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H O N O U R S 4

M U S I C N O T E S 4 & 5

S P O R T S 7 & 8

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A P R I L C A L E N D A R 1 4

I can no other answer make, but,

thanks, and thanks.

- William Shakespeare

The staff of École J.E. Lapointe

School would like to extend our

huge and heartfelt thank you to the

School Council and the many other

volunteers who treated us like roy-

alty during the week of March 16 –

20. We were served hot and cold

beverages, breakfast and lunch

delights, delectable treats, and

amazing home-made containers

filled with sweets. Oh my good-

ness! The entire week was filled

with surprises and warm wishes

from our parent community and we

are so very grateful for that sup-

port!

I was disappointed to miss much of

these grand delights as, during that

week, I was attending the ULead

Conference with most of my col-

league Principals in Black Gold

Regional Schools. I found it a

privilege to be at what has become

a truly international conference

where we heard from extremely

knowledgeable and thoughtful

educators from Canada, Finland,

Australia, China, and Singapore.

The rich wealth of knowledge that

exists within the educational com-

munity is astounding! It was inter-

esting to note that no matter which

country we live and work in, our

hopes and dreams for our students

remain the same: we want our

students to be safe and cared for at

school and in the world, and to

develop the skills, attitudes, and

knowledge necessary to help them

be all that they can be now and in

their futures. I am currently read-

ing a book about the educational

system in Finland, and while the

world is big, it is also oh, so small!

You will be aware that we have a

new school website that aligns with

4801—55 Ave. Beaumont, AB T4X 1K2

Phone: 780-929-5977 Fax: 780-929-5258 http://ejels.blackgold.ca

the format of the new Black Gold

website. We are very excited to

have a platform that we are cer-

tain will be much more user-

friendly for our students and fami-

lies, and anyone else interested in

our school. We will continue to

work on updating information and

tweaking things as we learn, and I

am sure that you will notice some

changes as we grow in this area

next year as well! Feel free to

visit us at http://ejels.blackgold.ca

Mission:

To empower students to

reach their potential

through quality learning

opportunities.

Vision:

ÉJELS is a school commu-

nity that honours a strong

pedagogical foundation

and that fosters an empa-

thetic and productive

learning environment

through innovation and

teamwork.

M A R C H W A S N U T R I T I O N M O N T H

During the month of March students and staff were encouraged to try a variety of

fruits and veggies. Each week there was a different pattern required and participants

were entered into a draw for a booster juice gift card. Congratulations to the follow-

ing gift card winners:

Carter Wiebe, Brooke Joinson, Adam Plooy, Nathan Rotisberger, Ariel Rice, Ivan

Drotsky, Cole Simmons, John Plooy, Hudson Welsh, Camryn Munchrath and Sarah

Munchrath. As well as the following staff: Mrs. Plooy, Mrs. Kuppe, Mrs. Gervais

and Mrs. Buzak. Great job and enjoy your booster juice!

There were also several students/staff that were able to complete their entire bingo

card. They will be treated to a healthy lunch later this month. Great work!

Adam Plooy, Jenna Kerekes, Justin Van Wellegham, Hannah Rasmussen, Sarah Munchrath, Ariel Rice, Jordyn

Matson, Mattea Krug, Annya Wiley, Brooke Vidicek, Tiara, Pihrag, John Plooy, Lily Gramlich, Jonah Rasmus-

sen, Sam Hokanson, Seth Larson, Jillian Claerhout, Brooke Joinson and Meirwyn Aubrey - Hebert

2015/16 Registration Packages

We are in the process of looking

at our registration numbers for

next year. Registration pack-

ages were sent home with stu-

dents on Monday, April 13,

2015. Please complete and sign

forms where required and return

to homeroom teachers by Fri-

day, April 17, 2015. If your

child is not returning to École

J.E. Lapointe school in the fall

please indicate this on the Veri-

fication form or contact the of-

fice at 780-929-5977.

