It was been a busy November at Holland Landing Public School! Our students were involved in a number of activities including: the Eco Club, Chess Club, the Student Leadership Team, the Character in Action Team, Library Helpers, Volleyball Intramurals, the Junior and Intermediate Volleyball teams, as well as band practices and the Art Club. Grades 2, 4 and 7 had fieldtrips to the Sibbald Point Outdoor Education Centre, the Grade 6 students participated in our Values, Influences and Peers program with the York Regional Police department, and our Grade 8s enjoyed the Junior Achievement Program. School Council was busy organizing our holiday fundraising initiative as well as organizing our Booster Juice, Euro Panini and Mr. Sub Lunch programs, and The Healthy Schools Committee organized hand washing day with presentations to each class. Our students had the opportunity to showcase their skills through presenta- tions at the Remembrance Day Assembly, as well as our Character Assembly. We would like to extend our thanks to all those who arranged these activities on behalf of our students. Many of you have been in to meet with your child’s teacher regarding your child’s learning needs, and to reflect on the learning that they have engaged in so far. I would encourage parents to speak with their children about their learning goals throughout the remainder of the term, and the rest of the year. When talking about this, please also talk with your child about the importance of their Learning Skills, as these play a very important role in the success of students. Related to this, we have been speaking with stu- dents about the importance of punctuality and the importance of arriving at school on time, and prepared to learn (home work completed, all necessary materials at school, dressed appropriately to be at school, and for the weather). School staff are on duty at 8:45 each morning, and we suggest to students that they plan on arriving at school by 8:50. That way, if they are running a few minutes late they will still arrive at school prior to the bell ringing. We look forward to welcoming you to our Holiday Concert on the evening of December 9th, and shar- ing with you the best wishes of the season. The school is once again participating in our annual Care and Share Silent Auction the night of the concert. Proceeds from this event will be directed to stu- dents and families in need in our immediate school community. In addition, the Student Leadership Team will be collecting new unwrapped toys for distribution to families in need in our local community. In closing, as we approach the Winter break, on behalf of the staff we would like to wish our Holland Landing families a restful break. The Winter Break begins on Monday, December 2 st with students re- turning to school on Monday, January 4 th . To those who celebrate at this time of year, we wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and all the best for the holidays and the New Year. Mr. Biemiller Principal’s Message Important Bus Transportation Message Did you know that students’ bussing eligibility changes throughout their school career? Your son/ daughter’s eligibility to ride the school bus may change according to their grade and distance from home to school. Below are the provisions for eligibility identified in the Board’s Transportation Policy #680: All YRDSB students in Grades JK-3 who live within 1.2 km of their school are not eligible for transportation All YRDSB students in Grades 4-8 who live within 1.6 km of their school are not eligible for transportation All YRDSB students in Grades 9-12 who live within a transit served area are not eligible for transportation. To view Board Policy #680 Student Transportation, please visit www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca. For more infor- mation about bus transportation and to determine your son/daughter’s eligibility please visit www.schoolbuscity.com. HOLLAND LANDING HOLLAND LANDING PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL 905‐836‐6614 905‐836‐6614 December 2015 HLPS Highlights Principal: Mr. Matthew Biemiller School Office Admin Assistant: Mrs. Lisa Wilson Admin Support: Mrs. Tina Robinson Lead Caretaker: Mrs. Kaylene Sutton Superintendent of Schools: Mr. Paul Carew (905) 895-5155 Trustee: Ms. Loralea Carruthers Inside this issue: Character Matters 2 Fairness Poster Holiday Reminder 2 2 Holiday Spirit Walk Upcoming PA Days 2 2 Bus Cancellation 3 Winter Weather 3 Too sick to go out- side? 3 Kindergarten Regis- tration 3 Art-i-Facts 4 Math Minute 4 Life-Threatening Allergies 4 Intra-murals & Try- outs 4 Healthy Schools 5 Head Lice 5 Trustee Message 6 Cell Phone & Cam- era Use 6 Progress Reports 6 Storybook House 7 Calendar 8 We wish all of our Holland Landing Families a peaceful and restful winter break.
