november 2016 - bsd.ca · november 2016 meadows newsletter _____ page mission and vision statement:...

November 2016 Meadows Newsletter ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Page

Mission and Vision Statement: Our vision and mission at Meadows School is to create a safe environment, where children can achieve their potential, become responsible citizens and life-long learners and appreciate and adapt to the diversity of our society.

1220-22nd Street Phone: (204) 729-3988 Brandon MB R7B 1T4 Fax: (204) 729-3970 Email: http://www.brandonsd.mb.ca/meadows/newsletter/page one.htm

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Nov 15 Celebration of Learning, K-2, 5:30-6:30

Nov 16 EAL Parent /Teacher Conferences pm

Nov 18 Parent/Student/Teacher

Conferences all day

Dec 2 Volleyball Jamboree

Dec 6 Caring Clover Club, Senior home 11:15

Dec 7 Pizza Day

Dec 14 Christmas Concert, 5:30PM/7:00PM

Dec 15 Christmas Concert Storm Date

Dec 15 Lunch and Learn

Dec 22 Last Day of Classes Prior to Christmas

Vacation

Jan 9 All Classes Resume

NOVEMBER 2016

DATES TO REMEMBER

STUDENT ABSENCES

WHEN CALLING IN YOUR CHILD FOR AN

ABSENTEE, PLEASE CALL MRS. LAVOIE AT

204-729-3946 AND LEAVE A MESSAGE.

- Thank you

SPIRIT WEEK

Student Council Spirit Week

November 28-December 2

Monday Inside Out and Backwards Day

Tuesday Hat Day

Wednesday Sports Day

Thursday Twin Day

Friday Pajama Day

November Greetings,

Currently we are enjoying some unusually warn tem-

peratures for the early part of November. As I’m

writing this message our high today is expected to be

+19oC and we will certainly take that over seasonal

high temperatures of +2oC for this time of year.

During the month of October, Meadows School

brought in over 1,341 food items for our Scare Away

Hunger Campaign. We also filled over 40 “blessing

bags”, donating them to the Bannock in the Park volun-

teer run initiative. The Grade 3/4 Caring Clover Club

also donated extra toques, mitts and scarves to our

local Samaritan House. I am very proud of our Mead-

ows School Community coming together to help oth-

ers.

November 18th is parent/teacher and student confer-

ences and I look forward to seeing you at Meadows

School.

Mr. Lim, Principal For Meadows School Information and Events

Please visit our webpage at www.bsd.ca/schools/meadows

November 2016 Meadows Newsletter _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2

DRESSING FOR THE COLDER WEATHER

PATROLS

The safety patrols would like to

thank Canexus Chemicals, CAA

Manitoba, Manitoba Public Insur-

ance and Flynn Canada for spon-

soring us to go to a Wheat Kings

game on October 22nd.

As the colder weather approaches,

please ensure that students are dressed

appropriately for the weather. It is time

to start digging out the win-

ter boots, winter coats,

scarves, mittens and gloves!

PARENT COUNCIL NEWS

2016 FALL MAGAZINE FUNDRAISER

A big THANK YOU to all students who participated in

our magazine campaign.

We sold a total of 439 subscriptions and raised

$5100 for the school!!

Congratulations to Mrs. Stutsky’s 3/4 class and Ms.

Tillie’s 5/6 class who were the top 2 classrooms in

sales and earned ice cream parties!

Students that sold magazines received their QSP

prizes last week, if there are any issues please let

Mrs. Cross know at the office.

Thanks again,

Mrs. Williamson & Mrs. Thompson—Fundraiser Coordi-

nators

Get ready for Meadows Movie night on Thursday, No-

vember 10th. Bring your family and enjoy a night of

fun. There is no charge for admission but a donation

is welcome, popcorn, drinks and snacks will be availa-

ble at the canteen table.

At our October Parent Council meeting we elected our

new executive for the 2016-2017 school year, wel-

come to the following volunteers:

Chariperson - Victoria Findlay

Vice Chair - Lorie Stutsky

Treasurer - Amy Grift

Secretary - Debbie Barkley

At this time I would like to thank Diane Birch who has

spent four years as Meadows Parent Council Secre-

tary, your commitment is appreciated.

Best wishes to the new Parent Council Executive as

they continue to make the Meadows School Community

thrive. Please join them at our next Parent Council

Meeting on Wednesday, November 23rd at 7:00

pm. Childcare provided.

