January 2019

Making a difference for children!

École John Wilson Elementary Enrichir la vie des enfants!

Principal: Angela Warke Vice-Principal: Giselle Meyer4401 52nd ave Innisfail Alberta T4G 1A7 403-227-3292

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A Focus at École John Wilson Elementary

École John Wilson Elementary School believes strongly that we must foster an

environment that promotes health and wellness for our students. This includes a

student’s physical, social and emotional well-being. Our focus on this is accomplished

through many layers of school programming and culture. Student physical fitness and

a focus on healthy social/emotional lifestyles is achieved through a school-wide daily

physical education program, swimming, sport days, etc. As well, direct teaching in

classes, such as Health, provides students with the information to better understand

the variety of ways to achieve healthy lifestyles. We are also proud to share that we

have a group of Grade 4 Leadership students working on promoting healthy active

options for our whole school. Watch for more info on this coming home from them

soon!

Our “Naturally Nurtured” program further reinforces health and wellness for our

students.The Naturally Nurtured program consists of 10 one hour sessions for our

Grade 4 students. This program uses a therapy bunny, to reinforce life skills such as

personal responsibility, healthy relationships and emotional awareness.

Our school's core values are also key in supporting the health and wellness of our students. These core values guide École John Wilson Elementary School in ‘Making a

difference for children!’ Our BIG 5

1. Be Respectful 2. Be Responsible 3. Be Truthful and Trustworthy 4. Be Cooperative 5. Be caring

It is École John Wilson Elementary School’s commitment to our students to continue surrounding them with strong values and programs that support their healthy

physical, social and emotional wellness.

Angela WarkePrincipal

School Council and Canadian Parents for French MeetingsOur School Council meeting is on Tuesday, January 22nd at 6:30pm in the John Wilson staff room and the topic this month is Field Trip allocations

and the upcoming Pizza fundraiser.At 7:30, the Canadian Parents for French (CPF) will have their AGM meeting.

Literacy DayOn January 25th we will be celebrating Literacy Day. Each classroom will be celebrating in their own way. Please watch for information coming home from

your child's teacher.

Catch the SpiritWe are Catching the Spirit for the 2019 Canada Games.

On Monday, January 28th at 11:30 am in Gym 4 we will be having an dynamic presentation about the 2019 Canada Games in Red Deer.

Winter Carnival

On Monday, January 28th at 1 pm, John Wilson Students will participate in our

Winter Carnival. Students will be outside for about an hour and a half,

please make sure your student is dressed for the weather.

Organizational DayThere is no school for students on Thursday, January 31st.Please note that Friday, February 1st restarts as a Day 1.

Supporting health and wellness of our students and staffA message from the Board Chair The new year provides a perfect opportunity to re-energize the many efforts underway in our school division to support the health and well-being of our students, staff and families. Nurturing a positive physical, social and emotional culture in our schools can positively impact student performance and academic achievement, which allows students to reach their potential. We also care very deeply about this priority for our staff, and our Staff Health and Wellness Committee is working to support several initiatives across Chinook’s Edge. We are grateful to the many people whose efforts are supporting these priorities for everyone in our Chinook’s Edge school communities. Doing so will ensure we are all ready to learn and ready to teach in every classroom across our division. On behalf of the entire Board of Education, we wish each of our families a happy and healthy new year. Colleen Butler, ChairChinook’s Edge Board of Education

Ready, Set, Go! Welcome to Online Kindergarten Registration!Chinook’s Edge is accepting Online Kindergarten Registrations for the 2019-2020 school year. This new process will be piloted in our three elementary schools in Sylvan Lake from January 10-20, with general Online Kindergarten Registration for all Chinook’s Edge schools beginning on January 21st. This new process represents years of collaboration and refining across multiple departments in Chinook’s Edge, and we appreciate the interest of parents across our large rural school division who are embracing Online Kindergarten Registration. As always, we invite you to call or drop by your Chinook’s Edge school at any time to find out more about the wonderful opportunities waiting for your child!

Our Pre-Kindergarten is an intervention based program that provides an early learning experience for children ages 3 and 4.

Our program has no fees as it is funded by Alberta Education and Chinook’s Edge School Division.

Our Pre-K offers half-day programming on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Click here to see our Pre-K Brochure

Cosmic Kids Yoga Channel

Need to move? Search “kids exercise channels” on

youtube

Click here to see the Government of Canada Healthy eating page to get lots of information including the Canadian Food Guide, portion

sizes and choosing healthy foods.

