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Page 1 ÉSKS December Newsle�er
2424 King Edward Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2R 2R2 Phone: (204) 694-0483 Fax: (204) 694-7509
Website: h�ps://www.winnipegsd.ca/schools/stanleyknowles
DECEMBER 2018 NEWSLETTER
Administrators’ Holiday Gree!ng
With the mild temperatures and minimal snow, it’s hard to believe that December is already here! It won’t be long before the snow and cold weather finds us.
It is very important that your child comes to school dressed appropriately to play outside at recess. The morning and a;ernoon recesses are 15 minutes each and the lunch recess is 30 minutes. All children are expected to go outside unless the wind-chill is colder than –27 degrees C. It is also important, especially in the winter months, your child does not arrive at school before 8:45 am and 12:40 pm because students are expected to remain outside unless it is colder than -27 degrees C.
Also, as the weather gets colder, Grade 7 and 8 students must have a lunch plan. Unless they are part of the paid Lunch Program, they are expected to leave the building and school property at lunch @me. We would also like to remind all our students and their families to stay off the ice on the neighbourhood reten!on ponds as it is extremely dangerous at this !me of year.
As you are dropping your children off, you may have no@ced our signs. Please respect the one way traffic ONLY, and NO stopping in bus loop from drop-off un@l a;er the busses leave at 3:30 p.m. This is for the safety of students and to keep our fire lane clear. Thank you for your support.
November was a very busy month in the classrooms. Our students have been very ac@ve in their learning. Report Cards went home and we had Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences throughout the school. The teachers and students worked very hard to ensure that you were able to see the gains they are making and the next steps that they have ahead of them. We also held our Remembrance Day assemblies on November 9th. We wish to thank our staff and students for two very moving services.
Our Winter Concerts will take place the week of December 10th. On Tuesday, December 11th the students in rooms 136, 137, 139, 143 & 203 will be performing and on Thursday, December 13th the elementary students in rooms 135, 138, 145, 146 & 148 will be performing. The Nursery and Kindergarten classes with perform on Wednesday, December 12th. We will be selling chocolate bars from Laura Secord for $2.00 and accep@ng dona@ons. Anyone contribu@ng to the Silver Collec@on or buying a chocolate bar will also be eligible to win a door prize. All proceeds from the Silver Collec@on will go to support technology and the music programs in our school. We look forward to seeing everyone at the concerts.
Members of the Ècole Stanley Knowles School Grade 7 and 8 choir will perform three songs with The Tenors on December 11, 2018 at the Centennial Concert Hall. If you are interested in purchasing @ckets, you can do so via: h>ps://www.tenorsmusic.com/concerts/. A decade a;er forming in their na@ve Canada, The Tenors are an interna@onal success story. They have performed for the likes of Oprah Winfrey, and HM Queen Elizabeth II and shared stages with superstars ranging from Paul McCartney to Jus@n Bieber. Congratula!ons to our ÈSKS students for this wonderful opportunity - watch for more on the WSD Spotlight at winnipeg.ca.
Leadership students are encouraging others to give back by bringing a non-perishable food item for our Winnipeg Harvest collec@on. Please help us reach our goal of 1,500 food items.
We want to wish our staff, students and families a wonderful holiday surrounded by those you love. Rest, relax and enjoy the @me with family and friends.
Your Admin Team,
J. Perrott ~ D. Stevenson ~ A. Loria
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Parent Advisory Council News
We are looking for new parents to join the council. All parents are invited and welcome to a�end. We get together once a month, for approximately 1 hour to discuss topics and concerns regarding the school and community. . We need your help to make a difference in our school!
• Join us and you can voice your opinions and concerns, ask ques@ons about what is happening in our school
• Find out what fundraising we are doing and what we do with the money raised
• Get to know other parents who are commi�ed to helping our school
• Playground improvements
• Organize and volunteer at school dances
• Discuss ideas on how we can help our teachers, staff, students and families.
If you have any ques@ons or concerns, please email the PAC (Parent Advisory Council) [email protected]. There will be no mee@ng for the month of December. The next mee!ng will be held in the New Year on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 @ 6:30 in the school’s library.
UP COMING PAC MEETINGS
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - LAST ONE FOR THE YEAR!
