It’s that time of year again when
we need to offer a reminder about
a few division policies regarding
cold weather because we’ve had a
taste of it already, and I think it’s a
safe bet that more of it’s on its
way before we see spring.
Remind your students to wear the
proper warm clothes to school
again this season, including snow
pants for elementary students
headed outside to slide around
and play in the snow, as well as for
any of our students being picked
up by bus. Bus Drivers do have the
authority to refuse students entry
to the bus if they don’t have prop-
er clothing for cold weather. In
the case of a breakdown, all stu-
dents should have proper clothing
to ensure they are safe and warm
on the bus while waiting for sup-
port to arrive. While on the topic
of bussing – a reminder that a
combined temperature and wind
chill that drops to minus 40 de-
grees will cancel buses for the day.
If a bus doesn’t run in the morn-
ing, it will not run in the after-
noon. Classes will never be can-
celled on those days – the school
is required to remain open for
those students who do make it to
school, including those whose
parents drive them in.
We will be continuing this year
with our Cold Cats club for stu-
dents in grades K-7. Again, re-
member that this is an option on
the indoor recess days for stu-
dents who still want to go outside
for some fresh air and outdoor
play. I’ll be supervising them on
those days on the playground until
they’ve had enough. They can go
back in when they get cold or
once they’ve had enough, but it’s
sure great for many of them to
get some fresh air and exercise,
even though its that cold. Please
ensure those students are pre-
pared with warm clothing and
accessories so they can enjoy
the recess. Call or email the
school to sign up your Cold Cat
student to be on our list. We
even have Cold Cats shirts for
sale!
The grade 11 and 12 students
enjoyed another morning earlier
this month at the annual Career
Fair in Saskatoon. Planning
should be well underway for
students to narrow their options
for careers or education follow-
ing grade 12. For those students
who are still struggling with ide-
as, help is always available from
Mr. Tucker who can lead the
students to directions to start
looking for answers. I’ll also en-
courage any students who are
considering an apprenticeship
opportunity to spend some time
to complete the Youth Appren-
ticeship Program this year as it
offers many benefits to the stu-
dent and the employer.
Our Christmas Family Fun night
will take place on Dec. 12th and
the annual Christmas Lunch for
students and staff will again be
on the last school day of school,
Dec 21st.
Just a reminder that the Grade
12 Work Experience week one
is scheduled for the first week of
next month, December 3–7.
Students are expected to meet
with their work placement em-
ployer for their interview in
preparation for the first day that
week. Good luck to each of the
students as they spend a week in
their chosen career areas.
We started sending progress
reports home last week with
students in elementary grades.
Our system has had some trou-
bles this go round so I want to
thank you for your patience as
we wait for the updates to the
program and get the paper copies
sent home. The first quarter of
the year has passed us very
quickly. Congratulations to stu-
dents on all your wonderful
marks and achievements already
this year.
We had a wonderful fall of extra-
curricular teams doing well rep-
resenting our school. Congratula-
tions to the Senior Girls Volley-
ball team on their push that end-
ed at Regionals! It was also a
great season for the Junior Girls
who played at District playoffs
this year and also to the Senior
Boys who had a team.
The same congratulations to the
Football team for a well-played
season and a tough provincial
game against Hafford! The school
is very proud of all players and
coaches across the school for
such great seasons thus far this
year! As always, our students
proved again that they are won-
derful representatives of Hanley
Composite School and their con-
duct continues to make us proud.
That’s all for now. For further
information and updates from the
students and classrooms, check
out our school website at http://
blogs.spiritsd.ca/hanley/. As al-
ways, Mr. Anderson and I would
love to talk to you if you have
time to drop by the office or give
us a call. Talk to you soon.
Chris Tucker
From the Office:
Hanley School
Newsletter
Christmas
Banquet
Dec.
21
Christmas
Break Begins
Dec.
24
Classes Resume
Jan.
7
Gr. 10-12
Semester 1
Final Exams
Jan.
