St. Bernadette Elementary

School Newsletter

June 27th, 2018

Highlights

• 2018-2019 coaches needed

• Teacher Assignments

• Cambridge Uniform save the GST week

• 2018-2019 PEC

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

June 28th              School Mass – Last Day of School (12:15 Dismissal) – Reports Go Home

July 2nd                 Office closed for Canada Day Stat Holiday

July 3 – 9               Cambridge Uniform Discount Week

July 6th                 Office closes for the summer

Aug. 27th              Office re-opens for the 2018-2019 school year

Sept. 1st               School Grounds Clean Up – Volunteers Needed

Sept. 4th               School Opens for 2018-2019 school year

School News

Year End Letter to Parents

Dear Parents, Please read the following letter for important information in regards to the ending of the year and the beginning of next year.  It is two pages long, so be sure to click on the next page at the bottom of the PDF.

Read more.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL REMINDER

There will be no Stingers Club for the  after school program on Thursday, June 28th.

Dismissal on Thursday, June 28th is 12:15pm, please ensure that your child(ren) is/are picked up promptly.

2018-2019 COACHES ARE NEEDED

The school is in need of support from parents to help coach our volleyball and basketball teams.  We are very grateful for the number of teachers and parents who have already stepped up to coach, but we are in need of just a couple more so we can provide an opportunity for all intermediate students in grade 5 – 7 to play these sports.  We are in need of the following:

– Gr. 7 Boys Volleyball

– Gr. 5 Girls Basketball

If you would like to coach either (or both) of these teams, please contact me at principal@stbernadette.ca

LOST & FOUND

There are many items in the Lost & Found, please have your child check the Lost & Found table located near the office before the end of the last day of school.  Left over items will be donated to the Thrift Store.

CALENDAR

Our Calendar is now updated for the 2018-2019 school year.  The school exclusively uses google calendar and events are added and changed throughout the year.  It is best you add the calendar to your own so that you can see the updates as they happen.  You can find our calendar under our “School Life” tab.

SCHOOL OFFICE

Our school office closes on July 6th, 2018.  The office will be closed on Monday July 2nd for the Canada Day holiday. If you have any business with the office we ask that it be done before this date.  The offices will re-open again on August 27th, 2018.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

If you would like to volunteer your time to help organize and clean the school, we will have the school open on July 21st and Aug 11th.  You can also call Mr. Barry at ___________ if you would like to arrange another time to come in and help out.  Please note, that Mr. Barry will be unavailable July 4th – 6th and July 26th – Aug. 3rd.

ALTAR SERVING

Thank you to our altar servers for your dedication to serving at St. Bernadette Parish.  Thank you also to those who served at our First Communion and Confirmation Masses.  A new schedule is currently being prepared.  If students wish to join our altar serving team, please contact Elaine at eadevlin@shaw.ca before July 1st.  Altar servers must have received their First Holy Communion in order to serve, generally grade 3 and up.  Training is provided.

SCHOOL GROUNDS CLEAN UP

Get a jump start on your parent participation hours this summer!

The school grounds will be needing sprucing up before school re-opens so bring your shovels, rakes, wheelbarrow, on Saturday, September 1st from 9:00 until completion,

Lunch will be provided!

Please notify the office if you will be helping out.

Many hands make light work 🙂

2018-2019 TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS

As we come to an end of another school year, we would like to acknowledge Mr. Cos Natola who will be leaving us to pursue his career in secondary school education at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in North Vancouver.  We wish him all the best in his future endeavours.  We would also like to recognize some new additions to the school. We welcome Ms. Nicole Heaman who will assume the position of Music and Physical & Health Education teacher.  We also welcome Ms. Ashley Ausmus who will join our team of Educational Assistants.

Below you will find the teaching assignments for next year:

Kindergarten – Mrs. Schollen

Grade 1 – Mrs. Misiti, Mrs. Hillard

Grade 2 – Ms. De Sousa

Grade 3 – Ms. Misiti, Mrs. Fraser

Grade 4 –Mrs. Stuart

Grade 5 – Mrs. Bourassa

Grade 6 – Mrs. Peck

Grade 7 – Mrs. Kosman

Music – Ms. Heaman

French – Mrs. Fraser

Learning Resource – Mrs. Bennett

Physical Education – Ms. Heaman

2018-2019 PEC

Here is your 2018-2019 Parish Education Committee Members:

Angela Lew – Chairperson

Catherine Lan – Vice-Chairperson/Fundraising

Camille Evangelista – Secretary/Parent Participation

Cheryl Chiang – Treasurer

Paul Lylyk – Communications/Fundraising

Marc Fournier – Maintenance

Cristina Ricafort – Parish Liaison Rep/Communications

Fr. Paul – Pastor

Michael van der Pauw – Principal

Boni Kosman – Vice-Principal

Mary Peck – Teacher Representative

PEC Contact Information

For general PEC inquiries –  pec@stbernadette.ca

Parent Participation – participation@stbernadette.ca

Treasurer – treasurer@stbernadette.ca

Fundraising – fundraising@stbernadette.ca

Communications – communications@stbernadette.ca

Maintenance – mf4@telus.net

Cambridge Uniform Discount Week July 3rd – 9th, 2018

Read more.

