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Monday Memo
Week of October 29th, 2018
In case you missed it.....
First Math PLC
Symmetry in K/1
Art and Math
Important Dates
- 8:15am - Social story app cafe with Keri and Christine (see below)
- am - Christine and Jenn at PHHS meeting with Spec Ed team to discuss next steps for our school
- 12:30pm - Jenn in meeting with graphic designer
- 1:40pm - Gym is in use for a "thank you" celebration for our lunch monitors
- 3:30pm - Social story app cafe with Christine and Keri (see below)
Tuesday, October 30th - Day 4
- 9:45am - Jenn in a math teleconference
- Last block - Team 1 and 2 attending separate month end Assemblies
- 3:30pm - School Improvement Team meeting for Well-being Goal
- 3:30pm - PBIS meeting
Wednesday, October 31st - Day 5
- HALLOWEEN - scary stuff!!!
- am - Jan, Kelly and Jenn doing quarterly Health and Safety
- 3:20pm - all report folders due to Mary, indicating you are ready to have your reports printed and read by the office.
Thursday, November 1st - Day 1
- Month long School Council donation drive begins
Friday, November 2nd- Day 2
- 8:45am - 11:45am - Jan, Keri and Steve at PHHS for Health and Safety training
- 1pm - Jenn in a parent meeting
Upcoming
- November 9th - Initial Observations of Learning/Progress Reports sent home
- November 12th - Staff Meeting and School Council
- November 16th - Photo Retakes
Important Information for the Week
Social Story App
On Monday (before and after school) Christine and Keri will be hosting a cafe about a new social story app that is simply amazing! If you have a student that has the strategy of social story identified on their IEP, or if you are just interested in seeing this great tool that allows you to put audio to a series of pictures, please come join them! Although necessary learning for some, this is truly a tool that would be useful for all. I can think of all kinds of ways to use this app - spec ed or not spec ed. You don't want to miss this!
Initial Observations of Learning/Progress Reports and Interviews
As you are aware, file folders for Initial Observations of Learning/Progress Reports, must be given to Mary by 3:20pm on October 31st, indicating you are ready to have your reports printed and reviewed. Please ensure that if you have selected PWD, that next steps are addressed. Although IEP's and Safety Plans have just been completed, you must send home a new copy. For IEP's, please ensure you have added: IEP reviewed by Principal AND IEP sent home with Progress Report (date of November 9th for both items) on the consultation page. IEP's must be printed and placed in the file folder you give to Mary before reports are printed for review. Steve and I have divided reports for feedback. Please see below:
Steve: Nutbrown, Cairns, Worthington, Zahn, Stephen, Brodie, Bonisteel, Clancy, Avarell, Carreira
Jenn: Smith, Rice, Buchanan, Tremblay, LaPierre, Coon, Rostetter-Saunders, Long, Ryan, Stoter, Morin, Johnston
Parents - Edsby
New invitations were sent out this week to parents not currently signed up with Edsby.....another 45 or so families are now on board. Please take a minute to look and see how many parents you have and who is missing. Your support in encouraging them to sign up - for your updates as well as school updates - would be greatly appreciated. In addition, we'll be working this year to ensure that students have posts in their portfolios - so getting parents in the routine of checking Edsby regularly is a really good thing!
The first annual Great GT Pumpkin auction
A reminder that room 144 has created a fantastic pumpkin auction with all proceeds going to Pedal for Hope. Enter your bid by the end of Monday on the following google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7G4bSc6RkPo5tngVQoYwqwZwZsgisgYnPBdt1K0kIU/edit?usp=sharing Let’s help them to help this great cause!
School Council Update
Beginning Thursday November 1st - School Council will be holding their second annual Donation Drive. This is their major fundraiser as we move away from third party sellers with 100% of all funds going to the school. Your support in encouraging donations is greatly appreciated. Our Council works very hard to support some of our core activities as well as special events and without fundraisers such as the donation drive there are not enough funds to make the magic happen! By partnering with Council in championing these fundraisers, we are only helping ourselves. All contributions can be made through School Cash Online or by sending payment to the school office and payment options are available. All info will be going home to families this Thursday. If you know of anyone who would consider donating to our initiatives such as community members, extended family, businesses (tax receipts will be issued for more than $20), please pass along the information.
Grade 1 - 6 Holiday Concert
It’s finally official! Thursday December 6th is the date for our Grade 1-6 Holiday Concert. The “Snow date” will be Thursday, December 13th. The evening will be from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Please start thinking about your class contribution now and which class(es) you might buddy up with for presentations. We'll look to have a tentative order of presentation by mid-November.
Halloween
We all need no reminders that Wednesday is Halloween! Costumes can be worn, but please ensure that no masks or weapons are involved. It is also important that our primary students do not wear long robes or items they might trip on when going up and down stairs. We will have our usual primary parade in the first block. I expect most of you will have class parties in the second or third block. Please remember that we have many students with nut allergies and one dairy allergy. I’ll be reminding parents this week of the importance of “allergy safe” celebrations at GT - but your help is also greatly appreciated.
Something to Think About......
Jennifer Sampson
Email: Jennifer_sampson@kprdsb.ca
Website: https://ganaraskatrail.kprdsb.ca
Location: 34 Percival Street, Port Hope, ON, Canada
Phone: (905)885-5631
Twitter: @ganaraska_trail