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Parent Newsletter
Dates to Remember:
December 2, Report Cards go HOME!
December 5, School Council Meeting 7pm
December 8, Parent Teacher Conferences 1-7pm
December 9, PD Day - No school for students
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MDJH
December 2, 2016
Toy Drive Macdonald Drive Junior High is hosting a toy drive and fund raiser for needy families. We invite you to help by donating a new, unwrapped toy with a value of between $10 to $30. Consider kids up to about 14 years of age when shopping. You may also help by making a donation of $5.00 or more. We expect to give any toys collected to the Happy Tree Foundation, and to distribute any funds collected to needy fami-lies in our school community. Dona-tions can be dropped off at the of-fice. To show our appreciation for your generosity, we will enter our student donors for a prize draw. This is for a pair of quality wireless headphones. Be sure to sign our book at the of-fice with the students’ names and phone numbers when dropping off your donation.
Families in Need Starting Monday, December 5th, homerooms will be collecting mon-ey for families in need. Every $5 collected by a homeroom will earn them one Green Apple, which will be displayed on the tree in the main lobby. Help us bring a little extra Christmas cheer to those who need a little extra help this year.
Jumping Bean Fundraiser
Thank you to all those that bought the coffee and teas. We fell short of our goal but our School Council is enthusiastically planning another fundraiser for after Christmas. If you have any ideas on what we can do, please feel free to email the school or one of our School Council chairs:
Gerry Mayo ([email protected])
Susan Ledrew ([email protected])
School and Student Council Fundraisers
Adopt A Senior
Every year the homerooms of MDJH raise money to buy small Christmas gifts for seniors at St. Pats Mercy Home, to help make their holidays a little bit brighter. Students are asked top bring in small donation of $1 or $2, and this money is used to buy something on the senior’s wish list. Any extra money is given to the senior to use in their canteen. The deadline for donations is December 8th, and the gifts will be delivered on December 15th.
Congratulations to members of the Macdonald Drive Junior High Mathematics team who recently participated in the Junior High Mathe-matics League competition. There were more than 15 teams participating from junior high schools in the metro region. MDJH did very well, placing 1st and 3rd.
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Athletic Achievements
Our Grade 9 Boys basketball team were the Gold Med-alists at the MDJH November Invitational 2016.
The Grade 7 Girls Basketball team won Gold in the HTH Tournament 2016.
The Grade 7 Boys Volleyball team won Silver in the Regional Tournament.
The Grade 8 Girls Volleyball team won Silver in their recent tournament.
Congratulations to all our school athletes!
Skills Canada / LEGO Robotics
It was a great day for MDJH at the Intermediate Skills Canada / LEGO Robotics Challenge 2016 at the College of the North Atlantic. Students partici-pated in events ranging from Hairstyling to Junior Chef to TV / Video Production. MDJH also scored well in the awards, earning four medals and two awards for the Robotics teams. The final tallies were: IT Scavenger Hunt – Adam Seviour: Bronze
Public Speaking – Momin Anwar: Bronze
Junior Chef – Anna Rowe and Victoria French:
Silver
Photography – Leah Burke: Gold
Lego Robotics
Robot Design 3rd Place — MDJH Team #1
Core Values Inspiration Award – MDJH Team #2
Congratulations to all our students and teacher mentors!
Student Achievements
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Announcements
Parking lot reminder Coming off of Toronto Street there are two lanes. The right lane is for buses and traffic going around MDJH. The left lane is for parents/ guardians dropping off their children. PLEASE pull up to the STOP sign before letting your child out! The drop off lane should only be used for quick stop, drop and go, even if the doors are not open yet. If parents do not want to leave until the doors open, they should move ahead and park in the parking lot. Please take a moment to watch MDJH Drop off Video… the people may have changed but the instructions are still the same! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptikIbLLhvo
MDJH is on the map ... our school is registered on the Hour of Code website. Mr. Gillard has registered with "Scratch," which is an MIT initiative. He will be using this with Grade 7 and 8 students. He is also going to install a program in Room 119 called "Processing" which can be used for teaching some Java, but he is also looking at the Python version. He is looking at "Processing" for enrichment purposes.
Computer Science Education Week occurs from December 5 to 11, 2016. Everyone is invited to participate in an Hour of Code. The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries.
