Principal's Message January/February 2010 Newsletter - Retsd.mb.ca

Christmas FundraisersThe grade sixes had been making Christmas cardsnonstop for a couple of weeks before the Christmasconcert. With the sale of the cards with the moneyfrom the silent auction and Bag It! Zip It! Win It! wemanaged to raise over five-hundred dollars. Thatmoney went to many different charities includingFirefighters Burn Fund, World Vision, Pillows forTroops, Mennonite Central Committee and D’Arcy’sA.R.C. The Bag It! Zip It! Win It! The silent auctionwas a success. Students brought in Christmasitems and bought tickets ten for a dollar. The Christmascards seemed to be a hit. The silent auction forthe adults raised a lot of money also. The tickets forthat auction sold three for a dollar. The conclusionis we raised a lot of money for people who need it,and that’s the best part.TessaThroughout the month of December the grade sixclass held several fundraisers. The Bag It! Zip It!Win It! was an event where students bought ticketsand placed them in the bags for what they wanted.It was a great fundraiser and many people got whatthey wanted.On the night of the Christmas concert students fromthe grade nine John Henderson leadership teamcame to sell tickets for a silent auction, or buy snowmanChristmas cards because the grade sixes werebusy with the concert.In all, the Angus McKay School raised over $500.This money is going to the Firefighter’s Burn Fund,World Vision, Mennonite Central Committee, andD’Arcy’s A.R.C. These fundraisers raised money fora good cause.OwenThe grade sixes madesnowman cards for oneof the fundraisers. Theother one was a silentauction and there wasone more and this onewas getting tons ofmoney it was called BagIt! Zip It! Win It! Weraised over 500 dollars!After we had to figure outwho we would give themoney to so we gavesome to the FirefightersBurn fund, some to WorldVision, some to MennoniteCentral and some toDarcy’s A.R.C. Everyoneagreed on all of thechoices. So we sent themoney and know that wehave made people veryhappy.ZachGrace demonstrates the art of creating torn papersnowman Christmas Cards.Throughout the month of December the grade sixeswere busy raising money for four different charities.They raised over $500.00. The four charities theydonated the money to were The Fire Fighters BurnFund, World Vision, Mennonite Central Committee(MCC), and D’Arcy’s A.R.C. (Animal Rescue Centera No-Kill Shelter). The grade sixes raised themoney by hosting a Christmas concert silent auction,making and selling snowman Christmas cards,and a Fill it! Bag it! Zip it! Win it! draw for toys forthe students in the school. Thank you to everyonefor helping us make a difference in people’s lives.JenniferThis Christmas at school wedid lots of fundraisers! Wedid fire Fighters Burn Fund,World Vision, MennoniteCentral Committee, Darcy’sA.R.C., snowman Christmascards, silent auction, concertsilent auction; we did a fundraisercalled Bag It! Zip It!Win !t! It’s like a silent auctionexcept you put somethingin a bag like a toy andgive it to the school. Then itis put on tables with all theother ones and bought bythe students. When wemade the snowman Christmascards, we took a pieceof paper folded it and pastesripped pieces of newspapersin the shape of snowmen.Then we sold them for a dollareach. In total, we madeover $500.00.GarronDuring the second week of December the gradesixes put together many bags of Christmas goodiesfor a draw. You could buy 10 tickets for $1.00. Bythe end of the week we had raised several dollars ordonations to Fire Fighters Burn Fund, Pillows forTroops, World Vision, Mennonite Central Committeeand D’Arcy’s A.R.C. Also during the second weekof December the grade six class donated items to beused for the silent auction during the Christmas Concert.Thank you to all the student body who helpedus with your donations.Lilian

