Sept 24 2018 week with Ms. Selimos Terry Fox, Orange Shirt Day and more

Hello Parents and Students,

It was an absolute PLEASURE to meet so many of you at the OPEN HOUSE on Thursday evening!  We hope you enjoyed viewing our turkey display case. Turkeys will go home next week in time for Thanksgiving.  For those of you who were UNABLE to attend Open House, please look in your child’s agenda next MONDAY FOR YOUR CHILD’S STAR OF THE WEEK DATE OF PRESENTATION.

We had a lot of fun on Monday singing Happy Birthday to our lovely Ms. Holtby.  The children enjoyed black forest cake in the afternoon, after a hard day of work in Grades 1/2.

We continued to work on understanding repeating patterns in math (Math outcome P2.1) at the beginning of the week.  Is your child able to repeat a pattern element?  Is your child able to represent a repeated pattern?  Is he/she able to extend a pattern and compare a repeated pattern?  Finally, is he/she able to repeat a pattern? Mid-week, Grade 2s worked on the new term; increasing patterns and extending them.  This was a more challenging concept for some of the children, which we will continue to review and reinforce.  See photos from this week’s emails to guide you along.

On Tuesday, we began a ‘phonics strip’ activity where we scrambled the letters (l, p, a, t, n) to create two, three, four, and five letter words.

For French we created ‘shields’ about ourselves, sharing our favourite colours, ages, and family information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2hXa8dbK3o   Vowel bat song… check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhj9SqrIZqI    French numbers to 20

We had an incredible, green zone walk to the George Bothwell Library on Wednesday afternoon, where we carefully crossed busy Albert Street and safely made it to the Southland Mall.  There, we sang a Greek ‘hello’ song to Ms. Selimos’ dad who was in the food court.  His heart melted.  Next, we went to the George Bothwell library where librarian, Jane Grigg read books to us. She put on a few puppet shows and even showed us two movies.  She played the ukulele, as we sang with her.  Her instruments were very cool and we each played an instrument and danced to books and songs.  We watched the video; That’s Not My Hat.  Ms. Selimos even surprised us with a treat; a Safeway cookie, from the bakery, before we walked back to school.  On Thursday, we wrote sentences in our journals about our experience.  

On Thursday, Grade 2s “wrapped up” UNIT 1 of Math Makes Sense and patterning.  The math word of the week was “Increasing Patterns”.  A few of the boys and girls had difficulty with “extending of patterns,” so we reviewed the concept.  We also had fun acting out one of the lessons.  QUESTION:  How many drumsticks would 10 drummers have?  See photos.  We skip counted by twos, looking at the patterns and numbers involved.  The children became drummers and then transferred their understanding by drawing it on paper, showing the pattern of twos in different ways. Next, Grade 2s will begin a new math unit on NUMBERS TO 100.

The first few lessons will be challenging for some of the Gr. 2 students.  In this unit the children will be expected to be able to SKIP COUNT by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s FORWARD and BACKWARD.  Examples as follows:  Count backward by 10s from 90 to 30.  ANSWER:  90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30.     Count backward by 5s from 60 to 35.  Count forward by 2s from 82 to 94. Print off a 100 chart from my math website and play counting games with your child.  See math photos for ideas.  Is your child able to count forward by 5s starting at 35 and ending at 85?  Is your child able to count backwards by 10s starting at 90 and ending at 30? Is your child able to start at 1 and count by 2s? Work on even and odd numbers with your child as well.  Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8.   Odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.  In the following weeks, coins will be introduced (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters) and skip counting using money.

This week the Grade 1s began a new math unit on NUMBERS TO 2O with Ms. Holtby.  Grade Ones need to be able to read the number words and to create sets to 20. Is your child able to read the word ‘two’ or the word ‘five’? Work on this vocabulary with them. Also, watch for reversals of numerals, which is normal at this Grade 1 stage, but do correct them.  Grade 1 parents, this coming week’s homework page will numbers and words.

Your child wrote his/her second spelling test on Monday.  They did great!  We WILL get “picky” in Grade Two re:  using lower case letters when writing the test.  Capitals will be reinforced when referring to people, places, or things.  Ex:  Cat needs to be written as “cat”.  Thank you parents for signing the spelling test notebooks and returning them the next day.

PWIM = Picture Word Inductive Model. The PWIM poster this month is of a classroom. This week’s PWIM lesson focused on creating our PWIM words and next week we will play some PWIM sorting games based on this concept.

