General Lake Public School January 15, 2013
www.generallakenews.blogspot.com **** IMPORTANT DATES ****
Jan 16 Lockdown Drill/ School Council Meeting
Jan 18 Pizza Lunch
Jan 24 Dress as your favourite Seuss character
Family Literacy Extravaganza 4:30 pm
Jan 23 Grade 8 Information Night at General Panet
Jan 25 Pita lunch
Jan 29 Grade 8 Grad pictures
Jan 31 Character Assembly/Backwards Day
Feb 1 PA Day
Feb 13 Public Speaking Junior/Intermediate Event
School Council meeting- 6 pm Library
Feb 14 Public Speaking Primary Event
Feb 17 Public Speaking Event at the Legion
Feb 21 Evening event 6:00: Anxiety and Children
Excellence in Teaching and Learning
FAMILY LITERACY DAY Every year in January, families and communities across Canada celebrate Family Literacy Day. Family literacy refers to the many ways families develop and use literacy skills, from enjoying a story book together at bedtime and during the day, to playing with word games, singing, writing to a relative or friend, sharing day-to-day tasks such as making a shopping list or using a recipe, and surfing the Internet. For more information visit: http://abclifeliteracy.ca/
This year General Lake Public School is having a Dr Seuss inspired evening on January 24, 2013 at 4:30 pm. Among the many fun activities, we will be holding a Book Swap. Books will be available for either the book voucher received at school or purchase for a nominal donation.
Public Speaking at General Lake Public School Primary, Junior and Intermediate students from General Lake Public School are invited to take part in our annual Public Speaking competition. Primary students selected by teachers will speak in the gym at 12:10 on Feb 14, 2013. Junior/ intermediate students (grade 4-8) selected by teachers will speak in the gym on Feb 13, 2013 at 12:10. Participants may select their own topic or story. Speeches are to be the original work of the speaker. If the primary speaker is retelling a published story or work, this speaker must provide a copy of the original work at the time of the Competition. Complete rules and regulations are available at the school or on the school blog. The top three Contestants in each category will be invited to attend the Royal Canadian Legion contest at Branch 517 on February 17 at 12:30.
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
The Renfrew County District School Board welcomes Junior and Senior Kindergarten students to its schools year round, but sets aside dates each February to register Junior and Senior Kindergarten students for the upcoming school year. This year’s February registration period is: January 28 to February 1, 2013 and February 4 to 8, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Registration is easy.
1. Visit the General Lake Public School office located at the front entrance.
2. Bring with you the following mandatory documents required to register your child: proof of age (birth certificate/birth registration/baptismal), Immunization Records, Ontario Health Card, Lot and Concession Number/Civic Street Address, proof of Ontario residency (Ontario Driver’s Licence/utility bill).
3. Junior Kindergarten children must be 4 years of age by December 31, 2013 and Senior Kindergarten children must be 5 years of age by December 31, 2013 (Junior Kindergarten students who attended in the current school year do not need to re-register for Senior Kindergarten). General Lake Public School has a full day, everyday Junior and Senior Kindergarten program for both the English and French Immersion streams.
General Panet High School
Grade 8 Information Session A Grade 8 Information Session is being held for parents and students on Wednesday, January 23rd at 6:30 p.m. at General Panet High School in the entrance to the gymnasium. This is an excellent opportunity for our Grade 8 students to visit the school and help alleviate some of those new school jitters.
Safe, caring and Respectful Environment
Habit of mind for January is Respect Respect is behaving in a way that shows one cares about one self and others. Some of the ways that a person demonstrates respect include dressing and behaving in a way that show self respect; using manners, being polite and treating others how you expect to be treated; and putting trash and garbage where it belongs. These are only a few of the ways we can all demonstrate respect.
At school everyone is expected to be respectful and to behave in a way that demonstrates respect for each other. It seems simple but it is not always easy to do—especially when one feels angry or frustrated. It is through modeling, learning to identify words for our feelings and developing respectful and acceptable ways to express our feelings that our children learn respectful ways to act.
Holiday Spirit Alive and Well at GLPS It was standing room only as staff, students, and parents gathered for a good old fashion holiday kitchen party at General Lake Public School on Friday, December 14, 2012 at 1:00pm. Classes delighted the audience with a variety of holiday songs in both French and English. Some Newfoundland mummers even stopped by to teach the students a traditional jig and share a few words. Mummering is a traditional guessing game from small rural out-ports in Newfoundland. People dress up in silly costumes around Christmas and go door to door visiting their friends. The holiday spirit was alive and well at General Lake as staff and students participated in the festive fun.
Wise Use Of Resources
The RCDSB Looks for Input on Name and Colours for New Petawawa school Have your say in naming Renfrew County’s newest school! The Renfrew County District School Board wants to hear from you. The RCDSB is currently building a new Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 school in Petawawa.
This incredible project is providing a rare opportunity to name a school and choose the school’s colours. The RCDSB is calling on the community, staff, students, employees and alumni to provide suggestions about a name and colours.
Please take a short survey www.surveymonkey.com/s/petschool and share your preference for a school name, its colours and please provide a rationale no more than one page in length. Submissions must reflect the RCDSB mission, vision and values (www.renfrew.edu.on.ca/schoolname). Paper copies of the survey are available at RCDSB schools, Petawawa Town Hall and the Petawawa Library. The survey is available in both English and French.
Welcome Back Winter Staff on recess supervision always monitor the cold temperatures and the comfort and safety of students. Please dress your children for the weather-hats, mittens, scarves, snow pants and BOOTS! We would encourage you to mark items with your child’s name so we can identify lost items of clothing. General Lake Public School Council www.generallakeschoolcouncil.blogspot.ca The School Council is very happy to take part in the General Lake Seuss –filled Extravaganza on January 24, 2013 at 4:30. We encourage all of our families to come out and enjoy an Italicious meal and an evening of FUN. Just a reminder the meal order form is due Friday January 18th. This is the 15th year of Family Literacy Day in Canada from ABC Literacy Canada. For more details and great resources on reading, check out their video at: www.abclifeliteracy.ca/fld/family-literacy-day- 2013-theme-announcement. We invite each and every one of you to our School Council Meeting, even just to see what it is all about. Our next meeting is this Wednesday, January 16
th at 6:00pm in the library. Hope to see you there. Other meetings are February 13th, March 20th, April 17th, May 15th and June 12th. Please continue to send along those stamped Moncion receipts.
Also, as Part of our PRO Grant application, the School Council is happy to announce that Mr Greg Lubimiv, the Executive Director of the Phoenix center, will be coming to our school on the evening of February 21st to talk about '' Childhood and Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders. He will share with us many points like: What is Anxiety? - How Common is it? – What are the different types of anxiety disorder and their signs as well as strategies to cope and much more. Child care will be available. We hope you will attend this wonderful informative session. More info to come.
Finally the School Council is proud to present their new blog at: www.generallakeschoolcouncil.blogspot.ca. Posted are our minutes, agenda, as well as important and useful information for parents.
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