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Springfield Heights School
505 Sharron Bay
Winnipeg, MB R2G 0H8
P. 204-663-5078
F. 204-668-9285
www.sh.retsd.mb.ca
Principal
Mario Beauchamp
Vice-Principal
Scott Lysack
Parent Advisory Council
President
Robert Werbowesky
Email: [email protected]
SHS Lunch Program
Karen Netzel
Email:
Skipper Scholars (Before
and After School Program)
P. 204-661-8004
Transportation Department
P. 204-669-0202
River East Transcona
School Division
589 Roch Street
Winnipeg, MB R2K 2P7
P. 204-667-7130
F. 204-661-5618
www.retsd.mb.ca
More than half of Springfield Heights School families are
already receiving the newsletter via email.
If you are still receiv-
ing paper copies of the newsletter and are in-terested in receiving it by e-mail, please let us
know by calling the school or sending a note to school with
your child indicating your e-mail address.
Farewell Assemblies As it is already the month of May, our farewell assemblies are
fast approaching. This year, with the departure of both our
grade 5 students and 6 students, our assemblies will look
slightly different. Our farewell assemblies will take place on
June 26th. The grade 5 farewell will be from approximately 9:15 am to 10:20 am. After the
grade 5 farewell, there will be a brief intermission in preparation for our grade 6 farewell
that will begin at approximately 10:25 am and end at approximately 11:30. Parents and fami-
lies of grade 5 students are encouraged to stay for our grade 6 farewell. After the farewell
assemblies, if parents would like to take their child out for lunch, we ask that you please sign
them out in the office before leaving the school. Following our lunch hour on June 26th, we
will also have a combined grade 5 and 6 farewell dance in our school gym.
Spring is finally here! It is wonderful having longer days. However, this change in season makes it
at times difficult for students to remain focused on their class work and homework. Students will
need encouragement and support to manage their time in order to strike that important balance
between family, activities and school.
Please remember to register your child for Kindergarten if you have not already done so. Our
Kindergarten Stay & Play is May 29th at 6:00 p.m. Please register by calling the school office at
204-663-5078.
We have already started planning for the 2014-
2015 school year. Please let us know immedi-
ately if your child will not be attending Spring-
field Heights School in September 2014.
On June 2nd at1:00 pm we will be honouring those
individuals who have volunteered at Springfield Heights
School over the school year. Invitations will be sent out
and we are looking forward to our volunteers joining
us. If you have volunteered, and do not receive your
invitation by May 26th, please contact the school.
Mario Beauchamp/Principal Scott Lysack/Vice Principal
Message from Administration...
P A G E 2
2014 Dates
For current information about SHS, important
dates, announcements, contact info, helpful
links, forms, etc. Please visit the Springfield Heights School Web
Page located at: http://
schools.retsd.mb.ca/shs/Pages/
Welcome.aspx
Board of Trustees 2013-14
Name Ward Email address Phone Colleen Carswell 1 [email protected] 204-222-1486 George Marshall 1 [email protected] 204-221-8464 John Toews 2 [email protected] 204-663-0475 Robert Fraser 3 [email protected] 204-667 9348 Eva Prysizney 4 [email protected] 204-668-3501 Wayne Ritcher (Vice-chair) 4 [email protected] 204-663-6669 Peter Kotyk (Chair) 5 [email protected] 204-668-4181 Shirley Timm-Rudolph 5 [email protected] 204-414-8239 Greg Proch 6 [email protected] 204-663-1925
May
13 PAC Meeting 6:30pm
14 Early Dismissal 2:45pm
16 Rooftop Photo 9:00am
19 Victoria Day - No School
21 Folk Dance Festival Gr. 1-3
21 & 22 Gr. 5/6 Spring Musical
29 K Stay & Play, 6:00pm
June
13 Sports Day
20 Sports Day Rain Date
26 Farewell Assembly: Gr. 5 at 9:15am, Gr. 6 at 10:25am
27 Last Day of Classes: Year End Assembly 9:30am
Early Dismissal 2:30pm
SHS is looking for a new
volunteer to take over or-
ganizing the Milk Program. If
you are interested please
contact the school!
