Volume 7

March 2019

Lord Kitchener Elementary School 3455 West King Edward Avenue Vancouver, BC V6S 0C7

Tel: 604-713-5454 Fax: 604-713-5457

http://go.vsb.bc.ca/schools/kitchener

The students and staff of Lord Kitchener school acknowledge that we live, learn and work on the

traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Coast Salish peoples.

A Musqueam

Welcome

Lunar New Year

Thanks to Janet Chung and Alycia Blair and Division 3 students, our celebration to welcome in the

Year of the Pig on Monday, February 11th was an amazing event. With the participation of Student

Celebration Dancers, Parent Dancers, the Vancouver Chinese Lion Dance and the students of Lord

Kitchener, the program was full of cultural singing, dancing and music.

604-713-5159 and press “43”

SAFE ARRIVAL PHONE LINE

If you child is going to be late or absent from school please call the phone line before 9:00am.

Record student’s name, division # and reason for absence.

Thanks for helping keep our children safe!

Communicating Student Learning

Conferences are scheduled for Wednesday, March 6th and Thursday, March 7th. Appointments can be booked

online at www.schoolinterviews.com using the code pnnpx. All students will be dismissed at 2:00 pm on both March 6th and 7th.

Division 12 and 15 will have reports sent home before Spring Break. Final reports for all classes will be issued in June.

New Staff

Please welcome Ms. Carrie Baker who has taken over for Ms. Shields and will be teaching Division 9 for the rest of the year.

New School Website

Check out the new Lord Kitchener Elementary website at http://www.vsb.bc.ca/schools/lord-kitchener . The site goes live today, Friday, March 1st.

VSB Trustee visits Lord Kitchener

Oliver Hanson, the VSB Trustee for Lord Kitchener, came to visit the school last week to check out the Grade 4 Heritage Fair, and have a tour with student hosts.

Oliver @OliverHanson

Thank you to @DebraNothstein and the grade 4 students of Lord Kitchener Elementary for inviting me to your Heritage Fair and for giving me a tour of your wonderful school. @lordkit39 @KitchenerPAC

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March 2019 PAC News

PAC News

There will be NO PAC meeting for March. The next PAC meeting will be April 16th, 7pm.

The Kitchener PAC website has been updated with current events and information on volunteer opportunities. Please take a moment to visit the website and fill out the Online Survey. WWW.KITCHENERSCHOOLPAC.COM

Have a wonderful Spring Break!

Sincerely,

Lord Kitchener PAC

Please fill out the Volunteer Survey: http://kitchenerschoolpac.com/volunteer-survey/

PAC Inspiration Award

We want to be inspired! Attention all families with graduating (Grade 12) Kitchener Alumni! Tell us about

your involvement in your school and community and how you would inspire our Grade 7 grads for a chance to

win the $500 award.

The Inspiration Award details and application are available online

at www.tinyurl.com/2019inspiration. Deadline is May 17, 2019. Apply online or email Julia

at bonnett@telus.net for more details.

Volunteer Survey – Lord

Kitchener School Pac

Hello from your PAC! We realize that not

everyone has time to come to the PAC

meetings but you may still want to

participate in some PAC initiatives around

Lord Kitchener.

Pink Shirt Day—February 27th

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Dancepl3y

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Heritage Fair 2019 - Divisions 9 and 10

Eagle Wing community took part in the Heritage Fair on Wednesday February 20, 2019. They worked very hard to research an important Canadian person or event. Congratulations and great job to Divisions 9 and 10!

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Contact Information

Principal: Debra Nothstein 604-713-5454

Vice-Principal: Angela Stewart 604-713-5454

Administrative Assistant:

Extra Clerical:

Kim Roe

Dawn Lincoln

604-713-5454

604-713-5454

Director of Instruction: Richard Zerbe 604-713-5097

VSB Trustee Liaison Oliver Hanson 604-713-5000

Track and Field

Wow! I cannot believe it is already close to track and field season! Practices will begin immediately after the March break as we have a fantastic meet (V.O.C. Meet) shortly after we return (information about the meet will be handed out prior to the holiday as entries need to be in by the end of the first week of April). Track is open to everyone from grade 3 to 7. Senior practices (grade 6 and 7) will be on Mondays and Wednesdays at 8 am and will begin Monday, April 1st (no joke). Junior practices (grade 3, 4 and 5) will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 am and will begin on April 2nd. High jump practices (grade 4 to 7) will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch in the gym and the first practice will be on April 2nd. On Fridays there will be an additional practice at Balaclava Park at 8 am for hurdles, discus as well as a number of other track and field events.

