Hughenden Public School THE HOWLER

May 6th, 2016

• Class Group / Spring Photos May 10 • Hot Lunch – Spaghetti with meat sauce & squares (Leadership) May 11 • Hot Lunch – Pizza (Travel Club) May 18 • Track & Field Sr Areas May 18 • Track & Field BTJHAA South May 24 • Hot Lunch – BBQ Burgers & squares (Leadership) May 25 • CASAA Track & Field Sr Zones May 25 • Track & Field BTJHAA South Finals June 1 • ASAA Track & Field Sr Provincials June 3 & 4 • Hot Lunch – Subway (High School Science) June 8 • Grade 4 Field Trip June 9 • Grade 5 Camping Trip June 9 & 10 • Hot Lunch - (Home Ec) June 15 • Hot Lunch – Pizza (Travel Club) June 22 • Grade 6 Babysitter’s Course (9-12:30) June 22 & 23 • Elementary trip to Bodo June 24 • Elementary track meet (morning) June 27 • Elementary awards (afternoon) June 27 • Elementary to Czar Lake (afternoon) June 28 • Report Cards June 28

• Grad June 30

Wow, what a warm start to the month of May. It does leave many of us longing for those summer months but we still have two months of work to go. This month students will write the first parts of their PAT exams in grades six and nine. Grade 12 students should also begin to start focussing on the upcoming diploma exams that start in June. I hope all students are looking to finish strong in their respective courses. There are also several activities happening in May at the school. Students continue to have daily intramural games with several teams vying for top spot in floor hockey. The grade 4 class has been invited to perform music before the school board in Wainwright. The school will also play host to a special presentation from The Alberta Ballet for all elementary students. Planning for next year has begun and all high school students have received their course sheets for next year. The schedule will be designed based on the demands of the students for particular courses. I would like to get these forms back by Monday, May 9th. Enjoy May and try to stay cool. Kevin Elliott Principal, Hughenden Public School

REMINDERS: SCHOOL DATES

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

PROVINCIAL EXAM DATES Achievement Exams

Tuesday, May 10 9:00 - 11:00 A.M. Grade 9 Language Part A Thursday, May 12 9:00 - 11:00 A.M. Grade 6 Language Part A

Wednesday, June 15 9:00 – 10:00 A.M. Grade 6 Language Part B Thursday, June 16 9:00 – 10:15 A.M. Grade 6 Math Friday, June 17 9:00 – 10:00 A.M. Grade 6 Science Monday, June 20 9:00 – 10:00 A.M. Grade 6 Social

9:00 – 10:15 A.M. Grade 9 Science

Wednesday, June 22 9:00 – 10:30 A.M. Grade 9 Math Thursday, June 23 9:00 − 10:15 A.M. Grade 9 Language Part B Friday, June 24 9:00 − 10:20 A.M. Grade 9 Social

Diploma Exams Tuesday, June 14 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Social Studies 30–1 Part A

9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Social Studies 30–2 Part A

Friday, June 17 9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Social Studies 30–1 Part B

9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Social Studies 30–2 Part B

Thursday, June 23 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Chemistry 30 Monday, June 27 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Physics 30 Tuesday, June 28 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Science 30

These are the diplomas for the courses that HPS students are currently taking. For copy of the entire diploma exam schedule, go to page 8 on the following link: https://education.alberta.ca/media/1089189/03-dip-gib-2015-16-schedules-significant-dates.pdf

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

BTPS SCHOOL FEES A FINAL NOTICE letter will be mailed by BTPS Central Services of all uncollected outstanding fees as of April 30, for the current school year, to be paid in full by May 31. If not collected by

May 31, all outstanding fees will be forwarded to the collection agency. Please be sure to pay them ahead of this date. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your fees, do not hesitate to contact us.

STUDENT DEMPGRAPHIC UPDATES As well, we still have some demographic updates for students that we have not received. If you require another copy let us know. We are down to 3 needed from grade 8, and 2 from grade 12.

ACHIEVEMENT TREE / ACCELERATED READER HPS celebrates student achievement in our monthly Achievement Tree and Accelerated Reading assembly. This school gathering recognizes and celebrates growth and learning that takes place in our school. Each assembly a $10 Scholastic book order is awarded to three students in elementary.

Grade 4: Tehya Lunde, Zachary Hawco, Kyra Campbell

Grade 5: Evan Peacock

Grade 6: Hayden McQuaid, Blake Small

Winners of the $10 Scholastic Book Order Certificates: Zachary Hawco, Evan Peacock, Blake Small

Winner of the $10 Walmart gift card: Kyra Campbell

Winner of the Parkland Library Membership (Czar, Amisk, or Hughenden): Hayden McQuaid

Thanks goes out to all of our Achievement Tree/AR sponsors: Hughenden General Store – James & Susan Lee, Encompass Credit Union - Hughenden Branch, Shelter Valley Land & Cattle – Sam & Linda McQuaid, Reliance Energy Services – Jeff Redekop, and Hughenden, Amisk, & Czar Public Libraries

Our next Achievement Tree Awards presentation will be held on Tuesday, May 31 at 10:00 a.m.