SHS Lunch Program is Changing
2014-2015 Fees
Recently, the Springfield Heights School Lunch Program
Committee (SHSLPC) met to discuss the changing struc-
ture of the school (based on the grade 6 move to middle
years and provincial rules regarding class size). Overall, the
number of classrooms we must supervise is not changing,
but we will have fewer students.
As parents of these students ourselves, we feel that it is
best to maintain the ratio of supervisors to classrooms.
We must also balance this against the reduced number of
students & families that pay into the program.
Therefore, the committee decided to raise fees for the
2014/2015 year to $160/student (capping out at $320/
family).
Our next meeting is on June 10th at 5:30pm in
the school library.
Mike Fuellbrandt
SHSLPC Chair
If you have any questions, please email me at:
Help keep Lunch Pro-
gram costs down. Please remember to pack your child a fork or spoon!
North Kildonan Community
Centre AGM
Thursday, May 29th at 7pm
NKCC!
est Mussorgsky and Mau-
rice Ravel's "Pictures at an
Exhibition". Thank you to
SHS's parent council who
made this trip possible!
Mme Courtney & Mme
Finlay
The Grade 4 Choir had an
“Adventure in Music” on
April 23 where they had
the chance to experience
the Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra for themselves
and the theme "Raiders of
the Lost Art". After four
months of preparing, listen-
ing and creating, the stu-
dents from Monsieur
Morier, Mme Jorgensen,
Pani Nazerevich and Mrs.
Marsh's classes watched
the story of Manitoba Jones
on his crusade to find some
robbers who were stealing
Victor Hartman's artwork
through the music of Mod-
P A G E 3
Adventure in Music
The Grade 5 & 6 as well as 4/5 combined class are putting on a huge show this May! Please save the date for
their Spring Musical "Peter Pan"
French Immersion classes (Rooms 26, 30 & 31): Wednesday, May 21 @ 10:30am (School Performance), 1:00
pm Matinee & 6:30 Evening Performance!
Eng/Uk classes (Rooms 25, 27, 28, 32): Thursday, May 22 @ 10:30am (School Performance), 1:00 pm Matinee &
6:30 Evening Performance!
No tickets sales, just a Silver Collection at the door! See you all then!
Peter Pan is Coming to SHS!
"When we got into the building, it was
very fancy! There were 3 chandeliers and
lots of portal doors! It was so fun listening
to the symphony play their music!"
"We heard “Raiders of the Lost Art”. There
were huge drums and small piccolos. There
were tons of school. We got to see their art
work! There were many songs that we knew
because we played them in class.”
“Thank you Mme. Courtney and Mme. Finlay!”
Boys from Mme Jorgensen and M. Morier's
classes waiting for the show to start!
Katie (Rm. 12)
Grace
(Rm. 12)
P A G E 4
SHS Celebrates Taras Shevchenko’s 200th Birthday
United Way Week of Caring The week before leaving
for Spring Break was a busy
one at Springfield Heights
School. We raised money
and collected toiletries for
the United Way. On Mon-
day, it was Hat Day (boy
there were some crazy
hats) and on Wednesday, it
was Winnipeg Jets Day (the
participation was awe-
some). Throughout the
week, we also collected
soap, shampoo, condition-
er, lotion and a variety of
other toiletry products for
R.A. Y. (Resource Assis-
tance for Youth), a youth
outreach program for chil-
dren and young adults in
the inner city of Winnipeg.
They were very grateful for
our donation. On Thurs-
day, we had a special visit
from Mario and Luigi. We
had reached and surpassed
our fundraising goal. We
raised over $450! Way to
go Springfield Heights, we
sure are a caring school.
What a great place to be!
Thank you to everyone who
participated and supported
the United Way!
From March 17 to March 24 our school celebrated Taras Shevchenko’s 200th birthday. Taras Shevchenko was a man of uni-
versal talent. All his life and creative work were dedicated to the people of Ukraine. The poet dreamed about the times when
his country would be independent and free, where the Ukrainian language, culture, and history would be highly valued, and
the people would be happy and free.
