21 Feb to 25 Feb 2022
Monday, 21 Feb
- Family Day, school closed
Tuesday, 22 Feb
Wednesday, 23 Feb
Thursday, 24 Feb
Friday, 25 Feb
Looking ahead
8 Mar: PYP Exhibition
9 Mar: PYP Exhibition
11 Mar: Deadline for Munchalunch refunds
11 Mar: Last day before Spring Break
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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Hello Southlands families
We hope you are enjoying the Family Day weekend. On Wednesday we will be celebrating both Mother Tongue Day and Pink Shirt Day. Classes have been decorating their doors with the word Kindness in many different languages. And we will have a special extended Morning Announcements with two students from Ms. Beck's class sharing some thought about kindness. Thank you to everyone for wearing pink on Wednesday!
We will be emailing home our bi-weekly School Newsletter on Friday with pictures from around the school. Watch your in-boxes!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch.
Sincerely,
Margaret Paxton
Principal
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Thank you for your generous support of our fundraising events using Munchalunch over the last year. We do not know if we will be able to use MunchaLunch for hot lunch programs this year so we would like to clear all the credits on families' accounts at this time. Please log in to your account and check if you have any credits on the system.
If you have credits, please consider donating them to the PAC, to help with our fundraising efforts which have been affected by Covid for the last two years.
You may also request a refund through e-transfer, but we must receive your request no later than Friday March 11. Please contact Cecilia at southlands.munchalunch@gmail.com and let her know if you would like to have your credits refunded. The deadline for any credit refund is Friday March 11. All leftover credits on Munchalunch after that will be donated to PAC.
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Thank you all for your support of Div 3's Valentine's Day Arts and Crafts Fair to raise funds for Covenant House. They raised $500!
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Thanks for joining the Feb PAC meeting. For those were not able to attend, please review the minutes for the Feb PAC meeting.There will be no March meeting due to Spring Break.
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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. You will now receive a 2022 tax receipt for any donations made.
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 donors and all of our donors to the campaign so far. We truly appreciate your support!
Our total received to date is $7,550
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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After the success of their workshops this fall, ONE TO ONE is again hosting virtual workshops for interested parents/caregivers of students in Grades 1-3 called Come Read with Me.
Come Read with Me is an interactive workshop facilitated by a ONE TO ONE educator designed to give parents and caregivers the opportunity to learn positive strategies to help them support their children when reading at home. Participating families will receive a digital resource package including the “Reading Success at Home” handbook. This program is available at no cost to families across British Columbia through the generous support of donors.
The virtual sessions are on February 15, 23, 28, March 10, and 16. They start at 6:30 and run for 60 minutes with time for questions after. Each session is the same – parents/caregivers only need to come once
To register and for more information: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/one-to-one-literacy-society-32436852611
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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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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!
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