November Newsletter 2016 George Fitton School Dates to Remember Wednesdays – Girl Space @ lunchtime 7 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 8 – Picture Retakes 8 – Kindergarten McCurry Fieldtrip McCurry Farm – 1pm-3:00pm 10 – Remembrance Day Assembly 10:40pm 11 – Remembrance Day – No School 14 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 14 – Parent Council – 7:00pm-8:00pm 16 – Immunizations Grade 4 & 6, boys and girls 18 – Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences – No classes 21 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 22 – Taco in a Bag Sale 23 – Fall Feast 5:00pm-6:30pm 28 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 Remembrance Day Assembly Thursday, November 10 th at 10:40 a.m. Guests are welcome. Poppies are available in the office. A donation of any amount would be greatly appreciated to assist the Legion in their annual Poppy campaign. Any students who belong to Cadets, Guides, Scouts, Brownies, Beavers, or Cubs are welcome to wear their uniforms to be part of the Color Party. Life Touch Picture Retakes Picture retakes will be on Tuesday, November 8 th , starting at 9:00 a.m. They will only stay as long as there are students that need pictures taken. If your student needs a picture taken please make sure they are in attendance at school at 9:00 a.m. or they miss their opportunity to get their picture taken.
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November Newsletter 2016 George Fitton School
Dates to Remember
Wednesdays – Girl Space @ lunchtime 7 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 8 – Picture Retakes 8 – Kindergarten McCurry Fieldtrip McCurry Farm – 1pm-3:00pm 10 – Remembrance Day Assembly 10:40pm 11 – Remembrance Day – No School 14 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 14 – Parent Council – 7:00pm-8:00pm 16 – Immunizations Grade 4 & 6, boys and girls 18 – Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences – No classes 21 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30 22 – Taco in a Bag Sale 23 – Fall Feast 5:00pm-6:30pm 28 – Lighthouse – 3:35-5:30
Remembrance Day Assembly
Thursday, November 10th at 10:40 a.m.
Guests are welcome.
Poppies are available in the office. A donation of any amount would be greatly appreciated to assist the Legion
in their annual Poppy campaign. Any students who belong to Cadets, Guides, Scouts, Brownies, Beavers, or Cubs are welcome to wear their uniforms to be part of
the Color Party.
Life Touch Picture Retakes
Picture retakes will be on Tuesday, November 8th, starting
at 9:00 a.m. They will only stay as long as there are
students that need pictures taken. If your student needs
a picture taken please make sure they are in attendance
at school at 9:00 a.m. or they miss their opportunity to
get their picture taken.
STUDENT/PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
are scheduled for Friday, November 18.
Letters requesting your availability to meet with your child’s teacher were sent home with students on Friday, October 28, and are expected back to the school by Wednesday, November 2. Please return them
to your child’s homeroom teacher.
Staff will be meeting soon to schedule interview times. For those who have special requests for scheduling, please contact the teacher by phone or write a note as soon as possible. Efforts will be made
to ensure that families with 2 or more children will have conference times relatively close together. When schedules are complete, a note will be sent home to inform you of when your conference time is.
Report cards will be sent home prior to student/parent/teacher conferences to give you and your child an opportunity to reflect on its message and to think of questions or goals that may be discussed during your
visit. Your support, participation and continued communication regarding your child’s progress plays a very important role in assisting them in their progress.
***PLEASE REMEMBER INTERVIEWS ARE 20 MINUTES***
Roots of Empathy News
Our Roots of Empathy classrooms had an exciting time preparing for and meeting our baby, then
maximizing the learning. The children learned about temperaments. They made predictions
about what our baby could and could not do. The baby was weighted and measured, and the
students became aware that our baby has feelings that are expressed with her/his body. Ms.
Stewart’s, Ms. Clayton’s and Mrs. McCurry’s students enjoyed meeting baby Brynn, baby Fisher,
and baby Finlay. We looked forward to the next theme: Crying.
