16 Dec to 20 Dec 2019
Monday, Dec 16
- Choir
- No Subway (resume in Jan)
Tuesday, Dec 17
Wednesday, Dec 18
- Drama Club
- Winter Social, 4:30pm
Thursday, Dec 19
- Art Club, Gr4/5
- Flute
- Div 9 party, 2:15pm
- Van-Chess after school
Friday, Dec 20
- Art Club, Gr4/5
- Earth Kids club
- Pizza lunch
- Last day of school
Looking Ahead:
Jan 6: School reopens
Jan 13: Milton Randall drumming workshop
Jan 16: Anxiety in Children and Youth, 6-8pm
Jan 17: Lockdown drill, 11:45am
Jan 20: Fruit & Vegetable snack
Jan 21: Vision screening, KG
Jan 23: Hearing test, KG
Jan 23: Building Bridges with your Teen, 7-9pm
Jan 30: Parenting in a Digital World, 6:30-8pm
Jan 31: Report cards come home (no report cards before winter break)
View the school calendar online
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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.
Winter Social - volunteers needed on Dec 18 to run the bake sale, bring choir students to stage and run concession
PAC meeting sign - Looking for a volunteer to hang the sign up the first Wed of every month there is a PAC meeting (an ideal job for a JKC family who arrives by 8:15 am)
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Hello Southlands Families!
This week we welcomed a new staff member, Kendra Thomas, who replaced Kate Baxter. Kendra is currently working with Div. 4 as an SSW. We also had our last visit with our 30 UBC Teacher Candidates in the IB program. We wish them well as they continue their studies and hope that many will consider applying at Southlands once they graduate. This will be Ms. Eichhorn’s last week before she goes on maternity leave and we will be thinking of her and her family in the days to come.
Our lunchtime schedule will return to Eat First, Play After on Monday. Eating time will be 12:00 – 12:20 and playtime from 12:20 – 12:47pm. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we tried something different.
We hope to see lots of families Wednesday night for the Winter Social. Please stop by if you can for the Bake Sale, Concession, Choir Performance and more!
Sincerely,
Margaret Paxton ( @SouthlandsIB) |
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The minutes from the PAC meeting on Dec 11 are now posted online.
The Direct Donation campaign will be starting up in January. The fundraising goals of the campaign are:
- $5,000: Artist in Residence Funds to support in-class arts programming throughout the year
- $10,000: Purchasing computer technology for the lower intermediate grades (4/5) to use
- $5,000: Funding that is provided to each teacher to pay for additional supplies and/or activities that relate to curriculum and benefit students directly, and that remain the property of the school.
- $1,000: Re-painting the lines on the basketball court at the north end of the school grounds.
- $2,000: To fund a 2nd waterbottle filling station, to be installed by VSB (one to be supplied by VSB).
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Southlands will be having our Winter Social the afternoon of Wed, Dec 18 starting at 4:30pm. There will be fun activities like a crafts table and holiday photo booth. Senior choir, Junior choir and Musical Yogis (KG & Gr1/2) will be performing at 5:30pm. In addition, concessions (pizza & sushi) will be available for sale, and there will be a bake sale in the library before and after performances. Grade 7 students will also be selling their raffle tickets for the gift baskets, which will be drawn after the musical performances are over. We may even have a visit from the North Pole!
Looking forward to seeing all Southlands families at the social!
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Ms Prins and Ms Cronk's classes distributed shoeboxes filled with items for the homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for the holiday season. The students wrote hand-created greeting cards for the recipients of the shoeboxes. Thank you for your generous donations Southlands parents!
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Div 2 is collecting toys for the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau. Please send a new, unwrapped toy to your class
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Parents, if your child is interested in swimming, come check out the Pacific Wave synchronized swimming club winter watershow.
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Mad Science is coming to Southlands. Eight weeks of exciting hands-on activities to grow your understanding of science. Mad science will spark the curiosity and imagination of children with fun science activities that help them understand the world around them.
Please visit the Mad Science website for more information and to register before Jan 3
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Fundraise while shopping!
Thank you to the families who have joined our FlipGive team! We have already earned $182! We encourage others to join the team using code FRJ3Z5.
Shopping online through the FlipGive Southlands team is a fundraising method that allows you to shop and have a commission go to the PAC. There are no extra costs to you.
Use the FlipGive app or browser plugin before shopping online at stores like Starbucks, Amazon, Sportchek, Nike, Bay, The Gap, Indigo, etc. and you will be ensuring a percentage of your purchase gets credited to Southlands programs. There is even a way to shop in-store and get the same benefit!
Download the FlipGive App or visit www.flipgive.com/join to sign up. You will be asked to enter the Southlands Elementary team code FRJ3Z5.
How does it work? Stores on FlipGive pay a commission whenever you shop with them via their app or website, and FlipGive shares that commission with the team you are registered for. You can choose to make your shopping purchase private and no details of your shopping are shared with the PAC.
Happy Shopping!
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Div 6 exploring what snowmen do at night |
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Div 10 baking cinnamon buns |
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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.
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Throughout the year any purchases online from Mabel's Labels will earn our school a rebate when you select "Southlands Elementary School" from the drop down menu. Thank you for your support!
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