The Newfoundland and Labrador English School District recognizes the importance of computers, computer science, and coding and encourages all school communities to try cod-ing. Not only is it fun, it encourages logical thinking and provides exciting career opportunities.
During the month of December, MDJH will have all grade 7 to 9 students participate in an Hour of Code with their homeroom. Many of these clas-ses will happen during a scheduled Technology Education class and others will be scheduled at another time. The Hour of Code will be an opportunity for all students to be exposed to this international movement promoting the value of coding (computer programming) in education and
specifically higher order technological literacy skills.
Below are resources that can help students/parents/teachers get started in coding, or enhance the activities that students may have already begun in school and/or at home.
Resources:
https://www.nlesd.ca/families/learntocode/index.jsp (NLESD: Learn to Code Resources)
https://csedweek.org/ (Computer Science Education Week December 5 – 11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC5FbmsH4fw (The Hour Of Code is Here Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsOIlDT145A (Hour Of Code Worldwide Video)
https://code.org/
https://hourofcode.com/
We’re on the web!
http://mdjh.info
PARENT NEWSLETTER
Macdonald Drive Junior High
110 Macdonald Drive
St. John’s, NL
A1A 2K9
Phone: 709-753-8240
Fax: 709-753-1243
E-mail: [email protected]
HEAD LICE
A booklet called Managing Head Lice at Home is available through your school or school nurse, this booklet may help you. This booklet can also be found electronically on the Eastern Health website: www.easternhealth.ca > Your Health > Healthy Living A to Z > Head Lice > Managing Head Lice at Home (PDF) Once a case of head lice has been found all family members should be checked as well. If you have further questions, please contact the Public Health Nurse. Contact: 752-4899, [email protected]
Festive French Toast Kebabs
3 eggs
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
½ cup milk
½ tsp vanilla
4 slices whole wheat bread
3 bananas
18 strawberries
¾ cup yogurt (any flavour)
cooking spray
12 wooden skewers.
Whisk eggs and cinnamon. Add milk and vanilla and mix well. Spray skillet with cooking spray and heat on medium. One slice at a time, coat both sides of bread in egg mixture. Allow excess to drip off then place in skillet. Cook both sides until golden brown, flipping once. Place french toast on cutting board and cut into cubes. Cube bananas and strawberries as well. Alternate bread, bana-nas and strawberries on each skewer. Serve with yogurt for dipping.
Request for Support: 3-D Printing
Have you heard about Additive Manufacturing?
Maybe not. The popular term is 3-D printing; try
Googling the concept and you will find that there
has been a significant number of articles written
about the innovative uses of 3-D Printing as a
production/manufacturing process. MDJH is
looking to expose its students to a design pro-
cess utilizing this current technology. Even
though the price tag on 3-D Printing has dropped
significantly in the last couple of years, it is still a
specialty item and we need support from our
school community to invest in this direction. Is
there a company or companies that would be
interested in assisting us in making this initiative
a reality? The startup costs for 3-D printing is
approximately $4000.00. Any interested per-
sons please contact Wade Gillard
Ugly Stick Construction Workshop
Being Planned For December
As we approach the Christmas season Mr. G will be planning to offer a lunch time “Ugly Stick Construction Workshop” in the Technology Ed-ucation Laboratory Room 119 (Dates TBA). This project is a great one to recycle some ma-terials that you may not want or need anymore. Mr. G is collecting the following if you would like to help out:
Reminder!
School will close at 12:30pm, Wednesday, December 21, 2016.
It will reopen Tuesday, January 3, 2017, and will be Day 5.
Mop handles hockey stick handles broom sticks large tin cans (coffee or
other) Bells Chains metal washers old Christmas tree decora-
tions Screws common nails old rubber boots “small” sticks like broken
hammers or axe handles old paint can stir sticks (a
stick that could be used to strike the Ugly Stick)
bottle caps felt washers
FUN CLUB Are you interested in meeting new people and learning about new cultures? Do you want to play games while learning new perspectives? If yes, then join us at F.U.N (Friends of United Nations) Club! Maggie from the Association for New Canadians will host this new club and EVERYONE is welcome to participate. We will meet every Wednesday at lunch time in classroom 218 (Ms. MacNeill's room). Bring your lunch and a friend! We hope to see you there!
