THEME OF THE MONTH: Being A Good Corsair Citizen Important Dates to Remember: Sept 28 - School Council Meeting 7pm Sept 29 - Re-Organization Day—No school for students Oct 12 - Thanksgiving Oct 28 & 29 - Picture Days Sept. 22nd, 2015 A MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION Welcome to the 2015-1016 school year. We hope that everyone has had a wonderful summer holi- day filled with family and friends. A special welcome to all our new Grade one students this year who have joined us from various schools. This year brings some changes to our Corsair Staff. We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new staff. Welcome to Ms. Doytchinova and Ms. Bracovic who will both teach Grade 5 this year. Welcome to our new grade one teachers: Mr. Fabierkiewicz, Ms. Kibalian and Ms Caldwell. Ms. Puteris is teaching grade one this year and Ms Grande is teaching grade 3 this year. A warm welcome also to Ms. Martin who is filling in for Mme. Amidi and to Ms. Nielsen who is teaching grade two this year. We use our automated telephone “synre-voice” system to inform or remind parents of events and important notices. Please ensure we have your correct telephone numbers on file. Once our email system is set up (parents who have given consent), we will send email notifications in addition to our telephone calls. Thank you for your patience with transportation this past couple of weeks. Our busses have been running late as we have to be diligent in ensuring that all students get on the correct bus and arrive home safely. This takes time and we are thankful for your understanding as we get students into their bus routines at school. Scott Krueger Tracey Lai Thom Principal Vice-Principal Corsair Public School 2230 Corsair Road Mississauga, Ontario L5A2L9 Phone: 905-279-1511 Fax: 905-279-8603 Scott Krueger Principal Tracey Lai Thom Vice-Principal Marilyn Henderson-Briehl Office Manager Anthony Edwards Superintendent Janet McDougall Sue Lawton Trustees
Transcript
THEME OF THE MONTH: Being A Good Corsair Citizen Important Dates to Remember:
Sept 28 - School Council Meeting 7pm Sept 29 - Re-Organization Day—No school for students
Oct 12 - Thanksgiving Oct 28 & 29 - Picture Days
Sept. 22nd, 2015
A MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION
Welcome to the 2015-1016 school year. We hope that everyone has had a wonderful summer holi-day filled with family and friends. A special welcome to all our new Grade one students this year who have joined us from various schools. This year brings some changes to our Corsair Staff. We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new staff. Welcome to Ms. Doytchinova and Ms. Bracovic who will both teach Grade 5 this year. Welcome to our new grade one teachers: Mr. Fabierkiewicz, Ms. Kibalian and Ms Caldwell. Ms. Puteris is teaching grade one this year and Ms Grande is teaching grade 3 this year. A warm welcome also to Ms. Martin who is filling in for Mme. Amidi and to Ms. Nielsen who is teaching grade two this year. We use our automated telephone “synre-voice” system to inform or remind parents of events and important notices. Please ensure we have your correct telephone numbers on file. Once our email system is set up (parents who have given consent), we will send email notifications in addition to our telephone calls. Thank you for your patience with transportation this past couple of weeks. Our busses have been running late as we have to be diligent in ensuring that all students get on the correct bus and arrive home safely. This takes time and we are thankful for your understanding as we get students into their bus routines at school.
Scott Krueger Tracey Lai Thom Principal Vice-Principal
Corsair Public School 2230 Corsair Road Mississauga, Ontario L5A2L9 Phone: 905-279-1511 Fax: 905-279-8603 Scott Krueger Principal Tracey Lai Thom Vice-Principal Marilyn Henderson-Briehl Office Manager Anthony Edwards Superintendent Janet McDougall Sue Lawton Trustees
KISS & RIDE At Corsair we have a KISS & RIDE lane for cars who drop their children off at school by car. Please DO NOT park your car in the KISS & RIDE lane at any point during the day. This includes dropping and picking up from PLASP. It is a FIRE Route and needs to be clear at ALL times. At several points last year, the city Parking Enforcement issued tickets for parking in the no parking zone. This is enforced before school and after school. Parents who drop off their children at PLASP should park in a parking spot and walk their Children into the school.