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The CAP Team is very excited to be partnering with the J.E. grade 8 SWAT students,

FCSS, and other Black Gold professionals to bring a fun filled afternoon to all of the

grade 7 classes on Friday May 8, 2015. We are thrilled to be planning a Mental Well-

ness Afternoon where every grade 7 student will choose their top 3 choices out of 7

sessions that each deliver hands on learning about mental health and how to keep our

minds healthy! All of us have mental health, just as we all have physical health. Men-

tal health is more than the absence of mental illness. It is a state of well-being. Mental

Health Week (May 4-10th ) is an annual national event that encourages people from all

walks of life to learn, talk, reflect and engage with others on all issues relating to mental health. We are very excited to

be part of this day with J.E. Lapointe’s students and staff! After all, your mental health is the CAP team’s priority! We

are delighted to be offering the following sessions on J.E. Lapointe’s Mental Wellness Afternoon: drumming, drama, art,

imagination stations, team building, yoga, and dance. The sessions are designed for the participants to learn how to re-

lieve stress, maintain a balanced life, and have fun. See you in May, and remember mental health matters!

W R I S T B A N D C H A L L E N G E

At our assembly each month, family day passes are drawn for the Beaumont Aqua-Fit Center. Students can be

eligible for the draw by dropping off their wristband that they were given when they entered the Aqua-Fit Center

or the Leduc Recreational Center. There is a Wristband Challenge drop box in the office. At our March assembly

Delaney Lynn (6E)), Joelle Klassen (7A), Abdullah Shahid (7C), Reagan Deatherage (7C) and Dylan Zak (7C) had

their names drawn. Each received a family day pass to the Aqua-Fit Center. Congratulations.

Several students will be representing our school for the Speech Arts portion of the Leduc Music Festival, Monday, April

13th and Tuesday April 14th. Students were given a letter mid-March to take home indicating location, date and time of

their performance.

Parents are reminded that they must contact the office in order to report their child's absence for the Speech Arts com-

petition and are responsible to transport their child to and from their performance venue.

S P E E C H A R T S

L I B R A R Y N E W S

What happened in March!

The winner of the Freedom to Read word search was David Shute. He took home an autographed book! Congratulations!

Our March Madness Tournament of Books is entering the final week. The Final Four books are:

The Long Haul, The Fault in Our Stars, The Maze Runner and The Giver!

Which two books are going head to head in the Championship? Stay Tuned!

Coming up in April!

April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, the students are invited to create their own Blackout poetry to be

displayed in the library all month!

H O N O U R S

S A B R E N E W S C O N T :

Congratulations to the following students for achieving an honours level during this reporting period.

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Grade 6 Calista Adams Cole Anderson Noah Andrews Meirwyn Aubrey-Hébert Micah Beasley Jacob Cammock Ava Carson Corson Ceulemans Carson Chapman Sydney Clarke Jace Coulombe Emma Danylyshen Jocelyn Duhaime Paige Engelman Kyle Francis Jacob Gerhardt Tyler Goudreau Lily Gramlich Lauren Hawtin Emma Hurd Macy Kadatz Mattea Krug Juliana Lindsay

Grade 7 Ava Arnold Joshua Bell Erik Berner Alexis Bernier Kaden Biederman Danica Blanchette Kennedy Delwisch Ivan Drotsky Jorja Garchinski Robert Giorgini Jordan Grant Natalie Horvat Aidan Hughes Jada Johanson Arianna Klar Joelle Klassen Emma Kornel John Krieger Jocelyn Kublik Emma Lacquement Kaden Lakusta Danielle L’Heureux Stuart MacLellan Josh MacCallion Akash Nijjar Tyler Scott - Nordstrom Mason Reiser Nathan Royer Justin Russell Carson Schultz Josh Shihinski Dane Squire Taryn Terpsma Jordan Tomkins Michelle Worobec

