Peel District School Board Burnhamthorpe Bulldog · 2017-12-04 · you have made arrangements for him/her to be picked up promptly at 3:30 dismissal time, regardless of the weather.

Burnhamthorpe Bulldog

December 2017

Important Dates

Dec. (Thurs.) Lunch Lady Dec 1-8 Book Fair Dec. 4 Honest Assembly Dec. 5 “Blankies & Books” Dec. 6 Subway Lunch Dec. 12 Pita Lunch Dec. 11-13 Gr. 1 Scientists in School Dec. 13 Pizza Lunch Dec. 4-18 Food/Clothing drive Dec. 20 Choir Perform at Retirement Home Dec. 21 Spirit Day - Wear Red & Green Dec. 21 Festival of Lights Sing-A-Long Dec. 22 Last Day before Winter Break

Peel Distric t School Board

School Council 2

FI & Kinder

Registration,

Volunteer CRC

Costs,

School Closings

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Burnhamthorpe P.S.

News

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Inside this issue:

3465 Golden Orchard Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L4Y 3H7 Phone: 905-625-0140 Fax: 905-625-4261 Trustee: S. Lawton & R. Williams Vice-Principal: C. Moschella Superintendent: P. da Silva Office Manager: A. Xhafferi Principal: D. Ahmed Office Assistant: M. King

Follow us on @BurnhamthorpeFI Burnhamthorpe.ps

Principal’s Corner It’s hard to believe that we are coming close to the end of 2017! It has been a wonderful first half of the year and it has been a joy to see the smiles on all our students as they con-tinue to develop their skills as they grow. We all look forward to many rich educational opportunities in 2018.

Many thanks to all parents who are following the requested guidelines and making our Kiss n Ride a smoother operation and more importantly our parking lot a safer place. Our emphasis is always on student safety. At no time should students and parents walk through the parking lot or cross over the front driveway during morning entry or afternoon departure times. With the impending arrival of snow and ice, this becomes an even more important concern. REMINDER: Medical information and Epi-Pens: Please make sure that the medical information of your child is up to date in the office. Students that have life threatening aller-gies are required to carry their Epi-Pens at all times. Please ensure that your child follows this instruction and that you have submitted your Form A to the office. In keeping with the generosity of the holiday season on Monday we will be launching into our Food Drive and setting up our Giving Tree at the front of the school. For our Giving Tree, we will be accepting donations of new hats, mittens, or scarves. If a student do-nates something used we will of course take it and find a home for it. For the food drive we will be collecting anything non-perishable and hopefully will have some other much needed items such as, diapers and baby formula. The boxes will again be organized this year outside in the hallway by the office. Please ask your students to read the signs and sort the items into the proper boxes (cans, cereals, baby food, etc.). Grade 5 students from Ms. Taviera’s Grade 5 class will be coming around daily to keep track. Thank you to that class for applying their mathematical skills to help the cause. The holidays are soon upon us. Whether you honour Diwali, Eid, Chanukah, Kwanza, Christmas or any other cultural or religious celebration please accept our best wishes for a wonderful holiday season. The importance of friends and family is an integral part of all cultures and the time off at the end of December gives us many opportunities to spend time together.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas, Eid Mubarek, Happy Diwali, Happy Chanukah and Happy Kwanza!

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Your Burnhamthorpe School Council

Supporting our School and Connecting our Parents.

EMPOWERING MODERN

LEARNERS

A series of evening workshops designed to give parents

some insight into how technology is changing how kids

learn.

We will be exploring how tech is changing the curricu-

lum with the Peel Board’s tech expert Lawrence

DeMayer. We will also be getting some hands on time

with the programs and apps your children are using in

their classrooms. Dates for these evening work-

shops will be available in January!

Next School Council Meeting is:

Thursday February 8th, 2018 @ 6:30p.m.

We are excited about a number of events scheduled in the second half of the school

year – watch the newsletter for dates and information!

FUN FAIR Everyone’s favourite day. The Burnhamthorpe Fun Fair happens in June, but planning

gets underway in January. If you are interested in helping on the committee contact

them at [email protected]

Grade 5 Graduation

Do you have a student in Grade 5? We are looking for volunteers

to help us organize the graduation!