That week we did announcements for contests, such as answering questions, wearing sashes and blue and yellow colours and
winning prizes. On Friday, we had three different centres; the first was where we wrote some of Taras Shevchenko’s quotes
on a piece of paper using ink and a quill, the
second was where we made old Ukrainian
houses, and the third was where we sang
‘Sadok Vyshneviy’ and ‘Zapovit’ courtesy of
Pani Loughren. At the end, to conclude our
celebration, we sang “Mnohaya Lita” and ate
delicious cake.
It was a great week!
-Panni Cap Gr. 5 & 6 Class
English Ukrainian Bilingual Students Celebrate Easter
P A G E 5
On Thursday, April 24th all the EUBP students in our school division cele-
brated our annual Easter Breakfast. This included the students of Ber-
nie Wolfe School and Chief Peguis Junior High. Under the direction of Pani
Loughren, our SHS grade 1-4 students began the morning's performance
with a traditional Ukrainian welcome dance, called the Pryvit. This was
followed by a beautiful Easter hymn, sung by all the students from Kinder-
garten to grade 6. The song also featured the grade 5 and 6 students on
bells and recorder, along with a harmonized duet by Nadia C. and Sophia Z.
We were honored to be performing for invited guests of the school divi-
sion and the community. RETSD Superintendent, Mr. Kelly Barkman, had
some kind words for our students and teachers. He also reinforced "fair-
play" as we proceeded to our annual Tsokanya tournament. This is an East-
er tradition where two boiled eggs are tapped together by multiple pairs of
opponents. The winner is the one left standing in the end with no crack on
their egg, and ready to take on the challenge the following year. The weeks
leading up to the Easter Breakfast, Pani Cap, Pani Drepko, Pani Nazarevich and Pani Sokulski worked with the students so that
they could create their own decorated Easter eggs, otherwise known as Pysanky. We were pleased to have Father Greg Zubacz
bless our decorated eggs and delicious food, which was generously prepared by our Ukrainian Parents Council. A special thanks
goes out to our supportive parents, not only for the their time in the kitchen, but also for beautifully decorating the gym. As
one student in first grade put it, "It looked like the Royal Wedding!" An enjoyable time was had by all.
-Mrs. M. Loughren Gr. 1 & 2 EUBP teacher
P A G E 6
EUBP Students Celebrate 200 Years Since the Birth of Taras Shevchenko
EUBP PAC News... The River East Transcona
EUBP Parents' Committee
recently completed another
successful kovbasa fundrais-
er. This and other fund-
raising events such as our
Family Fun Night (held in
February) ensure ongoing
support for Ukrainian cul-
tural activities and events
for our EUBP students. In
April the EUBP students
participated in pysanky
workshops (Easter egg
writing/dyeing) and per-
formed for invited guest
from our community at our
annual Ukrainian Easter
Breakfast. At this time we
would like to thank our
many sponsors from the
community, as well as our
parent volunteers for sup-
porting these wonderful
cultural events. We would
also like to acknowledge
the hard work and continu-
ous support of our SHS and
CP administration and
EUBP teachers.
-SHS EUBP PAC
Manitoba Legislative grounds to mark the 70th
anniversary of the Ukrainian community in Can-
ada.
In recognition and celebration of 200 years
since Shevchenko’s birth, MPUE is leading an art
project that is spanning all grade levels through-
out the 12 English Ukrainian Bilingual Program
(EUBP) schools in Manitoba. Students will work
under the guidance of 5 commissioned artists to
collaborate and create a child’s interpretation of
Taras Shevchenko’s significant contributions to
Ukrainian cultural identity. The final product will
be 6 murals which will be 4 feet wide and 8 feet
in height. The individual art work will be com-
bined into fabric panels that will be displayed at
such places as: the Osvita Foundation Banquet,
Dauphin Festival, Kyiv Pavilion at Folklorama,
the Legislative Building and other Manitoba ven-
Our EUBP students are pleased to
work on a very important art project
for the Ukrainian community. The
project is called, “The Significance of
Taras Shevchenko”. Manitoba Parents
for Ukrainian Education (MPUE) is
our non-profit parents organization
who has organized this project for all
the EUBP schools in the province.
Taras Shevchenko (March 9 1814 –
March 10 1861) was a Ukrainian poet,
writer, artist, public and political fig-
ure, as well as folklorist and ethnog-
rapher.