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It was been a busy November at Holland Landing Public School! Our students were involved in a number
of activities including: the Eco Club, Chess Club, the Student Leadership Team, the Character in Action
Team, Library Helpers, Volleyball Intramurals, the Junior and Intermediate Volleyball teams, as well as
band practices and the Art Club. Grades 2, 4 and 7 had fieldtrips to the Sibbald Point Outdoor Education
Centre, the Grade 6 students participated in our Values, Influences and Peers program with the York
Regional Police department, and our Grade 8s enjoyed the Junior Achievement Program. School Council
was busy organizing our holiday fundraising initiative as well as organizing our Booster Juice, Euro Panini
and Mr. Sub Lunch programs, and The Healthy Schools Committee organized hand washing day with
presentations to each class. Our students had the opportunity to showcase their skills through presenta-
tions at the Remembrance Day Assembly, as well as our Character Assembly. We would like to extend
our thanks to all those who arranged these activities on behalf of our students.
Many of you have been in to meet with your child’s teacher regarding your child’s learning needs, and to
reflect on the learning that they have engaged in so far. I would encourage parents to speak with their
children about their learning goals throughout the remainder of the term, and the rest of the year. When
talking about this, please also talk with your child about the importance of their Learning Skills, as these
play a very important role in the success of students. Related to this, we have been speaking with stu-
dents about the importance of punctuality and the importance of arriving at school on time, and prepared
to learn (home work completed, all necessary materials at school, dressed appropriately to be at school,
and for the weather). School staff are on duty at 8:45 each morning, and we suggest to students that they
plan on arriving at school by 8:50. That way, if they are running a few minutes late they will still arrive at
school prior to the bell ringing.
We look forward to welcoming you to our Holiday Concert on the evening of December 9th, and shar-
ing with you the best wishes of the season. The school is once again participating in our annual Care
and Share Silent Auction the night of the concert. Proceeds from this event will be directed to stu-
dents and families in need in our immediate school community. In addition, the Student Leadership Team
will be collecting new unwrapped toys for distribution to families in need in our local community.
In closing, as we approach the Winter break, on behalf of the staff we would like to wish our Holland
Landing families a restful break. The Winter Break begins on Monday, December 2st with students re-
turning to school on Monday, January 4th. To those who celebrate at this time of year, we wish you a
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and all the best for the holidays and the New Year.
Mr. Biemiller
Principal’s Message
Important Bus Transportation Message
Did you know that students’ bussing eligibility changes throughout their school career? Your son/
daughter’s eligibility to ride the school bus may change according to their grade and distance from home
to school. Below are the provisions for eligibility identified in the Board’s Transportation Policy #680: All YRDSB students in Grades JK-3 who live within 1.2 km of their school are not eligible for
transportation All YRDSB students in Grades 4-8 who live within 1.6 km of their school are not eligible for
transportation All YRDSB students in Grades 9-12 who live within a transit served area are not eligible for
transportation.
To view Board Policy #680 Student Transportation, please visit www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca. For more infor-
mation about bus transportation and to determine your son/daughter’s eligibility please visit
www.schoolbuscity.com.
HOLLAND LANDING HOLLAND LANDING
PUBLIC SCHOOLPUBLIC SCHOOL 905‐836‐6614905‐836‐6614
December 2015 HLPS Highlights Principal:
Mr. Matthew Biemiller
School Office Admin Assistant:
Mrs. Lisa Wilson
Admin Support:
Mrs. Tina Robinson
Lead Caretaker:
Mrs. Kaylene Sutton
Superintendent of
Schools: Mr. Paul Carew
(905) 895-5155
Trustee:
Ms. Loralea Carruthers
Inside this issue:
Character Matters 2
Fairness Poster
Holiday Reminder
2
2
Holiday Spirit Walk
Upcoming PA Days
2
2
Bus Cancellation 3
Winter Weather 3
Too sick to go out-
side?
3
Kindergarten Regis-
tration
3
Art-i-Facts 4
Math Minute 4
Life-Threatening
Allergies
4
Intra-murals & Try-
outs
4
Healthy Schools 5
Head Lice 5
Trustee Message 6
Cell Phone & Cam-
era Use
6
Progress Reports 6
Storybook House 7
Calendar 8
We wish all of our Holland Landing Families a peaceful and restful winter break.
Page 2 HLPS Highlights
At our monthly Character As-
semblies, we introduce our
upcoming character trait for
the month. Each class also has
the character trait posted and
over the course of the month,
students and their teachers will
engage in discussions about
what the character trait means
in the context of their specific
grade (for example, how we
demonstrate fairness in Grade
8 is different than how we do
so in Kindergarten). To the
right, you will find this month’s
character poster so that your
child may chat with you about
what fairness means to them.