Many thanks to all the parents, guardians and children who came to
the Scholas@c Book Fair and supported our library by buying some books there.
École Stanley Knowles School is now on Twitter!!!
Please follow us at @esk_school
to see the amazing things we are doing!
Lunch Program
We would like to wish all parents and students a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and a big thank you to the parents
for all their support year round!
Please remember that we have a Drop In Lunch Program for all Junior High students at the minimal cost of $3 per day
all Junior High students need a safe place to go during the lunch hour.
During the lunch hour, please have adequate lunches with proper utensils. Milk purchased by elementary students during lunch must be consumed at school and should not be taken home. If you are taking your child for lunch or giving them permission to go to a friend’s house, please send a note, to let us know so that we can account for their whereabouts.
See you in the New Year! Stay safe over the holidays.
C. Plaetinck & M. Ritchot
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With the cold weather fast approaching, it becomes more important than ever that ALL Grade 7 & 8 students have a plan for their lunch hour. The safety and well-being of all of our students at ÉSKS is of the utmost importance. Since ÉSKS does not provide any formal supervision over the lunch hour, all students in Grade 7 and Grade 8 who are not part of the paid Lunch Program or who have not paid the drop-in fee are
expected to leave the building and the school grounds
over the lunch hour.
This Parent Run Lunch Program is available on a full-@me or drop-in basis. The cost of this program is the same as our Elementary Lunch Program and operates in a similar manner. Families can choose to pay a full-@me fee of $230.00 for the en@re school year or a daily drop-in fee of $3.00. Families may also choose to have their child(ren) par@cipate in the Lunch Program only during the cold weather months, November to the end of March, at a cost of $115.00. Informa@on regarding the Elementary & Junior High Lunch Program is available in the school office.
During the school year there may be @mes when school bus transporta@on is cancelled due to inclement weather or poor driving condi@ons, but schools will remain open.
School bus transporta@on for all school divisions in the City of Winnipeg is cancelled when the wind chill reaches -45° Celsius by 6:15 a.m. based on the Environment Canada readings at the Winnipeg Airport. The temperature readings can be found at the Environment Canada website (h�p://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca). The following media outlets are contact in the early morning to ask that they broadcast and/or post the informa@on:
Please note: Some media outlets will broadcast and post the
informa�on to their websites.
Parents/Guardians can also phone the Transporta@on Department at (204) 775-0231 extension 224 or (204) 789-0409/(204) 789-0421 for informa@on. Severe weather condi@ons and poor roads may extend the running @me of some buses, resul@ng in late arrival and departure. Parents/Guardians should make sure that children are suitably clothed un@l picked up and that they have a place to go in the event the bus does not arrive or is late. Parents/Guardians must also ensure that children have a place to go a;er the return trip.
When bus transporta!on is cancelled in the
morning, it will not resume later in the
day even if weather condi!ons
improve.
Indoor recess During the winter months, the wind chill is checked before morning recess, lunch @me and a;ernoon recess. Students are expected to dress appropriately for the weather at all @mes. As per WSD policy, students will be kept indoors only on inclement days when the wind chill reaches –28° Celsius. When the wind chill is between –25° to –27°, students may go out for a shortened 10 minute recess. At @mes, parents and guardians have requested by a note to the classroom teacher or a phone call to the school, to have their child remain indoors at recess @me. It is our school’s belief that if a students is too sick to go outdoors at recess, then he or she is too sick to be at school. We would ask parents and guardians to send children to school only when they are well enough to par@cipate in all ac@vi@es, including recess.
CBC Radio 92 CITI FM 99.9 BOB FM
TSN1290 QX 104 FM CJOB Radio
KISS 102 FM CKSB - French 94.3 The Drive
Virgin 103 FM CTV News Global TV
CityTV CKJR Power 97
metronews.ca winnipegsun.ca
winnipegfreepress.com
WSD website at www.winnipegsd.ca
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ÉSKS Patrols
Now that the weather is geUng cooler, our patrols need to be dressing appropriately when they are on post.
Jackets, mi�s, scarves, ski pants and hats are all cold-weather gear. Please
make sure you are coming dressed for your week!
With the colder weather comes icy condi@ons. Please be aware of our patrols out on post while you are driving, for your safety and theirs!