Mrs. McCannell
Taco in a Bag Sale
Tuesday, November 22nd
Orders due Monday, November 21st
Fall Feast
Wednesday, November 23rd
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Please watch for more
information to come home with
your child.
City of Brandon’s Waste Reduction Challenge
We are extremely proud of Mrs. Thompson's, Mrs. Fotheringham's, Mrs. Mitchell's and Mrs.
Stewart's classes. For 2 weeks they took part in the City of Brandon's Waste reduction
challenge. They recycled paper, juice boxes, cardboard and plastic. They learned about composting
and had a chance to see first hand where recyclables and garbage ends up when they toured the
City's Landfill. They made crafts out of recyclable materials and tried really hard to have
garbageless lunches.
Each class made a pledge to make sure they don't stop recycling.
Mrs. Mitchell's class pledged to "Collect Kool-Aid Jammers and donate them to COR Industries (they make "Kool" bags and wallets with them).
Ms. Fotheringham's grade 1/2 class is collecting
batteries for recycling. If you have any old
batteries, please ask send them to Room
19. Thank you!
We pledge to help the earth by cleaning our
playground, by making less garbage, by continuing to
compost and by collecting the paper recycling for the
whole school. We Love the Earth!
Written by students in Mrs. Thompson grade one and
two class.
Mrs. Stewart's class pledged to "Keep
recycling our juice boxes from lunch and to
make sure we recycle our old markers"
Hopefully the other classes will send in their
pledges to add to this article and a few
students can write about what they learned.
THANK YOU
Thank you to all the family and
friends of George Fitton School who
came out and supported our Family
Fun Night in October.
Pick up dates are:
Nov. 4th: 3pm-6pm
Nov. 5th: 10am-2pm
Winter Wonderland Dinner and Dance
Thursday, December 1st
5:00pm – 7:30pm
Silent Auction
Pizza - $2.00 per slice (pepperoni, cheese, ham and pineapple) Beverages - $1.00 – hot chocolate, Juice, bottled water
Cookies - $1.00
Pictures with Santa - $1.00
Parent Council November News
Parent Council would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported our DFS
fundraiser this fall. All items will be available for pick-up around the 3rd week in November.
Parent Council has been busy planning our Winter Wonderland Family Dance. This will be happening
on Thursday, December 1 from 5:00 – 7:30. The format will be the same from last year with pre-
ordered pizza, drinks, cookies, silent auction, pictures with Santa and, of course, DANCING! (Music
provided by Mrs. Baker!) We look forward to seeing everyone there!
If you are interested in attending a meeting, we meet once a month for about an hour. We are
pleased to see new faces at our meeting and will always welcome more!
Our next meeting is Monday, November 14th at 7:00pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
Message from the Gym Changing clothes and having appropriate footwear for Gym class is important for safety and personal hygiene. We ask that all students from grades 4-8
change into clothes that are movement friendly for Gym class.
Movement friendly clothes are: shorts, sweat pants, track pants, tee-shirts, and other clothing that allows
the body to move freely. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact
your child’s Phys. Ed teacher at 204-729-3225.
Christmas Store at George Fitton School
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 4pm – 6pm
In the school gym
Donations of gently used items are appreciated. Thank you for your support.
HALEP NEWS There are several lunch hour clubs, free for students in grades 4 – 8, to participate in. Please find below the November schedule. The students are allowed to stay for lunch on the days that they are involved in the program. This is part of our HALEP program that we run at George Fitton School, lead by Ms. Greig.
Building Student Success with Aboriginal Parents
November 2016
I wanted to say thank you to all the parents that have been coming
out to our Monday evening group! We worked on beading projects and
had a couple parents share their skills with us. We will continue
to work on beading as well as sewing for November.
Please join us in the parent room from 6-8 pm. Here are the dates
we will be meeting: November 1st (due to Halloween), 7th, 14th