For Security reasons… ALL VISITORS (including PARENTS) are REQUIRED to

sign in at the OFFICE upon ARRIVAL

WILDCAT CELEBRATIONS OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2016 HPS GRADUATES

Amy Penman Bailey Van Koughnett

Braeden Booth Brandon Butt Cody Swanson

Cort Wahlstrom Dixon Manning Hana Bartley Hunter Boyer

Isaac Sayer Jonathan Flynn Kendal Buxton

Lindsay Almberg Manette Paulson

Matt Adams McKenzie Berry Sabrina Rochon

Shyla Ford A very special acknowledgement goes out to this year’s Valedictorian,

Miss Lindsay Almberg! The 2016 HPS commencement ceremony will be taking place on June 30th at Czar Rec. and Cultural Centre. Both the Banquet and Ceremonies are by invitation only. *****************************************************************************************************************

BE PAWS-itive, APRIL HPS has initiated a positive reinforcement initiative. Blue PAWs are handed out to those that stand out as having performed a good deed. For example, if a student has helped a staff member, another student, or are just showing positive behaviour above and beyond the norm they are given a PAW to submit to the office. At the end of the month a draw is made from all the PAWS for a reward.

Grade 4: Alyssa Carson Bryden Laing Tehya Lunde Grade 7: Berit Cuthbert Ethan Dambrowsky Chris Germsheid Ryatt Large Reagan Lomheim Loren Mitchell X 2 Matthew Swanson Jamie Van Hoek

Grade 8: Kjersti Congdon Mackenzie Ford Grade 9: Court McKay Gillian Pederson Darby-Anne Swanson Rogue Van Hoek Cohl Venema

Grade 10: Amanda Torpe

Grade 11: Justina Boorse Brody Busk Quinn Johnson Quinton MacMillan Grade 12: Shyla Ford

A BIG wildcat thank you goes out to the junior high classes for taking care of our bottle recycling for the remainder of the school year! YAY!

UPCOMING WILDCAT WEDNESDAYS & SPIRIT DAYS: May 11- travel T-shirt May 25- Hawaii Day June 8 - Western Day

SPECIAL EVENTS / FIELDTRIPS / PRESENTATIONS

March Draw WINNERS:

Ryatt Large & Gillian Pederson

GRADE 9 HOME EC CLASS

GRADE 8 OPTION CLASS

The grade 9 students designed and preparee their unique creative fruit pizzas - these proud chefs turned out great products!

The grade 8 option class are "Ornithologist" sleuths.... they investigated what an owl ate by determining the contents of an owl pellet & are studying the importance of predatory birds such as the Barn Owl in the ecosystem.

A Big Thank You! Thank you to all parents who contributed cupcakes and cakes for our Easter Cake Walk in March. The elementary students had a blast and enjoyed the many tasty treats that were provided! A big thank you also goes to the leadership students for helping out with this activity!

Congratulations D.A.R.E Graduates!

A big Wildcat congrats goes to the grade 5 and 6 class who successfully completed their 10 week D.A.R.E program with Constable Bond from the Provost RCMP detachment. The D.A.R.E. program emphasizes safe and responsible choice making while exploring topics such as peer pressure, bullying, stress, verbal and nonverbal communication, and alcohol and tobacco related facts. To complete the course successfully, students participated in classroom activities, completed their DARE book, and finished the program by writing a DARE report! Well done group!

Boston Pizza Receipts HPS is still collecting original receipts, for dine-in, take-out and delivery orders. The donated 5% of the submitted receipts will be used to subsidize school programs and costs. Thank you to those of you who continue to support this program! MINOR HOCKEY MEETING There will be a Special Meeting to be held on the evening of Tuesday, May 12 re a potential Association merge between Hughenden and Hardisty. At this meeting the Minor Hockey executives hope that the collective wisdom of many will help to make the best decision possible for optimization of opportunities for hockey for youth in our communities. There will be two simultaneous meetings – one at the Hughenden Arena and one at the Hardisty Arena both to start at 7 PM with a vote to be taken by respective Society members before the end of the evening. We hope that everyone who wishes a say in this decision will either attend, or bring forward their support or concerns to one of the Presidents listed at the bottom of this bulletin. If you have concerns, we hope that you also come with an alternate solution(s) to solve the problem of insufficient numbers to ice teams in our local arenas by our current Minor Hockey Associations. Further information will be on a bulletin that will come to all mail boxes in the area & will also be available on the Hughenden Minor Hockey Website at http://www.hughendenminorhockey.ca/ Questions or concerns, please call Jordan Pasztor at 780-888-4004 or Rick Sather at 780-888-7934

