Term 1: 23 To 27 Sep, 2019

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23 Sep to 27 Sep 2019 Monday, Sep 23 Fruit & Vegetable snack Tuesday, Sep 24 Cross country, 8:10-9:00am Cross country meet @ Montgomery Park, 3:30-5:00pm Wednesday, Sep 25 HotDog/Pizza ordering closes on Munchalunch Thursday, Sep 26 Cross country, 8:10-9:00am Van-Chess after school, 3:00-4:30pm Friday, Sep 27 Soup Day Mad Science after school, 3:10-4:10pm   Looking Ahead: Sep 30: Munchalunch opens for Subway Sep 30: Orange Shirt Day Sep 30: Grade 7 Grad Planning @ Dorringtons residence, 7-9pm Oct 2: Cross country meet @ Quilchena Park, 3:30-5:00pm Oct 8: Cross country meet @ Balaclava Park, 3:30-5:00pm Oct 9: Photo Day Oct 14: School closed, Thanksgiving Day View the school calendar online   Please lend a helping hand We need your commitment so that we know days are covered by volunteers.  We welcome guardians, grandparents, aunts and uncles to help. Please click this link to sign up. Fruit & Vegetable snack - volunteers needed Oct 7, 28 Cross Country - volunteers needed Sep 24, 26 Hotdog/Pizza - volunteers needed starting Oct 11 Subway - volunteers needed starting Oct 28 Class Parents Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to be a class parent so far. This is a great volunteer role that helps build communication in the classroom. We are still in need of parents for 4 divisions. Michelle has placed sign up forms outside each classroom and on the bulletin boards. Alternatively you can email her with your contact information and division. If anyone has any questions about this role, please feel free to contact Michelle.Thank you so much for your support!   Message from the Principal Mrs. Margaret Paxton (@SouthlandsIB) Hello Southlands Families, on this wet, rainy Sunday.  I hope you had a chance to get outside despite the rain. The weather was certainly on our side on Wednesday last week for the Meet the Teacher and Welcome Back Potluck.  Many thanks to Jodie Dorrington for her leadership, and to the other parents who helped set up and pack up the event.  And many thanks to the teachers for meeting and greeting families, new and returning.  We look forward to this event continuing and flourishing in the future. Thanks, also, to the parents who came and helped out on Friday afternoon for our Terry Fox run, for which the weather was also cooperative.  Thanks to Mr. Lee and Ms. Eichhorn for organizing the run, the assembly and the fundraising. I am becoming more aware of all of the “behind the scenes” help that parents offer Southlands, and I don’t want to forget thanking anyone.  Please know that everything you do is noticed and appreciated. Good luck to all of the Cross Country runners attending their first meet of the year on Tuesday:  Go Southlands Go! Have a great week, everyone, and as always, stay in touch. Margaret Paxton Potluck Thank you to all the parents, teachers, staff and volunteers for making the Potluck a success. And a big thank you to Q Coffee/Phonatic on Dunbar for donating the coffee for the event.     We have moved to MunchaLunch as the payment platform for Southlands PAC programs. Bookmark https://munchalunch.com/schools/southlands/ and create an account! Thanks for all your support on using MunchaLunch and your patience figuring this new order system out along with PAC. Please note that we will be closing Pizza & Hot Dog ordering two days earlier on Wednesday September 25 for MunchaLunch administrative work. If you have not dropped off cheques or cash for your payments, please do so before end of day Wednesday. Any unpaid lunch orders will be cancelled with no further reminders. We are pleased to let you know that online ordering for Subway will be open from Monday, 30th September until Friday, 11th October. Please place your orders then if you have not already done so. Thank you for your patience while we get used to this new system! Safe Arrival If your child will be absent from school, please phone 604-713-5159 as soon as possible and leave your child's name, division number, the date and whether they will be absent or late. Our school code is 79.  Throughout the year any purchases online from Stong's will earn our school a rebate when you select "Southlands Elementary School" from the drop down menu. Thank you for your support! Visit our website at https://southlands-pac.blogspot.com Join Southlands PAC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/southlandselementarypac/ Southlands Parents Advisory Council "PAC" southlands.elementary@gmail.com Chair: Nina Monahan Vice Chair: Farnaz Imani Secretary: Cecilia Imani Treasurer: Sandy Liu Assistant Treasurer: Jennifer Paterson Fundraising: Renee Hui & Uliana Vankovych Past Chair & DPAC representative: Deb Broadhurst Member-at-large: Melanie Antweiler Our mailing address is: 5351 Camosun Street, Vancouver, BC, V6N 2C4 Please send any feedback on the newsletter to southlands.pacnews@gmail.com VSB Office of the Superintendent contacts Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. If you were forwarded this newsletter, please sign up