REMINDERS

TUITION CHEQUE

Just a reminder that we will be depositing your post-dated cheque of July 1st for September’s tuition on July 3rd.

STEM SUMMER CAMPS

St. Bernadette is offering 2 great summer camps this year.  More information is below.  Please note that this post has multiple pages.  When you click read more, you will be brought to the PDF page and you can click on the next page at the bottom of PDF.  You can register online at  WWW.SPARKACADEMICS.CA

Read more.

USED UNIFORMS

We are accepting good, clean used uniforms at the school.  A bin is located across from the office.  If you are in need of a uniform please email useduniforms@stbernadette.ca to make your request.  Please have all the sizing information listed in your email

End of Year School Prayer

O God of all beginnings and endings,
We praise and thank you for the gift of this school year.
It has been a time filled with grace and blessings,
With challenges and opportunities, joys and sorrows.

The days have passed quickly, O Lord.

The weeks, months, seasons, holidays and holy days,

The assessments, vacations, breaks, and assemblies,

All have come forth from your hand.

We trust that your purposes have always been at work each day.

Give us the rest and refreshment we need this summer.
Let our efforts of this past year bear fruit.
Bring all of our plans to a joyful conclusion,
And bless us, according to your will,

With the fulfillment of our summer hopes and dreams.
Watch over us in the weeks of rest ahead,
And guide each day as you have done this past year.
Help us return to St. Bernadette’s with a new spirit and a new energy.

May we continue to grow
In age, wisdom, knowledge and grace
All the days of our lives.

Amen.

Links

School Calendar
Absentee Forms
Stingers Club

St. Bernadette Elementary Catholic School
13130 65B Ave
Surrey, BC V3W 9M1
phone: (604) 596-1101
fax: (604) 596-1550
admin@stbernadette.ca

St. Bernadette Elementary

School Newsletter

April 25th, 2018

Highlights

• URGENT: Important Parking Information for Friday April 27th

• School Walkathon

• School Rankings

• Flea Market and Track Meet Appreciation

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

April 27th                   CWL Conference – No Parking for Parents

April 27th                   Holy Cross Track Meet (drivers are needed)

May 1st                      St. Bernadette Spelling Bee

May 4th                     Annual Walkathon – 12:15pm Dismissal (non-uniform)

May 31st                   Parent Participation Hours are Due

School News

The Walkathon Pledge Drive is off to a great start.  Thank you to everyone who have brought in their pledges so far.  Last week we saw Grade 4 in 1st place followed by Kindergarten and Grade 6.  It is a very tight race between the classes 🙂

We would like to congratulate Sonya Gutierrez who won the early bird prize of the Amazon Tablet HD with Alexa.

The Grand Prize draw will be for the 2018 32GB iPad will be on the date of the Walkathon.  Every completed pledge form gets your name in for the draws.  The more pledge forms you complete, the more entries you receive.

Class Prizes

The top three grades will win a class reward:

Gold – Pizza Party, non-uniform and extra recess

Silver – Non-uniform and extra recess

Bronze – extra recess

The more entries, the more chances of winning!

Treasure Chest Prizes

Once a completed pledge for is handed in, students reach into the Treasure Chest and choose  one of the following prizes:

pens, pencils, candy, stamps, emoji toys, marvel toys, and Year End BBQ Golden Tickets or Food Vouchers.

Top 10 Seller Prizes

The Top 10 students who bring in the most money will win 3 chances at dunking Mr. van der Pauw in the dunk tank (with one of them being a guarantee dunk!) at the year end BBQ

We hope to raise $10,000 to go towards our Athletic program.  The goal is to have every student raise $50 in pledges.  Please consider supporting this very important fundraiser.  For more information, please click “read more” in the article above.

We will be walking on Friday May 4th, 2018 which also happens to be Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you).  As such, we are embracing the theme of Star Wars for the event.

Friday May 4th is an early dismissal day.  School ends at 12:15pm 

 SCHOOL RANKINGS

The 2018-2019 school rankings have been published and once again St. Bernadette’s finished in the top 100 school in British Columbia.  Our ranking of 57th out of 811 school makes us one of the top schools in Surrey and is part of a trend that shows consistent improvement in the writing of the Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA).

Although we are proud of our ranking, it is just a snapshot of last year’s grade 4 and 7 students. The data does not show the excellent work we do at the other grade levels.  The data does not show the care and attention we take to teach to other aspects of your child, that being the social, emotional, physical and spiritual characteristics of the whole child.  The data does not take into account the exceptional work we do in special education.  And it does not take into account the tremendous work of our parents and the school community to make St. Bernadette’s such a wonderful and safe school for our children.

We are a fantastic school in every aspect of education.  I am very proud of our staff and the time and effort they place in each and every child.  I am proud of our enrolment and the families that are currently in our school.  We all should be proud of the success we have accomplished and continue to accomplish as the year continues.