MISSING HPS GRAD COMPOSITE The photos for the Composite picture of the 2007 Grad class were lost. We are hoping to collect the photos of these graduates before the end of June in order that a replacement can be made. Ideally we would like gap & gown pictures, but in the graduation suit or dress would suffice; head and shoulders shot. Please scan and email the photo in to the school (Hughenden@btps.ca), or alternatively lend us the photo in order that we can do so. The students who made up this class were: Candace Adams Mikki Amundson Kaylee Anholt Roxy Boomhower Lyndon Clark Lucas Creasy Jeff Eklund Amy Flynn Kyla Flynn Lisa-Michelle Gartner James Gibson Nicole Gilbertson Courtney Gramlich Jared Hughes Lance Hussey Patricia Johnson Dylan Jones Blake Kemper Cassie Manning Rebekka McCullough Tamra Moate Megan Sikora Chantelle Torpe Devin Trenerry Riley Walters HPS SPRING PICTURE DAY Individual photos and class group photos will be taken Tuesday morning, May 10th. *Grade 12s first (Social class), grade 11s around 10:30 (English class), grade 9s about 11 (after PAT) & the other grades in between.

LIFETOUCH Professional Portraits Made Easy, mark your calendar. Complete the flyer (handed out today) and send with your child on Spring Picture Day.

**We would appreciate it if we could have a parent volunteer to assist the photographer.

MISCELLANEOUS

DONATIONS FOR FORT McMURRAY Ok! Here we go!! Connor Metz, a Hardisty teen, is organizing a supply drive for the evacuees of Fort Mac for this MONDAY, MAY 9th. A truck and closed trailer have been graciously donated by Craig and Tara Tanton at TNT Instrumentation. The truck will be located at many communities along the way in Flagstaff County and Hughenden and Amisk. You can track his route with the hashtag #trackthetrailer. The places he will park and times for each town are as follows: 9:00 am – 10:00 am = Across from Hughenden School 10:30 am – 11:00 am = Amisk C-store 11:30 am – 12:30 pm = Hardisty School 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm = Lougheed Gift and Garden 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm = Sedgewick School 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm = Killam School 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm = Forestburg School 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm = Strome - across from Domo 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm = Daysland School He will be taking the supplies up to Lac La Biche or Edmonton on Tuesday morning where he and a few of his fellow grads and parents will be volunteering their time for the full day also!! SUPPLIES REQUESTED from Lac La Biche are as follows: sandwich bags, razors and cream for both, lip balm, toothbrushes, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, nail clippers, baby soap, baby oil, hair gel for men, ponytail holders, mouthwash, dental floss, deodorant for both, new pillows, excellent condition blankets, diaper cream, undergarments for adults and kids, water, diapers, shoes. Gift cards are ALWAYS welcome and he will have a container for cash donations. Spread the word and share, share, share this post!! This 18 year old high school boy has started something wonderful! Let's make sure we fill that trailer to help Fort Mac!!

Honorable Guest at Hughenden Public School The honorable Kevin Sorenson paid a morning visit to Hughenden Public School. The member of parliament went around to the grade six, nine, and twelve classrooms and shared knowledge about his role in the government and his views on current events. His presentations were tailored to the curriculum of each grade. The grade six class says Mr. Sorenson gave them a better understanding about the government and enjoyed hearing some of the stories he had to share. The students gained an abundant amount of information about the politician and were privileged to have Mr. Sorenson graciously answer any questions. The school and students are very grateful for this wonderful opportunity and hope in the future he will pay another visit. By: Darby-Anne Swanson

HUMANITIES & SCIENCES FIELD TRIP It is very unfortunate that the May 19 field trip for high school students has had to be cancelled. Considerable thought and effort was invested to provide alternate learning opportunities for students to meet and reinforce the Alberta Curriculum Learning Outcomes that students are expected to demonstrate in many of their courses - English, Social Studies and the Sciences. Hands on learning opportunities, with an inquiry and critical thinking focus, were infused into the design for the day. Parent feedback in the past has requested these types of diverse opportunities for students. Even though we are not going, appreciation is extended to Bison Bus for giving us a highway bus at the cost of a school bus; Friends of HPS for the one thousand dollars towards cost of bussing and the Leduc Discovery 1 oil group for the $300 subsidy. (Susan Reynolds, field trip organizer)