Principal: Mrs. Carol Osborne Administrative Assistant: Mrs. Bea Litjens "Working together to empower children to achieve their full potential in a safe, caring environment” 20202 35 Ave., Langley, BC V2Z 1A2 Tel. 604-530-9747 FAX 604-530-6481 Web Site: www.sd35.bc.ca/schools/noelbooth February 5, 2016 Principal’s Message: One of my favourite things to do is drop in on daily primary choir. These grade 1-3 students begin their day singing, tapping and dancing. It is a joy to watch and even more fun to sing along. Primary choir
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Principal: Mrs. Carol Osborne
Administrative Assistant: Mrs. Bea Litjens
"Working together to empower children to achieve their full potential in a safe, caring environment”
20202 35 Ave., Langley, BC V2Z 1A2 Tel. 604-530-9747 FAX 604-530-6481 Web Site: www.sd35.bc.ca/schools/noelbooth
February 5, 2016
Principal’s Message:
One of my favourite things to do is drop in on daily primary choir. These grade 1-3 students
begin their day singing, tapping and dancing. It is a joy to watch and even more fun to sing
along.
Primary choir
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Bump It – a Fun Way to Practice Addition
It is easy to be proud of this wonderful bunch of students and staff.
Carol Osborne
Proud Principal
Lost and Found
As I mentioned in the last newsletter, with pictures, the items that are left on February 12
will be donated.
Basketball
Noel Booth boys and girls teams are tearing it up on the court each week. Their skills are
improving with each game and their sportsmanship and teamwork are making us all very proud.
Keep up the good work Wildcats!
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Hip Hop Dance Lessons
– Week of February 9-12
Kick it Up at Notch Dance Academy is returning to Noel Booth for four high-energy days of
dance instruction. Students will each have four dance classes in the week of February 9-12. We
will end the week with an assembly to feature all of the classes and the moves they have
learned. Thanks to our PAC for sponsoring this very popular initiative. Parents are welcome to
come and see the show at 1:30 on Friday, February 12.
Mr. Palfreyman is also going to share some prize winning photographs from the intermediate
photography contest.
PAC Meeting All welcome
-Tuesday, February 16 @ 7pm
Metis Dance
- Wednesday, February 17 Mrs. Hart, our Aboriginal support worker, has arranged for Metis dancers to spend a day
sharing their style of dance and its cultural significance and history. Classes will each have
turns to do workshops in the gym with the dancers.
Brookswood Parent Night for Next Year’s Gr. 8 Students
– Wednesday, February 24 @ 7:00 pm
It’s hard to believe that it’s already time to start thinking about high school for our grade
sevens. Scheduling at the secondary level requires a great deal of time and attention. They
want to help you and your child to make the best choices for a successful start. Please make
time to go and hear about all the possibilities and how to best prepare.
Pink Shirt Day
– Wednesday, Feb. 24
Pink Shirt Day has become a tradition in Canada and in many other countries. Students are
invited, but certainly not required, to wear pink to show their commitment to treat each other
with kindness and respect and to stand up to bullying. Staff and parents work on these concepts
all year long, not just one day a year. We will have an assembly at 1:30 on February 24 to
celebrate the diversity of talents and strengths of our students. We will also highlight some
strategies that students can use to recognize and deal with bullying when it happens.
Parents are welcome to attend.
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Music News Band-
Monday, February 29 at 7:00pm is the feeder school concert at Brookswood Secondary School.
All band students are expected to do their best to attend. This is a great way to get acquainted
with the high school. It is also an important community building event for Noel Booth.
Ukulele and Band-
Please encourage your child to bring home their instrument and music daily and then to
remember to bring it back to school on music days.
Please encourage your kids to practice a little bit every day. The ideal practice time would be
how ever long it takes to play properly through the warm up routine as well as any songs that
the students have memorized or have music for.
What should students practice? Band classes have a warm up routine on page 18 and 30 in their
band books. Mrs. Furuya’s class plays the D Major, G Major and the E harmonic Minor scale 4
times on each note, 3 times on each note, 2 times on each note, and once on each note. In
addition students should practice any songs that they have memorized in class or which they
have sheet music for.
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Read, Read, Read We have the following subscriptions that families are welcome to use:
1. Raz Kids
Students each have an individual account and can earn points to build a robot.
K students – Noelboothk
Grade one – noelbooth1
Grade two – noelbooth2
Grade three- noelbooth3
2. Tumble Books username: nbooth
Password: reads
Reading Link Challenge
Our Grade 4/5 Reading Link Challenge participants are busy reading all six of the required
novels and creating questions for quizzing one another. They are preparing for their first
competition on March 7.