Koats for Kids has been a Winnipeg ins@tu@on since 1989. Every year, from October to February, the program distributes winter outerwear to families – for some children, having a warm coat means a>ending school on a cold day, instead of staying home. It’s part of United Way’s commitment to helping children and youth be all they can be. If your child is in need of warm winter clothing, please connect with his/her classroom teacher who will place an order for you. Unfortunately, The Koats for Kids Volunteer Centre is not open to the public, so all requests must go to your child’s classroom teacher.
Elementary Music Mrs. Chapman
Congratula@ons to all the students from rooms 201 and 204 who performed at the Elementary School Remembrance Day Assembly! You did an outstanding job—your voices were beau@ful
and the song “The Dream” was very meaningful.
COMING UP
Students from the rooms listed below will be par@cipa@ng in the Winter Concert this year and are hard at work on our concert selec@ons. This year’s theme is “Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
ROOMS 136, 137, 139, 143 & 203 The Winter Concert date is Tuesday, December 11 @ 6:30 pm
NURSERY/KINDERGARTEN concert is Wednesday, December 12 @ 5:30 pm
ROOMS 135, 138, 145, 146 & 148
The Winter Concert date is Thursday, December 13 @ 6:30 pm
Students in Grade 4 and 5 are con@nuing to work on singing, instrumental, and rhythm skills and are having fun in music. They will take part in the Spring Concert in the coming year. Happy Music-Making Everyone! Mrs. Chapman
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What’s Happening In Art … Ms. Kmet
Winnipeg Harvest Food Drive Leadership Group
The Leadership group is excited to encourage others to give back.
In conjunc@on with Winnipeg Harvest, we are encouraging the whole school to donate non-perishable food items. Our theme for this year is ‘bring an item for each hand’
and our goal is 1,500 food items!
The ÉSKS Leadership Food Drive runs from Monday, December 3rd to Friday, December 14th.
Please support this worthwhile endeavor and donate all you can!
5/6 Music We have been busy playing recorders, learning new notes, and learning “O’Canada”. Students will be doing recorder karate and star@ng to learn bucket drumming. Grade 7 Band Students have been busy learning all the basics of being in band and have made the decision for band or art. We are busy learning the first 5 notes of the concert Bb scale and will be using those notes to make all kinds of music. It’s really amazing how much can be done with just 5 notes!
Grade 8 Band The Grade 8 band students has been playing music from their Standard of Excellence method book. We have been working on featured pieces “Sawmill Creek” and “Montego Bay”. Band members who have switched to percussion are learning new instruments and have done an excellent job taking on their new role in the band.
Grade 7/8 Choir This group performed beau@fully at our Remembrance Day service. They sang an unaccompanied version of “Dona Nobis Pacem” (Give Us Peace) which led into the “Song of Peace” which incorporated original text that partnered with the words from “Dona Nobis Pacem”. The choir will be featured in concert with the Canadian vocal group, The Tenors at the Centennial Concert Hall on December 11th. The concert will start at 8:00 pm. Tickets are available through the box office at the concert hall. More informa@on will be sent home with choir members closer to the show date!
Music News Mr. Oberheu
Squiggly lines, different shapes and much more! Those were the required elements to complete the self-portrait drawing project. Congratula@ons to Grade 8 student Cris@ana (Rm. 214 ), December's Ar@st of the Month who successfully met the criteria for the drawing of the self-portrait using the blind contour drawing technique. Using only a mirror and pencil, Cris@ana sketched her self-portrait with out looking down at the paper. Once she completed her sketch, she turned her paper upside down and proceeded to repeat the process. The end result is a colourful self-portrait comprised of interes@ng shapes and wavy lines. Awesome work!
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Elementary Physical Educa!on Mr. Buchanan
Intramurals
Intramurals are now in full swing for grades 3-6 students. Intramurals begin at 12:15 pm, and run un@l 12:40 pm. On their intramural
day, students are to eat their lunch as they normally would, and then calmly make their way to the Big Gym at 12:15 pm. The
intramural schedule is as follows:
Day 2 Grades 3 & 4 Day 4 Grade 5
Day 6 Grade 6
Indoor Running Shoes
As the weather gets colder, we start to see a lot more students wearing winter boots to school. Although winter boots are great for
keeping our feet warm when we are outside, they can be dangerous when worn for par@cipa@ng in Phys. Ed. class.