January Edition

Mrs Charlton’s suggested Reads

Happy New Year from your Learning Commons team!

We would like to extend a big thanks to our community Christmas readers

who read to our John Wilson students before the break.

Our January theme will be Fairytales and we will be focussing on reviewing

our Library routine.

Elephant Secret by Eric Walters

Snowy Nap by Jan Brett

Celebrating Family Literacy Day at Ecole John Wilson!

January 27th is Family Literacy Day. This is a national initiative that promotes the importance of reading and engaging in literacy related activities as a family. To recognize the importance of this day, we will be celebrating a school wide Family Literacy Day on Friday, January 25th. For more information please visit: ABC Life Literacy Canada.

Literacy is an essential part of our school. We are inviting all students to dress up as their favorite storybook character for the day. Each classroom will be planning their own activities throughout the day so please see class notes for any extra pieces that may be needed (eg. bringing in a copy of your child’s favourite book).

Engaging in literacy activities as family is important and we would like to invite parents/guardians to join your child(ren) for lunch from 12:00 pm-12:30 pm on January 25. You can find a spot in the classroom or in the hallways to eat lunch with your child and read a story together as well. Please bring your lunch and feel free to join in the fun and dress as your favorite storybook character as well! At 12:30pm, our students will be heading outside for recess for some fresh air and play. Thanks for all you do to support the literacy journey in your homes!

For more informationOn Family Literacy Day

click here

Check out our Facebook PageAnd our tab on the John

Wilson Website

Happy New Year to all John Wilson families.

We have a very exciting activity to announce this month, a family summer themed dance! Yay! Please join us wearing your summer dress up costume on Friday January 25, from 6 pm to 8pm in Gym 4. Hope to see many of you there to have some fun in the sunish times. We will need a few parent volunteers to stay and help after for a quick clean up too- please and thank you!

Another upcoming event is our pizza fundraiser- yummy! We will have 5 flavours of pizza to choose from. Watch for these forms coming home at the end of January and pick up pizza dates in March. These fundraisers help out immensely with our student field trips and learning support equipment.

Our next student council meeting is January 22 at 6:30pm. Topics for this meeting are field trip funds allocation and pizza fundraiser. Free child care is provided as always, so please come share your ideas, or say hello! A big thanks to all our parents who have helped out so much already, we can’t do it without you:)

Melissa Dudley, School Council Chair

Hi! I bet you didn't know that Innisfail has a parent support group for French Immersion families!! Welcome to CPF or other wise known as Canadian Parents for French! We are a national network of volunteers which values French as an integral part of Canada and which is dedicated to the promotion and creation of French second language learning opportunities for young Canadians. We will be starting off the year with a meeting to discuss how we plan to move forward with supporting our French families so we'd love for you to come out and voice how we can help you and your family enjoy the French language and Culture! The meeting will be held after the Parent Council Meeting on January 22nd, at 7:30 pm in the school staff room. We'd love to see you there!

Erin Day - CPF president

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John Wilson Website

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1 2 3 4

7 Day 4 8 Day 1 9 Day 2 10 Day 3 11 Day 4

Hot Dog Day

14 Day 1 15 Day 2 16 Day 3 17 Day 4 18 Day 1

Pizza Day

21 Day 2 22 Day 3School Council meeting @ 6:30 pmCanadian Parents for French (CPF) meeting @ 7:30pm

23 Day 4

Subway Day

24 Day 1 25 Day 2Literacy DayHot lunches due by 10am

28 Day 3Catch the Spirit Winter Games Assembly @ 11:30am in Gym 4

29 Day 4

Sunshine Blends lunch

30 Day 1 31No SchoolOrganizationalDay

Winter Break - School resumes on January 7, 2019

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1 Day 1

4 Day 2 5 Day 3Kindergarten &Pre-K orientation6:30pm

6 Day 4Subway Day

7 Day 1 8 CollaborativeDay

11 Day 2Candy Grams

12 Day 3Candy Grams

13 Day 4Candy Grams

14 Day 1Candy Grams

15 Day 2CelebrationAssembly @ 11:15in gym 4Pizza Day

18 19 20 21 22

25 Day 3100 Day

26 Day 4Sunshine Blends lunchSchool CouncilMeeting 6:30pm

27 Day 1 28

Winter Break February 18-22