Thursday entailed an afternoon of language arts/social studies dedicated to Canadian hero, Terry Fox.  We explored Wikipedia on the data projector/computer and discussed Terry Fox.  We listened to a song Elton John has dedicated to him and watched some real life videos of his life.  The children worked on a simple worksheet about Terry, which they will share with you in their Term I report card portfolio.  At the end of the day on Thursday, we went on a school wide walk around the Grant Road bowl and neighborhood to remember Terry Fox.  Share the following links with your child:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUAEQeh_98k   song 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox  encyclopedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF8k8hpyp_A   video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgTlCTluPA    beautiful documentary

Thank you for your monetary donations all week.

Mr. Jeff Cappo visited our classroom for 15 minutes on Monday morning.  He is the Cultural Liaison for Aboriginal Education for our Regina Public School Board.  He attended a Residential School as a child and shared about his experience. Residential schools existed from 1874 to 1999.  On Friday morning at 7:30 a.m., staff were invited to participate in a Peace Pipe ceremony at Grant Road School and at 9:30 a.m. our Grant Road students and staff will participate in a Flag Raising ceremony later this a.m.

Please watch the following powerful video/book with your child at home and discuss:   When I Was Eight, a picture book about residential schools. The children are familiar with this book as it was read to them by Ms. Holtby in our Social Studies class.

When I Was Eight children’s story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBrkJn3NeI

Through the story Amik Loves School, the Grade 1 and 2s became aware of the history and impact of residential schools in Canada.  We had a class discussion about residential schools and did some drama activities based on Amik, the main character.  We also read, Kookum’s Red Shoes by P. Eyvindson. The children then brainstormed about things that they would not want taken away from them.  Children had an opportunity to come up and share their ideas using the data projector. 

 So great to see so many children wearing orange on Friday, the 28^th for Orange Shirt Day;  throughout many regions of the country in recognition of the harm done to generations of children by the Indian Residential Schools and as an affirmation of our commitment to ensure that every child matters. As we continue on our reconciliation journey, it is important to participate and develop awareness of the history and impact of residential schools in Canada.  The orange shirt is symbolic of every residential school student’s loss of identity and self-worth and becomes a symbol of defiance against that undermining of children’s self-esteem, and of our commitment to anti-racism and anti-bullying in general.  Ms. Holtby did a writing activity with the children this week. They created their own t-shirts with things that are important to them. They discussed how the children who were taken away from their families felt, and something they learned about Indian Residential Schools. Protocol of the ‘First Nations talking circle’ consists of acknowledging the Treaty 4 territory, to sit on Mother Earth if possible, to pass the talking stick in a clockwise direction, to listen respectfully to the person holding the talking stick (speaker), and to value his/her opinion and to speak from the heart.

Next week, I will share GRANT ROAD pictures from later this Friday morning with the ENTIRE SCHOOL during the Treaty Four Flag raising.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Ms. Selimos, Ms. Holtby, Ms. Daniels

September 17th, 2018 week with Ms. Selimos and Ms. Holtby

Greetings Parents and Students,

On Monday we began the PHONICS LETTER OF THE WEEK (Bb).  Brainstorm “b” words with your child and try reading the sentences from the photos.

We began our HOME READING program this week.  Parents, please, please, please send the borrowed book(s) back to school the following day, whether you have had time to read it or not.  I will control the Grade 1 HOME READING books for a while.  Grade 1 parents, work on the 20 LIST words in the ‘Homework Book’.  I will assign a new task each Monday, so please send the Homework book to school on Mondays or Tuesdays, if Monday is a holiday.

Reading Logs will be collected next Thursday, September 27^th.  Reading Minute expectations will be halved, as we distributed the Home Reading mid-month.

The math word at the end of the week was ATTRIBUTE.  Ask your child to explain different attributes of patterning (colour, shape, size, direction, position).  We explored attributes this week using pattern blocks (triangles, squares). The children created patterns using 2 attributes AT ONCE.  Example:  size and color . . . little orange square, big red triangle, little red triangle. . . The children had to explain their pattern rule for each pattern as they extended it. 

On Tuesday afternoon we created our paper mache turkeys.  Thank you to Malika’s and Kade’s moms for helping us with this special project.  On Thursday we created nametags for the turkeys and painted them. Next Tuesday we will decorate our paper mache turkeys with our new Grade 4 Learning Buddies. Remember to send feathers to school! This art project will be on display for everyone to enjoy, in front of the school’s main display case at OPEN HOUSE/ BBQ NIGHT.  They will be sent home in time for Thanksgiving long weekend.

