Remembrance Day · member, Morley Hamilton marched out led by Air Cadets, Breck Van Meer, River Whitebear, Hunter Tripp & Breck Therens as the rest of the school watched in respect.

October/November 2019

SOUTH EAST CORNERSTONE SD NO. 209

Wawota Parkland School participated in the annual

Remembrance Day ceremony held in our gym on No-

vember 7th. The ceremony started with a candle

lighting by SLC president, William Husband, which

was soon followed by some great presentations by

our K-8 classes.

“I think it’s really import that we do this,” WPS teacher

Charlene Harvey told us., “I am very proud of the ef-

fort the students and teachers put into this.”

The ceremony capped off with a moment of silence

where the whole school stood in silence for two minutes. Soon after, RCMP Constable, Dani Zaya and Legion

member, Morley Hamilton marched out led by Air Cadets, Breck Van Meer, River Whitebear, Hunter Tripp &

Breck Therens as the rest of the school watched in respect.

The students, however, stayed together and joined up with their peers to make a “peace cranes” out of paper,

giving the school a sense of teamwork.

Remembrance Day has been an annual event since the early the early 20th

century with no sign of stopping

anytime soon. We are honored to have a day like this, to remember the past and try to make a change for the

future. (Submitted by Dylan Mansfield)

Remembrance Day

W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L P A G E 2

IMPORTANT DATES

November 29th—Subway Day

December 6th—Purdys Chocolate Pickup (3:30– 5:30)

December 18h—Travel Club Pizza Day

December 19th

– Christmas Concert 7pm

December 21st –Jan 5

th – Christmas

Break

January 6th

– Classes resume

January 27th

– Exams begin

January 31st – No School PD day

Reminder to check lost and found of-ten – we accumulate many items each week.

We are always excited to receive used books for the li-brary. All donations are welcome but, at present, popular books are: fairies, princesses, Barbie, animals, true facts, and ANY gaming books (especially Pokémon) for the younger children. Fantasy series, true war stories or true life stories for teens. Any young adult book would be ap-preciated as well, as Scholastic doesn't have a wide selec-tion of these.

If you have any books or series’ that you would like to donate to the library please drop them off at the front office with Elly and she will make sure I get them. If you leave your name I will place a donation label inside the cover with your name. Much appreciated.

- Mrs. Mills

SLC CHRISTMAS FOOD DRIVE:

Dec.2—6 — Something Boxed

Dec. 9 – 13 — Something Canned

Dec. 16—20 - Something in a Bag

Please bring all items to Mrs.

Durksen’s room and place in your

colour team’s basket.

P A G E 3 W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L

Scholastic Reading Club at the Wawota School If you belong to our school Facebook page you will find the links to follow to order books through Scho-

lastic. Once you order – they are submitted to me – then I place the order and they are shipped here to the

school! (If you wish to pick up the order yourself to keep it a secret email me at the address below.)

Scholastic Reading Club has very reasonable priced books and always includes “new releases” and “old

favourites”. (December orders are due on December 4th

, early order deadline for Christmas.)

If you are interested in ordering please check out our Facebook page or follow the links below for the Decem-

ber DigiFlyers. (Copy and Paste)

Pre-School Kindergarten Grade 1

https://lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=626045&ver=html5 Grade 2 Grade 3

https://lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=626040&ver=html5 Grade 4 through Grade 7 https://lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=626036&ver=html5

Teen

https://lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=626036&ver=html5 Special

https://lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=618394&ver=html5&p=1

Each order helps us by earning bonus points which can

then be used for new resources for the library.

For the month of December our bonus points are as fol-

lows:

Spend: $30 - $49 = 10% $50 - $199 = 15%

$200 - $499 = 20% $500 & over = 25%

If you have any questions or concerns please email me at [email protected]

P A G E 4 W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L

Cross-Country

Congratulations to River Whitebear

who ran in the senior district cross

country meet Wednesday, October 2nd

in Rocanville. River placed in the top 10

in his age category and advanced to

Provincials in Prince Albert!! Way to go River!

JUNIOR BOYS:

Congratulations to the jr. boys volley-

ball team on a terrific season. The im-

provements this team made in the

last two months were astonishing, as

they went from barely being able to

pass a volleyball to within two points

of a division championship. This truly

was a result of their hard work and

dedication, as well as their willingness

to listen and work together as a team.

Although the loss was tough, you

should be very proud of how you

represented Wawota School, boys.

— Coach, Riley Riddell.

VolleyBALL

ROOKIE GIRLS: Rookie Girls Volleyball Team ended their season with a fun game against the the Junior Girls team. Both teams put up a great fight and showed growth and skill. We had a great group of girls come out, work hard, and play hard! Can't wait to see what the future has in store for this athletic group of young ladies.

- Coach, Lacey Bauche

P A G E 5 W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L

From the Desk of Mrs. Van Winkoop….

Please remember to phone the school is your child is going to be absent or late for any reason. We do have

an answering machine to receive calls after school hours (306) 739-2323. Also, don’t forget to let your bus

driver know if your child will not be on the bus.

Please make all cheques payable to Wawota School unless otherwise stated.

Please check the lost and found when you are at the school or remind your child to check often. We have

two located in the school – one is under the benches at the front entrance of the school and the other is in

the elementary porch. We accumulate a number of items each day so please look regularly.

In an effort to increase communication with parents, we have created a Wawota Parkland School Face-

book page. Please like our page and check for daily reminders and updates. We also have a parent email

list and if you are not receiving school info emails please let me know.

P A G E 6 W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L

P A G E 7 W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L

P A G E 8 W A W O T A P A R K L A N D S C H O O L

SLC HOLIDAY SPIRIT DAYS

MONDAY

Dec. 16

TUESDAY

Dec. 17

WEDNESDAY

Dec. 18

FRIDAY

Dec. 20

THURSDAY

Dec. 19

Red & Green

Day

Ugly Sweater

Day

Holiday Hat

Day PJ Day

Christmas

Carol Day

The student council has been busy building school spirit this fall. We are still operating with six colour teams trying to earn points for their team by participating in spirit days. This Halloween we hosted our first noon

hour dance for grade 1-6, it was a big hit. We also started birthday cupcakes this year. At the end of each month students who celebrated their birthday receive a cup-

cake and birthday greeting on behalf of the Student Council. By the end of June all students will receive their own cupcake. December brings lots of fun events: dress up days every Friday, spirit week, food drive, name that carol challenge and our annual pancake breakfast.

Purdys Chocolate Fundraiser – we sold $5912.98 in chocolates. We will see our profit cheque in a few weeks. We earn at least 25% of our total sales and hopefully a bit more because we broke the $5000 mark. We also purchased a basket from Purdys to raffle off at the Christmas Concert so stay tuned for that as well. They SLC hopes to use that money to purchase something that will benefit the en-tire student body. Pick up of items is scheduled for December 6

th.

FRIDAY

Dec. 6

FRIDAY

Dec. 13

Team Colour

Day

Winter Sport

Day

Winter Sport Day — Wear attire associated with a winter sport. (ex. Hockey Player)

Christmas Carol Day — Dress up as character from a your favourite Christmas Carol (ex. Frosty, Jingle Bells, We Three Kings)