Shevchenko is an honoured individu-
al in Winnipeg. In 1961 a statue of
Taras Shevchenko was erected on the
ues. The murals may also travel along with the
Ukrainian Canadian Congress Heritage Exhibit
to each of the EUBP schools and school board
sites over the 2014 – 2015 school year.
The art work we have seen so far will make all
our students, families, educational and cultural
community proud. They will be eye-catching
and meaningful and with the large size will be
extremely impressive. MPUE is excited to pre-
sent the grand opening of the Taras Shevchenko
panels to the community at the Osvita Banquet
on Wednesday, June 4th at Canad Inn Polo
Park. Keep a look out for the results of this exciting
project and opportunity for our students.
-EUBP PAC
List of Upcoming EUBP Events:
April 30 – May 2: Grade 6 Language camp
May 8 – May 11: Venture to Vegreville, CP students
May 22: Grade 4 Field Trip to Leo Mol Garden
May 25: EUBP Year End Celebration and Graduation at Dear
Meadow Farms, 6:30 – 10:00 pm. Ticket orders forms will be
sent home with students and are due Thursday May 15th
June 4: Osvita Banquet and Taras Shevchenko 200th Anniver-
sary EUBP Murals Unveiled and students from SHS performing
June 25: EUBP Supporter Awards,1:00pm at SHS
EUBP Easter Breakfast Sponsors: Burnbrae Farms
Interlake Packers
Parents of the English Ukrainian Bilingual Program (EUBP)
Sobey's - Bird's Hill
St. Anne Knights of Columbus Council We also gratefully acknowledge the continued EUBP support
of the following organizations:
Carpathia Credit Union
Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education (MPUE)
The Osvita Foundation
St. Boniface Ukrainian Foundation
P A G E 7
On April 24th, students from the RETSD gathered at Springfield Heights School for MYRCA Battle of the Books.
MYRCA is the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards. Every year books are chosen for MYRCA. Children read the
books and vote for the one they like the most.
This year, the schools that participated in the MYRCA Battle of the Books were: Springfield Heights, John de
Graff, Bernie Wolfe, Donwood Elementary, Salisbury Morse Place, Neil Campbell, Hampstead, Dr. Hamilton, and
John Henderson Junior High.
When all the schools arrived teams were sorted into groups. Two groups participated in workshops which were
Storytelling and Making an Animoto video. The other two groups did Battle of the Books. The Battle of the Books
is when you compete against other teams and try to answer questions and get the most points to win. If you get a
question right, you get 10 points. If you get a question wrong, then you lose 5 points. Our team got the best score of
the day with 460 points.
When we started setting up, it took about a little more than half a day. We moved things around, placed chairs,
moved tables, etc. because we had 97 students participating. The next day we set up the laptops, and used a site
called padlet.com. It lets you post comments on a wall. We had one laptop for each book. Here are some examples
of students’ comments:
Ungifted:
“It was a really good book; it had an interesting plot and characters. It kept me interested throughout the
entire story.”
“Awesome book I like how each chapter is from a different person’s perspective.”
-Riker and Nathan
Guilty:
“Adrenaline was running through my blood when I read it. I couldn’t stop. It was amazing but also sad.”
The ending was so surprising! I cried at the end.”
-Riker and Nathan
“I have now participated in Battle of the Books for two years. I have always liked Battle of the Books because in
order to get most of the questions you would have had to read the books. This year my team got first place! And
the best score in Battle of the Books 2014. I really liked the Animoto workshop. It was nice to be able to make
our own trailers for the books we liked. My trailer was on Ungifted, by Gordon Korman. It’s pretty cool. Also the
storytelling workshop was interesting too. Jamie Oliviero was very good at telling us about different stories. I also
met someone new from John de Graff and I liked discussing the books with him. Overall I have always liked Battle
of the Books, and I will participate at John Henderson.”