23-
28
PD Day
No School
Jan.
29
Semester 2
Begins
Jan.
30
DATES TO REMEMBER
November
2018
Hanley Saber Football
1A Six Man Football
2018 Provincial Silver Medalists
The Hanley Saber Football team had an exceptional season this fall, finishing the year with a 9 win - 1 loss record - sadly that one loss came in the provincial final! The team would like to thank the communities of Hanley, Dundurn and surrounding areas for the incredible support that was demonstrated each game. We hope that our play on the field not only entertained, but was also an example of sportsmanship and hard work.
The team would like to congratulate our graduating players on their success this year and thank them for their contributions to the club over their years with the team.
They are:
Kohl Bayer, Rylen Bellina, Brayden Cline, Matthew Fairbairn, Sammy Gogol,
Justin Kloetz, Logan Mooney, and Daniel Washington.
Also, a huge thank you to our parents and other volunteers who helped out wherever needed!!
SEE YOU ON THE FIELD IN THE FALL OF 2019!!
Substitute Educational Associates Required Hanley Composite School is looking for people to apply as substitute Educational Associates. Educational Associates provide assistance to students who require additional supports. Candi-dates must have a Grade 12 diploma from a provincially recognized institute. A valid driver’s li-cense is preferred. Required skills and abilities include:
Ability to maintain strict confidentiality in school operations. Ability to work as a team player. Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability and knowledge to perform lifting of students when required. Willingness to provide personal care to students. (Training will be provided as needed).
Under direction of the principal, special education resource teacher, and classroom teacher, du-ties as a substitute Educational Associate may include:
Assisting with learning activities and basic life skills. Supervising students in the classroom, playground, hallways, or lunch area. Assisting assigned students with communication, reading, speech, assignments, tests, and com-
prehension of presented curriculum based on the student’s Inclusion and Intervention Plan.
Perform other duties and tasks as required to ensure students’ health, safety and educational needs are met.
Remuneration as a substitute Educational Associate is $ 15.52 per hour. If you are interested, please contact Lisa Button ([email protected]) for questions or assis-tance filling fill out the online application for Substitute Educational Associate at Prairie Spirit School Division: https://www.applitrack.com/spiritsd/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Substitutes+-+All
‘All About My Day’ which
describes the beginning, mid-
dle and end of their day in
grade one and two. They
were eager about this learn-
ing experience as they got to
create a book and read it
aloud to their peers. In social
studies we will continue to
It has been an exciting month
in grades one and two. In
math we have been focusing
on identifying, ordering,
working with numbers on a
number line and showing
numbers in equal groups. In
literacy, each student just fin-
ished their own book titled
focus on our community and
the different factors that con-
tribute to how a decision is
made. I am looking forward
to the month of December in
grades one and two!
Grades 1 & 2
and drawing our stories using
art materials. Our bulletin
board is filling up with stu-
dents’ stories! We are con-
tinuing to learn about pat-
terns and students are finding
many different materials in
our room to create patterns
with. We are working on our
letters and letter sounds and
students are enjoying finding
different letters in the books
we are reading and identifying
words we hear certain letter
sounds in. We will be continu-
ing to share our wonders about
the seasonal change we are ob-
serving in our outdoor environ-
ment and exploring what hap-
pens to the living things in our
environment when winter
comes. We are looking forward
to this month leading up to
Christmas and all of the fun that
will come with it!
Over the past few
weeks in Kindergarten we
have been exploring playful
storytelling and it has been
great to see all of the stories
emerging in our classroom!
Students have been creating
stories about animals and the
outdoor environment as well
as sharing stories of their
own experiences. We have
been discussing how to share
our stories with one another
Kindergarten
Hanley School has several students with nut allergies.
Just a reminder we are a NUT ALERT school.
