13 Dec to 17 Dec 2021
Monday, 13 Dec
- Last day - Socks for Homeless
Tuesday, 14 Dec
- Student leadership, 12:15pm
- Gingerbread House Making Night, 6:30pm
Wednesday, 15 Dec
Thursday, 16 Dec
- Mini-school application deadline
Friday, 17 Dec
- Last day of school
- Spirit Day - Pajama Day
- Hot lunch, send utensils
Looking ahead
4 Jan: School reopens
View the school calendar online
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Please make sure you review the daily health assessment (english or simplified chinese) before sending your child(ren) to school. Or use the K-12 Health Check website.
If you are late to school, your child(ren) must enter through the upper front door by the salmon mural and check-in at the office. Please call the office at (604) 713-5414 or use the new doorbell beside the door so they can let the child(ren) in.
If your child(ren) will be absent from school, please email souattendance@vsb.bc.ca or 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. If you phone, you will be required to use a school code. The Southlands school code is 79#.
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Happy holidays, Southlands families!
Thank you for all the care you have taken this term, keeping our school community safe, but still connected. It has been a pleasure to see your faces at PAC meetings and outside the school, and we have appreciated your participation in PAC initiatives that raise important funds for the school, like the pop-up spirit wear sale and hot lunches.
As we head into the last week of school please look out for the email sent by your child's classroom teacher connecting you to the class parent for their Division. Many class parents are busy organising thank you gifts for the teachers so please consider taking part, to thank the teachers for their extraordinary efforts over the last few months.
Have a restful break and we will look forward to seeing you all again in the new year!
Nina & Renee
PAC Co-Chairs
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Hello Southlands Families!
Five more days before a much-needed break for all. We hope you received our Friday School Newsletter, which has some photos from around the school. Our Kindness Campaign continues this week with more challenges to be a risk-taker and dare to be kind.
The weather continues to be unpredictable. We have a great number of mostly intermediate students going out without jackets, then becoming cold and mischievous. We are lucky to have an undercover area that can provide some shelter. On Friday I encouraged all students to come prepared for any weather and to take shelter there if unprepared with a book, a card game or drawing. Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe this winter.
There is still one more day (Monday) to donate socks for Div. 5's Sock Drive for Shelters.
As this is the last weekly PAC newsletter message before I'd like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a relaxing winter break. See you in 2022!
Sincerely,
Margaret Paxton
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Join us for this month's PAC meeting. Every parent and caregiver with a child at Southlands is automatically part of the Parent Advisory Council. Register to get the zoom details, review the agenda, and come hear about the plans for the upcoming year
Please email southlands.elementary@gmail.com if you want to add items to the agenda for the meeting.
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Southlands Gingerbread House Making Night
Join us for a festive night with the kids!
When: Tuesday Dec.14th, 6:30pm
Where: On Zoom!
Password: Southlands
To participate, please purchase a gingerbread house kit from the grocery store. Look out for instructions sent home in backpacks last week!
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Hello Southlands families!
The Southlands PAC Direct Donation campaign for the 2022/2023 school year is well underway. This campaign helps Southlands deliver programs and upgraded services to our entire student community that are outside of the VSB funding. Please consider donating, your generous support is greatly appreciated. For a 2021 tax receipt, please donate before the end of this year.
Please review the information previously sent home for details of how you can donate.
Funds raised through this campaign will help support the Outdoor Classroom and Classroom Funds. Our fundraising goals are $10,000 for the Outdoor classroom and $5,000 for Classroom funds.
We would like to say a huge Thank you to our most recent donor to the campaign. We truly appreciate your support! We have been provided with the online donation information from VSB this week and have received an additional 13 online donations in November.
Our total received to date is $5,200
To receive a tax receipt:
1) Donate Online: http://vsb.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/1869/196/false/true and select "E-Southlands PAC"- this is the quickest way to receive a tax receipt or
2) Provide cash or write a cheque payable to "Southlands Elementary School" noting "2022 PAC Direct Donation" in the memo and include the pink Donor Recognition Form
Just a reminder, please remember to send the Donor Recognition form to school with the details of your donation, even if you donate online, so that we can be timely with our gratitude. This form also informs us if you would like your name to be included in our recognition of your donation or if you would like to be anonymous. If we do not receive the form, your donation will be considered anonymous.
Thank you again for supporting Southlands Elementary!
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Thank you to the families who have joined our FlipGive team! We have already earned $391 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.
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If you are ordering groceries online from Stong's, please pick "Southlands Elementary School" from the drop down menu so that the PAC can earn a rebate. Thank you for your support!
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