Library News
Happy September Corsair! The library is up and running and to date students have been visit-ing the library for their first orientation. For September we continue to listen to poems and stories that link to Peel’s Character traits. Remember Corsair, our school does have a TumbleBook ac-count that you can access from home. Username: corsair,
Password: books. We also have a BRAINPOP account that students may access at home. User-name: Corsairps Password: password Classroom teachers will be reminding students with the password sometime next week. Your Teacher Librarian, Ms. K. Vukovic
Corsair Junior Soccer Intramurals
Boys and Girls have been invited to play in our co-
ed. Soccer intramurals during 2nd Nutrition
Breaks this week. We are looking forward to a fabulous
Soccer Tournament in Spring next year and have started
Every Peel school has a school council—a group focused on helping students succeed. School councils provide a voice for parents and the community and offer advice to the school principal on a number of topics.
We are holding our first school council meeting on Monday, Sept. 28th at 7pm in the staffroom.
Subscribe to receive news from the Peel board Take advantage of our electronic subscription service to automatically receive a list of activities by email on a monthly basis. Subscriptions are sent the last week of the month, plus bonuses throughout the year. Subscribing is easy as just visit our web-site at www.peelschools.org and click on the subscription link under "Quick Links." You can also subscribe to receive:
News releases Keep up with the news at the Peel board. Subscribe to receive Peel board news releases to learn more about board news and school events.
Board agendas Learn more about Peel board meetings by subscribing to receive agendas. Meetings of the board are open to the public and are held on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month.
Board highlights Briefing is a newsletter with highlights of decisions made by trustees at board meetings. It is sent out on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and immediately following any special board meetings. Job postings for non-teaching staff Learn about each new non-teaching job that is posted on the Peel board's Job Board.
Our Lifetouch Picture Days this year will be on Oct, 28 & 29th. Closer to the date, you
will be notified by your child’s teacher as to which day it is.
Visit Corsair’s website Want to keep up to date with what’s happening at Corsair?
the latest school news
contact information for school admini-stration, superintendent and trustee
calendar
school hours
frequently asked questions
http://corsair.peelschools.org
Keep up to date with our website subscription service Our new website also features a subscription service where you can sign up to receive email notifications for school news, calendar events and volunteer job oppor-tunities. You can also choose to be notified via email and/or text message for critical news, such as school closures due to bad weather. Click on the subscribe link on the left-hand side of the main page of our website.
Procedures help keep students safe at school Peel schools provide a safe environment for students and staff to learn and work. The board has many pro-cedures to ensure safety including regular fire drills, evacuation plans, criminal record checks for new staff and volunteers and lockdown drills. Together with Peel Police and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board, the board developed a lockdown procedure to help keep schools safe during a potentially serious or violent incident.
Every school will review the key points of the lockdown process with students. We rehearse the drill
twice per year to make sure staff and students know what to do if we have to initiate a lockdown. During the rehearsal, the principal will make an announcement to "initiate lockdown procedure." The school bell will ring continuously for a period of time. Students and staff inside the school will: go to the closest room, close the door and lock it, if possible turn off the lights and lie down on the floor away from doors and windows remain on the floor quietly until further directions are given Students and staff outside the school will: move as far away from the building as possible remain outside until further directions are given Depending on the situation, students and staff outside the building may be directed to an evacuation site. When the rehearsal is over, the principal will make another announcement.
During lockdown rehearsals or in a real lockdown situation, students and staff must not use cell phones. Cell phones can create a safety hazard by attracting attention to the area of the school where the
phone is being used. In the unlikely event of an actual lockdown, police ask that parents do not go to the school. For safety rea-sons, you will not be allowed to enter a school that is in lockdown. In some cases, police will designate a Parent Information Site for you to attend and get up-to-date, accurate information. To find your Parent Infor-mation Site or get further details during a real lockdown, visit www.peelschools.org or listen to local media. If you have any questions about our lockdown drill, or any of the procedures we have in place to keep stu-dents and staff safe, please call the school.
Chocolate milk is for sale for $1 in student services during our Nutrition Breaks.
ALLERGIES
We have many students with an
anaphylactic allergies at Corsair.
We ask for your cooperation in NOT sending peanuts, nuts or any food item that may contain peanut/nut products to school for snacks/lunches. This helps us to maintain a safe environment for all members of our school community. Birthday treats—please send pencils, stickers, etc in-stead of food to celebrate your child’s birthday.
School Hours: Supervision starts at 9:00am. School starts at 9:15am. First Nutrition Break is from 11:35 to 12:15pm. Second Nutrition Break is from 1:35 to 2:15pm. chool Ends at 3:35pm.
