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January 6, 2017 Manor School

January/February 2017 Manor School Newsletter PRINCIPAL REPORT Happy New Year and welcome back to school! I hope you all enjoyed the holiday season and were able to recharge for the

upcoming year!

A New Year is a time to set resolutions and goals. It is my hope that all students ensure that they are completing their home reading each and every night. By looking at the graphic below, you can see that reading for 20 minutes every evening is a

strong predictor for future success in school.

Reading also increases mental stimulation, reduces stress, increases knowledge and vocabulary, improves memory, develops analytical thinking skills, improves focus and concentration, and leads to better writing skills. This year, let's make sure our

kids are reading!

Kelly Logan

Principal

SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST

Jan. 13—Graduation Cap &

Gown Pictures

Jan. 20—SCC Hot Lunch

Jan. 24-27—Gr. 11/12 Exams

Jan. 30—No School, Semester

Turn Around Day

Feb. 3—Gr. 9-12 Report cards

Feb. 10—SCC Hot Lunch

Feb. 17– Gr. 7-12 Ski Trip

Feb. 17—Gr. 1-6 Jump Rope

for Heart –PM

Feb. 20-24—No School—

Winter Break

Mar. 24—No School—PD Day

Mar. 31—Gr. 1-12 Report

Cards

“ Thank you to Ms. Phenix for the Mustangs banner, we love it! We also wish you a happy retirement.”

Final exams will be held from Jan 24-27 for grade 11/12 students only. School will resume as normal for all K-10 students. Grade 9/10 students may be writing final exams or working on final

projects but this will be done during regular class time. The exam schedule for the 11/12 students

is as follows:

Jan 24 - ELA 20/A30

Jan 25 - Environmental Science 20

Jan 26 - History 30

Jan 27 - Workplace Math 20

All exams are starting at 8:45 am! Students need to ensure that they ar r ive on time, have

all necessary materials and must stay for at least one hour. When their exam is complete, they may

leave for the day or stay at the school to

study.

Jan 30 - No school - Semester turnaround

day

Jan 31 - Sem 2 begins

Feb 3 - Gr. 9-12 report cards will come

home

GRAD NEWS

FINAL EXAMS

The Manor Grad Class provided en-

tertainment at the Talent Show on

December 21st with a Pie in the Face

Fundraiser. Thank you to all stu-

dents, parents, and family members

for donating money towards this

fundraiser. Everyone involved had a

great time!

****Grad Cap and Gown Photos are

on January 13th. Each grad has picked

a time and filled in the form at the

office. If you have not done this yet,

please do so ASAP.

**** There will be a parent/grad

meeting on January 18th at 7 p.m. in

the Computer room. We would like to

see as many parents and grads out as

possible to this meeting to review

some information for the grad day. If

you cannot attend please let Miss

Vanrobaeys or Mrs. Parker know in

advance!

Thank you,

Miss Vanrobaeys and Mrs. Parker

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FAREWELL

This is bittersweet as I bid farewell to the students, staff and families of

Manor School. From the very first day, I was made to feel welcome and

quickly became part of the team. And we are a team – or we should be.

Schools wouldn’t exist without staff, students and parents.

Teaching staff – which includes bus drivers and custodians, education

and administrative assistants, support and teaching staff – each and

every one of these people spend time with students, teaching them,

guiding them, helping to mould children into intelligent and caring citi-

zens.

Most children have a natural curiosity and want to learn, and they have

already learned most of the important “stuff” before they even enter

school – to listen, to share, to take turns, to be polite. They need an

education and they cannot learn if they don’t attend.

Parents, it is your responsibility to get your kids to school, to encourage

their learning, to support the school. We cannot – the staff and stu-

dents – do it alone. We need your help, your input and expertise, and

most especially your support. We need you to be part of our team.

It has been my privilege to work alongside the staff of Manor School.

Their knowledge and skills, commitment and dedication are unparal-

leled across the division.

The students and I have shared lots of laughs, a few tears, some swears,

probably even a couple of lies. Some stories were happy and some were

sad. But every story had meaning and merit and I am truly honored

that you shared them with me.

The African proverb tells us, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Thank

you for allowing me to be a temporary part of your village. I may not be

leaving much behind, but I am taking a lot of Manor with me.

Until our paths cross again …

Marg Phenix,

CHRISTMAS FUN

On the final Friday before the

Christmas break the house

teams faced off in a series of

activities. The activities includ-

ed the bob sled relay race, the

cup race, M&M race, hula hoop

tic tac toe, potato relay and

extreme musical chairs. The

students and staff had a lot of

fun and shared a lot of laughs.

The house teams earned points

for each event and the points

were as follows:

Crushers—210

Blazers—152

Warriors—170

Chargers—128

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“ HS Students/Parents—Watch for Ski Trip notes coming home soon”

CHRISTMAS POT LUCK DINNER

Thank you to all the

parents for sending food

for our Christmas Pot

Luck Dinner. Thank

you to the Weir’s for

cooking the turkey and

hams and to the SCC

members for preparing,

serving and cleaning up

after our dinner.

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At Manor School we announce

student birthdays each morning

on the announcements. Then at

the end of the month we give away

a $10.00 subway card to one lucky

birthday boy or girl. And the

winner is:

December: Rayanne Poirier

2016/2017 YEARBOOK ORDERS DUE

It’s time to order your 2016/2017 School Yearbook. The cost of the

book is $25.00 for a 56 page full color yearbook. Please return the bot-

tom portion of this page with the funds (checks made payable to Manor

School) by Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2017. To keep costs down we will only

print the number of books that have been ordered. Books will be deliv-

ered early Fall 2017.

