WE ARE BUILDING IT TOGETHER MARCH 2016 LORENVILLE LYNX NEWSLETTER ATTENDANCE LINE 905-453-7091 press 1 to leave your child’s name, teacher, and reason for absence. IMPORTANT EVENTS: Wednesdays in March at 11:00 – Pizza March 2 nd , 9 th & 23 rd – Karate Kids Fridays in February at 11:00 – Milk and Cookie Grade 3 Swimming: Mrs. Bradbury and Mrs. Jones - 4 th Mrs. Boonstra – 7 th , 9 th , & 11 th Ms. Jung – 3 rd & 10 th March 4 th – Immunizations for Gr. 7 & Gr. 8 March 8 th – Grade 8 Grad Photos March 14 th – 18 th – March Break – No School March 22 nd – Jr. Girls Basketball Tournament March 24 th – Jr. Boys Basketball Tournament L’IL LYNX AT THE LIBRARY L'il Lynx storytime is held once a month on the last Wednesday of the month from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Our next L'il Lynx meeting will be on Wednesday, March 30 th . If you would like to join our L'il Lynx program, please contact Mrs. Walker at the school to let her know your child's name and age. If Conference Helps Parents Make a Difference in Numeracy and Beyond The Peel District School Board is hosting its annual parent conference on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Rick Hansen Secondary School in Mississauga. Once again, the conference will focus on numeracy—26 out of 61 workshops help with math. Parents will still have the opportunity to attend workshops on other topics, including literacy, special education and science. This free learning event is open to Peel parents of students at all grade levels. Registration closes March 18.
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WE ARE BUILDING IT TOGETHER MARCH 2016
LORENVILLE LYNX NEWSLETTER
IMPORTANT EVENTS:
Wednesdays in March at 11:00 – Pizza March 2nd, 9th & 23rd – Karate Kids Fridays in February at 11:00 –
Milk and Cookie Grade 3 Swimming:
Mrs. Bradbury and Mrs. Jones - 4th Mrs. Boonstra – 7th, 9th, & 11th Ms. Jung – 3rd & 10th
March 4th – Immunizations for Gr. 7 & Gr. 8
March 8th – Grade 8 Grad Photos
March 14th – 18th – March Break – No School
March 22nd – Jr. Girls Basketball Tournament
March 24th – Jr. Boys Basketball Tournament
March 25th – Good Friday – No School
March 28th – Easter Monday – No School
Conference Helps Parents Make a Difference in Numeracy and Beyond
The Peel District School Board is hosting its annual parent conference on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Rick Hansen Secondary School in Mississauga. Once again, the conference will focus on numeracy—26 out of 61 workshops help with math. Parents will still have the opportunity to attend workshops on other topics, including literacy, special education and science.
This free learning event is open to Peel parents of students at all grade levels.
Registration closes March 18.
Stay up-to-date!
For more information visit: www.peelschools.org/parents/conference.
ATTENDANCE LINE
905-453-7091 press 1 to leave your child’s name, teacher, and reason for absence.
L’IL LYNX AT THE LIBRARY
L'il Lynx storytime is held once a month on the last Wednesday of the month from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Our next L'il Lynx meeting will be on Wednesday, March 30th. If you would like to join our L'il Lynx program, please contact Mrs. Walker at the school to let her know your child's name and age. If you have any neighbours that would be interested in the program, please let them know as well. We look forward to seeing you in the library!
Bus delays/cancellation information available on STOPR website
At the Peel District School Board, we are committed to providing safe and efficient transportation services for our students to and from school every day. Transportation staff do their best to ensure that buses arrive and leave on time, but sometimes, delays happen.
Information about delays may not always be available through the school, especially if they happen outside of the school day. The best place for find information about bus delays and cancellations, as they happen, is the Student Transportation of Peel Region (STOPR) website at www.stopr.ca. To find information specific to your child's bus, you will need the bus route number.
Health and Wellness
All of us experience stress in one way or another. Stress can be defined as a response to any situation or factor that creates a negative emotional or physical change or both. Small amounts of stress are healthy, but when stress becomes overwhelming, it begins to affect us negatively.
Believe it or not, children can experience stress, just like adults do. Many events in a child’s life can be stressful such as: moving, academic pressure, social situations, illness, and much more. Even adult stress can create stress in children when children are aware of the stressors in our family lives.
It is important that we help children talk about and manage their stress in a productive way. One way to help children with working through stress is to encourage them to get more physical activity and pursue activities that they enjoy. Another stress reliever can simply be taking time to sit and talk with children about what is worrying them.
For more resources on helping children understand and deal with stress, please check out the following link:
Please remember that supervision before school does not begin until 8:25 a.m. This means that teachers are not available to be with students until this time in the morning. Please do not drop off children before 8:25 a.m.
School ends at 3:00 p.m. and students are not supervised beyond 3:15 p.m. For student safety, please make arrangements to have children picked up promptly at 3:00 p.m.