Please make sure your child has proper INDOOR running shoes
that they can wear for Phys. Ed. at school at all �mes.
Jr. High Physical Educa!on Mrs. Bradshaw & Mr. Bard
Ski and Snowboard Trip: Select Grade 7 and 8 students will have the opportunity to go to Asessippi Ski Hill on February 20 & 21, 2019. Thank you for all the interest, but all spots are currently full.
Volleyball:
Grade 7 Volleyball
The Grade 7 Boys’ and Girls’ volleyball teams have had successful seasons playing Tripleball. There were over 100 Grade 7, boys and girls that came out to join the teams. They have worked hard both in prac@ces and in games/tournaments. Way to go, Sonics !
Grade 8 Boys Volleyball
The Grade 8 Boys volleyball teams have had an incredible season. They have put in countless hours in prac@ces, games and tournaments and their hard work has paid off! The team won the John Henderson tournament and finished a close second at the Lockport tournament.
Grade 8 Girls Volleyball
The two Grade 8 girls teams have had wonderful seasons. Each team competed in 4 tournaments throughout the season giving them lots of play-ing @me against very challenging opponents. They have greatly improved since the start of the season and were well prepared for the playoffs in late November. Go Sonics!
Indoor Track:
More informa@on regarding the indoor track season will come out mid-December. Once
the informa@on is distributed, prac@ces will be held Tuesday and Thursday
morning at 7:30 am.
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Tyndall Park Community Centre
is proud to present our
Annual Breakfast with Santa
Saturday, December 1st
Tyndall Park School gym
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Cost: Free!!
Everyone will receive a drink, pancakes, sausages
and fruit.
This is an awesome family fun FREE event with a
few surprises sprinkled in for a jolly good time!
2018 - 2019 School Calendar Friday, December 21 Last day of school before Winter Break
DECEMBER BREAK - Monday, December 24 to Friday, January 4, 2019
Monday, January 7 School Re-opens a;er Winter Break Friday, January 18 ÉSKS PD Day - No School Friday, February 1 Non-Instruc!onal Day Monday, February 18 Louis Riel Day - No School Friday, March 15 Non-Instruc!onal Day Friday, March 22 Last day of school before Spring Break
SPRING BREAK - Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29, 2019 Monday, April 1 School Re-opens a;er Spring Break Monday, April 19 Good Friday - No School Friday, April 26 Non-Instruc!onal Day Monday, May 6 Non-Instruc!onal Day Monday, May 20 Victoria Day - No School Monday, June 24 ÉSKS PD Day - No School Friday, June 28 Last Day of School - 11:30 am Dismissal
ESKS RECYCLES!
Don’t forget. Please remember to place recyclable items in our blue bins
located throughout the school.
Regular pick up of these recycled items occurs weekly.
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M o n T u e W e d T h u F r i
3 Day 4
4 Day 5
5 Day 6
6 Day 1
Patrol Lunch in the Foods Lab
PAC MOVIE 3:30 - 5:30 pm
7 Day 2
Rm P8 @ Legisla@ve Building
10 Day 3
Grades 1 - 8 Pizza Lunch
11 Day 4
Grade 1 - 3 Winter Concert (Rms 136, 137, 139, 143 & 203)
@ 6:30 pm
12 Day 5
Nursery/Kindergarten Winter Concert
@ 5:30 pm
13 Day 6
Grade 1 - 3 Winter Concert (Rms 135, 138, 145, 146 & 148)
6:30 pm
14 Day 1
Rms P6 & P10
@ Millennium Library
17 Day 2
18 Day 3
19 Day 4
20 Day 5
21 Day 6
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL BEFORE WINTER
BREAK
24 25 26 27 28
2424 King Edward Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2R 2R2 Phone: (204) 694-0483 Fax: (204) 694-7509
Website: h�ps://www.winnipegsd.ca/schools/stanleyknowles/Pages/default.aspx
December 2018
Winter Break - Friday, December 21, 2018 to Friday, January 4, 2019 School reopens Monday, January 7, 2019
