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École Seaforth Elementary School 7881 Government Road, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 2C9 Telephone: 604.296.9028
Principal/directeur: Mr. Wendell Hiltz email: [email protected]
Head Teacher: Mr. Scott Hodges May 2019
Dates to Remember: June 6 All Library books due / Library closes June 7 School Professional Day – Non-Instructional Day June 19 7 pm – PAC Annual General Meeting, Library June 24 Noon to 3 pm – Grade 7 Luncheon and Dance @ Gym June 25 1:00 pm – Grades 4 to 7 Recognition Assembly @ Gym – parents welcome June 26 1:00 pm – Grade 7 Leaving Ceremony @ Gym – Parents Welcome! June 26 All students take home all personal belongings (students must bring a large bag) June 27 Early Dismissal @ 10:00 am Last school day for students - Final Report Cards Go Home
Thank you for visiting our school website regularly: http://[email protected]/
Principal’s Message Dear Parents/Guardians:
Well, Sports Day really was a marathon event this year – taking three separate days to complete!! What an event it was and what a theme!!! WOW. It was fantastic. All our students, from K – 7, really seemed to embrace the theme this year. It was very exciting to see. I am so thankful to Ms. Whittemore and Ms. Pankratz for suggesting the theme, Mrs. Webster for all her work on the many costumes, including my Dumbledore costume, and to Ms. Bastone and Ms. Tazumi for organizing the day(s). Thanks to all the staff in helping to make the days such a success as well. Not even the rain could dampen our spirits. My congratulations go the Gryffindor (Red) team for being the winning team this year. Thanks to Mr. Hodges and Ms. Ng for organizing the Hygiene Drive where we raised lots of personal care products for our Community Schools and over $300 in cash for the Food Bank. Tremendous effort Seaforth! We were fortunate to welcome over 50 new Kindergarten children and their families to Seaforth last week when we hosted our annual Welcome to Kindergarten event. So many eager faces looking forward to coming to school in the fall. It will be another busy September with our new addition of Kindergarten students. To You will see the track results later in the newsletter and I am so proud of the efforts of all our students. I want to thank our coaches this year – M March and Mrs. Clutton and Ms. Shaw for the Grade 4/5 teams and Ms. Bastone, Ms. Pecile and Ms. Tazumi for working with the 6/7 students. My thanks also to the many parent volunteer drivers for meets throughout the season. It was so nice seeing some of you at the Parent Volunteer/Staff Appreciation Luncheon on Friday. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate a successful year and spend some time socializing and visiting with one another and enjoy some tremendous food. My thanks to my partners in organizing the event – Cheryl Healey and Alison Cuvier and to Burnaby Mountain Secondary for catering the event. The food was incredible, especially the dessert! YUM! For those of you who were unable
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to attend, on behalf of the school, we want to thank you for everything you do to help provide opportunities for our students – driving, volunteering in the classroom, PAC, etc., we really appreciate it and it allows us to continue to provide an abundance of opportunities for your children. Thank you to the staff for continuing to provide those opportunities and to you for assisting us with them. ‘Together is Better’. Since it is that time of year again, when we are planning for next year, please make sure you are letting us know if you do not plan on having your children return to Seaforth for the 2019 – 2020 school year (you will see a form later in the newsletter). This helps us for planning purposes, and it helps the sooner we are aware. We really appreciate your cooperation in this.
Mr. W. Hiltz Principal / directeur
HT Corner: May
One of the very special characteristics of a K-7 school is the opportunity for older students to help younger students. This both builds leadership capacity in our senior students and allows for our primary students to accomplish tasks they might not otherwise be able to do. It also has the added benefit of strengthening our greater school community as it fosters bonds across classes. These dynamics have all been apparent recently at Seaforth as we have been exploring our new ADST (Applied Design, Skills and Technology) kits. The kits explore various forms of design and technology and are accessible from Kindergarten to grade 7. They include wooden Keva blocks, circuit construction, robotics and coding. The kits are designed to be run as different centres or to focus on one specific aspect, but in both cases, what has been invaluable is the older kids helping the younger ones. Lately, with the assistance of our teacher librarian, Sandra Dueck, our library has been transformed into an ADST workshop. Although in the moment it feels like playing (and the grade 7s do enjoy having “centres” again), there is a great deal of learning that goes on too! Whether it is the critical and creative thinking core competencies or the ADST curriculum itself, students are growing and developing their technical skills. I look forward to adding more kits to this experience in the years ahead.
Scott Hodges Head Teacher [email protected]
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Sports Day Hygiene Drive
Grade 6 Hygiene Drive Helpers and Division 12 coordinated a “magically successful” Sports Day Hygiene Drive. We collected over 3,800 hygiene products and over $300 from all the students, parents, and staff from May 10th to May 17th. All the proceeds will go towards community schools, homeless shelters, and the food bank. Thank you for all your wonderfully wizardly donations!
Student School Supplies 2019.2020
École Seaforth Elementary School is pleased to offer parents an online order/payment opportunity for school supplies for 2019-2020. We have coordinated with Creative Children of Port Moody, BC, to source and provide quality supplies for our students. Paper order forms will be sent home with students on June 14, 2019. Please note: Orders placed before June 26, 2019 will be delivered to École Seaforth School and distributed to students in September 2019 – there is no delivery charge for this option. Orders placed after the June 26, 2019 deadline, will be shipped to the student’s home and is subject to a $6 delivery fee. This purchase
opportunity is optional.