When arriving, please ensure that children are entering at the back door unless they need to sign in due to lateness.
Our school follows a safe arrival program. This means that we require parents to notify the school if their child is going to be away for any reason. If the school is not notified then we must make contact with caregivers to ensure that children are safe when they haven’t arrived at school for the day.
It's Time to Register Children Born in 2012 for Kindergarten
We inspire success, confidence and hope in each student…and it all starts in kindergarten! If your child was born in 2012, he or she can start kindergarten in September 2016. You can register your child at any time during regular school hours—just visit the main office to fill in all the required paperwork.
Lorenville Public School10 Lorenville Drive
Brampton, ON L6X2Z9Phone: 905-453-7091
Fax: 905-453-4516We are building it Together!
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Please come out and join us for our next School Council Meeting on April 4, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in the staff room. This is your chance to share your ideas and have a voice in making Lorenville an even greater place for your children. We look forward to seeing you there!
March 16 to 20 Ghambar Hamaspath-meadem Zoroastrianism
March 17 St. Patrick's Day Christianity
March 20 Shunki-sorei-sai Shinto
March 20 Palm Sunday Christianity
March 20 Lady Day (Ostara) Wicca
March 20 to 27 Holy Week begins Christianity
March 20 or 21 Naw Ruz Bahá'í and
Zoroastrianism
March 21 Eid e-Navroz Islam
March 22 or 23 Holi Hinduism
March 23 Sakyamuni Buddha’s Nirvana Day Buddhism
Eve of March 23 to 24 Purim Judaism
March 25 Good Friday (Holy Friday) Christianity
March 26 Khordad Saal Zoroastrianism
March 27 Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva’s Birthday
Buddhism
March 27 Easter or Pascha Christianity
March 28 Easter Monday Christianity
March Break Maple Syrup Days at the
Jack Smythe Field Centre
Wednesday, March 16 to Saturday, March 19,
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Enjoy the beauty and wonder of nature as Spring blossoms. Jack Smythe Field Centre offers an exceptional family experience with a visit to its maple syrup bush. Join in on an authentic Canadian tradition.
For a number of years the Peel Field Centres have invited the public for an awe-inspiring visit to our outstanding Maple Sugar Bush during the March Break. Individuals and families are invited to get involved as Spring comes to life. Help empty sap buckets, tap trees or sample some freshly made maple syrup as we celebrate the new syrup season. Take a hike along our tranquil trails and feed the friendly chickadees by hand.
A teepee and early settler site will also be set up to show how syrup was collected and produced in centuries past. Use pioneer tools or listen to an Aboriginal tale around the campfires. No visit would be complete without a trip to the sugar shack where the sap is boiling and clouds of sweet smelling steam billow out of the chimney. Learn how modern day syrup operations are conducted with an industrial evaporator and tap line system. Have a taste of the freshly made syrup. It's going to be sweet!
The cost is $5/adult and $4/child 12 and under. Lunch will be available for purchase. It will include: hot chocolate, cookies and hotdogs for you to roast over an open fire. For more information, please contact the Jack Smythe Field Centre at 1-905-877-7771.
Directions to Jack Smythe Field Centre, 14592 Winston Churchill Blvd., Terra Cotta:
North on Mississauga Rd, Left on King Street (You will see Credit View P.S. on your left), Right on Winston Churchill Blvd (You will pass the Terra Cotta Conservation Area on your left) to the top of the hill and left into the Jack Smythe site.
Summer School 2016
Secondary School full and make-up credit classes will be offered at 12 high schools throughout the Board this summer. Peel eLearning-Summer classes and two-credit Co-operative Education programs are also available. Please visit www.peelschools.org/summerschool for more details.
Register today for Adult ESL or LINC classes
Do you know an adult that is interested in improving their English language skills for work, study or daily life?
Through the Continuing & Adult Education department, the Peel District School Board offers a wide variety of English language classes that help parents experience success in Canadian English in both listening/speaking and reading/writing. Courses are designed for a range of basic, intermediate and advanced English (Levels 1 to 7) as well as the more experienced learner needing to prepare for an IELTS exam.
Classes are ongoing - Register anytime.
All learners that complete a session will earn a certificate of learning from the Peel District School Board.
Classes operate from six locations in Brampton and Mississauga with three specially designed adult centres at:
Bramalea - Adult Education Centre - 25 Kings Cross Road, Unit 3 Brampton - Adult Education Centre - #300 - 7700 Hurontario Street Mississauga - Adult Education Centre - 100 Elm Drive West, Room 117
To learn more or to register, call 905-270-6000
Also visit www.peelschools.org/adulteducation or follow us on Twitter: @PDSBLearnESL
As a result of labour settlements with various federations and employee groups, the Ministry of Education has directed all school boards to create an additional Professional Activity Day this year and for each school year going forward.
For the 2015-16 school year, the additional PA Day for the Peel District School Board will be April 11, 2016. All Peel board elementary and secondary schools will be closed to students on this day. The next day, April 12, will remain a Day 4 for students.
