the people who fought

for peace and the

significance of the

poppy that is worn at

this time o f y e a r .

On November 6th, the

Grade Six classes pre-

sented a moving and mean-

ingful Remembrance Day

Assembly.

Our invited guests were

Royal Canadian Legion rep-

resentatives Mary Burt and

Kim Burt, RCMP Corporal

Tracy Edwards, and Mayor

Ralph Tapper.

Guided by an overall theme

of peace, the Grade Six

students presented a selec-

tion of readings,poetry and

songs which inspired u s

a l l to r e f l e c t o n the

importance of remembering

Safety Concern

We are very pleased

to make skating a

part of our physical

activities and every

class will get to do

two sessions at the

Jack Byrne Arena.

We are asking that

proper skating hel-

mets be worn at

these sessions. Bicy-

cle helmets are not

effective and will not

always give your child

the needed protec-

tion in case of a fall.

Please make arrange-

ments for a skating

helmet.

Hosted

by: G rade 6

Alergy Alert A reminder to all parents as you

go about packing your child`s

recess and lunch We are an allergy aware school and we

have students with life threat-

ening allergies. Please keep in

mind that we have many aller-gies including peanut/nut, egg, fish, almonds, tree nuts, kiwi,

pineapple, and green peas.

Special points of in-terest:

Remembrance Day

Assembly

Allergy Alert

Environmental News

Scholastic Book Fair

Safety Concern

Christmas performance

dates

Holy Trinity Elementary

HTE NEWS

Teacher Professional Development Day

November/December 1 , 2014

On Friday, November 28th there

were no classes for all students due

to a teacher professional develop-

ment day. Teachers were engaged in

extending their learning about Liter-

acy and Assessment which is out-

lined in the school development plan.

This is our fourth year of our five

year plan. Our plan is centered

around twenty-first century learning

and how we, as educators are chal-

lenged by the ever changing world.

Educators engage in continuous re-

search and learning on how to meet

the needs of the diverse group of

learners in our classrooms. Technol-

ogy is playing a bigger role in both

teaching , learning and assessment.

In October the teachers of HTE met

with Grade level teachers from other

schools in our district to talk about

teaching and learning as they shared

strategies.

This is the third of five Professional

Development days. Your child’s

school year was extended by 5 days

from 190 days to 195 days to allow

time for this very valuable profes-

sional teacher learning.

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Our webpage is updated daily

with information and notices.

Please visit our school web-

site@ www.htes.k12.nf.ca.

Thank you for your patience as

some areas of our web site

have been in transition.

Boys’ Undercover Reading Program

This year, the boys in grades 2 to 6 have been recruited for a

very special top-secret assignment in the library. If you’ve over-

heard boys discussing B.U.R.P- don’t be alarmed, they haven’t

forgotten their table manners - it’s our code name for the Boys’

Undercover Reading Program!

B.U.R.P is a boys-only reading club that takes

place in the library once a cycle. All the boys in

the grade are invited to the library to talk books,

read, talk, and read some more. It is one hour of

not-silent-reading, where boys can share books,

comics, magazines, graphic novels and other guy-

approved literature.

Recent studies in literacy are indicating that there’s a growing gap

between boys and girls when it comes to academic achievement.

This gap is “driven primarily by performance differences in liter-

acy.” To improve these grim statistics our aim is to get more guys

reading! For more information check out http://www.guysread.com/

*Burp! Oh, excuse me! If you have any extra books, magazines, or comics at home

that are in good condition and might be good B.U.R.P material, ex. sports or video

game magazines, spooky stories, information books, or general gross stuff, please

consider donating them to our B.U.R.P reading program. Please contact Ms. Borden

for more details.

Scholastic Book Fair Nov.26th - Dec.3rd A big thank you and merci to our volunteers for setting up and helping run our current Book Fair as

well as our French Book Fair held earlier this Fall. Your help ensures the great success of these

events. Last year`s support for our school book fairs allowed us to purchase 12 new computers for our

library as well as many, many books for our library and classrooms.

KinderStart Program

The first parents’ meeting for the Kinder-

Start program was held on November 5th.

On Monday, December 1st there will be

an open house drop-in session for Kinder-

Start parents and children. Please check your

schedule for your time to visit. During this

time, they will have an opportunity to visit

the kindergarten classrooms, have a tour of

the school and purchase a book at the

Book Fair if they wish.

In January, the Kindergarten children of

September 2015 and their parents will be

participating in the first of six, monthly

sessions to help them prepare for September.

As a result of this program, there will be

no classes for the present kindergarten

children on the following dates:

Monday, December 1st (Open House)

Monday, January 12th, Febru-

ary 2nd, March 2nd, March

30th , May 4th and June 1st

Music notes: Students and teachers are busy practicing

in preparation for upcoming performances.

Please note the following dates:

Mon.,Dec.1st- Gr.6s singing at Torbay Tree Lighting ceremony at

The Kinsmen

Tue.,Dec.2nd - Gr.3s performing at NLTA Christmas Suite at the

Arts and Culture Centre

Thus.,Dec.11th at 7p.m. - Gr.5 Christmas musical “Santa’s Rockin’

Christmas Eve” in our school gym

Tues.,Dec.16th, at 7p.m. - Gr.2 Christmas concert “Getting Ready

for Christmas” in our school gym

**A 50/50 ticket sale/draw will be held at our school concerts in

support of our Christmas Outreach program.

Environmental News:

We would like to thank all our families for their generous donations of winter clothing for the

VOCM Coats for Kids program again this year. Your donations will help keep a child warm this

winter. Way to go HTE! Recycle! Recycle! Recycle!

Did you know that every beverage container you bring to our school helps our school?

Did you know that when you donate your containers MMSB matches the refund so we get double?

Did you know that if you bring your recycling to us, your child has a chance to win an individual prize?

Next Recycling Blitz is Friday, December 5th. We appreciate your support.

Please keep us in mind when donating your Christmas ‘spirits’ recycling. We are able to accept

glass bottles. The first Recycling Blitz of 2015 will be on Fri., January.9th.

Operation Christmas Child

This year we filled 135 gift boxes which will be distributed throughout

the world to children in need. Started as a Grade 1 initiative, this

generous act of giving to others has spread to other grade levels. Next

year we hope to fill many more boxes at all grade levels.

We Play, We Learn

Holy Trinity was abuzz with fantastic games

and activities to celebrate Play and Learn Week. We really showed that learning takes

place wonderfully with fun and laughter!

Lots of ghosts, clowns, super heroes,

princesses and more showed up for

school on Halloween! It was fun day with

class parties and a class visit to the

“Bat Dance”.

Bus Monitors

This Fall a number of Grade 6 volunteers met with Mr. Rudy Singleton of the NL

Safety Council to receive bus monitor training. Thank-you to all our students

who are safe, respectful and

responsible travelers on our buses.

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30 1 Tree Lighting at Town Hall

2 Gr.3 NLTA Christmas Suite at Arts and Culture Centre

3 Last day for Book Fair

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5 Recycling Blitz

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7 **Please bring a non-perishable food item this week for our community food bank. **

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10 11 Gr.5 Christmas Musical @ 7p.m.

12 Last day for food bank donations.

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16 Gr.2 Christmas Concert @ 7p.m.

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19 Last day of school before Christmas holidays. Dismissal at 1:00

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24 Happy Holi-days to all our staff, students and their fami-lies!!

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Classes resume Mon, Jan 5th

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