April 2018

Principal’s message

Welcome back to all of our École Harrison families! Our Welcome to Kindergarten for our new Kindergarten students is on April 19th…we’re really looking forward to meeting our incoming students and having them meet Mme Maynard as their teacher for next year. We are placing much more emphasis on the development of social skills at the Early Years level and our message will have a lot to do with what families can do at home to help prepare their young ones for school! If you’re interested in learning more, please come by and I can show you some of the work that our staff has done towards this! PLEASE NOTE: We would like to remind our families to please be very careful when dropping off or picking up your children at the school. It is very important to respect the signage and to use the crosswalks to cross Queens Avenue. We have also received a couple of com-plaints from neighbours that we are driving too fast near the school! We care about our students so please try to slow down! N.B. A reminder that we are not accepting teacher requests for 2018-2019. We are very confident in the staff that we have and we will try to achieve balance within classrooms so that all needs are being met. This worked well for us the last three years. The children will be asked to name some friendships that we could consider maintaining into next school year. If you feel that there are any other considerations that we should make, then please communicate that via e-mail to myself at laluk.craig@bsd.ca prior to April 27th. We will be having a Meet the Teacher for next year’s classes in June like we have done for the past two years. Thank to you all of our families for attending Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences in the month of March to review the students’ ac-complishments and to focus on new goals for the remaining months of the school year. We are blessed to have such amazing parental support with a focus on learning. We have finalized our instructional plan for 2018-2019...take a look at how it looks below. We look forward to seeing you all at our next Parent Council meeting on April 16th! A reminder that Child Care is provided.

Craig Laluk, Principal

Le respect, la responsabilité et la fierté

April

12 Jersey Day—Show your support for the Humboldt Broncos—wear a jersey to school

16 Parent Council mtg 6pm

17 Gr 7 mass band

18-19 Band Festival

19 Welcome to Kindergarten—2018.2019 families

23-27 J.aime Lire week

26 J’aime Lire Week / Book exchange

27 Orff Children’s Day

Kindergarten – Mme Sarah Jane Maynard Phys.Ed./Numeracy Coach, Continuous Improvement Coach – Glen Simard

Grade 1 – Kim Schutte & Mme Jody Carkener Literacy Coach – Mme Mona Hammond

Grade 2 – Joanne Fournier-Touzin & Gisèle Perreaux Resource – TBA

Grade 3 – Shaunda Hermenegildo & TBA Reading Recovery and Literacy Support – Mme Brooke Chabot

Grade 4 – Greg Sylvestre & Danielle Mailhot Guidance – TBA

Grade 5 – Melanie McComb Musique and Beaux Arts – Mme Marla Fontaine

Grade 5&6 – Jolan Warrener Phys.Ed. – M. Bernie Perreaux

Grade 6 – Jenny Slomiany Industrial Arts – Mr. Richard Derewianchuk

Grade 7 – TBA (Mme Davis will be back in May 2019) Teacher Librarian—TBA

Grade 7&8 – Lori Simard Principal – M. Craig Laluk

Grade 8 – David Martine

May

7 Chorale @ Music Monday

9 Cross Country Run #1 Rain date Thurs. May 10

10 2nd Dose Immunization Grades 4 and 8

14 Art Clusters am/Art Show pm

16 Cross Country Run #2 rain date Thurs. May 17th

21 Victoria day no school

30 PD day pm early dismissal @ 11:45

31 Choir Concert evening

22 Victoria day no school

Important dates to remember:

Recycle your EH Clothing! If you have any school clothing that your child(ren) may have outgrown, please consider donating

them to he school. The clothing will be made available to our families.

April 2018

a message from….

la salle de musique et les beaux-arts

Brandon Festival of the Arts: Congratulations to all of our participants in the Brandon Festival of the Arts. Our students did an excellent job in representing École Harrison both on and off the stage. We are so proud of all of our choristers and recorder play-ers! We are honoured to have received the following awards: Nouvelles Voix: *Huntley and Dilys Davies Cameron Memorial Scholarship (best performance by an early years school choir)

*Lillian Popkin Memorial Trophy (most enjoyable performance by an elementary school choir)

Chorale Avancée: *Betty Gibson Memorial Scholarship (best performance by a middle years school choir)

ÉCHO: *Cordell Grant Memorial Scholarship (an outstanding performance by a school or community choir)

Recorder Club: *Recorder Scholarship (most promising recorder performance)

Spring Concert: Thank you to all of our students, staff and families for your support of our spring concert!

Music Monday: Our Chorale members will be participating in the fourth annual Brandon-Wide Music Monday concert on May

7 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Brandon University Healthy Living Centre. Together with hundreds of local students and musicians

of all ages, they will be premiering a newly commissioned work by Kenley Kristofferson. This is a free public concert to celebrate

music and music education in our country, and all are welcome to attend.

Harrison Choir Concert: Our Chorale and ÉCHO choirs will present “We are One” – a celebration of unity through song – on

Thursday, May 31 at 6:00 p.m. at Knox United Church (corner of Victoria Avenue and 18th Street).

Mme Fontaine

J’aime Lire committee

Club de course/Running Club:

We are thrilled with the number of students who signed up to participate in running club this year. In order to ensure appropriate supervision and for the safety of the participants we have divided running club into the following two age groups; grades 4-5 and grades 6-8. This may not be ideal for families who have children in both age groups, therefore those students have the option to run with either the older or the younger group. Grades 4-5 students will practice on Monday during lunch hour and Wednesday after school. Grades 6-8 students will practice on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. A calendar with specific times as well as waiver forms were sent home with the stu-dents on April 6th. Races will be on Wednesday May 9th (rain out Thursday May 10th) and Wednesday May 16th (rain out Thursday May 17th). Letters with specifics regarding race times and locations will be sent home in May. Éducation physique Grade 7-8 badminton season has begun. Practices will be held at lunch and students will play 3-4 games after school from 3:45-5:15. Schedule to be completed. The jamboree will be held Thursday May 3rd from 12:45-3:30. The school track meet is scheduled for Tuesday May 22nd for grades 4-8. The City Track and Field meets (grade 4-6 and 7-8) are scheduled for June 13th (grades 4-6) and June 15th (grades 7-8). More information will be sent home as the event ap-proaches. M. Perreaux

École Harrison students and staff will be celebrating “J’aime Lire”/ “I Love to Read” the week of April 23-27, 2018. The

theme this year is “Dr. Seuss”. Students and staff are encouraged to dress up each day based on his books. A book exchange

will take place on Thursday, April 26th. Please read further in the newsletter for more details on both of these activities! The “J’aime Lire” Committee

April 2018

May 14 pm May 14 am

Art Clusters

Choir Concert

Welcome to

Kindergarten

I LOVE TO READ WEEK

May 31 evening

April 2018

Gr 4 & 8 2nd dose immunization

Music

Monday

Art Clusters am

Art Show pm

Cross country

Run # 1

Cross country

Run # 2

Choir concert

pm

Grade 8

dinner

celebration

April 2018

April 2018