Grade 8 Evan Amyotte Claire de Aguayo Rohan Dhaliwal Emily Fry Carter Gylander Samantha Healy Roen Helgren Myenna Jorgensen Jenna Kerekes Ben Lisowski Kyla Lopez Josh MacIntyre Jade Matson Monique Mattia Eric McEown Deleila Olczak Ritika Patel Amy Persaud Stephanie Peterson Adam Plooy Ceara Prokopiw Hannah Rasmussen Brooke Roswell Dobrila Skendzic Jordan Vanier Hannah Walter Liam Weber Matthew Wile Jack Yurko

continued Grade 6 Rachel Lozinski Delaney Lynn Peter McCrackin Kaynyah Mukiri Audrey Negonde Braden Onyschuk Adam Paplawski Spencer Paplawski John Plooy Aubreanna Quintal Cadence Regier Conner Reinhardt Brandee Robertson-Grafton Nadia Ross Nathan Rotlisberger Cole Simon Keely Smith Courtney Vaughan Cassandra Webster Hudson Welsh Alaina Wile Aidan Winter Victoria Winter

Grade 6 Paul Belland Jillian Claerhout Jordyn Matson Camryn Munchrath Audrey Rodrigue Anmol Sandhu Khari Weber Grade 7 Ian Bendig Brooke Joinson Magnus McCrackin Kaeli Wright

Grade 8 Jenifer Angell Eric Brisson Megan Kick Mathew Lisowski Sophie McCart Kiana Row Sam Villetard Kale Wolen Aydin Yasa

Congratulations to the following students for achieving Honours With Distinction level during this reporting period.

S A B R E N E W S C O N T :

Leduc Music Festival

The EJELS school bands and choir will be performing at the Leduc Music Festival April 15 – 17th. Please see schedule below for

times and dates, along with who is performing when. Parents are needed to transport instruments, as well as supervise on the bus, so

please email val.baron@blackgold.ca if you are able to help.

Wednesday, April 15th Choir (Leduc Alliance Church) 11:26 am

*Bus leaves EJELS @ 10am

*Bus leaves church @ 12 for lunch

*Return to EJELS by 1:30pm

Thursday, April 16th Grade 7 Band (MacLab Theatre, Leduc Comp) 9:36 am

*Bus leaves EJELS @ 8:15 am

*Students perform, and then listen to the other bands

Grade 6 Band &

Instrumental Solos (MacLab Theatre, Leduc Comp) 10:50 am

*Bus leaves EJELS @ 9:30 am

*Students perform, and then listen to soloists

Hailey Navas-Tersigni

Madison Power

Carter Elder

Shayla Cymbaluk

Madison Schlase

Arianna Klar

Camryn Bauer

Ava Arnold

*Students return to EJELS by 12:30

(Please note: students playing in the afternoon stay with Mrs. Baron at the high school and either provide

their own lunch, or bring money to buy own lunch at Nitza Pizza/McDonalds/Macs)

Instrumental Solos/Duets/Trios

David Shute 1:00 pm

Kaeli Wright

Drew Wellar

Mackenzie Cowan

Jace Coulombe/Kim Ward

Natasha Maxwell/Kaeli Wright

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Instrumental Solos/Duets/Trios

Alexis Bernier/Arianna Klar/Ava Arnold 2:36 pm

Nicole Elder/Isabella Grande/Deleila Olzcak

Calista Adams/Camryn Munchrath/Keely Smith

Joshua Bell

Holly Aherne

Nicole Elder

Deleila Olzcak

Nick Gilmour

Friday, April 17th Jazz Band (MacLab Theatre, Leduc Comp) 9:21 am

*Bus leaves EJELS @ 8 am

*Students perform, and then listen to the other bands

Grade 8 Band (MacLab Theatre, Leduc Comp) 10:51 am

*Bus leaves EJELS @ 8 am

*Students perform and then listen to other bands

*Students return to EJELS by 12:30

(Please note: students playing in the afternoon stay with Mrs. Baron at the high school and either provide

their own lunch, or bring money to buy own lunch at Nitza Pizza/McDonalds/Macs)