Stephanie Cruickshanks

STUDENT OF THE WEEK


FARM 2 SCHOOL FUNDRAISER

The “We Scare Away Hunger” campaign wrapped up on

Friday October 28th in a whirlwind of excitement and

activity. Youth Revolution members in charge of this

project started working first thing Friday morning,

gathering the donations from each classroom and

bringing them into the gym for the celebration assem-

bly. Bryce Friesen and Taylor Martin hosted the as-

sembly and did a wonderful job announcing challenge

winners! The winner of the most creative slogan for

the campaign was Mrs. Werbowski’s grade 5/6 class

and Ms. Phillips grade 3/4 class. Ms. Banks’ class won

for most donations with a whopping 204 items! Lastly,

Mr. Jordan won as captain of the Middle Years team in

the competition between Early Years and Middle Years

to bring in the most donations! Most importantly,

Meadows School collected 1,241 donations that were

happily delivered by Kelleher Ford to the Samaritan

House. Wonderful work Meadows School and the

Meadows School community!

Farm to School Orders are due November 7th and

will be ready for

pick up on Novem-

ber 18th, student

led conference

day!

WE DAY

Meadows School was honored to

receive 35 tickets to WE Day this

year. WE Day is a celebration of

youth making a difference in their

local and global communities. WE

Day nurtures compassion in young

people and gives students the tools

to create transformational social change. Youth Revo-

lution, in combination with WE Day, offers youth at

Meadows the tools and the inspiration to take social

action, empower others and transform lives—including

their own. You cannot buy tickets to WE Day, they

must be earned. I am looking forward to awarding se-

lected students with WE Day tickets. The events take

place in Winnipeg on November 18th.

WE SCARE AWAY HUNGER


HALLOWEEN FUN


BRUCE AUSTIN LIBRARY BOOSTER JUICE

Booster Juice will be served on Wednesday, November

30th.

Orders will be going home and will be due back on

Monday, November 21th.

Booster Juice Smoothie Price $5.00

Strawberry Sunshine

The # 1 favorite! Strawberries, bananas and exotic

passion fruit

Mango Hurricane

Mangos, peaches, strawberries and passion fruit

Thank you on behalf of Meadows School Parent Council

MEADOWS MILK PROGRAM

The Meadows Milk Program is

well under way. Once again,

the dairy farmers of Manitoba

have sponsored the Elemen-

tary School Milk Program and

have provided us with lots of

great new prizes. Your child

has a chance to win some of

these prizes. Each time a student purchases milk at

school, brings it to school from home, or consumes

milk at home during the lunch hour, he or she can fill

out a milk ballot. These ballots are placed in the draw

box and once a month, we make

draws for the various prizes. Of

course, we wrap up the Milk Pro-

gram with our exciting Milk

Week in April. So, good luck

everyone and cheers to milk!

Hallowe’en Read Alouds in October were: Click, Clack,

Boo by Doreen Cronin, Shivery Shades of Hallowe’en

by Mary Mckenna Siddals and The Little Old Lady

Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams.

Early November is a Remembrance theme and the read

aloud was Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick. The au-

thor is the granddaughter of Harry Colebourn, the

real life 1914 soldier who took a bear to war and

named her “Winnie”.

After a slow start…our Grade 7/8 Library Volunteers

are working hard every morning recess. Mrs. Lee ap-

preciates their help, so much!

Every month there are “new “ books arriving in the

library and students are always excited to hear about

them. We recently added all of Stuart Gibbs’ “Spy

School” and another fresh set of “Poppy” series by Avi

for ages 8 to 12, “Secrets”, “Seven’s” and “Seven’s Se-

quels” for Young Adult. (Grade 6 to Grade 8)

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CHRISTMAS CONCERT CANTEEN

Open

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

CHOCOLATE MILK $1.00 APPLE JUICE/5ALIVE $1.00 KRAFT DINNER $1.50 MINI CHEESE PIZZA $1.50 HOT DOG $1.50 CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP $1.50 GOLDFISH $1.00 CHEESE & CRACKERS $0.75 YOGURT TUBE $1.00 APPLE/BANANA $0.50 BEAR PAWS $1.00 CARROTS $0.50 ORIGINAL CHIPS $1.25 PIZZA POPS $1.50

SCHOOL ZONE REMINDER

WHEN DRIVING IN OUR SCHOOL ZONES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO REDUCE YOUR SPEED TO 30 KPH AS OF SEPTEMBER 1ST!

LOST AND FOUND

SCENT-FREE POLICY

Brandon School Division has a scent free policy. Stu-dent, parent and visitors are asked to refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes, hairsprays and deter-gents to school.

Just a reminder that we cannot have any nuts/tree

nuts in our school. Please make sure when making

lunches or sending snacks, that there are no nuts;

that your snack is made in a nut free factory; and

your snack does not say ‘may contain traces of nuts’.