“This has been my second year participating in Battle of the Books. This year there was very good books, but my
favorite was the book, Guilty. Last year my team got first place so I really wanted to win this year too! In the
morning we finished setting up, and students from other schools started to walk into the library. I started to get
very excited. I also saw my older sister and my neighbour/friend. In the morning they needed extra help so I stayed
back and helped instead of doing the workshops. I had to sort out questions and give them to the reader. I think
that was more nerve-racking than answering questions in the Battle of the Books. She read the questions really fast
and there were some questions the teams didn’t read so I could only give them the questions of the books they
read. It was stressful but I’m glad I helped. When I finished I had only about ten minutes to work on my Animoto
video so I didn’t get to finish it but, I can finish it on my own time. After lunch my team did the Battle of the Books
and we won! I was so happy. I enjoyed Battle of the Books a lot, and I’m definitely going to participate next year.”
Riker Nathan
MYRCA Battle of the Books
MYRCA Battle of the Books Photos
P A G E 8
19 students were eligible to vote for their favourite book. Springfield Heights
voted for Crush. Candy. Corpse and Guilty with 4 votes each. Ungifted
and Making Bombs for Hitler are also tied in 2nd place with 3 votes each.
The MYRCA Award provincial winner is Making Bombs for Hitler by
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and 2014 MYRCA Honour Books are Ungifted, by
Gordon Korman and Small Medium at Large, by Joanne Levy
Here are MYRCA Award 2015 Nominees:
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest – Charles de Lint
The Hidden Agenda of Sigrid Sugden – Jill MacLean
Home Ice Advantage – Tom Earle
Loki’s Wolves – K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr
The Metro Dogs of Moscow – Rachelle Delaney
Morven and the Horse Clan – Luanne Armstrong
The Oathbreaker’s Shadow – Amy McCulloch
The Phantom’s Gold – Eric Murphy
Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff – Robert Paul
Weston
Red River Stallion – Troon Harrison
Running Scared – Beverley Terrell – Deutsch
Sabotage – Karen Autio
Scare Scape – Sam Fisher
The Spotted Dog Last Seen – Jessica Scott Kerrin
Ultra – David Carroll
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B – Teresa Toten
Urgle – Meaghan McIsaac
Whatever Doesn’t Kill You – Elizabeth Wennick
*You can start reading and get ahead of the game for next year!
MYRCA Book Club
French Books Clubs
Christian from room 28 won for the
month of April. May is the last draw of
the year.
Book Fair Thank you to everyone who supported
the SHS Book Fair. The Book Fair was a
great success with a total of $6460.69
in sales. Which gives our school library
a total of $ 1566.75 in books and
$1319.58 in cash. The overall total for
the library was $2886.33.
The Family Draw winner was Megan
from Room 11. Congratulations Meagan
who won $25 and $25 for her class
(Room 11) to purchase new books from
the bookfair.
P A G E 9
Surfer les matins avec Skipper! On Feb. 26th, Action Media came to Springfield Heights to explain how a radio
show is planned. We made a list of the possible elements that could be part of a
good show and technical vocabulary. On that half day planning, we also finished by
doing our detailed plan (feuille de route) about who does what, in what order and
how long the intervention (speaking parts). After a half day of
planning we had two weeks to write our text, choose, and intro-
duce a song. Our teachers and M. Dupuis helped us with the texts
and practicing our oral skills. We did a run-through before going
on air March 19 at the Envol 91FM radio station. 26 students from
our three grades 5 and 6 classes had the opportunity of using
French outside the classroom with an authentic audience of our
parents, grandparents, friends, and other listeners. Our show was
called Surfer les matins avec Skipper! Skipper is a dolphin
and our school mascot. The show was on the air for an hour on
March 19 (because it was taped live). Some of our friends choose
to do the news, present sports, tell jokes, do a movie review of
Frozen, present a biography of Katy Perry,
etc. We even had students doing the horoscopes and gossip. Our hosts were Robyn and Gwyn. We were very
nervous. Some of us had been at the radio station before as part of M. Dupuis Saturday morning show present-
ing biographies of singers or groups.
_________
Notre expérience d’aller au radio est très amusante! Il y a 26 élèves qui ont participé à la radio sco-
laire. On a 14 différentes catégories de collaborateurs. Mon amie, Gwyn était une des animatrices.