Help us make it a special day!

Contact us at [email protected]

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Apply for French Immersion by Jan. 26, 2018 If your child will be starting grade 1 in September 2018, one of the im-portant choices you will make is whether you want to consider grade 1 French Immersion (FI). To find out more about the program, visit www.peelschools.org/French

The application form for grade 1 FI for the 2018-19 school year will be available online at www.peelschools.org/French as of Friday, Nov. 24, 2017 at 1 p.m. The deadline to apply is Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 at 4 p.m. Applications received after the deadline will not be included in the

random selection process and will be placed on the school’s waitlist.

Burnhamthorpe P.S. is the French Immersion school for our area. Please contact us at 905-625-0140 if there are any concerns with your

application being processed.

Enrolment cap and random selection process

The Peel board has a limited number of spaces available for students interested in grade 1 French Immersion. At this time, the grade 1 FI enrolment cap is set at 25 per cent of all Peel students enrolled in grade 1. A random selection process is used to determine which students will

be offered spaces in the grade 1 FI program.

It is important to note that applicants are not offered space in grade 1 FI on a first come, first serve basis. A computerized random selec-tion process will randomly assign a rank to each application that is re-

ceived by the deadline.

Once students have been assigned to all available spaces, remaining students will be placed, again in rank order, on the school's waitlist.

Each school has its own waitlist.

How to get more information

Visit the Peel board website - www.peelschools.org/French. Call Burnhamthorpe P.S. at 905-625-0140. Visit the Canadian Parents for French website at http://on.cpf.ca/. FOR BRAMPTON & MISSISSAUGA SCHOOLS ONLY

Volunteer Criminal Record Checks to cost $33 as of January 1, 2018 Peel Regional Police have advised us that, as of January 1, 2018, Criminal Record Checks – Vulnerable Sector Check for adults, in-cluding those for volunteers, will cost $33; students and seniors will remain at the current cost of $25. Processing of CRCs for vol-unteers is free until the end of December 2017, with Form A provid-ed by the school.

CRC application forms are available in the lobby of Peel Regional Police Headquarters, and at the Square One Community Station, or online by accessing the link on the Peel Regional Police website: https://www.peelpolice.ca/en/services/vulnerablesectorcheck.asp.

It's time to register children born in 2014 for kindergarten

We inspire success, confidence and hope in each student…and it all starts in kindergarten! If your child was born in 2014, he or she can start kindergarten in September 2018. You can register your child at any time during regular school hours—just visit the school he/she will be attending to register. Peel schools will also hold a Kindergarten Registration Week with spe-cial registration activities during Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, 2018. Visit Burnhamthorpe P.S. from:

Jan. 29 to 31, 2018 – from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 1, 2018 – from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Feb. 2, 2018 – from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

What you will need to bring to registration Proof of child's age (one of the following)

Canadian birth certificate • Canadian passport

Citizenship card/certificate • Permanent Resident Card

Confirmation of permanent residence • Work permit

Refugee permit Proof of address (one of the following)

Ontario driver's license • Utility bill

Credit card statement • Purchase agreement

Bank statement/client slip (directly from financial institution)

Federal government forms (e.g. Social Insurance Number, Service Canada documents)

Proof of custody – children must live with their parent(s) unless provided documentation supports an alternate living arrangement Proof of immunization – proof that your child has been immunized/vaccinated

Closing Schools and Cancelling Buses Because of Bad Weather During the winter months, severe weather conditions may cause disruption of buses and regular school operations. The board decides by 6:30 a.m. whether to cancel buses or close schools. To find out if bus-sing is cancelled or schools are closed, visit www.peelschools.org or call 905-890-1010 or 1-800-668-1146; you will receive one of the following messages: Peel District School Board buses are cancelled. Schools remain open for students and staff, but buses are cancelled for the entire day. All activities that require bussing will also be cancelled. Permits, night school classes, daycare and other activities in schools will operate as usual. If you choose to bring your child to school, please ensure that you have made arrangements for him/her to be picked up promptly at 3:30 dismissal time, regardless of the weather. All Peel District School Board schools and board offices are closed. Due to weather conditions, schools and board offices are closed to students and staff. You can also follow @Peelschools on Twitter or become a fan of the Peel board on Facebook, www.facebook.com/peelschools, for updates.

SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM PRICING CHANGES Dear Parents/Caregivers, The increase in minimum wage will be impacting our food costs for certain lunch days. In the new year there will be increases in prices for some or all our food vendors. The changes in price will be reflected on the upcoming order forms. The school council has yet complete negotiations with our food suppliers (Subway, Pita Pit & Gino’s Pizza)

Grade 2/5 Boredom project and Used Toy Sale

Hello Parents,

Mr. Pitman, Mlle Dinh, Mlle Alexander and their classes are getting together to do a special project with their classes and they need your help. The classes will be raising money to con-struct "boredom kits" that will be delivered to children who are in the hospital. In order to raise money for this initiative the clas-ses will be hosting a used toy sale in the gym, on Wednesday December 13. The students are asking you, if you feel led, to have your child bring in one toy that is in good condition and that they may no longer use and donate it to their initiative. All donated toys will be offered for sale to other students on De-cember 13th for a price between 50 cents and 2 dollars. All pro-ceeds will be going towards funding the project so that the bore-dom kits can be delivered to Trillium Hospital and Sick Kids Hos-pital. The students are asking that if you are sending in a toy for re-sale that it would be delivered to Mr. Pitman's class before December 11th, 2017. The sale will take place on December 13th in the gym.

Thank you so much in advance for your support! Mr. Pitman, Mlle. Dinh, and Mlle. Alexander

BPS Student Art Contest Winners! Thank you to everyone who submitted art to our first student art contest. This years winners are Nicole Gr. 5 & Caitlin Gr. 4. Look for their pieces focusing on inclusivity and honesty hanging in our main office.

All other submissions can be collected from Ms Emmett's room 103 until Dec. 15th.

From the Phys Ed Corner!

We are continuing our partnership with the Brampton Beast. We are awarding students every few weeks with tickets who have displayed excellence in sportsmanship and athletic skills.

Congratulations to the following students have been awarded 4 tickets to a game at the Powerade centre on a Friday evening.

Grade 1 Peter & Gabriel

Grade 2 Matt

Grade 3 Uriel & Milos

Grade 4 Daniel

Grade 5 Sara & Amir Many grade 4 and 5 students played in an intramural Quidditch league (about 75 students participated) under the direction of Mme Anderson and Mr. Scopis. At the end of the season, the Toronto Maple Leafs won the series defeating the Montreal Canadiens. 15 students were then further selected to compete in a competition against four other schools (Dixie, Huntington Ridge and Nahani Way) on December 1st. We’ll keep you updat-ed in January how it went.

Grade 5 volleyball tryouts and practices are starting at the begin-ning of December with Mme Anderson and Mr. Scopis

Grade 4 and 5 basketball tryouts will be starting with Mr. Pitman and Mme Tomines.

Chess Club

The Chess Club continues to meet every Tuesday and Thursday at lunch recess. All students from grades 1 to 5 are welcome. A special thank you to the School Council and those parents who continue to support our fundraising efforts which allowed us to purchase 15 new chess boards for the Chess Club!

Dressing Up for Winter! Wear a warm hat—most body heat is lost through the head.

Wear layered clothing. Layers allow warm air to stay trapped around the body.

Protect your feet and hands. Mittens are warmer than gloves. Carry an extra pair of mittens to school, on outings, etc.

Eat high-energy food such as nuts and raisins. A balanced diet will also help keep you warm and healthy in the winter.

Burnhamthorpe News

Happy Holidays ! Joyeux Noël ! Bonne Annéé !

As the holiday season approaches and we all celebrate our traditions, the staff and students would like to express our warm appreciation to the Burnhamthorpe PS family for your goodwill throughout the year. We wish all a safe and joyous Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and a 2018 filled with success and

happiness!