As well, please remind your

children to not share their food.

Thank you

NUT ALLERGIES

Please come check out our lost and

found at the front of the school

for any items of clothing that might

not have made it home with your

child.

Thank you.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 2016

The Christmas Concert this

year will once again happen on

two different times. We cannot

fit all parents into our gym at

one concert and so to accommo-

date our large population we

have a concert at 5:30 and then

later at 7:00. Each concert

should be approximately one hour in length. The

storm date will be Thursday, December 15th.


Here are some pictures of some of the in-teresting and unique furniture we are using for Personalized Learning!

MEADOWS MUSTANGS CLOTHING

The school will be making a

Meadows Mustangs wear

order following parent/

teacher interviews in No-

vember. A sizing kit will be

available at the school No-

vember 16th(evening) and

November 18th during in-

terviews. November 22nd is the last day for ordering.

All orders must be prepaid by cash or cheque.


HALEP @ Meadows

21st Century SECRET Skills

November – Self-Management

21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the

information age. They include knowledge (things you know), skills (things you can do), work habits

(how you work), and character traits (who you are). These skills are super important for EVERYONE to

be a success in today’s world.

Since the beginning of school, the students at Meadows have been introduced to the six SE-

CRET Skills (21st Century Skills). SECRET is an acronym and includes the following skills - Self-

management; Effective Participation; Creativity; Reflective Leaner; Enquiry and Team Work.

When you put the letters together they spell the word SECRET!

Now that the students have an understanding of the skills, we are going to slow down, and fo-

cus on one skill per month. For the month of November, we will be learning about Self-

Management. This includes the four subskills of:

Managing Risk

Being Organized

Go for it, and finish it!

Managing Emotions

November 2016 Meadows Newsletter _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10

At home, you can try to reinforce these skills by using the same language. You

could ask your child, “Have you been a good self-manager today?” Or you

could ask our younger students “Have you been a good self-managing squirrel

today?”

You can encourage your child to take good risks, and talk about what a good

risk is. At Meadows, we encourage our students to try new things, even if they

can fail. Mistakes are just proof that you are trying!

You can encourage your child to be organized, by putting items in the same

spot every day, using checklists, and setting a homework routine. Talk to your

child about using an agenda, or cell phone reminders to make sure they do not

forget homework or other important items. Students need to have a system to

remember their to-do lists that works for them.

To help your child go for it and finish it, remind them to keep working on any

assignments, even when they are not due right away. Encourage them to

break big projects or assignments into smaller tasks in their agendas or cell

phone calendars.

If you are having trouble with your child’s behaviour, try asking him or her to

manage their emotions. They have been taught some strategies such as

breathing deeply, talking it through, talking a walk or break to cool down.

Next month we will be focussing on how to be a Creative Thinker!


CARING CLOVER CLUB


ABORIGINAL TEACHINGS

Kevin Tacan, an Aboriginal Elder in the Brandon School Division visited Meadows School on October 20th. He shared Aboriginal stories and songs with Ms. Tillie and Mrs. Werboswski’s grade 5/6 classes.

TAKE YOUR KID TO WORK DAY

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Re: INDOOR/OUTDOOR SHOES FOR STUDENTS

STARTING: NOVEMBER 21st, 2016 This letter is to inform you that Meadows School will begin using our seasonal indoor/outdoor shoe policy for all students beginning on November 21st, 2016. The weather is definitely changing and we noticed that even though students wipe their shoes at the door a huge amount of mud and dirt is still being tracked into the school. It will be winter and conditions will even become messier outside. We are reminding students that they should have a pair of indoor and outdoor shoes/boots [indoor or gym shoes were a requested item on the student supply list for each classroom at the beginning of the year]. Beginning November 21st, 2016 we will be asking stu-dents to remove their outdoor shoes/boots at the en-trance and to change into their indoor shoes. It is very important that students wear indoor shoes in the event of an emergency, they will not have time to change into outdoor boots and may be outside in the wet or snowy weather. We believe that this will help keep our school clean, our students safe while developing school pride. We ask for your assistance to ensure that your child has a pair of indoor and outdoor shoes/boots. The pair of indoor shoes should be kept at school. Thank you for your cooperation in making Meadows School a respectful, responsible and safe school. Yours truly, Mr. D. Lim Principal


Booster Juice

Caring Clover Club Treasure/Bake Sale

Remembrance Day Assembly 10:45

K– Gr 2 Celebration of Learning PM

EAL Parent/Teacher Conferences PM

Volleyball Jamboree

Caring Clover Club/Senior Home 11:15

Christmas Concert 5:30/7:00 PM

Christmas Concert Storm Date

Lunch and Learn

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