Character Matters
Our Character Trait for the Month of December is Fair-
ness.
“Fairness isn’t everybody getting the same thing. Fairness is
everybody getting what they need in order to be success-
ful.”
Holiday Reminder
Please note that the
students’ last day of
school is Friday, De-
cember 18th and that
the Winter Holidays
run through to Friday,
January 1st. The first
day of school in the
new year is Monday, January 4th,
2016.
If your family will be extending
this holiday period, please in-
form your child’s teacher and
the school office in writing at
your earliest convenience.
Thank you!
Holiday Spirit Walk!
Eco Club is excited to announce the Holiday
Spirit Walk taking place on Wednesday, De-
cember 16th. As a part of “Walking Wednes-
days”, we are asking students to walk, bike or
scooter to school! To get everyone feeling festive,
we’re inviting everyone to keep their heads warm
by sporting a fun holiday hat or even reindeer ant-
lers! Why not wear some jingle bells on your back
pack and jingle all the way to school! Once at
school, keep your holiday hats on to show your
spirit!
We look forward to seeing all of our festive friends walking to school!
Fairness Poster
Character Calendar
Respect, Responsibility,
Empathy, Fairness,
Initiative, Honesty,
Integrity, Courage,
Perseverance, Optimism
Upcoming PA Days
Please note the following dates are P.A. Days
therefore there is no school for students on these days:
Friday, January 15th
Monday, February 1st
Page 3 HLPS Highlights
School Bus Cancellation Information
To ensure the safety of students, school bus service may be cancelled due to inclement weather, extreme temperatures and/or poor
road conditions. In these cases, parents and students should develop alternate care/transportation arrangements. Since some busing
schedules begin by 7:00 a.m., cancellation decisions must be made by 6:00 a.m. to allow time to communicate this message to bus driv-
ers. Cancellation decisions will only be made after thorough consultation with the Safety Officers of school bus companies servicing
York Region and are based on several factors including precipitation, air temperature, road conditions and weather forecast.
Please note the following;
A decision to cancel school bus service will be region-wide meaning all school buses, vans and taxis will not operate.
When bus service is cancelled all school tests and/or examinations will be cancelled and rescheduled.
Student trips involving the use of school buses will also be cancelled.
School bus routes may be cancelled when severe weather may not be affecting all municipalities in York Region.
The YRDSB operates many regional educational programs. Students attending these programs are transported over large attendance
areas encompassing several municipal boundaries. This limits the ability to cancel bus service using a municipality or zone methodol-
ogy.
Unless otherwise stated, schools will remain open and parents can make arrangements to transport their children to and from school
even if school bus service is cancelled. If buses are cancelled in the morning, they will not operate in the afternoon.
Therefore students transported to school by parents will require the same transportation home.
Parents, students and school staff are asked to access the following radio and television stations after 6:00 a.m. to receive bus cancella-
tion information:
RADIO 590 AM 640 AM 680 AM 860 AM 1010 AM 1050 AM 1540 AM 1580 AM 88.5 FM 89.9 FM 92.5 FM 93.1 FM 94.9 FM 95.9 FM 97.3 FM 98.1 FM 99.1 FM 99.9 FM 101.1 FM 102.1 FM 104.5 FM 100.7 FM 105.9 FM 107.1 FM
TELEVISION CITY TV CTV Barrie CTV Toronto CP24 GLOBAL NEWS
A bus cancellation message will also be available at www.schoolbuscity.com and by calling 1-877-330-3001, or by fol-
lowing the YRDSB on Twitter.
Winter tends to arrive like a lion. Please ensure that your children are prepared for the winter weather when coming to school.
Supervision during the recesses is outdoor only. It is expected that if a child is well enough to come to school, that they are well
enough to go out for recess. An extra pair of mittens or hat are good ideas in the younger grades as snow play often creates very
wet children and outdoor clothes don’t always have time to dry thoroughly between recesses. As well, please ensure that your
child has indoor shoes to wear. This is necessary both for comfort and safety as children must have footwear on at all times in
case of a fire alarm.