On Wednesday morning we welcomed our wonderful, amazing, new Grade 2 student to our classroom; Emma.  We now have 10 Grade 2s and 14 Grade 1s.

For Zones of Regulation this week, Ms. Holtby has been deepening the discussion of how we feel in each zone to how our facial expressions may look. At Open House be sure to check out our ‘My Zones Toolbox’ booklet that will be clipped to our bulletin board outside our classroom. Most recently, the students have been learning the differences between a ‘Big Deal’ and a ‘Little Deal’ when handling everyday problems. Below is a video link that was shared with the class. Watch and discuss with your child about Big Deals and Little Deals, and how we should act towards a Big or Little problem:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ifIowPdtQ

Please refer to the photo and worksheet in your child’s agenda called:  Who Am I?  In Grades 1 and 2, it is expected that your child knows his/her birthday, phone number and address, orally in conversation in Grade 1, and in Grade 2; orally in conversation and in written situations.  Practice this at home with your child.  More than 60 % of the Grade 1s and 2s did not know their phone numbers and/or addresses. We will retest them throughout the school year.

Academically, we will be administering ORR; Oral Reading Records (Reading Testing for Gr. 1) and Fountas and Pinnell; F&P (Reading Testing for Gr. 2) with your children over the next few weeks to see what his/her present reading level is.  Both tests are based on fluency, word attack skills and comprehension. 

For French on Monday we went outside and played “Quel heure est-il Monsieur Loup?” using clocks to review the time to the nearest hour.  The children loved playing this game and being chased by the wolf.  We reviewed the days of the week in French doing some action songs and sang our silly alphabet song. We read some fall poetry in French and sang some songs.  We also create cell phones and will work on learning our phone numbers in English and French.

Your child wrote his/her first spelling test on Monday.  They did great!  We WILL get “picky” in Grade Two re:  using lower case letters when writing the test.  Capitals will be reinforced when referring to people, places, or things.  Ex:  Bat needs to be written as “bat”.  Thank you parents for signing the spelling test notebooks and returning them the next day.

We wrapped up UNIT 1 of Math Makes Sense and patterning with the Grade 1s on Thursday and early next week with the Grade 2s.  The math word of the week was “Increasing Patterns”.  Please have your child create repeating patterns, showing you the core, at home.  See photos from this week’s emails to guide you along. UNIT 2 of Math Makes Sense for Grade 1 is COUNTING TO 20 which Ms. Holtby will be teaching.

Please encourage your child to wear orange clothing, if possible on Friday, the 28^th. September 28^th has been recognized as Orange Shirt Day throughout many regions of the country in recognition of the harm done to generations of children by the Indian Residential Schools and as an affirmation of our commitment to ensure that every child matters. As we continue on our reconciliation journey, it is important to participate and develop awareness of the history and impact of residential schools in Canada.  The orange shirt is symbolic of every residential school student’s loss of identity and self-worth and becomes a symbol of defiance against that undermining of children’s self-esteem, and of our commitment to anti-racism and anti-bullying in general.

Go Pats Go; game opener on Saturday vs P.A.! 

Go Riders Go vs Toronto on Sunday!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!

Ms. Selimos, Ms. Holtby and Ms. Daniels

   

Hello Parents and Students of Grade 1/2,

It has been a wonderful few weeks of learning.  We presently have 24 boys and girls in the classroom; 14 Gr. 1s and 10 Gr. 2s.  We welcome Ms. Dallas Holtby (University of Regina Intern), Mrs. Jen Yim (Arts Ed.teacher) and Megan McKay (Literacy Support teacher and Phys. Ed.) to the Grant Road School community.

Please pay for the school agenda ($4.00) on-line if you have not already done so. 

We hope you enjoy the weekly photos attached and emails of your children. 

One of the first books we read to the children was My New Teacher and Me!, by Al Yankovic. The theme was that IT IS OKAY TO BE UNIQUE, SPECIAL. 

One of our first health activities last week with Ms. Holtby was based on “Zones of Regulation” books: The Way I Feel by Janan Cain, When I Am Sad, and Class Clown by Robert Munsch.  We read these books and discussed our understanding of “BELONGING” which is one of our 4 Circle of Courage Goals.  Whether we are new to the school, new to the classroom, new as a teacher, etc. it feels good to belong and to be in the Green Zone.  

