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St. Bernadette Newsletter May 16th, 2018

by St. Bernadette Elementary | May 31, 2018 | Newsletters, School Newsletter

St. Bernadette Elementary School

St. Bernadette Elementary

School Newsletter

May 16th, 2018

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Highlights

 

• School Walkathon – Winners announced

• Talent Show

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

May 18th – 22nd        No School (Victoria Day and Pro-Ds)

May 23rd                   Intermediate Speech Arts (11:15am in the Library Learning Commons)

May 25th                   Crowning of Mary (11am in the courtyard)

May 28th-29th           Plant Sale

May 30th                  CISVA Track Meet Day 1

May 31st                  Parent Participation Hours are due

June 1st                  No Show Fee goes into effect

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School News

WALKATHON

We have surpassed our goal of $10,000.00 and we did it with 99% participation!!!  The school brought in $12,500.00!!  Congratulations to everyone!

The following classes have won prizes for bring in the most money collectively:

1st Place – Kindergarten – Pizza Party, Non-Uniform Day and extra recess

2nd Place – Grade 4 – Non-Uniform Day and extra recess

3rd Place – Grade 2 – extra recess

These prizes will be awarded on Tuesday May 29th.

 

The following students have won a free dunk of Mr. van der Pauw at the Year End BBQ for brining in the most pledge money:

Anastaisia Lylyk

Jacob Llanes

Jayden Dearden

Cassandra Lin

Sophie Fournier

Layla Chiang

Jeevan Sandur

Makena Bustamante

Payton Chiang

Kaitlyn Lew

Tristan Gopal

These students are to come to the dunk tank at the Year End BBQ to claim their prize.

 TALENT SHOW

Talent show forms went home at the beginning of the week.  If your son or daughter wishes to participate in this year’s show, they must return the form to school tomorrow.

 

FUNDRAISING FOR DEVELOPMENT & PEACE

Later this month, Monday May 28th & Tuesday, May 29th the K’s, Gr. 1 & Gr.2 students will be hosting a plant sale.  All proceeds from the plant sale will be donated to Development & Peace (Caritas Canada) a Catholic organization devoted to improving living and working conditions in 70 countries around the world.

Please support our efforts by purchasing plants.

CROWNING OF MARY

The Crowning of Mary will take place on Friday, May 25th.

Every student is asked to bring in a flower for the Crowning of Mary.

 

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CLUB

If your child is participating in the Outdoor Adventure Club trip to Deep Cove for hiking and kayaking, you must fill out a waiver form.  The waiver can be found here:

Deep Cove Kayak Waiver 

 

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.

Panorama Photo

St Bernadette School – PAN St Bernadette School – PAN

Read more.

REMINDERS

 

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

 

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

 

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

THE COURAGE TO SPEAK

MUST BE MATCHED

BY THE WISDOM TO LISTEN!!!

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