Please be sure to listen to the radio (or watch television news in the morning) on bad weather days to see if school busses have
been cancelled. Remember - if busses are cancelled in the morning, they are cancelled for the day. Students who are
dropped off at school in the morning need to be picked up by 3:30 p.m. promptly as we do not have staffing for after school super-
vision.
Winter Weather
Then you are too sick to attend school.
It is an expectation at Holland Landing P.S.
that if your child attends school then they
must go outside at the recess breaks. Super-
vision is not available in classrooms or the
office during these times of the day. On severe
weather days with extreme wind chill temperatures or
a cold weather alert, we use judgement to shorten the
length of time spent outdoors.
Too Sick to go Outside? Kindergarten Registration - Sept. 2016
Kindergarten registration will commence on January 15, 2016 for the 2016
-17 school year. Registration forms are available on YRDSB’s website:
www.yrdsb.ca. Children who turn four or five years old during 2016, live
within the school boundary and whose parents are public school tax sup-
porters will be eligible to register for kindergarten. A kinder-
garten information session for parents is being planned for this
spring. For more information, please visit the YRDSB website
or contact Mrs. Wilson in the office via phone 905-836-6614
The Art-i-Facts Club will begin in January for students in Grades One to Five. This extra curricular
activity will take place during the lunch hour in Room 20 with Mrs. Evans-Milak.
As in the past, workshops will focus on the biographies of various artists and students will create art-
work which is inspired by famous paintings. The Grade One students will study Vincent Van Gogh.
Grade Two students will study Claude Monet. The Grade Three students will study Pablo Picasso and
the Grade Four and Five students will learn about the Canadian Group of Seven artists. All work which
is created will be saved for display at our school wide “Gallery Night” in the spring.
A letter will be sent home with complete details. Students must pre-register for this club so that
sufficient supplies can be prepared and to ensure that appropriate supervision is arranged.
We look forward to another year of exploring our creative potential. A special thank you goes to
HLPS School Council for providing funding for this extra curricular activity.
I want to touch people
with my art. I want them to
say 'he feels deeply, he
feels tenderly’.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Math Minute
Parents often ask how they can support their child’s learning of
math skills at home. Technology provides us with a number of
websites and tools that support parents in reinforcing and under-
standing math concepts. At times, parents state that they would
like to help their child with a math concept, but they do not under-
stand or remember the concept from when they were in school. A number of
resources are available to help students with math:
The Khan Academy
(www.khanacademy.org) is a free
resource, that provides both instruc-
tion and practice in a wide range of
math skills ranging from simple arith-
metic to high school and university
level modules.
The Ministry of Education’s Homework Help program (www.homeworkhelp.ilc.org) is part of the
Ministry’s Provincial eLearning Strategy. The Ontario Ministry of Education and the Independent Learning Centre
launched a new project called Homework Help. All Ontario Mathematics students enrolled in Gr. 7 – 10 have
access to this resource, which includes many new features and online resources. Students log on to Homework
Help and using an interactive chat room, they can obtain personalized tutoring from a certified Ontario
Mathematics teacher. Chats take place Sunday to Thursday evenings from 5:30 – 9:30 pm.
Homework Help is no cost, live, and anonymous. In order to register for this program you will
need your child’s Ontario Education Number (OEN), which is found at the top of their progress
report, or can be obtained from school.
Life Threatening Allergies and Peanut Butter Substitutes
As many of you are aware, severe, life-threatening allergies have increased in
numbers over recent years. Please remember that we try to be a nut-safe
zone. Please do not send any foods that contain or may contain nut and nut
products. For example, items such as granola bars should show “nut free” on
their packaging. We also ask families to refrain from sending in Soy
based/nut free alternatives products (i.e. Wow Butter) as these products
can cause confusion and anxiety to students with peanut allergies, and also
desensitizes all students to the importance of not bringing peanut products to
school. With over 200 students, we cannot check each student’s lunch daily. If
a student accidently brings in an item that is of concern/question, they will be asked to come to the office to eat the item and contact will be made home to clarify the school policy in this re-
gard. We thank you for helping us to keep our school safe for all students.
Upcoming Team Sports Intra-Murals & Try-Outs
Please note that there will be basketball intra-murals beginning in the second week of January for
both Intermediate and Junior students. Please ask your child to pay attention to the daily an-
nouncements if they would be interested in participating. These will be followed by try-outs for
the Intermediate Basketball teams later in January with the Junior Basketball team try-outs closer