 This past Tuesday morning, we worked through Lesson 1 of Spelling.  The pattern of focus was “b” words for the Group A students and ar for the Group B students.  See your child’s agenda and please practice the spelling words with your child for Tuesday, September 18^th.

For Social Studies/Health, Ms. Holtby began her first health unit on the Zones of Regulation that teaches students to self-regulate and control their emotions. In this unit, the students are learning the emotions that come with each of the four zones: Blue (sad, sick, tired), Green (good-to-go, happy, focused), Yellow (excited, worried, anxious), and Red (angry, terrified, out of control). If you are interested about the Zones of Regulation, visit the website do read up on its use for inside and outside the classroom.

http://www.zonesofregulation.com/index.html

Play the following game with your child. Pause at each question to discuss what the character is feeling. Is the character in Green, Yellow, Red or Blue zone? Ms. Holtby is busy creating individual ZONES TOOL BOXES  with each child. In them you will see fidgets and ‘pictures’ helping them to become ‘green’.

How Are They Feeling Now?’ game/video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbYY5QT8XWs 

As a class, we also had fun making our cool locker nametags, based on the movie, The Incredibles.  MORNING ROUTINE:  Each morning your child is to place his/her agenda on his desk with his/her ‘daily home reading’. Home Reading will begin next week. We sing O Canada we recite the ‘Treaty Prayer’.

  Ms. McKay is our Literacy Support teacher.  Listen to the following “Hello song” in Cree.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPKEjlCQq_U

Check out counting in Cree numbers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi2wmz_SxzI Ask your child about the Northern lights (ewawatik in Cree). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYiDDt6d8s   Northern lights video

Here is the link to the Ewawatik song: http://www.ourveryownsongs.ca/lyricshtml/ewawatik.php  

We also did a brainstorming activity with the children where they discussed CLASSROOM RULES which you will see posted by our windows when you visit us at the Open House/BBQ.

We began our printing booklets, reviewing lower case and UPPER CASE letters Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, etc. 

Next week, we will begin the PHONICS LETTER OF THE WEEK (Bb).  Brainstorm “b” words with your child and try reading the sentences from the photo.

Mathematically, we learned about patterns this week.  A pattern repeats 3 or more times and the term “core” was introduced. Using snap cubes, the children created patterns and then translated them to letters, numbers, colours, shapes, etc.

The math word at the end of the week was ATTRIBUTE.  Ask your child to explain different attributes of patterning (colour, shape, size, direction, position).  We explored attributes this week using pattern blocks (triangles, squares). The children created patterns using 2 attributes AT ONCE.  Example:  size and color . . . little orange square, big red triangle, little red triangle. . . The children had to explain their pattern rule for each pattern as they extended it.  See the shoes/sandal and hats page from Friday’s Gr. 2 lesson, as well.

On Tuesday afternoon, we met our Grade 4/5 Learning Buddies (Teacher: Mrs. Hammett/Miss Heron with Ed. Assistant, Mrs. Foster).  We had an amazing time getting to know each other.  We did a fun, interactive reading activity which involved balloons.  Ask your child about the “popping” session and what was inside of the popped balloons.  It was incredible to receive so many videos and pictures of the ‘balloon activity homework’ from your homes.  Thank you to those who participated.

The children enjoyed their first week of Core French lessons with Mme. Selimos.  Ask your child to share about the “Bonjour Song” and “Alphabet Song”. We reviewed colors and counting from 1 to 20.   We played a traffic light action game and reviewed our numbers to twenty playing LOTO (Bingo numbers from 1 to 20) and Number Twister and Concentration. Some weather words and greetings were also introduced.

Here is an alphabet site:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYy3P2okyw

  Here is a number site for numbers to 10: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsc3qLMaCu8

 Here is a site for numbers to 20:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEz58BblMY

Each child worked on a  writing activity about summer vacation with an illustration.  I modeled a paragraph on the data projector about my holidays.  The focus was:  creating sentences, using capitals and punctuation.  I was not assessing for spelling for this lesson. Grade 1 goal:  to be able to write a paragraph consisting of 5 or more meaningful sentences by the end of the year. Most Grade 1s were able to create one sentence with inventive spelling at this time.

