Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

On Tuesday night, I attended a meeting with the Councillor's office, the owner and the builder of 501 Prince Edward Drive. If you can remember, we attended a Public Hearing a couple of months ago to ask for a redesign of the garage as it created safety issues for our community.  The traffic department and builder have  redesigned the driveway to create a much safer environment. There will be another Public Hearing on June 9th at 5:00 in Council Chambers to discuss a variety of other variances. 

We continue to work our way through the staffing process and the  final round of teacher interviews has officially been completed. Some of our teachers will be leaving the school and new ones arriving. We will blog this officially near the end of the year. 


Currently, we have been staffed for two grade 6 classes. We have informed our staffing officer that those classes are high in numbers, so we will likely get another grade 6 class for the first day of September. I will have to hire a new teacher in the summer. We will keep you posted. 


I had the pleasure of working out the final details of our Parent Council budget with Ms. Riach, our treasurer, and Mrs. Kidd, our Chair, to prepare for our upcoming Parent Council meeting on Monday night. We have an exciting year ahead of us as we are able to continue to focus on purchasing more technology. We will provide more details at the meeting. 


Please make sure to attend the presentation by Debbie Gordon before the meeting. Her information is current and will focus on our children as social media consumers. Debbie is always a terrific source of information to parents. 


Thank you to all the grade 6-8 students who entertained us tonight at the concert. You have come along way in your skill level since September and you should be proud. We appreciate you. 


If your child is attending the Folk Dance Club Festival, please bring a lawn chair as we are outside. 

I hope you have a terrific weekend. 




May 2016 


30-Junior/Intermediate Assembly; Parent Council at 7:00 p.m.; Parent Guest Speaker at 6:00: Debbie Gordon on Internet Safety; Artist in School visit Mrs. Burn ; Grade 3 and 6 EQAO begins 

31-Primary Sharing Assembly; Grade 7 Trip; Artist in School visit Ms. Tyndall and Ms. Iafrate 

June 2016

1-Folk Dance Festival (7-Rain date) 
10-PA Day
14-Primary Assembly 
15-Junior Assembly
17-Grade 8 Graduation 
20-Grade 8 Quebec Trip 
23-Kindergarten Sharing Assembly 
27-Report Cards Go Home! 

29-Pizza Lunch ; Last Day for Students 

September 2016
6-School Begins; Kindergarten Open House
26th – Picture Day
29th – Terry Fox Run

October 2016
7-PA Day
10-Thanksgiving
18th – Power of One presentation (9:15 k-3, 10:15 4-6)
27th – Picture Retakes

November 2016
11-Remembrance Day
18-PA Day
13-18-Bullying Awareness Week

December 2016
2-PA Day
23-Last Day to Work Before Holidays

January 2017
9-School Begins
20-PA Day

February 2017
17-PA Day
20-Family Day

March 2017
13-17-March Break

April 2017
14-17 Good Friday/Easter Monday
22-Earth Day

May 2017
8-12-Children’s Mental Health Week
22-Victoria Day

June 2017
9-PA Day
29-Last Day for Students