Volleyball TournamentOn December 3 rd Angus McKay’s Gr.6 and Gr.5 went toLord Wolseley School to play a volley ball tournament. Itwas Angus McKay against Lord Wolseley. The teams weredivided in to four groups. I was with Noah Gr.6, PhaedraGr.6 and Haley Gr.5. We took turns switching positions.My favourite position was server because I was really goodat it! We lost the first game but one the second and third.Then I went downstairs where the cookies and juice were.My Mom was watching me play. Then my team and Iplayed some games downstairs and then it was time to playthe last game. The team that we were vs. had a guy that Iknew from my hockey team. In the end we lost but it wasthe fun of just playing the game. Then we had to walk allthe way back to our school.ZachOn December the 3 rd students ingrade five and six from the volleyballclub got to go to Lord WolseleySchool. There we played 3 or 4games against Lord Wolsely students.On your break period you could godownstairs and have juice, cookies,and an orange. It was a great experience.Everyone had lots of fun.OwenOn December 3 rd , 2009, some ofthe grade 5’s and 6’s from AngusMcKay School went to LordWolseley School to play Volleyball.It was a friendly tournamentso we did not keep score.To referee/coach, grade nineleadership students from JohnHenderson School were there.ColinOn December 3 rd the grade 5 and 6 students that were in Mrs. Treffner’s volleyball club went to Lord WolseleySchool for a volleyball tournament. For the past couple of weeks we had been playing volleyball duringgym class and the volleyball club was so students could come and play games. The Lord Wolsey Studentswere also playing volleyball during gum class. At the volleyball tournament, each team got to play fourgames each with each team from opposing schools. In between games teams went downstairs to have cookiesand Gatorade. Chairs were set up the perimeter of the gym so parents could come and watchthe games. Everyone had a great time.LilianOn December 3 rd some of the grade 5 and 6 studentsfrom Angus McKay went to Lord WolseleySchool and played many volleyball games.When the students were not playing volleyballthey could either watch the other kids play or godownstairs and play board games. The teachersprovided the kids with Gatorade, cookies and oranges.The grade 5 and 6 students enjoyedthemselves.JenniferOn December 3 2009 some of the grade 5 and6s went to Lord Wolseley for a volley ball tournament.We played for 2 hours the grade 5 and 6students where split up in to teams of 4. Weplayed in their gym after a game we went downstairsfor juice cookies and an orange. Youcould play board games until your next gameafter the games where over we all walked back.Everyone enjoyed themselves.Emma

On December 17 th was the Angus McKay annualChristmas Concert. It was filled with music and aplay about 7 chimney sweeps that help families enjoytheir celebrations at the holidays. There was anafternoon concert and a concert at 6:30 in the evening.Each choir sang a few songs and played instruments.Before and after the concert was a bakesale, a sale for ripped paper cards made by thegrade six students and a silent auction. Two studentsfrom Kildonan East Collegiate came to do thelights and the sound.LilianThe Christmas Concert this year was a lot of workfor most of the grade sixes! Learning your lines, rememberingthe rhythm for instruments, being stagehands, making sets and props, learning songs. A lotof work for eleven and twelve year olds! It waspretty fun though. The drama was wonderful. Themusic was great. I loved watching the kindergartenssongs. It was so cute! It was really fun to watchthe drama, especially the sweeps. The concertturned out wonderful. All the hard work ended upbeing worth it.TessaFor the Christmas Concert I was a chimney sweep in the play. My name was Little Ash. We all have to rememberour lines on stage so it was a pretty big job. The Christmas Concert was on Thursday December17th. Some other kids were chimney sweeps like me. Some of the parts were Big Sweep, Cobweb, Sooty,Ash Can, Sweepstakes and Fluey. When it was time to do the Christmas Concert I was really nervous when Istepped on to the stage but later on I was fine. My Mom, Dad and my Grandpa were there for the afternoon.Every time I had a line to say, I could see my parents staring at me the whole time. There were also theselights that kept on flashing at my face when I said my line. All of the chimney sweeps had to sing some songsthat we didn’t even know but in the end it was a great Christmas concert. Later we had to do an Evening concert.My other grandparents came to see me. At the end they said I was wonderful and they loved it. In theend both of the Christmas concerts were great and fantastic.By ZachOn Thursday the 17 th Angus McKay held their Christmas concert. In the concert, there was song singing anda play. The play was about chimney sweeps and all of the different holiday celebrations.The chimney sweeps were cleaning the people’s chimneys and discovered a problem.The sweeps fixed the problem and the holiday celebration went fantastic. I was a chimneysweep in the concert; it was really a fun experience. Too bad that it is our last concert.OwenOn December 17 th Angus McKay School had its annual Christmas concert. The whole school participated insinging, acting and playing instruments. The Christmas concert called, “Once on a Housetop,” was about agroup of chimney sweeps that helped different families celebrate their different holidays. At the concert therewas a bake sale, silent auction and a Christmas card sale. It was a very good Christmas concert.Jennifer