To purchase student supplies click here: https://creativepacks.ca/collections/packs/ecole-seaforth-elementary
All school supply lists (by grade) are available on the school
website: https://seaforth.burnabyschools.ca/student-supply-lists/
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Awards Meet Results - April 30, 2019 Under a sunny sky, the crowd was roaring, and our athletes were soaring at the last meet of the Track
season. Once again, our talented track team members did exceptionally well.
Well done Seaforth!! Ms Bastone, Mrs. Clutton, M. March, Ms. Pecile and Ms. Tazumi
The following students placed in the top 8 in the 800 metre race: Kaden -3rd Armaan -8th Ethan -6th Andrew -7th Alexandre -4th Lukas -2nd Ryan -5th Jonah -6th Mitchell -5th Adri -1st Kousei -8th Ashaan -5th Merika -3rd Mackenzie -2nd
The following students placed first in the 100 metre sprint: Dryden -1st Kaden -3rd Jacob -2nd Mario -1st
Amrick 2nd Ethan Huang-3rd Derek i-2nd Armaan -2nd Alexis -2nd Anita -1st Avai -1st Alina -3rd Katelyn -2nd Hanna -1st Andren -2 Lukas -1st Owen -2nd Braxton -1st Anisha 1st Nurit -2nd Maiya -1st Emily -3rd Isabella -3rd Hannah 3rd Carina -1st Isabelle -3rd Jett -2nd Mitchell -3rd Jonathan -1st Ryan Ma-2nd Alex -2nd Brennan -3rd Demetrio -3rd Armaan -3rd Avyn -3rd Aniket -3rd Adri -1st Alyson -2nd Zahra -2nd Keila -1st Aarna -3rd Aashi -3rd Zoey -3rd Mackenzie Austin-3rd Lochlann 1st Razik -2nd Ethan -2nd Nathan -1st Brandon -1st Curtis -2nd Kousei -2nd Jason -2nd Ainsley -1st Eimi -3rd Dara -3rd
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The following students placed in the top 8 in the 400 metre race. Dryden -1st Kaden Giese-5th
Ethan -4th Jacob -8th Isaac -5th Alexis -3rd Rocco -2nd Kayley -3rd Anisha -3rd Emily -7th Maiya -7th Amity -6th
Jett -2nd Jonathan -1st Brennan -8th Adri -1st Alyson -3rd Paige i-6th Aashi -7th Kayla -6th Isabella -4th Mackenzie -6th Lochlann -2nd Jason -4th Keita 6th Ainsley 1st Dara -3rd Merika -7th
The following students placed first in the 200 metre race.
Alexandre -2nd Isaac -1st Rex -2nd Jacob -3rd Aidan -3rd Hanna -3rd Kayley -3rd Addison -3rd Aiden -3rd Paige -3rd Inaya -2nd Aashi -3rd Jason -3rd Keita -2nd
*Special recognition goes out to Aboudy for completing the 100 and 200 metre races with support from his teammates Ryan, Nicholas and Demetrip.
*Ten of our Seaforth relay teams made it to the 4 by 100 metre relay finals! *Four of our teams placed first in the relay finals bringing plaques home to Seaforth. The winning teams were: The Grade 7 boys team of Mario, Amrick, Kaden and Dryden. The Grade 6 boys team of Owen, Teegan Lukas and Andren. The Grade 5 boys team of Ethan, Razik, Nathan and Lochlann The Grade 4 girls team of Zahra, Keila, Alyson and Adri Giese
Congratulations and thank you to the track team members for their sportsmanship, enthusiasm, and cooperation - they were amazing both in the stands and on the track!
Thank you to our wonderful parent drivers! Well done Seaforth!!
Ms. Bastone, Mrs. Clutton, Ms. Pecile, Ms. Tazumi and M. March
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--------------------------------------------------------- ARE YOU MOVING??? We are well into planning for September 2018. It is very helpful for us to know about families who do not plan to attend Seaforth Elementary in September. If you are definitely moving this summer, please let the office know in writing or complete the form below and return it to the school office as soon as possible. Thank you for your assistance.
Leaving Early for Vacation??
If you will be leaving early for vacation at the end of this school year, please inform the office in writing: please include your child(ren)’s name, teacher name and division. Report cards will be mailed out at
the end of June only if you bring in a large envelope (9” x 12”), self-addressed and stamped ($2.50 postage if local address). Otherwise you may pick up report cards in September.
If your vacation will be extended past the first day of school in September we will also need to have a letter on file stating the date of your child(ren)’s return. If we do not have a letter on file for their late return, we cannot hold their space past the first week of September.
The following child(ren) will not be returning to École Seaforth Elementary in September 2019 Child’s Name: ________________________________Grade:______Teacher: __________________ _________________________________Grade: _____Teacher: __________________ Signature Parent/Guardian ___________________________ Date: _______________________
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Chinese Language Programme 2019-2020
This is an opportunity for your child to acquire a new language at an age when learning come easily. Instruction is in both Chinese and English. The program runs from September 2019 to June 2020. Start Date: the week of September 17, 2019. Languages: Cantonese and Mandarin Classes: All levels Class time: 4:00pm-5:30pm Tuesdays Fee: $400 if payment is made in June 2019 or $420 of payment is made in September 2019. For information contact Wendy Wong 604-679-6623 or [email protected] Registration date: May 21 and 28 2019 4:00-5:30pm and September 17, 2019 3:30-4:30 pm