The rankings will change from year to year, but what remains constant is the safe, welcoming and dedicated community of parents, teachers and students we have created, the high learning standards we have established for our students, and the faith filled approach to education that makes us who we are.

We are all very blessed to be able to say “I am a member of St. Bernadette’s School” and these rankings are just one part of a much larger picture.

ST. BERNADETTE TRACK MEET APPRECIATION

I would like to thank everyone who came out to support the students in our first track meet of the year.  It was once again a very successful meet and that is in thanks to the many volunteers who took time out of their day to be with us.  I especially would like to thank Rosie Gopal and Angeline Yaschyshyn and their crew for running a fantastic concession stand.  I would also like to thank all the parents at the finish line who were involved in handing out ribbons and timing athletes.  Special thanks to Ms. De Sousa for leading the meet, Mrs. Schollen for leading the team at the finish line, Mrs. Hillard for her timings, Mrs. Stuart and Mrs. Bennett for announcing, and Mrs. Bourassa and Mrs. Peck for coaching and managing the team.  I would also like to thank all the other parents who were there to lead athletes to events, who jumped in to help when a volunteer was needed and who were there to support the team.  Finally, I would like to thank all the staff and teachers who taught combined classes for the day so that we could be allowed to run the meet in a safe and orderly manner.  It is another example of how our community comes together to create fantastic experiences and memories for our children.

FLEA MARKET APPRECIATION

St. Bernadette School would like to thank everyone who helped out with the Flea Market on the weekend.  A special thank you to Tracy Kiley, Cathy Lan and their crew of volunteers who organized and ran the event.  It saw a great turn out and was another wonderful community building event that supported the school in many ways.

PARENT PARTICIPATION HOURS MUST BE COMPLETE BY MAY 31ST

An email went out on April 4th to families who had yet to complete their 40hrs of parent participation. The deadline to complete the annual required Parent Participation Hours is May 31st and it is fast approaching.  Please ensure that you have completed the needed hours prior to May 31st. Any hours completed June 1st and beyond, will be credited towards the 2018-2019 school year.

IF YOUR HOURS ARE NOT COMPLETE OR ARE NOT RECORDED WITH ONVOLUNTEERS BY MAY 31ST, YOUR CHEQUE WILL BE CASHED.

Please continue to check for volunteer opportunities for this school year, they are posted on the Actives page of the St. Bernadette parent portal.

In order for your hours to be posted to your parent portal account, please ensure that you send in “ad hoc” request for each task you have not registered for or have been assigned to. Each corresponding registered task, assigned task and “ad hoc” request must be accompanied by documenting your hours in the Volunteer Sign-in sheet in the red binder located in front of the school office.

If you have any questions, please send a message via OnVolunters messaging to the Volunteer Coordinator or email to participation@stbernadette.ca

STEM SUMMER CAMPS

St. Bernadette is offering 2 great summer camps this year.  More information is below.  Please note that this post has multiple pages.  When you click read more, you will be brought to the PDF page and you can click on the next page at the bottom of PDF.  You can register online at  WWW.SPARKACADEMICS.CA

Read more.

PEC ELECTIONS

Nomination forms for the 2018-2019 Parish Education Committee are now available at the school and parish office. If you would like to be nominated, please fill out the form and return it to the school office.

REMINDERS

CLERGY NIGHT

The Knights of Columbus, council # 8629 as well as their sponsors are pleased to host an appreciation dinner for our Clergy.

All parishioners are invited to attend our appreciation buffet dinner for our clergy from the Western and Eastern deanery.

The date is Monday, May 14, doors open at 6:00pm, and dinner will be served at 7:00pm.  The cost per ticket is $35.00. To purchase your tickets please contact John Smith 604-590-3797 or John Noel 604-594-0081.

NSF FEE CHANGE

In reference to the policy regarding Insufficent Funds, as detail in the St. Bernadette Parent Handbook, the NSF fees shall been amended as follows:

• If an NSF cheque is returned to the school by the Bank, an additional charge of $25.00 will be levied to the family.

• If a 2nd NSF cheque is returned to the school by the bank and any subsequent cheques returned by the Bank as NSF (if it occurs in the same school year), an additional charge of $45.00 will be levied to the family.

These changes will come into effect starting on April 30th, 2018

SCHOOL DEBIT MACHINES

The school has received debit machines.  As a result we can now accept credit card and interact payments for tuition and school fees.  We ask for your patience as we are learning the new program.

USED UNIFORMS

We are accepting good, clean used uniforms at the school.  A bin is located across from the office.  If you are in need of a uniform please email useduniforms@stbernadette.ca to make your request.  Please have all the sizing information listed in your email

When you feel like giving up,

hold on just a little longer!!!

Links

School Calendar
Absentee Forms
Stingers Club

St. Bernadette Elementary Catholic School
13130 65B Ave
Surrey, BC V3W 9M1
phone: (604) 596-1101
fax: (604) 596-1550
admin@stbernadette.ca