Christmas Concert Memories

LATE FRENCH IMMERSION AN ATTRACTIVE OPTION FOR STUDENTSWhether you want your children to get a firm academic foothold in English first or you simply hadn’t consideredFrench Immersion until your child was already halfway through elementary school, people have differentreasons for considering late French Immersion.And unlike most divisions in the province, River East Transcona School Division (RETSD) takes this into accountand offers a great degree of flexibility with the entry point of its French Immersion Program.Students have the option to start at three different times throughout their schooling: kindergarten, Grade 1, orGrade 7 through the late French Immersion Program.Late French Immersion has been offered at Munroe Junior High School in RETSD since 1982, and has grownto be the largest program of its kind in the province. Proving extremely successful, it has resulted in high proficiencyin French while ensuring students have the opportunity to do well across the curriculum. Recent researchhas shown that students who begin to learn another language as adolescents can master that language.This is proving true at Miles Macdonell Collegiate, where Munroe students continue French Immersion, joiningstudents from early French Immersion to complete the program together. Miles Macdonell CollegiateFrench Immersion staff say that Munroe students have been very successful in both French Immersion andInternational Baccalaureate French Immersion, and have performed very well in the provincial French publicspeaking competition, Concours d’art oratoire.Students’ continuing success upon transitioning to Miles Macdonell suggests a very effective foundation forFrench language proficiency is created in Munroe’s late French Immersion. An early indicator of Munroe students’proficiency in French was observed last fall, when they hosted a French celebration for their parents,proudly demonstrating their new language skills after a mere six weeks in the program.During a recent national Canadian Association of Immersion Teachers conference hosted in Winnipeg, Mr.Alexandre “Sacha” Trudeau stated in his opening address that learning a second language leads to personalgrowth. Learning and “managing” two languages provides the opportunity to explore two cultures, to expandways of thinking, to discover humour in a second language, to interact with individuals in different contextsand to become more sensitive to the well-being of a person’s global brothers and sisters.To learn more about the program, be sure to attend the late French Immersion open house at Munroe JuniorHigh School, 405 Munroe Avenue, on February 18, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., or contact Gareth Neufeld, Principal, orRobert Campbell, Vice-Principal, at 661-4451.WARD 4 SCHOOL TRUSTEESRod Giesbrecht661-5984Eva Prysizney668-3501Mail can be addressed to the Board of Trusteesand sent to the Administration Offices:589 Roch St., Winnipeg, MB, R2K 2P7c/o Gay Caithness

IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES2009-2010Wednesday, January 27Hot Lunch Day – Gr. 3 parents provide cupcakesThursday, February 4 CSA Movie Night 6:30 p.m.Friday, February 5 Co-ordinated Day NO SCHOOLWednesday, February 10 Staff Meeting – Early Dismissal 2:55 p.m.Monday, February 15 Louis Riel Day NO SCHOOLFebruary 16-19Teacher Appreciation WeekCSA Staff LuncheonWednesday, February 24Hot Lunch Day – Gr. 2 parents provide cupcakesMonday, March 1 Kindergarten Registration begins 8:00 a.m.Wednesday, March 10 Staff Meeting – Early Dismissal 2:55 p.m.Friday, March 12 Report Card prep NO SCHOOLThursday, March 25 P/T Interviews Evening onlyFriday, March 26Parent/Teacher Interviews (am) & PD (pm) NO SCHOOLSat., March 27 - Sun., April 4 Spring Break NO SCHOOLMonday, April 5First Day after breakWednesday, April 21Hot Lunch Day – Gr. 1 parents provide cupcakesFriday, April 30 Co-ordinated Day NO SCHOOLWednesday, May 19Hot Lunch Day – Kinder. parents provide cupcakesMonday, May 24 Victoria Day NO SCHOOLWednesday, May 26 Staff Meeting – Early Dismissal 2:55 p.m.Friday, June 4Step Up DayThursday, June 10CSA BBQFriday, June 11 Report Card (am) & Admin (pm) NO SCHOOLTuesday, June 15Field DayWednesday, June 16Hot Lunch DayWednesday, June 23Alternate Field DayThursday, June 24Kindergarten CelebrationFriday, June 25Grade 6 FarewellTuesday, June 29Awards AssemblyWednesday, June 30 Last Day of School *2:40 p.m.**Note: Early dismissals on Friday, December 18 and Wednesday, June 30 only are at 2:40 p.m.*

BRONX PARK FAMILY PROGRAMThe Bronx Park Family program provides a safe, welcoming environment forfamilies to play, explore and create through structured and non-structuredactivities with their children.Enjoy learning how to interact in new ways with your child, while you meet andbuild a supportive network connecting with other families in your community.Free Play, art, stories, songs, movement, and support activities and resources arefocused on children ages birth to five years and led by our qualified and caringfacilitator.PROGRAM SESSIONS & DATESSession 1Tuesday, January 19 - March 239:30 – 11:30 amBronx Park Community CentreGymSession 2Thursday, January 21 - March 251:30 – 3:30 pmBronx Park Community CentreMulti-Purpose RoomCost: $50.00 for 10 sessionsPayment can be made by cash or cheque.Call for Information: 667-5731RegistrationPre-registration is required before January 15, 2010.Register in person at Bronx Park Community Centre, 720 Henderson HwyMonday – Fridaybetween 9 am – 4 pmOpen House on Jan 7th from 1:30-3:15pm

Now Accepting Registrations forthe 2010-2011 School Year!Come join our great program which has provided quality nurseryschool programming to 3 and 4 year olds for over 30 years.Our experienced and qualified teachers provide a safe andencouraging environment, and educational activities/toys thatstimulate children’s creativity, develop independence, and buildconfidence.Music Gym Field tripsSpecial needs spaces available.Located at 850 Woodvale Avenue inside Angus McKay SchoolFor more information about our program orto register please contact the Nursery at667-1701.