Instrumental Solos/Duets

Emma Cooper/Emma Kornel 1:00 pm

Paige Engelman/Mattea Krug

Tori Klapstein/Tiara Pihrag

Alyssa Kamaleddine/Callie Peterson

Nadia Ross/John Plooy

Preston Hain/Morgan Kuss

Rachel Lozinski/Delaney Lynn

Michelle Worobec/Jenifer Angell

Kéa Chamberlain/Monique Mattia

Isabelle Grande/Deleila Olzcak

Hudson Welsh 2:35 pm

Junior High Band Performance Tour

Members of the ÉJELS Jr. High Grade 7 & 8 bands will be heading to the Festival of Bands in Red Deer, AB

on May 11th to participate in a provincial band festival. A big thank you to the parent volunteers who are

coming along!

Year End Band & Choir Concert

Thursday June 11th @ 7pm ÉJELS Gym

*Please mark this important date on your calendar, so your child doesn’t miss out on this final concert of the year

*The Grade 6 Band, Grade 7 Band, Grade 8 Band, Jazz Band and the Choir will be performing!

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B A S K E T B A L L

Premier Boys Basketball

The Premier Boys Basketball Team has had a great season. At the end

of January we competed in the F.R. Haythorne Invitational Tourna-

ment in Sherwood Park. We lost a close first game and went on to

win the B final. We completed our regular season with a 7-1 record,

which was good enough for second place. After beating Coloniale in

the semi finals, the boys went on to lose a tight gold medal game.

It has been a true pleasure to coach this group this year. The boys

showed outstanding effort and strong character in helping to make the

season a success!

Coach Shane Slade

Premier Girls Basketball

The premier girls basketball team had a terrific season. The team

competed in a 12 team tournament in Sherwood Park at the end of

January, handily winning the B Final. Great work! In league play

they finished with a record of 5 wins and 3 loses. The team

played hard in playoffs and lost a very close game for the bronze

medal. Great work this year and I look forward to seeing you on

the court again in the future.

Coach Deanne Dorash

S A B R E N E W S C O N T :

S P O R T S

District Girls Basketball

Photo courtesy of Chantal Perron

This year's District Girls' basketball team was composed of ten bright,

motivated, and dedicated young ladies who came together to represent

J.E Lapointe in a very challenging season. These athletes demonstrated

strength, courage, and humility in the face of defeat and proved that team

spirit goes a long way. Good work girls!

Coach Vienna Malko-Monterrosa

District Boys Basketball

Congratulations to the District Boys Basketball team for an

amazing 2015 season. Our boys played the game with integrity,

sportsmanship and heart and as a result we had a 12-0 undefeated

season; ranked first in our division winning the championship

game. Our boys had the opportunity to do something special, this

season, for their school and for themselves as we worked hard

towards our first ever District Boys Basketball banner! This was

a tremendous feat for these boys as they all have numerous other

commitments and still manage to work hard to accomplish their

goals! I am very proud to have had the opportunity to coach such

a dedicated, hardworking group of boys.

Coach Kathy Stewart and Coach Chris Mistol

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R U N N I N G C L U B

Intermediate Girls Junior Girls Intermediate Boys Junior Boys

Jade Matson Alexis Bernier Adryon Thompson Magnus McCrackin

Amber Robertson-

Grafton

Reagan Deatherage Brett Thompson Josh McCallion

Erin Siermachesky Natalie Horvat Jayce Hawtin Ben Crawley

Kiana Row Jocelyn Kublik Logan Klapstein Nyasha Mubayiwa

Megan Kick Taryn Terpsma Roen Helgren Percy Ashani

Emily Fry Emma Lacquement Carter Gylander Liam Weber

Maya Keshavjee Josh Crawley

Tori Klapstein Liam Morris

Congratulations to the following students that have made the 2015 J.E. Lapointe Badminton Team.

