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| Celebrating at City Hall! |
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| Mr. Littlejohn, Mr. Kuru, Matthew and Kieran at Board Office |
Currently, our staffing committee is busy planning for September 2013. Our enrolment has dropped to 655 students decreasing our staff numbers to 34 teachers. As a result, we will be declaring 4 teachers surplus. Our support staff numbers remain the same with two staff in the office, one special education assistant, 4 lunchroom supervisors and one vice-principal. We will receive our special needs assistant numbers closer to June.
Next year, our model consists of the following homerooms:
Kindergarten-6 half-day classes
Grade One-3 straights
Grade One/Two-2 splits
Grade Two-1 straight
Grade Two/Three-2 splits
Grade Three-3 straights
Grade 4-2 straights
Grade 5-3 straights
Grade 6, 7 and 8 classes- 2 straights at each grade
As many of you know, we may have to re-organize in September if our enrollment significantly increases or decreases.
Just a quick reminder that if your child will not be here in September, to please inform your class teacher and the office. Soon we will begin class placements. As in previous years, staff work together in teams to place the students in classes for the following September. Gender, academic achievement, social needs, and ministry caps are among the list of things that we consider when placing children. The goal of student placements is to have 'balanced' classes.
As most of you know, we do not take 'teacher' requests from parents and we ask that you honour this part of the process. By the end of the year, teachers have a good understanding of their students and place the children accordingly. In most cases, staffing hasn't fully been completed until the end of the year, and as most of you know, changes happen all the way into September. We thank you in advance.
On Wednesday, we will Administrative Professionals Day honouring Mrs. Stefanowicz and Mrs. Shakespeare. I'd like to thank them for loving the kids at LKS and making everyone feel special.
Please see our Notice section on the website for information regarding synthetic marijuana passed along to us by Toronto Police.
APRIL
23rd- Grade 3 to Black Creek
24th-Grad Re-Photo; Grade 8 Badminton
25th-Kindergarten Sharing Assemblies; Artist in Room 159; Forest of Reading Voting Breakfast
26th-Pizza Day; Grade 5 to ROM; Middle School Dance
29th-Grade 1-8 Sharing Assemblies; Grade 5 Badminton @ LKS
MAY
1st-Badminton Conference Finals @ LKS
4th-Springfest
6th-Artist Visit to Mrs. Tyndall; Grade 4-8 Aussie Football
7th-Artist Visit to Mrs. Iafrate; Grade 4-8 Aussie Football; Track @ Centennial
8th-Grade 6 Band recording Provincial entry; Grade 4-8 Aussie Football
9th-Artist Visit to Mrs. Mendrinos
10th-K-2 Storyteller
13th-Parent Council Meeting; Jr Boys Soccer @ Swansea
16th-Grade Two to AGO
17th-Forest of Reading Lunch
20th-Victoria Day
21st-24th-Book Fair
22nd-Kindie Sharing Assembly; Dental Screening; Jr Girls Soccer Tourney; Grade 6-8 Cricket
24th-Grade 1-8 Sharing Assembly; Track @ Centennial
28th-Grade 3 and 6 EQAO begins
29th-Grade One to Harbourfront
31-Pizza Day
JUNE
3rd-Frisbee Conference Finals
4th-Middle School Concert @ 6:30 p.m.
7th-PA Day
10th-City Conference Finals
11th-City Track Meet
14th-Grade 8 Graduation
17th-21st-Grade 8 Quebec Trip
18th-Grade 1-8 Sharing Assembly
26th-Report Cards Go Home
27th-Lunch on the Lawn (Pizza Day); Year End Assembly; Last day for students