 Grade 2 goal:  to be able to write a paragraph consisting of 6 or more meaningful sentences.  The children had the opportunity to use the data projector to orally present their paragraphs, proudly.  We will begin Writing Traits lessons soon.

http://www.abcya.com/word_search_jr.htm    A great site for plugging in your weekly spelling words and playing a few games with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-BLFZyAWs  Vowel song

Raz_kids READING SITE will be up and running soon.  Log in with username: grantroad4.

When you come to the OPEN HOUSE, FAMILY BBQ on Sept. 27^th, your child, will be able to show you his/her work, to date, on the Writing Wall.  

NOTE:  We will be DECORATING our paper mache turkeys on Tues. Sept. 25th. Begin gathering fabric scraps, buttons, feathers, etc. at home to decorate paper mache turkeys.  Dollar Store is a good place to purchase a bag of feathers.  You may begin sending supplies the week of Tues. Sept. 18^th.

Hugs,

Ms. Selimos, Ms. Holtby and Ms. Daniels J

Welcome Back to Grant Road School September 2018

Grant Road Gazette September, 2018

Welcome Back to Grant Road School.  We are happy to meet and to work with new families to our community.  As you may know, we have a full house of kids! Below are the people who will work with you them.  Some new and old faces.

Grant Road Staff 2018 - 2019

Staff Member	Role		Staff Member	Role
Christina Donovel	Prekindergarten		Michael Bashutski	DC Teacher
Nicole Coleridge	Kindergarten		Elvira Mancao	DC Assistant
Colleen McGillivray	1A		Dorian Mitchell	DC Assistant
Soula Selimos	12A		Rebecca Balon	DC Assistant
Sacha Rempel	23A		Kristy-Lee Otte	DC Nurse
Corinne Pankewich	23B		Phillis Tymiak	LRT (Primary)
Linda Garratt	23C		Shannon Leib	LRT (Senior)
Gail Digby	4A		Janelle Wagner	Teacher-Librarian/PE
Rebecca Hammett	45A		Lisa Powell	Core French (1.0)
Kristine Audet	56A		Jennifer Yim-Rodier	Arts Ed. (0.5)
Anne Benson	56B		Megan McKay	Literacy/PE (1.0)
Graham Richardson	67A		Tracy Rempel Uzma Ur Rehman	EAL (1.0) EAL (0.4)
Megan Chamberlin	7A		Bonnie Ewing	Admin. Assistant
Eric Benjamin	8A		Katherine Anderson	Band 6 and Band 7
Greg Korpan	8B		Travis Wilkinson	Band 8
Wan Ling Shu	Pre K TA		Becky Fiege	SLP
Leona Fornwald	Pre K EA		Coleen Popadynetz	Counselor
Faline Eckert	Ed. Assistant		Tara Garratt	Psychologist
Anicca Abbas	Ed. Assistant		TBA	OT
Candace Daniels	Ed. Assistant		Glenn Sebastian	Caretaker
Shelley Foster	Ed. Assistant		Rocky Molano	Caretaker
Emma Schneider	Ed. Assistant		Constable Swetlikoff	SRO
Tracey Hutcheon	Ed. Assistant		Janelle Wagner	VP/TL
Billie-Jo Pingert	Ed. Assistant		Lori Kukura	Principal
Louwana Prudat	Ed. Assistant		Morgan Reed	Superintendent
Andrew Gerrand	Sr. Complex Needs Teacher		Dallas Holtby	Intern in Grade ½
Donna Stercl	Sr. Complex Needs EA		Sean Hooper	Intern in Grade 4
Dustin Rapitta	Sr. Complex Needs EA		Brayden Dreger	Intern in Grade 8

Safety at Grant Road School

Lunchrooms

We require ALL students who use our lunchrooms to complete a registration form stating whether they will be REGULAR users or CASUAL users.  We take attendance for all students registered as REGULAR users.  For these individuals to be excused on any day you wish, please send an agenda note, note or call informing us.  There is a fee for this service (Cash Online).  Please call 306 539 5971 or email lori.kukrua@rbe.sk.ca to discuss the fee.  There are times when making this payment is a hardship.  Please call, and let me know.

Drills

We have regularly schedule ‘evacuate the building’, ‘secure the facility’ and ‘lockdown’ drills.  Students are expected to learn how to keep themselves and others safe by practicing properly.

Off Site Evacuation Location

Thank you to Hillsdale Baptist Church (formerly Whitmore Park United Church) for agreeing to let us evacuate to their facility in poor weather or when the circumstances dictate.  KNOW that in such an event you will have to SIGN OUT your child prior to taking him/her home with you.