Permission forms will be distributed as soon as the Zone 1 track and field meet dates are set. Please contact me (Ms. Wilson-Haffenden) if you have any questions or if you would like to help at one or more of practices. Ashley Horlock can also be contacted for additional information.

Thank you to Ashley Horlock and Patty Yeterian who have both already offered to help with practices.

Ms. Wilson-Haffenden

Swim Team

It has been an absolute pleasure working with the second ever Lord Kitchener Swim Team. Every member of the team should be very proud of her or his progress. I certainly have been amazed with the improvement in the swimming skills by every member of the team. Our last practice was on February 21st but many members of the team have decided to continue their training with PSA. I am super excited to hear this news. Best wishes with your continued training.

Once again thank you to the many parents, Anna and Cam Nelson, Natalie Walshaw, Albert Ho and Courtney Tang, who assisted with paperwork and coordinating team member entries as well as helping at our local three meets. Huge thank you to the coaching expertise of Phil and Jennifer from PSA.

It was a wonderful swim season and hopefully the team will continue to develop and increase in size next year.

Ms. Wilson-Haffenden

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Basketball

It has been an incredibly exciting and fun basketball season. The teams have played five weeks of VSB league games against Zone 1 teams and many more weeks of practices. The senior teams have just begun their competitive single elimination tournament and I am sure that both teams will do tremendously well.

The players have demonstrated terrific growth in their skills and game knowledge. They have worked hard in their practices and have been enthusiastic and cheerful. All four teams have also shown very good sportsmanship and cooperation even in some challenging and close game situations.

A huge thank you to the parents and Ms. Schouten who have assisted with coaching. It has been great having your help and expertise.

Jr. Girls' Team - Gillian Wilson-Haffenden and Alicia Schouten

Jr. Boys' Team - Gillian Wilson-Haffenden and Sev Yeterian

Sr. Girls' Team - Gillian Wilson-Haffenden

Sr. Boys' Team - Cam Nelson, Wendy Epp and Gillian Wilson-Haffenden

Ms. Wilson-Haffenden

Competitive Badminton Team

Lord Kitchener will once again be participating in the inter school competitive badminton league and tournament. This will be our fourth year participating and it has been an amazing amount of fun and the Lord Kitchener athletes have demonstrated some amazing badminton skills. The team is open to grade 6 and 7 students but any students in grade 5 who are really interested should speak to me (Ms. Wilson-Haffenden). We will begin practices after the March break and we will hold one or two weekly lunch hour practices (most likely Monday and Wednesday). Games will be after school on Thursdays throughout April and the final tournament will be at the end of April or beginning of May (depends on which pool of teams we are with as to the exact day and time).

Unfortunately we will only limited number of player entries but if you are interested please speak to me and I will do my best to include everyone interested.

Ms. Wilson-Haffenden

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APRIL 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 -Gymnastics starts -PAC Hot Lunch

2 -Gymnastics -Earthbites Div. 14,13,12

3 -Gymnastics

4 -Gymnastics

5 -Gymnastics -PAC Hot Lunch

6

7 8 -Gymnastics -PAC Hot Lunch

9 -Gymnastics -Earthbites Div. 8,5,7

10 -Gymnastics

11 -Gymnastics

12 -Gymnastics

-PAC Hot Lunch –Fire Safety House Div. 11,12,13 -Author Visit Gr 6/7

13

14 15 -PAC Hot Lunch –Author Visit Gr 4/5

16 -Earthbites Div. 4,1,3 -PAC Meeting @ 7pm in the library

17 -Mathematica

Centrum Test 9-11am -Pizza Day -Spirit Day

“Famous Person”

18 19 Good Friday

NO SCHOOL

20

21 22 Easter Monday

NO SCHOOL

23 -Earthbites Div. 11,9,6

24 25 26 27

28 29 PRO D DAY

NO SCHOOL

30 -Earthbites Div. 10,2,3 -Earthbites Market

MARCH 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

3 4 -PAC Hot Lunch -Gr 7s Curling -Project Opera Div. 9 & 10

5 -Earthbites Div. 17,15,16

6 -Class Photos -Pizza Day -Early Dismissal 2:00pm Student Conferences

7 -Early Dismissal 2:00pm Student Conferences

8 -PAC Hot Lunch -Me to We “We Are Silent” -Div.15 Richmond Art Gallery

9

10 Daylight Savings -Clocks spring forward 1 hour

11 -PAC Hot Lunch

12 -Spirit Day “Look Alike” -Earthbites Div. 19, 18

13 -Div. 18/19

Carousel Theatre –Div. 11 VAG -Byng Jazz Band @ Kitchener

14

15 -PAC Hot Lunch -Last Day of school before spring break

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17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25

26 27 28 29 30

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

GR 6 Sea to Sky Outdoor School