24th-Sharing Assembly
31-Pizza Day

JUNE
7th-PA Day
14th-Grade 8 Graduation
17th-21st-Grade 8 Quebec Trip
18th-Sharing Assembly
26th-Report Cards Go Home
27th-Lunch on the Lawn (Pizza Day); Year End Assembly; Last day for students