Secure the Building/Lockdowns

If you learn that our school is in ‘secure the building’ or ‘lockdown’ mode meaning an intruder is outside the building or in the building (ask your kids the difference) DO NOT COME TO THE SCHOOL.  Your doing so puts you at risk, and you will not be permitted to enter the building.  We take our direction from the police.

Dropping Off and Picking Up Your Children

Do not enter the school lots.  Do not park in the school lots.  Both put your child at risk.  We talk a lot to students about staying out of the parking lots.

Please use the cross walks if crossing the street.  We want you to reinforce pedestrian safety that we teach them.

Police Information Checks

Consider getting a Police Information Check completed NOW (CRC).  They cost $10.00 through the City Police.  Prior to going to the station, you will need to come to the office and present photo ID.  The reason to consider getting this completed now is because often what has happened is that you discover last minute that you may be able to accompany your child’s class on an excursion or with a school project.  In the absence of a PIC you will not be allowed to help.  These PIC take a while to process, so getting one early is a good idea.

Fair Warning:  Violent Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA)

We live in an age where children have been harmed at school by others.  Uttering threats are taken seriously.  Saying, “I didn’t mean it.” or “It was just a joke.” don’t excuse the child from responsibility for his/her actions.  The fact that a child said it in the heat of the moment does not excuse the child from responsibility for their action.  There is a procedure we are required to follow in which we involve our school counselor, psychologist and resource officer whose job it is to determine the level of threat the action posed.  Please know that we will take uttering threats, bringing to school weapons be they real or fake and putting others at risk very seriously.  When we are made aware of these situations, we will act on them.

Child Protection

Please know that if a child disclosing fear or injury, we are obligated to contact social services.  It isn’t our job to determine if the claim is truthful.  It is our job to report to the Ministry of Social Services.

Contact Us Please contact us when you don’t understand something we have done.  Please contact us to clarify things.  Please contact us when you are concerned.  We really do want to know how to make Grant Road School a safe and caring place for your children and for you.

 

Childcare Providers

If you are a childcare provide, and would like your name made available to community members seeking this service,

please email lori.kukura@rbe.sk.ca, and provide her with what you would like shared.  Our goals are to have a comprehensive listing of all providers that we may share with Grant Road families.  Feel free to call 306 539 5971 if you prefer.

Kev Online

Whenever possible, it is the school division’s preference that fees be paid through the Kev Online cash process.  Contact Mrs. Ewing at 306 791 8590 if you have questions about this.

School Community Council Annual General Meeting October 10 at 7:00 p.m. More information will follow.      You are welcome to attend and/or to join.

 

Dates

September 26                           Social Media Awareness Event at 7:00 p.m. at Campus Regina Public

September 27                           Meet the Teacher and SCC BBQ

September 28                           Treaty 4 Flag Raising and Orange Shirt Day Event

October 4                                 School Photos for Pre K, KA, DC, Sr. Complex Needs and Gr. 1 – 8 (KB on Nov. 1)

October 5                                 No School – Teachers’ Convention

October 8                                 No School - Thanksgiving

October 10                                SCC AGM at 7:00 p.m.

October 17                                Reading Evening at the Bothwell Library at 6:00 p.m. (K – Gr. 4)

October 26                                No School – PD Day

November 1                              School Photos for KB and Retakes

November 15                            No School - KA Conferences

November 16                            No School   KB, Gr. 1 – 8 Conferences

November 16                            School for DC and Sr. Complex Needs Student Conferences

December 7                              No School – PD Day

December 18 or 19                   Christmas Carnival

Dec. 24 – Jan. 4                                    Christmas Vacation

February 1                                Report Cards go home

February 8                                No School – IIP Meetings for DC and Sr. Complex Needs Students

February 9                                9:00 a.m.   WPCA “Babysitting” Course in the Gym (until 4:00 p.m.) – Must pre-register.

Feb. 18 - 22                              Family Week

March 14                                   Conferences for KA

March 15                                   Conferences for KB, Gr. 1 - 8

April 17                                     Reading Evening at the Bothwell Library at 6:00 p.m. (Gr. 5 – 8)

June 12                                    Luncheon for New Kindergarten Parents and Guardians (2019 School Year)

June 14                                    No School - PD Day

June 14                                    New Kindergarten Visits

TBA                                          Grade 7 Outdoor School           

TBA                                          Grade 8 Outdoor School           

June 25 or 26                            Grade 8 Farewell