Elm Street Elementary
256 Elm Street
Summerside, PE C1N 3V5
Ph: (902) 888-8490 Fax: (902) 888-8307
Principal: Tracy Beaulieu
Vice Principal: Jacqueline Reeves
Admin. Assistant: Lindsay MacIsaac Albert
Calendar:
June
June 10-11
June 12
June 13-18
June 17
June 18
June 18
June 19
June 19
June 22
June 25
June 26
June 2015 Newsletter
Elementary & Grade 3 Math Assessments
SIS Band comes to Elm Street for a concert @ 9am
Grade 6 French Immersion students go to the Magdalen Islands
Last Day for Hot Lunch Program
Grade 6 English students go to Moncton, NB
Year End Field trips: Gr. K-2 Shining Waters; Gr. 3-5 Sandspit
Rain Date for Grades K-5 field trips
SIS Band Testing for Grade 6 students who have registered
Elm Street BBQ & Fun Day (morning & over lunch)
Grade 6 Closing Ceremonies at 1:15pm
Last Instructional Day for Students & Report cards sent home
Notes from the Office:
School Goal
Staff will strengthen students' ability to use the traits of writing simultaneously by examining the use of high yield
strategies in all classrooms. This will be measured by the percentage of students who meet expectations in the Provincial
Common Assessment Writing scores and Elm Street Writing data.
School Effectiveness and Literacy Mondays:
On June 8th, we had our professional development / literacy wrap up. It was a wonderful opportunity to have time to
reflect on all the "new learning" teachers have done over the year. Teachers engaged in a book study on How's It Going?
and Lost at School and analyzed student writing samples. This assisted teachers in their writing conferences and
classroom instruction.
2015/16 Class Lists
Parents, please send in your email addresses ASAP to your child’s
teacher so that teachers can update their contact information as the
class lists will be emailed to parents and not posted publically.
Lockdown & Fire Drill
We will be practicing our lock down and fire drill within the next few weeks.
Answering Service
We are in the process of getting an answering service here at Elm Street. This will be used for reporting
attendance/absenteeism only.
Criminal Record Checks for Year End Field Trips
A reminder to parents, that if you want to participate as a chaperone during the year end field trips, a Criminal
Background Check is required. Please bring your original letter into the school as copies will not be accepted.
These take time to complete so please give your police detachment plenty of time to complete this. Drop by the school
to pick up your form and there will be no fee to complete your check.
Important Reminder to Parents/Guardians
Just a reminder to all parents/guardians to always check in to the office if you are dropping things off to a student or
picking him/her up. You are required to sign in and take a visitor pass to access the school hallways, if you are given
permission to do so by the office.
Orientation Day for 2015/16 Kindergarten Students
We were so happy to have our incoming Kindergarten students with us on Friday, June 5 th for their orientation. We will
welcome them to our Elm Street family in September.
Other News:
Music News
May was a very rewarding month for our three school choirs. The Primary Choir, the Boys Choir, and the Girls Choir all
gave outstanding performances at East Prince Music Festival where they all received a Gold Standing for their
performance. The Girls Choir was invited to perform at the
festival’s Stars of the Festival Concert where they were presented
with the Summerside Community Choir Award and recommended
to represent out district at the Provincial Finals for the PEI Kiwanis
Music Festival in Charlottetown.
On May 29th the Elm Street Girls Choir competed in the PEI Kiwanis
Music Festival in Charlottetown where they were awarded the Mrs.
Helen Lawson Memorial Award for best Elementary School Choir at
the P.E.I. Kiwanis Provincial Music Festival. The Girls Choir has also
been recommended to compete by recording to the National Music Festival Competition. We are very proud of all our
choirs and they great work they did in all the festivals. Congratulations!!
Library News
The library will be closing for the 2014-2015 school year on Friday May 29th. No more books will be lent out after that
date. All books need to be returned by June 12th except for class 6B, they need to be returned by June 5th.
If your child has misplaced their book, then bills will be sent home. Their accounts need to be settled by the end of the
school year. Money will be returned to the child if the book is found and is still able to be circulated.
If you have any questions, please contact me, Sharon Howatt, at [email protected]
There will be a used book sale in September to support our annual Terry Fox walk. If you are spring cleaning and find
some books you would like to donate, please send them to the office and I will store them.
Math & Literacy Night
Do you want to help your child maintain their numeracy and literacy skills over the
summer? Do you want to know some strategies to help with this? Please join us on
Wednesday, June 17th at 6pm at Athena Consolidated school for an evening of
helpful hints! These sessions are open to parents from Parkside, Greenfield,
Miscouche and Elm Street schools. We hope to see you there!
Other Community News
The CONNECT PROJECT - Preventing & Eliminating Cyberviolence Against PEI Youth is seeking community participation in
their project. For more information please visit http://www.epwic.ca/projects/cyberviolence
Home & School News
School Calendar
Find the 2015-2016 School Calendar at:
http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/eecdcalendar15.pdf
Fun Science Learning Experiments
Atoms and Molecules – http://www.education.com/slideshow/atoms-and-molecules/
Eight extreme science experiments-http://www.education.com/slideshow/extreme-experiments-fifth/
Outdoors Physics Fun….http://www.education.com/slideshow/outdoor-physics-fun/
~Have a safe and happy summer! ~