For questions or more information contact:

Staff Advisor: Mrs. Fox

2016/2017 Yearbook Staff: Presley Onufreychuk, Madison Cuddington,

Trista Kennett & Angela Aalbers.

Also we do have a few extra copies of the 2015/2016 book if anyone

wishes to purchase. Please call the school for more information.

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I, ________________________________ wish to order ____ copy/copies of the 2016/2017 School Yearbook. Please find enclosed the pay-ment. Signed: _____________________________

Deadline to order Feb. 28th, 2017

YEARBOOK FUN

The Yearbook committee spon-

sored an “Ugly Christmas Sweater

contest” on Wed. Dec. 21st. The

winners were: Aiza Weir, Shay-

lynne Englot, Trista Kennett,

Presley Onufreychuk, Nixon

McArthur and Toree Knockaert.

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 Day 1

Back to

School

K day

5 Day 2 6 Day 3

K day

7

8 9 Day 4 10 Day 5

K day

11 Day 6

Hot lunch

forms DUE

12 Day 1

K day

13 Day 2

Grad Cap &

Gown Photos

14

15 16 Day 3

K day

17 Day 4

Career Coun-

sellor in

18 Day 5

K day

Grad parent

Mtg 7PM

19 Day 6 20 Day 1

K day

SCC Hot

Lunch

21

22 23 Day 2

SCC Mtg

7PM

24 Day 3

K day

ELA20/A30

Exams

25 Day 4

Environmen-

tal Science 20

Exam

26 Day 5

K day

History30

Exam

27 Day 6

Workplace

Math 20

Exam

28

29 30

No School

31 Day 1

K day

January 2017

“Welcome to Mr. Broccolo, our new school counsellor! He is replacing Mrs. Phenix who retired on Dec 21. Mr. Broccolo will be at Manor School every Tuesday.”

The students of Mrs. Parker’s K/1/2 celebrated Christmas together on the last day of classes by sharing a potluck holiday dinner together, complete with Christmas crackers and Christmas carols. The class later presented two Christ-mas songs in the Manor School Variety Show – “Snoopy’s Christmas” and “Christmas Time is Here”.

Students in Mrs. Parker’s K/1/2 class were challenged to read one book a night for 100 nights. Students who completed the challenge were awarded a “doggy bag” of prizes. On January 4th, four students completed the challenge: Alex Corkish and Peyton Harper (Kindergarten), Cadence Harper (Grade 1) and Isa-bella McWhan (Grade Two). Congratulations to our readers and we look for-ward to ALL the students in the class receiving their own “doggy bags”!

Mrs. Parker

In the month of December the

Grade 3/4/5/6 class worked su-

per hard at creating a hip hop

dance called “The Christmas

Clap.” They performed this dance

at the Talent Show on December

21st and did a fantastic job! We

would like to send out a huge

thank you to Mrs. Logan who

came into our classroom and

helped choreograph the dance! It

was greatly appreciated. Great job

Grade 3/4/5/6!

We have read a total of 5250

minutes at home since the start of

September! Great job everyone

that has brought in their Home

Reading Logs at the end of each

month. Keep reading at home as

much as you can!

Grade 5/6’s have been experi-

menting with changes in matter

in Science. Here are a few pic-

tures of the students making

“Oobleck”. Ask any grade 5/6 how

to make this fun, slimy creation!

Reminder to all students to dress

warm for recess as the winter

weather is here!

Miss Vanrobaeys

K/1/2 NEWS

GRADE 3/4/5/6 NEWS

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Day 2

Hot lunch

forms DUE

2 Day 3

K day

3 Day 4

Gr. 9-12 Re-

port Cards

out

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5 6 Day 5

K day

7 Day 6 8 Day 1

K day

9 Day 2 10 Day 3

K day

SCC Hot

Lunch

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12 13 Day 4 14 Day 5

K day

15 Day 6 16 Day 1

K day

17 Day 2

Gr. 7-12 Ski

Trip

Gr.1-6 Jump

Rope for Heart

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19 20

No School

21

No School

22

No School

23

No School

24

No School

25

26 27 Day 3

K day

28 Day 4

Deadline to

order your

2016/2017

Yearbook

February 2017

MANOR SCHOOL

Population: 78 Students

Staff:

Mrs. Kelly Logan

Mr. Robert Mitchell

Mrs. Shelley Big Eagle

Mr. Monte McNaughton

Ms. Mandy Vanrobaeys

Mrs. Nancy Parker

Mrs. Teresa Fox

Mrs. Cindy Weir

Mrs. Nicole Turgeon

Ms. Brenda Haney

Bus Drivers:

Mrs. Janet Lynch

Ms. Debbie Preston

SHOUT OUTS

*To Dylan & Davien for helping Marlin bring in the new floor scrubber and take out the

old one.

*To Kyle & Nathan for doing outdoor supervision at the elementary end morning recess.

*To Jennifer, Kyle, Desiree, Vincent, Presley, Madison, Mackenzie, Haley, Destiny,

Dareeion, Chelssea, Angela & Brooke for helping with the Flouride Mouthrinse Program.

*To Kara Kallen, Clougin, Aiza, William, Aiden, Turner, Emily, Dathan, Jayce, Keltin,

Colton, Alexis, Lacie & River for helping with the Paper Recycling Program.

*To Jesse for organizing the music for the talent show.

*To Ms. Haney for washing all the curtains after they were “whip creamed”

Manor School

#1 Fraser St.

Manor, SK.

S0C 1R0

Phone: 306-448-2110

Fax: 306-448-4906

E-mail: [email protected]

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