Library News
Scholastic Book Fair - March 7-11
Volunteers will be needed for set-up (Monday), take-down (Friday) and the 3 days of the Fair
(Tues., Wed., and Thursday). A sign-up sheet will be available the middle of February outside
the Library door.
Speech Fest
Every year primary and intermediate students have an opportunity to develop their skills in
writing and public speaking through our Speech Fest. Students write speeches on a wide
variety of topics and practice speaking in small groups, in front of cameras and in front of the
class. Students are chosen to represent their classes at our school competition that will be held
on April 12. Two primaries, two grade 4/5 students and two grade 6/7 students will be chosen
to represent Noel Booth at the district competition on April 22.
New iPads!
Our PAC has done it again. They have put in hundreds of hours to fundraise to support student
learning. They paid for 24 iPad minis to be used in our primary classes.
THANK YOU PAC!
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Friday, June 3rd.
Noel Booth Annual Family BBQ
Details TBA.
THANK YOU PAC!
Sexual Health Education
Teaching children about their changing bodies and sexual health has been part of the
curriculum for decades. There are many teaching resources available to us to teach
students the required learning outcomes. Our PAC members believe that this is important
learning and have, once again, sponsored the cost of bringing Saleema Noon to our
school to support us.
Parent Meeting with Saleema Noon
– Wednesday, March 30 7pm in our library
Age-Appropriate Sessions for Students – one session per grade
– Thursday, March 31
Friday, April 1
This is the link to Saleema Noon’s website in case you would like to know more about
her programs: http://www.saleemanoon.com Respected by the media as a sexual health expert, Saleema has appeared as a regular guest on Global News, CKNW Radio, Shaw TV, CityTV Breakfast Television, CTV Morning Live, The Kid Carson Show on KiSS Radio, and also appeared in CBC’s Passionate Eye documentary Secrets and CBC Doc Zone documentary Sext Up Kids. Saleema has been featured in Canadian Living, Chatelaine and Today’s Parent magazines along with several other national publications, and is the recipient of the Options For Sexual Health’s Educator of the Year Award. In 2011, Saleema also received the YWCA Vancouver’s Women of Distinction Connecting the Community Award and was nominated for the Order of British Columbia in 2015.
We recognize that parents have varying degrees of comfort with this topic and strongly
encourage parents to attend the parent evening to hear what will be presented to
kindergarten to grade seven students.
Parents may choose to excuse their children from this program by simply writing a
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Langley International Film Festival - February 19, 20, 21 at Chief Sepass Theatre LIFF (Langley International Film Festival) update. Tickets are selling fast, but there are lots of spots left and
we need your help in getting the word out. Please share on Facebook, blogs, newsletters and twitter. Distribute the attached poster with impunity and talk about it everywhere you go, affording it the kind of
awesome prominence that you would if an asteroid landed in your backyard. The more people who attend, the more money there is to support arts and film programs for Langley students. I've attached the press release
and poster.
The Langley International Film Festival has much to offer to Langley students. On Saturday, February 20th at 8:00pm, LIFF presents a Montage of Student-Produced Films, giving students from Brookswood, RE Mountain and Langley Fine Arts the opportunity to present their films to an audience of 300 or more, receive accolades and participate in Q and A's. The Festival, which runs from February 19th, 20th, and 21st also features films that are of special interest to teenagers. Sleeping Giant, an award-winning Canadian film, explores in explosive detail the emotional extremes of adolescence and the catastrophic events that occur. It is a finely observed, whip-smart study within a suspenseful and provocative story. It's an amazing line-up featuring Numb, Opening Night Gala, Sleeping Giant, Carol, Montage of Student-produced films (Brookswood, RE Mountain and Langley Fine Arts), Trumbo and Room (starring, Langley student, Jacob Tremblay). Not only that - the Numb cast and crew, including the renowned composer Alain Mayrand will be at the premiere screening on Friday night. Check him out at http://alainmayrand.com/
Spring Soccer Registration is now open for boys and girls ages 4-17. Ask about our
Spring Break Camps! For more information call 604-996-7567 or see
www.prestongmlangleyfc.com
Brookswood Secondary is offering an Internet Safety Presentation.
It will be held on Thursday February 25th at 7 pm in the theatre.
From what we have heard, it is a fantastic presentation. The presenter is Darren Lau. If you are
interested, this is his website: http://www.personalprotectionsystems.ca