Moi, Cassandra, j’ai fait les palmarès de musique. On a parlé dans les GROS microphones! Les mi-
crophones sont dans un petit studio avec beaucoup d’ordinateurs. Une des femmes qui est là, Mme
Sandra Poirier de Action Media et M. Dupuis nous ont aidés à pratiquer nos lignes avant qu’on parle
au micro.
-Gwyn and Cassandra
Je suis une des animatrices avec mon ami Robyn. On
est dans le studio tous le temps qu’on est sur les
ondes. La partie la plus amusante est l’intro parce que
je parle de tous les collaborateurs qui sont venu aussi
pour parler. J’étais vraiment nerveuse au commence-
ment mais après j’étais plus relaxe. Quand moi et Ro-
byn ont écrit les lignes ont riaient beaucoup mais après
qu’on a pratiqué, on était plus sérieuses. J’ai eu une
très bonne expérience et c’était vraiment amusant.
Alors j’aime allé à la radio et je veux le faire une autre fois.
-Gwyn
Mon partenaire Avery et moi ont fait les palmarès de musique! Nous
sommes allé à Envol 91FM dans un autobus. Quand on est arrivé à
l’édifice ça ne regarde pas comment j’avais pensé qu’il allait être. Il
avait d’air comme un édifice normal à l’extérieur mais à l’intérieur, il
ressemblait comme un vrai studio de radio! Les GROS microphones
étaient vraiment cool! Mon expérience de la radio scolaire était vrai-
ment amusante! Je veux avoir une autre chance à parler à la radio!
-Cassandra
P A G E 1 0
Committee's only fundraiser
and returns more than $2,500
that can go towards cultural
activity support. On May 28,
2014 the gym will be turned
into a temporary greenhouse
with almost 2000 plants being
delivered and distributed.
-SHS FI PAC
Spring is just around the corner
and thoughts are turning to
warmer weather and blooming
flowers. This year has been
another successful plant
sale. The families and friends of
students in the French Immer-
sion Program ordered over
$10,000 worth of plants from
Glenlea Greenhouse. This is
the French Immersion Parent
Family Fiesta Evening
French Immersion PAC
The English program just celebrated its’ “Family
Fiesta” Evening. Tasty Food! Awesome Entertain-
ment! Fun Crafts and Activities! A great time was
had by all!
A HUGE THANK YOU to…
The EPC members: Alicia Loewen, Carrie Rob-
ertson, Christy Stadnick. Corinna Ducharme,
Heather Kulyk, Jen Sims, Susana Rohleder and
Zoe Wanless for organizing such an exciting
event!
To Mr. Lewicki’s Grade 5/6 Class & Mrs.
Sherby’s Grade 2/3 Class for making the Festive
Piñatas
To Ms. Slota’s Grade 5/6 Class for all of the
beautifully colored Suns
To Mrs. Sherby’s Grade 2/3 Class for their
Presentation “Travel Mexico Video”
To all of the students who volunteered that
evening, you make these events possible!
-SHS English PAC
Concours d’Art Oratoire Students in Ms. Slota’s Grade 4 class, Mme Jorgensen’s Grade 4 class, M. Gydé’s, Mme Gutierrez’s and Mme Fontaine’s Grade 5 and 6 classes participated in the Concours d’Art Ora-toire which is French Language Public Speaking Competition. The RETSD Concours d’Art Oratoire was on April 15th at Col-lege Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau. Congratulations to all participating students for their excel-lent effort and achievement. Judges were very impressed with the level of language skill on display. Students did a great job representing SHS!
Classes are organized to support learning and teaching and staff teams strive to create classes that are heterogeneous and balanced in all respects. In building class lists, the following factors are all considered: our knowledge of social interactions and dynamics between individual students and groups of students, including friend-
ships student performance student-teacher match placement of students new to Springfield Heights School male-female ratio Balanced class sizes at any grade level or in any program relevant parental information As we move into the 2014-2015 class formation process, please take note that requests to place students in a particular class are seldom based solely on the desire to have a student placed with a particular friend or group or with a particular teacher. Once class placements have been made, it is seldom the case that we move students out of a particular class based solely on the observation that “all my friends are in the other room”. While a requested class placement may result from a parental request, there is no guarantee that this will be the case. These requests must include an educational rationale for the request and are due to M. Beauchamp in writing prior to May 9th, 2014.