Please make sure your child does not bring nuts or nut products to school. Make sure to check packaging.
shop and will soon start our
letters to Santa! We have
also learned several literacy
devices during our Robert
Munsch author study that the
students have been making all
sorts of connections to dur-
ing other learning and stories,
which is super neat! For sci-
ence, I have started a unit on
animals with all of the grade
twos from both mine and
Miss Ward’s classes. Mr.
Block, who is our school
learning facilitator, is teaching
the grade threes about forces
and magnetism. I will be
teaching the remainder of the
grade three science units in
the new year. We’ve had a
bit of a break in social stud-
ies, but are now nearing the
end of our unit on our local
community. Please save the
date for our annual Family
Fun Night, which is Wednes-
day, December 12th!
November has been flying by; I
can’t believe that we are on the
countdown to Christmas al-
ready! We had an amazing field
trip last week to the Forestry
F a r m , M o n t a n a ’ s a n d
Clip’n’Climb! I’m not sure who
had more fun, the kids or me!!
For math, the grade twos are
about halfway through our unit
on numbers to 100, and the
grade threes also continue with
their unit of numbers to 1000
with Mr. Hutchinson. During
ELA, we have been working on
paragraphs for writer’s work-
Grades 2 & 3
Wednesday. Multiplication
and division are next. We
have finished our rocks and
minerals unit with an erosion
simulation. Up next they will
be learning about sound. In
social studies we are trying to better understand the
meaning of the Medicine
Wheel. We also will learn
about why people started
coming to Canada from Eu-
rope. It will be great to see
everyone at the Christmas
Family Fun Night!
The Grade 4s have been work-
ing hard! This past month we
have been reading text to find
the main idea. This will help
them with research projects
that are coming up after Christ-
mas. In December they will be writing Christmas stories. Our
whole numbers unit in math is
ending with our test on
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grades 5 & 6
This month we have started a
"Choose Your Novel" unit in
reading. The students chose
their own novel, read it, an-
swered questions and then they
will do a culminating activity, ei-
ther a “Book in a Bag” or a “Read Aloud with a Poster” to
share with the rest of the class.
We are reading “Mr. Terupt
Falls Again” for a read aloud.
The class loved the first novel so
much that Jordyn kindly brought
us the second novel to read!
In Writing, we have worked on
journal writing, letter writing,
persuasive writing and we are
currently working on a narrative
fiction piece. With this piece we
are making sure we go through
each step of the writing process.
The grade 5/6 class is busy pre-
paring for Family Fun Night. In
ELA, the class is learning about
peace and what happens without
it. The students will be learning
about the pros and cons of ura-
nium and nuclear energy. In Sci-ence we have begun a new unit
all about weather. The students
will become familiar with reading
We are working on ideas,
organization and word
choice.
Math has been busy with lots
and lots of multiplication.
Ask your child about the
game “I Have, Who Has?”
Please practice those multipli-
cation facts at home every
day!
In Health, we have started a
nutrition unit! We are learn-
ing about the bad effects of
sugar, how to read nutrition
labels and how to make
healthier food choices.
The most exciting thing going
on in our class is Genius
Hour. The students wrote persuasive essays trying to
and understanding weather
forecasts, learning about
weather instruments as well
as world wide weather and
the effects. In Social Studies
the students are learning
about wor ld current events. We will begin to
study countries bordering the
Atlantic Ocean. In Health, the
convince me that we should
have Genius Hour. They
were successful and the ex-
citing journey of learning
about something that they
are intrigued about has be-
gun!
class will be studying a variety
of illnesses and diseases and
how to stay healthy. Please
ensure that students are
coming prepared to stay out-
side for recess.
soon. In social studies, we
have come to the end of our
Dynamic Relationships unit
and will be having a unit test
next week. We will be start-
ing a new project in art. If
anyone has left over wood stain and would be willing to
donate it to our class, we
would be very grateful! Any
colour of wood stain would
be welcomed! In closing,
should you ever have any
The Grade 7 class has been
working hard this month! In ELA
we wrapped up our Science Fic-
tion unit and have begun our
Mystery and Suspense unit. In
math, we have moved on from
Number Theory and are focused on fractions and fraction opera-
tions. We will be moving to-
wards Expressions and Equa-
tions shortly! The class finished
their science unit on Ecosystems
and will begin their new unit
concerns regarding your
child’s progress, please feel
free to contact me at the
school:
306-544-2511.
