Clandonald School

Box 710

Clandonald AB

T0B 0X0

(780)853-2122

June 13, 2017

DATES TO REMEMBER

CLANDONALD

SCHOOL

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Inside this issue:

Dates to Remember 1

Golf

Emerald Awards 2

The View

Community Events

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June 14 - Golf (Gr. 4-6)

June 15 - Kindergarten Graduation

June 16 - Last Kindergarten Day (Field Trip)

June 16 - Field Trip (Gr. 3/4)

June 19 - ELA Part B PAT (Gr. 6)

June 20 - Math PAT (Gr. 6)

June 21 - National Aboriginal Day

June 21 - Grade 6 Farewell & Year End BBQ

June 22 - Social Studies PAT (Gr. 6)

June 23 - Science PAT (Gr. 6)

June 26 - Lake Day

June 26 - Campout (Gr. 4-6)

June 27 - Genius Hour Showcase

June 27 - Metis Cultural Presentation

June 28 - Last Day for Students

June 29 - Muffin Morning & Report Card Pick Up

FIELD TRIP

Students in grades 3&4 will be leaving

the school at 8:00 a.m. on Friday. We

will be visiting the Reynolds Museum in

Wetaskiwin and taking part in some

hands-on learning.

Things to bring - good walking shoes,

enough water and food for the day,

money for the gift shop, entertainment

(that will not distract the driver) for the

long drive.

We will be returning to the school

around 6:00 p.m.

GOLF

Wednesday, June 14, Mrs. Jackson

will be taking the grades 4-6 golfing

at the Vermilion Golf & Country

Club. They will be leaving the

school at lunch time and returning

in time for the bus home.

Students should bring water, a hat,

sunscreen & bug spray.

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EMERALD AWARDS

The 26th Annual Emerald Awards was held on June 6 in Edmonton. As a recipient of an Emerald Award

last year, Clandonald School’s Warriors of the Rainbow were invited to present one of this year’s awards.

Jake Oddan, Erin McCormack, Khye Jackson, Rylan Garnier, Trey Nowosad, and Robbie Oddan accompa-

nied Miss McCormack to the Awards. We arrived just after 3 p.m., and got a chance to practice our in-

troduction speech on the stage with the microphone. We then settled down in our reserved seats to en-

joy the awards.

Awards in thirteen different categories were given out. The finalists were introduced through their videos.

We found the various projects very interesting, especially Lacombe High School’s Pollinator project. They

have 125 fruit trees, many raised garden beds, a greenhouse with a 5000 gallon water tank where they are

raising organic tilapia, and they have 30,000 bees!

We were presenting the award for Individual Commitment, the last award of the evening. The winner was Ann Smreciu, a lady who has made it her mission to save seeds of native wildflowers and other native

plants, planting them on disturbed lands to reclaim these areas. Ann has done extensive experiments to

establish the best germination conditions for these species. Her lifelong ambition has been to see these

native seeds saved for future use in land reclamation throughout the province. Her dream was realized in

2009 with the creation of the Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative.

After the Awards ceremony, we mingled with the other guests, enjoying the snacks and especially our vis-

its with other presenters and award winners. It was a long evening, but we learned a lot!

SCHOOL CALENDAR

Our school calendar has always been posted on our website and now BTPS has made the switch to

Google Calendar. It can still be found on the website, but now parents will be able to add an event from

the calendar to their own personal day planners, with notifications, or subscribe to the entire calendar.

Super handy right?!

Here’s how it’s done:

If you have a Google account - go to the school website calendar, click on the event you want to add,

and in the More Actions drop down select “Copy to (name of their calendar)” and add the notifications

you choose.

To subscribe to the entire calendar - open Google Calendar, click the drop down arrow next to Other Calendars on the left, select Add by URL, enter the following ICAL code: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/btps.ca_fk2thgt1nf1tqvgusguv0a5vh0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics in the text box, click Add Calendar.

If you use a different calendar app - the calendar is a public calendar and can be synced with other

applications. You still need the ICAL code above. Follow the steps of your particular app.

If you have difficulty with this, consider creating a Google account with your own email address and then

subscribe as per the instructions above.

As always, I encourage you to frequent our school website to keep up-to-date with what is happening at

the school.

THE VIEW AROUND HERE

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If any parents have pictures from track & field I would

appreciate you emailing them to me.

Emerald Awards Presenters Provincial Remembrance Day

Poster Contest Winner!

Rural Crime Watch Poster Contest winners!

Bird Count winners!

Gr. 3&4 performed a puppet show at

our June assembly

Aurora (missing), Ashton & Ben are

the Cougar Kids for June! A pair of really great guys!

Grade 4 math. A Geometric City Gardening with SPARKLE

COMMUNITY EVENTS

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