Class Formation for the 2014-2015 School Year
P A G E 1 1
Reading Tips Remember to make reading and writing fun. It can be as simple as:
reading a book to or with your child
pointing out street signs
reading different labels in the grocery store
reading a cookbook and making something together
writing with sidewalk chalk
making a homemade memory game using common words and
playing together
keeping a journal or writing a story together
playing scrabble
a trip to the Library is also a great way to find new books to
enjoy
~Literacy Team
Rooftop Photo
The rooftop photo will be taken on
May 16th at 9:00 a.m. Order forms
will be sent home and need to be re-
turned by photo day.
Students in the afternoon Kindergar-
ten class are invited to join us if they
would like to be in the photo. If you
would like your afternoon Kindergar-
ten child to be included in our rooftop
photo, please accompany your child
to school on May 16th (weather per-
mitting) at approximately 8:45 a.m.
and they can be in the picture. The
photo is taken at the south side of the
school.
K-kids News...
On Friday, April 11th some of the K-kids went
to a food bank at Holy Redeemer church.
When we arrived Betty welcomed us. I started
helping by sorting bags into groups. Others
were working on bagging and sorting foods,
candies, etc. Then I put on a pair of gloves and
started bagging turnips and red onions. When
we were finished, we were rewarded with
chips and drinks. It was so much fun and it felt
great to help people less fortunate than our-
selves.
Nathan
K-kids lending a hand at Holy Redeemer Church
Battery Box Hey, if you have dead batteries the perfect way to
get rid of them is to recycle them! All you have to
do is bring them to SHS. Just bring them to the bat-
tery box.
The Battery box is in the library where the laptops
are.
SHS will save the environment!!!
-K-kids
P A G E 1 2
Spring Reminders BICYCLES
Students in grades 4-6 are permitted to ride bicycles to school. Students who use their bicycles must walk them on the
playground, park them at the bicycle rack and lock them for security purposes. The wearing of bicycle helmets is
required. Students riding bicycles to school must handle them responsibly, complying with the rules of bike safety.
For example:
Bikers must walk their bikes through patrol crosswalks.
Bikers must not ride double near any area of the school that is monitored by our patrols.
Bikers must not ride on school property when school is on.
Students will be reminded to follow the safety rules. However, should negligence persist where the safety of others is at
jeopardy, they will be asked to leave their bikes at home.
Please take note: The school or Division cannot take responsibility for damage and/or theft of bicycles even though they
are left on school property.
SORRY – NO SKATEBOARDS
According to the Highway Traffic Act/City Bylaw skateboards are not permitted on streets, sidewalks and public places.
Therefore, students should leave all skateboards at home. As well, the school does not have sufficient space to store
such items.
ROLLERBLADES
Students wishing to rollerblade to school are reminded to use sidewalks, follow all safety rules at road crossings and
change to regular footwear when on the school ground. Rollerblades must be kept in a school bag for the day and are
not to be used on school property.
SHOES
Students are required to have 2 pairs of shoes (1 for outdoors and 1 for indoors - physical education classes). Please do
not send your children to school with flip flops/crocs.
SCHOOL ATTIRE
Warmer weather brings with it the need to remind our students of the dress code for this time of the year. The school
dress code, which can be found in the Parent-Student Handbook, reads as follows: Clothing bearing inappropriate lan-
guage or illustrations is not acceptable. Students cannot wear crop tops, short shorts, spaghetti straps, muscle shirts or
any other equally revealing items. While sleeveless shirts may be worn, the top of the shoulder must be covered (two
finger widths is a good gauge). Upon entering the school, headgear (i.e. hats, bandanas, toques, etc.) should be removed.
Thank you for helping us to provide the best learning environment for our students.
River East French Exposure Nursery School
The River East French Exposure Nursery School, located in Joseph Teres School at 131 Sanford
Fleming Rd., is still accepting registration for the upcoming 2014-2015
school year. We have an exceptional program that is offered to 3 and 4
year olds. Limited space is available.
For more information please:
Check out our website: www.refens.com
Contact: email: [email protected]
Phone: Kristy@ 204-612-6896
