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January 30, 2020 Edition: 19
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Quotation Of The Week
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The Week Ahead
Monday, February 3, 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Wednesday, February 05, 2020 Immunizations – Gr 9 students
Thursday, February 06, 2020 International Students – Welcome Meeting, 11:15am
Friday, February 07, 2020
Upcoming Events
February 12 - Grade 9/10 Parent Night - 6pm
February 13 - Jazz Night
February 17 - Family Day—school closed
February 21 - Pro-D Day—classes not in session
February 24 - Flex Day
February 24 - Staff meeting
February 24 - PAC meeting
February 25 - Grade 9 Immunization
February 25 - Math Contest (Pascal, Caylay & Fermat)
February 26 - Grade 7 Parent Night at 6pm
Field Trips
Date Time Teacher Destination
February 01, 2020 8:30am - 7:00pm Ms. Metcalfe RE Mountain
February 05, 2020 8:30am - 12:30pm Ms. Landriault Bell Centre
February 07, 2020 11:30am - 2:00pm Ms. Jeffrey Queen Elizabeth Secondary
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FYI
Wanted! Dresses for the Grad Fashion Show on February 20th. If anyone has a formal grad dress or any formal dress that they would like to donate to the Fashion Show for the grads to wear and then to possi-bly purchase, please contact the Dry Grad Fashion Show at: [email protected]
Upcoming Dates Dry Grad Events
Saturday, February 1st, 2020 Bollywood Family Night, tickets
on sale now $35 each or $325 for table for 10
Thursday, February 20th, 2020 Fashion Show
email - [email protected]
instagram is fpssdg
facebook is Fleetwood Park Dry Grad
Thanks so much
Connie Goeres and Keri Gill
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In The News:
Here is a great story from one of the software companies that we have partnered with for our new Computer
Science Coop Program. It describes the excellent opportunities provided to our two Fleetwood Park Sec-
ondary students during their work experience.
https://www.safe.com/blog/2020/01/local-high-school-work-experience-program-going-full-steam-ahead-student-opportunities/
Counsellor’s Corner:
Course selection is well underway for next year’s classes. Grade 8s and 9s will be finished by the end of January, along with half the grade 10s. The other half of the grade 10 class will be completing their course selections in the first week of February. Counsellors like to pay particular attention to our grade 11 students as they approach their graduation year, and will be taking individual time with every grade 11 student in the month of February to ensure appropriate courses are selected. It is an enormous job and we appreciate staff and student support and cooperation in getting it all done so efficiently.
Thanks!
Lisa Porter
Counsellor (A-E)
Counselling Department Head
Fleetwood Park Secondary
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Kudos:
I just wanted to report out that the Dragon Tales Theater Company had an extremely successful showing at the Individual Events Theater Festival at the Bell Center. Competing against 6 schools from all over the dis-trict, the students won 10 awards, including:
1ST SENIOR MONOLOGUE - Kianna Cameron
1ST JUNIOR MONOLOGUE - Lexi Limin
1ST SENIOR MUSICAL - Kaja Antic
1ST JUNIOR MUSICAL - Hans Gorre
2ND STUDENT WRITTEN - Kanwar Sidhu 2ND OPEN CATEGORY - Saman Waraich
3RD JUNIOR MUSICAL - Alexis Cannon & Ava Gill
3RD SENIOR MONOLOGUE - Bella Boothman
3RD SENIOR MUSICAL - Solana Lavineway & Samantha Wright
3RD SENIOR SCENE - Outsiders Cast - Mckenna Klassen, Nicola Williams, Kanwar Sidhu, Kaja Antic, Solana Lavineway, Kianna Cameron, Hudson McCullough
If you see any of these students around the building, congratulate them on their incredible work!
Mr. Rossiter
Arts Department Head
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“This Week at Fleetwood Park” - Principal’s Message: January 27th
– 31st
Good morning Dragons and welcome to the 2nd semester at Fleetwood Park Secondary!
Our 2nd semester has begun and students and staff have been busy getting to know each other over the first week. Establishing new routines, getting to know new teachers, students and support staff is very important for us all. Our 2nd semester timetable is finalized, all classes have been allocated a room, all new staffing positions have been filled, and all students have started learning their new curriculum. The transition into the new semester has gone as smoothly as possible. I would like to extend my thanks to everyone for your work on concluding the 1st semester and starting the 2nd!
I would like to welcome the following new staff to our school.
Ms. Farquhar – SS/Drama
Ms. Robea – Math
Ms. Kaur – Math/ Science
Ms. Shilpa – Math/Careers/PHE
Mr. Taylor – Cross-curricular
I would also like to welcome back Ms. Ikeda, LST, and Ms. Robertson, EA. We know that your time at Fleet-wood Park will be very rewarding.
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At the very beginning of the semester, communication skills, team-building and introductions are key. Our PHE stu-dents started with some friendly Dodge Ball to help facilitate connections and fitness.
Our Social Studies students also enjoyed some active movement and games to get to know each other.
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On Monday afternoon our entire team gathered at our monthly Staff meeting to review 2nd
semester start-up items and future initiatives. It is so important to gather everyone together to communicate, share and cele-brate the life and business of our school community. This semester we will be hosting several student teachers from SFU and UBC. On Monday our new SFU student teachers were able to join us at our staff meeting. We welcome:
Ms. Kandola (Mathematics) with Ms. Sandhu
Ms. Shergill (English & Social Studies) with Ms. Anderson & Mr. Walshe
Ms. Muir (Humanities, Science) with Mr. Lo
All the best for a very successful practicum!
On Monday evening, I attended our Parent Advisory Council Meeting. This year the PAC has been updating their Constitution and Bylaws. This has been an important task and has provided rich dialogue and review. Great thanks to all members of our PAC for your work on this project. At our next meeting on February 24th there will be a special presentation. The Telus Wise workshop is a program for adults, covering topics like living and parenting in a digital society, as well as internet, smartphone and social media safety. Students are also welcome to attend. We hope to see many parents/guardians/students there!
Our course selection process continues this week with Grade 8 students entering their courses on Wednes-day, a Grade 11 Course Selection assembly on Thursday, and Grade 9 course entry on Friday. Again, all students are strongly encouraged to ensure your MyEdBC account is working properly. You will need to ac-cess your account in order to enter your course requests for next year! Please log into your account prior to your course entry lab visit. If you cannot access your account, please see the office for assistance.
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On Thursday afternoon, we met with our Associate School administration colleagues to discuss common themes and partnerships across our schools. This is always a very productive dialogue and great support for all our school communities. The Fleetwood community is thriving with growth, challenges and success-es. Our continual review of how our family of schools can support our community is very important. Great thanks to Principal Smith for hosting us at William Watson Elementary.
Students/parents are reminded that Semester #1 Final Report cards will be available online tomorrow, Fri-day, January 31st through the MyEdBC portal. Please log in and download your report cards.
I hope your first week of this “new beginning” has been positive and interesting. This semester we will work and learn together. We will value lifelong learning, friendliness, involvement and school spirit. We will en-courage creativity, development of life skills, personal and social responsibility, positive attitude, self-esteem and self-confidence. We are committed to academic excellence! Have an excellent semester Dragons!
Have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend. See you on Monday.
Ken
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Mission Statement: “At Fleetwood Park Secondary we value excellence in education and strive to provide a learning environment where all stu-
dents are encouraged to build successful futures.”
