I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the wonderful parents who volunteered their time today to help out Mrs. Ayer with our Pizza Lunch. The students really enjoy Pizza Days; it makes school fun!
Thank you to all the ECO WARRIORS as they continue to remind us to be conscientious of our surroundings. Today we turned off our lights in the afternoon to recognize Earth Hour tomorrow night! Thank you to all the staff and parents on our committee.
Ms. Armin and Mr. Samotowka distributed the Toronto Summer Music Camps brochure to students in Grade 6-8. The camp is at Mono Cliffs and runs at various times in July. The applications are due by April 23rd.
Good luck to Avery, Ian, Lucas and Imaan at the Math Olympics event tomorrow!
As most of you know, we are in the process of rebuilding a new field. The Board selected the school to be a recipient of a new playing field, including artificial turf. The Board is working with landscape architects and they have completed the conceptual drawings. We will post this on the front office window for you to see and we'll show it at the April Parent Council meeting. We will work with the Board over the next few months as they work through the next steps. The construction will hopefully begin in the Fall.
We received our staffing numbers for the school year 2009/2010. We are fortunate to maintain our 36.5 teaching staff, office staff and lunchroom staff. We have lost .5 of an Education Assistant and now will work with 1 next year. We will receive our Special Needs Assistant numbers at a later date, along with our caretaking numbers.
Finally, report cards go home on Monday and Interviews are on Thursday night and Friday. These interviews are usually reserved for any concerns from both teachers and parents; academically and/or socially. We look forward to seeing some of you over the next week or so. We also included in the report card an envelope explaining the PTR (Promotion, Transfer and Retention) process. Hopefully this info will give you some background knowledge for the end of year.
March
30th- Report Cards Go Home; Junior Swim Team Meet
31st-Sr. Swim Team Meet
April
1st-Intermediate and Junior Sharing Assemblies
2nd-Grade 5 classes to ROM
3rd-Parent Teacher Interviews
6th-Parent Council Meeting @ 7:30 p.m.-library
7th-Grade 2 to Reptilia
8th-Swim Finals @ Riverdale; Grade 5 Olympics
9th-Grade 1/2/Kindergarten Special Education Reviews
10th and 13th-Good Friday/Easter Monday
15th-Grade 7 & 8 Presentation in the gym
16th-South West Student Equity Conference Conference-Mr. Elias and select Grade 7 & 8 students
20th-Earth Week Begins; Eco Assemblies
21st-WOZ (Wizard of OZ) full dress rehearsal-afternoon
22nd-Author Kenneth Oppel visits
24th-Sharing Assemblies-may be postponed due to WOZ; Grade 6 Presentation-Cosmic Connections; WOZ Full Dress Rehearsal
27th-School performance of WOZ-afternoon
28th-Parent Matinee of OZ
29th & 30th-Wizard of OZ-Evening Performances
May
1st-Pizza Lunch
2nd-Springfest
13th-Red Maple Trip to Harbourfront-Mrs. McGee and select Grade 7 & 8 students
14th-Grade 4/5 Students attend World Energy Festival
15th-Forest of Reading Lunch-Grade 3-8 in the Library
18th-Victory Day!
22nd-Sharing Assemblies
25th-West Track and Field Meet @York University-Grade 2-8
26th-Grade 3 & 6 EQAO
