2 Mar to 6 Mar 2020
Monday, Mar 2
Tuesday, Mar 3
Wednesday, Mar 4
- Drama Club
- PYP Exhibition
Thursday, Mar 5
- Art Club, Gr4/5
- Flute (bring flutes)
Friday, Mar 6
Looking Ahead:
Mar 9: Zero Waste Heroes Assembly, 9am
Mar 10: Knowledgeable assembly by Gr1/2, 9am
Mar 11: PAC meeting, 2-3pm
Mar 11: Parent Education Lecture: We Have a Revised Curriculum
Mar 11: District choral festival, Senior choir only, 6pm, John Oliver
Mar 16: Spring break starts
View the school calendar online
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Do you like hot lunch Fridays? We rely on parent volunteers for this program to run… please lend a helping hand!
No experience is necessary, just your willingness to help for about an hour around lunch time.
Please email Cecilia to signup or visit the Signup page and create an account to sign up for the dates you’re available.
We need help the following dates:
March 6: pizza day
March 13: hotdog day
And going forward until the end of the school year
We appreciate help from anyone: parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents, etc!!
Thank you!
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Hello Southland Families!
This week was very busy and seemed to go by quickly. Thank you to all of the parents who helped out this week. The Pink Shirt Exchange was very successful. It was nice to see so many Southlanders wearing Pink to emphasise Kindness and Friendship! Thank you to the manager of the Dunbar London Drugs, for providing us with $50 worth of pink t-shirts, bandanas and bracelets. Thanks also to the parents who helped serve hotdogs on Friday, and to the students from Div. 1 who supervised recycling and organics in the lunchroom: Nicky, Holly, Henry and John. You made a BIG difference. Thank you.
We are really looking forward to Exhibition next week. The students have been working so hard.
We will be sending home a March Newsletter on Monday. This month, the prize for reading the newsletter and returning the slip will be Pizza with the Principal AND two tickets for the March 10th Canucks vs Islanders game. Thanks to Ms. Katz and her brother for getting us the tickets.
Finally, thank you for all of the birthday wishes. It only comes around once every four years, so on Saturday, I celebrated my 14th birthday!
As always, please get in touch with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Margaret Paxton ( @SouthlandsIB) |
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Southlands has once again taken part in the Destination Imagination tournament. Last year our team had made it to the global finals. Inspired by that performance, this year we have two teams competing. This weekend was the first round, the regional tournament. Over 400 students from Lower Mainland schools competed. The grade 6 team won second place in their category and the grade 4/5 team placed third. Congratulations to all the students for their hard work and impressive performances. They will be competing in the provincial finals on April 4th. |
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Our senior classes are abuzz with activity as the students finish up their Exhibition projects! The Exhibition is a community celebration, so we invite the families of ALL students, not just our senior students.
We hope you can join us for part of the day on either Tuesday March 3 or Wednesday March 4. Please see the schedule of presentations on the PYP blog page. |
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Choral Festival
The Southlands Senior Choir will performing with the choir from Jules Quesnel at the District Choral Festival on 11 Mar 2020 at at the John Oliver School. The performance will be from 7-8pm.
Only the Senior Choir will be performing this year
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The latest DPAC newsletter is posted. Highlights include:
- Building for Modern Learning. This engagement is part of the Long Range Facility Planning year-long engagement process the Board voted for last May. Survey link and DPAC thoughts here. Survey is open from February 19 to March 11. Please add comments if you don't feel the options fully represent your opinion.
- The City of Vancouver has reached out to DPAC and really wants (needs) to hear from more families, youth and school communities. So please spend 5 minutes sharing what matters to you by completing the Vancouver Plan initial survey that will close March 6.
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Mad Science is offering the after school program at Southlands again next term. Please sign up if interested. Registration deadline is Mar 27.
Classes this term are:
LAB WORKS
Use your hands as a real Mad Scientist in this whirlwind class on how a lab works! Learn to manipulate laboratory equipment at your personal lab bench!
JUNIOR REACTORS
Create a tiny world of atoms, learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results!
pH PHACTOR
Slide down the colorful pH scale and dip into the world of acids and bases! Explore the pH extremes in what is sure-to-be a popping experience! Discover whether liquids found in your home are acids or bases using your personal pH Paper!
SLIME TIME
Ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around! Create slime and then enter the Slime Olympics!
CHEM IN A FLASH
Hop on board the chemistry express for a high-speed science experience! Perform instantaneous experiments in this fast-paced class on split-second reactions that go like mad!
THE GLOW SHOW
Discover amazing things that glow bright in the dark and come to light! Probe the properties of light and explore some unusual applications of glow-in-the-dark technology!
SUPER STICKY STUFF
Stick it to the walls, and push the power of tape to the limits in this adhesive hour on things that cling! Build a bond with glue!
DRY ICE CAPADES
Manipulate matter in all of its three states! Melt metal in boiling water and freeze water with just a breath of dry ice!
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Fundraise while shopping!
Thank you to the families who have joined our FlipGive team! We have already earned $217 for Southlands programs. We encourage others to join the team using code FRJ3Z5.
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!
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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 menu. Thank you for your support!
This week they have small rectangle labels 40% off as part of their birthday sale
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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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