Tournament dates:

April 11th @ F.R. Haythorne School in Sherwood Park April 16th @ Dansereau Meadows

April 18th @ Devon (LDAA “North” Playdowns April 25th @ Wetaskiwin (LDAA Finals)

B A D M I N T O N

Running Club is up and running! During the months of February and March, students competed and had great success in the Running Room Indoor Games at the Butterdome. One of our Boys’ Elementary teams made it to the Quarter-Finals, placing 25thout of over 200 schools in Edmonton and the surrounding area. Spencer Paplawski Adam Paplawski Jake Gerhardt Jacob Cammock Carson Chapman Alex Belzile, Sam Hokanson Tyler Goudreau One of our Junior High teams also made it to the Semi-Finals and were three tenths of a second off from making it to the Finals. Congratulations to: Jorja Garchinski Natalie Horvat Jade Matson Sydney Sloan Reagan Deatherage Kieran Sloan Liam Morris Ethan Stang Brett Thompson Gabriel deRuiter Also, congratulations to Reagan Deatherage for qualifying for the 200m Individual Race Quarter-Finals! Amazing job, everybody!

Anyone who is interested in running after school, please come and meet at the front of the school every Tuesday once the Break is over.

WRESTLING: A SPORT FOR EVERYONE

By: Marlenie Arana – Your Travelling Trainer

If you’ve had kids you know the routine of pulling one off of the other, drying tears, and forcing apologies after a play fight with too much energy.

Instead of pulling your hair out, try channeling that energy into a disciplined sport like wrestling.

Wrestling is a great sport for youth and adults alike, and has been growing in popularity, especially among girls, in the past decade.

During adolescence, kids shape, size, and weight change. Wrestling accommodates all body types and skill levels, with different weight and gender

classes in each league. While other sports may only offer success for certain physiques and abilities, nobody is too big or too small to wrestle, and

skills are developed with practice.

In addition to being accessible, wrestling builds discipline, self-empowerment, and camaraderie, improving success in all aspects of life.

Though highly competitive (challenging teammates and rivals), wrestling is also a strong team sport, where you are only as good as the team you

practice with. This encourages each individual to be their best, while supporting teammates to get better. This system teaches to be accountable for

their own training and discipline, empowering each individual to take pride, and put the effort, into their practice.

There can be risks to wrestling, but with a good coach these can be learned and avoided. Unlike soccer, baseball, or football, not every parent is

familiar with wrestling, and finding a coach with the experience and patience to nurture development is important.

Wrestling is also an affordable sport, with little personal equipment required. There are great spaces, and coaches, at the University of Alberta to get

you or your teen training. This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend the 2015 Alberta Open Wrestling Championships in Cochrane. Over 300

kids participated and some of our local athletes received medals in their division. A big congratulations goes to Sam and Linnea Hokanson for

winning gold and bronze in their age and weight category .

If you think you may be interested in learning more about wresting: join me and some of the University of Alberta (Nationally Ranked) coaches;

on Wednesday April 22. There will be a FREE one hour wrestling information session and conditioning clinic so you can learn more about the

sport. Everyone is welcome, all ages, boys and girls, men and women. Just email me if your interested and I will be dividing you into groups and 3

different time slots. It will be a great workout!

Free Wrestling Clinic with Marlenie Arana and Tyree McCrackin, Cory Horsborgh and Owen Dawkins

Ecole Coloniale Estates School – Multipurpose Room

Beaumont, AB

April 22, 2015 at 4:30pm, 5:30pm, and 6:30pm

Email info@yourtravellingtrainer.com to RSVP!

A P R I L H O T L U N C H

April 09 - Domino’s Pizza

April 16 - Booster Juice

April 23 - Subway

April 30 - Booster Juice

M A Y H O T L U N C H

May 07 - Boston Pizza

May 14 - Booster Jucie

May 21 - Maina’s Donair