Grade 8
break. In ELA, the students have moved onto a nonfiction unit where they are writing all about their own lives. Ancient Mesopotamia is old news in Social, as the students are now learning about Ancient Egypt. Rational Numbers are the focus of Math class and Science is still focused on At-oms and Elements. In Careers, the students are learning
about the qualities that good employees have. Welding and Small Engines continue to be the themes of IA and Home Ec. has the students cooking. In Art, the students are illustrating poetry collec-tions and Phys. Ed. is focused on basketball. That’s all for the Grade 9’s in the month of November. Stay warm every-one!
November has marked the end of Football and Volleyball. Con-gratulations to all the students who took part for their success-ful seasons. Many of the stu-dents are looking forward to the basketball, curling, and dra-ma seasons ahead.
The Grade 9’s have continued to be busy as they work their way towards the Christmas
Grade 9
In Math 8 the students are
working on their unit about
"Integers". In ELA 8 the class
has begun looking at the theme
of "Social Justice". In Science 8
the unit of study is “Optics and
Vision”. In Career Education
we are learning Work Habits of
Successful People and internal
and external ‘Motivation’. In PE
we have started a mini-unit of
basketball skills and games lead-
ing up to Christmas. The Social
Studies class is learning about
“The Fur Trade” and other
types of trade in general. In
Home Economics, the stu-
dents are learning to cook.
They will be starting a unit on “Kitchen Safety” right away.
Lastly, in IA they have started
designing their own small
wood projects.
Grade 7
Grade 11
Well, with football and volleyball
done, AND with having scram-
bled to get everything handed in
for report cards, the grade tens
almost have a bit of breathing
room. Almost. In Science, they’ve
been working hard on the peri-odic table, learning about mole-
cules and different kinds of mo-
lecular bonds. In ELA, they are
writing book reviews on the
dystopian novels they read.
Wildlife Management is cur-
rently looking at wilderness
survival. They’ve been playing
basketball in Wellness and
working on their projects in IA. We’ve been being treated
to hot lunches, including
quesadillas and meatballs
(two separate meals, although
- a meatball quesadilla… that
could be good) in Home Ec.
And finally, in Math, the grade
tens have finished up angles
and will be starting on similar
polygons soon.
Grade 10
Wow, November is flying by!
We hosted a successful Remem-
brance Day Service in the Gym
on November 8th. Thank you to
all in attendance.
ELA/History 20: We are plan-
ning and constructing WWI
trenches.
Foundations 20: We are gra-
phing two inequalities.
Environmental Science
20: We are investigating Sas-
katchewan watersheds and
watching a Plastic Ocean.
Physical Science 20: We
are studying refraction of
light and calculating using
Snell’s Law.
Psychology 20/30: We are
analyzing advertisements.
Robotics 20/30: We are
building robots.
Phys. Ed 20: We just fin-
ished fitness testing and are
now starting basketball.
the political spectrum. In
ELA the students are reading
and ana lyz ing Joseph
Boyden’s Three Day Road.
Mr. Herman and the Pre-
calculus class are studying
radians and trigonometry. The chemistry class just
completed a unit on equilib-
rium. The grade 12 students
will be heading to work for
their first week of Work Ex-
perience on December 3rd.
Greetings from the grade 12
homeroom. Our students con-
tinue to be immersed in their
studies as their classes pick up
pace before the Christmas
break. Our social studies class
is completing our second unit of study on Canadian confeder-
ation and political system. The
students are currently studying
Grades 12
FUN FACT:
The average person walks the equivalent of
three times around the world in a lifetime.