General Lake Public School
November 08, 2012
IMPORTANT DATES
Nov 9
Remembrance Day
Nov
12-17 Scholastic
Book Fair
Nov
13 Progress Reports go home
Nov
14 School Council Meeting 6:00pm
Nov
16 PA day Parent Teacher Conferences
Nov
17 Gift and Craft Show
Nov
19-23 Bullying Awareness Week
Nov
20 WE Day Montreal
Nov
22 Bullying Awareness Assembly
Nov
30 Vow of Silence/Character
Assembly 2:45
Dec
04 Character Champion Day
Excellence in
Teaching and Learning
Destination
Imagination
On Friday, November 2 staff and
students were excited to participate in the official kick-off of the Destination Imagination Project.
Doug Hunter, a Destination Imagination representative lead the students from
Mrs. Ferguson’s Class, Mrs. Langille’s Class, Mme Bernardin’s Class, Mme
Malette’s Class, and Mr. Blimkie’s Class in various instant challenges.
Destination Imagination, an international non-for-profit organization, inspires
students around the world to think innovatively and use their imagination in a
team based environment. Staff and students will continue their journey
through weekly initiatives linking the curriculum with Destination Imagination
challenges.
PARENT/TEACHER
INTERVIEWS
The fall
progress report will be sent home on Tuesday, November 13th, 2012. The Parent/Teacher Interviews will be held on
Friday, November 16th, 2012. At this time, your child’s teacher
would like the opportunity to meet with you to discuss his/her progress and to
set goals for the remainder of the term.
Keep sending your Moncion receipts over $25.00 to the School
Council’s attention.
Remember to have them stamped.
Thank you!
Safe, Care and Responsible
Environment
Bullying Awareness
and Prevention Week – November 19-24, 2012
We can all stop
it!
Ontario has designated the week
beginning on the third Sunday of November as Bullying Awareness and Prevention
Week to help promote safe schools and a positive learning environment.
During– General Lake students will be involved in various activities to promote
awareness of bullying and its effect on student learning and well-being. Bullying is
defined as a form of repeated, persistent and aggressive behaviour directed at
an individual or individuals that is intended to cause (or should be known to
cause) fear and distress and/or harm to another person's body, feelings,
self-esteem or reputation. Bullying occurs in a context where there is a real
or perceived power imbalance. There are different forms of bullying
including Physical, Verbal, Social and
Electronic (commonly known as cyberbullying).
Throughout the week Grade 7/8 students will lead a presentation in the classes
about bullying. Students in Grade 3-8
will participate in a survey to help us identify if, when, where, and who is
being bullied. Results of this survey
will be compared to the survey done in 2011-2012 and reported back to the
School Council. On Thursday, Nov 23 at
1:00 pm we will have an assembly where some players from the Lumber Kings are
expected to speak up about the problem of bullying. During the assembly, students will talk about
what a person can do if they are bullied or if they see someone else being
bullied. The theme of the event for
General Lake will be that we all need to stay
calm and stop bullies. It is a problem that only together we can work to solve.
WE SCARE HUNGER
Hunger is a daily reality for
millions of people, even in our own backyard. This October, General Lake Public
School took action to collect food for St. Joseph’s food bank as part of the
“We Scare Hunger” initiative from ‘Free
The Children’. Students brought in 484
non-perishable food items to help those in need. More information about the We Scare Hunger
program is available at:
www.freethechildren.com/wescarehunger.
Thank
you to all the students from General Lake
and their families who are putting the care back in scare.
Cross Country Competitive
Team:
Three cheers for our General Lake Cross Country Competitive
team! The team attended the meet on October 10th at Logosland and made us proud
by displaying excellent sportsmanship, a positive attitude and consistent
enthusiasm despite the extreme rainy weather. Congratulations to our team
members: Liam Jobe, Owen Jobe, Willem Jobe, Tiana Ingram, Braeden Ingram, Kian Legault,
Taylor Legault, Tommy Campbell, Emma Campbell, Sarah Stacey, Remi Lavoie, Bobbi
Lavoie, Skye Crouzat, Kaitlyn Hambleton, Xavier Neegan, Dante Hoffman, Clayre
White, MacKenzie Smith, Wyatt Shamess, Connor Chalmers-Wein, and Zach
Reid. Special recognition to our athletes that placed in the top four:
Dante Hoffman second place 1600 metre; Tommy Campbell second place 1400 metre;
Xavier Neegan third place 1600 meter and fourth place in the 3000 metre;
Kaitlyn Hambleton fourth place in both the 1600 meter and the 3000 metre, and
Skye Crouzat fourth in the 1400 meter. Special thanks also to our
wonderful parents that were able to come out and support our team and to Mrs. Crouzat,
Mrs. Lavoie, and Mrs. Jobe who volunteered their time with the team and who
opened up their cars during the couple hours of rain. A special thank you
to Ms. Legault for all the time and energy she gave to training the team.
Well done General Lake!
Scholastic
Book Fair
General Lake is
having a Scholastic Book Fair!
Did you know that for every $10 you spend at the Book Fair, at least $6
in product goes directly back to our school?
Your support of this event is key to our obtaining new resources for our
library and classrooms. So come with
your child to see what the fair has in store.
Don’t forget to fill in a ballot for $50.00 worth of free books - $25.00
for your family and $25.00 for your child’s classroom.
WHEN:
Monday Nov 12th to Thursday Nov. 15th
9:00 am to
4:15 pm
Friday Nov. 16th 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Saturday Nov 17th 10:00
am to 3:00 pm
WHERE: Library
Remembrance
Day
November 11,
2012
General
Lake Public School will be holding a Remembrance Day Ceremony
Friday,
November 9th at 10:00 a.m.
Each
classroom will make a wreath presentation.
Parents
are welcome to join us.
Operation Snowsuit
Starting
immediately, General Lake will be collecting new and/or gently used
snowsuits and footwear on behalf of the Renfrew County Child Poverty
Action Network. Students may
bring in clean and in good repair snowsuits and footwear so we may ensure that
every child living in our community has appropriate clothing and footwear for
our severe Canadian winter. We will be collecting until November 30.
General Lake School
Council Update
The General Lake School Council
would like to thank everyone for their participation in our Lamontagne Fall
Fundraiser. We are extremely pleased to announce that we sold over $12,000 in
merchandise, with 55 percent coming back to the school as profit. A very
special Thank You to three of our top sellers: Gabrielle Fullard in Mme Spencer
class, first place seller; Emma Faught in Mme Howard class, second place
seller; and Jacob Cocking in Mme Langille class, third place seller. The School
Council would like to invite every parent to come to the General Lake Gift
& Craft Show on Saturday November 17th. Santa will be present from
12:00 to 3:00pm. Be sure to bring your camera as parents are welcome to
take a photo of their own child with Santa. We would also like to share with
you that TVO parents has a lot of resources for parents including homework help
and articles on school and learning. The following link will take you to a very
useful website: http://tvoparents.tvo.org/
Next meeting will be Wednesday
Nov 14 @ 6:00pm in the School library. All parents are welcome to attend.
SPCA Penny Drive
Under the leadership of a Grade
5 student Chloe Crouzat, General Lake Public School recently held a Penny Dive
in support of the local SPCA. With the federal
government’s recent decision to phase the penny out of existence, Chloe asked
our General Lake community to collect pennies, and donate them to help injured,
abused and homeless animals in the shelter.
A large jar was collected and delivered to the SPCA at the end of
October. Chloe received an initiative
award for her work at our October Character assembly.
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