Thomas Street Middle School 2640 Thomas Street, Mississauga, ONT. L5M 5G8

Website: thomasstreet.peelschools.org ≈ Twitter: @thunderwolves98 ≈ Instragram: tsmspride

Happy June Thomas Street Families!

As the school year comes to a close, staff and students consolidate thinking and learning and begin planning for the next school year. We welcome warmer weather and the time together that summer brings. We look forward to each day in June as we are in the final stretch and look to finish strong!

The month of May, like most months at Thomas Street, were filled with activity and learning – Asian Heritage Month, guest speaker Wali Shah, Asian Heritage Assembly celebrating Asian cultures, countries, music and dance, Grade 8 Water Treatment Plant trips and GUSH water workshops, Grade 7 Year End Trips to Brock, Grade 8 Orientation at John Fraser S.S., Dodgeball, TripleBall and Cricket tournaments, We Walk for Water Fundraiser, Cross Country, Girls soccer, EQAO and our fabulous Dear Edwina Musical!

There are more activities to look forward to in June - Indigenous History and PRIDE month activities, Spring Concert June 6th, MADD Canada assemblies for Grades 7 and 8 on June 7th, Boys Soccer, Beach Volleyball Tournaments, Grade 6 "My Clothes, My World" workshops, Slo pitch, Ultimate Frisbee, Guidance sessions for Grade 8s, Track and Field, TACT Drama coffee house, Festival Bands to Wonderland, John Fraser Peer Mentors, Grade 6 Trip to Wonderland, Awards Assemblies on June 25th, Grade 8 Grad on June 26th and our Activity Afternoon on June 27th the last day of school. Congratulations and all the best to our Grade 8s who will be going to secondary school in September. Stay positive, get involved, work hard and don't be afraid to try new things! Have a safe and memorable summer with your families! May it be filled with lots of time spent outdoors, exploration and wonder.

Thank you Thomas Street Families for your support and cooperation this school year in our learning goals at school. We love working with our families to ensure student success for all. To our outstanding staff, thank you for providing rich and engaging learning experiences for our students and instilling in them that education is about joy, wonder and fostering curiosity, along with the development of social skills. A reminder that next school year, pizza orders will be completed online. Look for information coming home the first week of school!

Tuesday, June 25th, report card envelopes will come home with your child. Please be sure to review the report card and any additional information included in the envelope. If your child is in Grade 6 or 7, there will be a form outlining our staff for next year, with your child's assigned teacher/homeroom number. We encourage all families to sit with this information over the summer as we have spent weeks on careful class placement to ensure the success of all of our students. In September, if your family feels there is a concern with the class placement, you can complete a Class Placement Request Form which outlines our policy and timelines. No requested changes will be made until September reorganization which is Tuesday, September 24, 2019.

The first day of school is on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Until then, enjoy a restful, safe, and replenishing summer with your children! Sincerely, Tanya Tymkiv

THOMAS STREET MUSIC NOTES

Our Festival Band performing at Canada’s Wonderland

This has been one fantastic, musical ride! Thanks for the memories!

Mr. Brown is so down with the kids (literally)! A great day to celebrate a year of hard work, determination and fine

musicianship. Congratulations to the Gr. 8 Festival Band!

TSMS ATHLETIC DEPT. It’s been an amazing Beach Series for TSMS Athletics this year. With 12 teams competing in this year’s Beach

Series, our Thunderwolves came out with 9 medals in total - 4 golds, 2 silvers , 3 bronze . Well done

Great day of volleyball at our Gr. 7 Girls @PeelSchools Beach series today. Thomas Street team 1 & 2 finishing

in 2nd & 3rd . Well done

Congratulations to our Gr.7 Boys Volleyball team as they finished in 1st & 4th place at the @PeelSchools Beach

series today. Our boys showed amazing volleyball skills and team spirit throughout the tournament. Well done

WolfPack

Congratulations to both our Gr.8 Girls teams as they finished in 1st and 3rd place at the @PeelSchools Beach

Series today. Both teams fought hard and showed amazing team spirit. Great season girls!

Congratulations to our Gr. 6 Girls Volleyball teams as they finished in 1st and 2nd at the @PeelSchools Beach

series today. Well done girls!!

Congratulations to the 2019 Gr. 6 Boys Beach Volleyball Champions - Thomas Street Thunderwolves!!! Our boys

played great today!

Congratulations to our Jr. Boys Soccer team on finishing in 1st place at the @SPESPHEA Jr. Soccer tournament

today. Well done boys! . Thank you to @MlleRotolo and Mr. Lloyd for coaching

Very competitive day of cricket at the @SPESPHEA Div 1 Cricket Tournament today. All teams played at a very

high level with Thomas Street finishing 3rd.

Congratulations to our Girls 3-Pitch team as they finished in 3rd place at the @SPESPHEA 3-Pitch tournament

today Well done girls! @PeelSchools @hpe4pdsb #tsmspride Thank you to @Madame_Turner & @msmayner

for coaching

Congrats to our Boys Softball Team on their first place finish today at the tourney! South Peel Champs! Thank

you to Ms Bennett and Mr Clarke for coaching! tsmswolfpack

2019 TSMS Track & Field team. Well done Thunderwolves!

INFORMATION FOR PARENTS REGARDING

SCHOOL START UP TRANSPORTATION PROCEDURES

FOR SEPTEMBER 2019

If your home address will be changing during the summer, please notify the office staff at your child’s school prior to June 28. Late requests will not be reflected in the planned bus routes to commence in September and may result in transportation services not being available for your child during the first weeks of school. Parents will be responsible for their children getting to and from school until appropriate transportation service is arranged.

The distance criteria for transportation eligibility must be more than: 1.0 kilometer Kindergarten and Grade 1

1.6 kilometers for Grades 2 – 4

2.0 kilometers for Grades 5 – 8

3.8 kilometers for Grades 9 – 12

If your child is moving to grade 2, grade 5, or grade 9 in the 2019-2020 school year, their eligibility status for

transportation may be changing. Eligibility information can be accessed at the website noted below.

Parents who receive letters in June of this year indicating that the transportation eligibility status for their children

is being revised due to eligibility reassessment are reminded that this change will occur effective September 3, 2019.

All transported kindergarten and grade 1 students are required to be met by a parent/caregiver when disembarking from their bus on their return trip from school.

Courtesy transportation, which is assignment of ineligible students to available, empty seats on buses, will not be initiated prior to October 1. No exceptions.

Please be aware that during September and early October, STOPR priorities are eligible students requiring transportation service, bus overloads, and route timing adjustments.

Requests for additional or adjusted bus stop locations, route adjustments, and challenges to eligibility status will not be addressed until late October.

Please be patient. STOPR provides transportation services for approximately 65,000 students to 350 schools on 1,400 buses. This is accomplished with an operations staff of 15. Every effort is made to complete required adjustments as quickly as possible, but there are limitations to the volume of changes which can be appropriately communicated and implemented each week.

Contacting STOPR The STOPR offices are open during the summer months (July, August)

Messages for Parents : School Dental Screening Communicate Message (for grades that were screened) "Peel Public Health completed dental screenings for participating students this week. If your child was identified as needing additional dental treatment a form will be sent home in their backpack or agenda and the parent may be contacted by a dental staff member. Please read the form carefully and if you need help with the form, call Peel Public Health at 905-799-7700 extension 5622 or visit www.peelregion.ca/dental/schoolscreening."