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From the Principal’s Desk
Principal:
What a busy month we had in February here at Lakeview! Seussical practices, intermediate basketball finishing up, junior boys’ basketball starting up, Pink shirt day, Lego
Robotics competition, Chess club getting started, Carousel Players presented an awesome production, basketball and floor hockey intramurals, School Bus Safety Training
for all students, Make Change for Children campaign, Movie Night, Science Fair….
Whew! Our staff, students and parent volunteers have been incredibly busy engaging in
all of these wonderful opportunities! Thank you to everyone for their participation.
Mrs. G. Harris
Vice-Principal:
Mr. D. Holmes
Secretary:
Mrs. J. Dykstra
Mrs. J. Hoskin
You will hear a new voice answering the phone when you call our school in the morning. Mrs. Flora has moved to a school in St. Catharines to be closer to home and her
afternoon job at the Education Centre. We will miss her and wish her well in her new
position. We welcome Mrs. Hoskin to Lakeview.
March Break
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School Cash
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Danceathon
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Walk to
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Public Health
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Seussical
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Kindergarten
Math
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Prom Project
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Our March Break this year begins on Saturday, March 12. Students return to school on Monday, March 21. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday! For those who are lucky enough to be heading some‐
where in the sunny south, please bring back some of the warmer weather with you! Easter Break
Right after March Break, we hop into Easter! Friday March 25 is Good Friday and Friday, March
28 is Easter Monday so enjoy an extra long holiday weekend!
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JKSK Registration Continues
February was Kindergarten Registration Month. I know it seems awfully early to be thinking about the fall but early registration helps our
school board with planning for staffing and classroom allocations. All
new Junior and Senior Kindergarten-aged students need to be registered starting in February for our September 2015 classes. (Students
currently in our JK classes do not need to re-register.) If your son or
daughter will be 4 or 5 years of age by December 31st, 2016, please
call the school for information or come in to register. When you come
in to register, we require proof of age documentation, your child’s yellow Immunization card and a recent utility bill or driver’s license for
proof of address. . If you know of neighbouring children who are eligible to begin school, please pass this information on to them.
Movie Night Success
Thank you to all of our families who came out to support our first Family Movie Night. We
had over 100 people in our gym that Friday night and everyone had a great time. Thanks to
Liam, Dylan and Ashley who helped with the concession stand. This event raised $75 to go
towards the grade 8 graduation ceremonies.
We’ll have to do it again soon!
Lego Robotics Club
Congratulations to the Junior and Intermediate Robotics Teams who represented Lakeview at the District Level competition at Brock University.
The teams were given 4 different challenges with a Canadian theme. The teams had to
design and program their Lego robots to overcome a variety of barriers and challenges,
such as collecting syrup from trees in Quebec, fishing for lobsters in Nova Scotia and
collecting diamonds in the Yukon. The team members did a great job working together
and persevering through the challenges.
Although they did not win the overall competition, the Lakeview teams did exceptionally
well in many of the individual challenges.
Congratulations to this year's team members:
Junior: Tristan, Massimo, Owen and Jonathan
Intermediate: Gurjot, Robert, Garry and Matthew
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Danceathon
On Thursday, March 31, our School is
holding a Dance-A-Thon from 9-3. This is
a major fundraiser for our school. Students will be invited to participate in collecting pledges and then will dance the day
away! There will be GREAT prizes and it
will be LOTS of fun! Students will need to
have a minimum of $5 ($10 per family) to
participate.
Watch for more information!
School Travel Planning Committee
The Active Safe Routes to School Summit in Niagara
brought together 45 people to learn about local and national
action to increase active travel to school and exchange ideas
to advance this work. Participants represented school boards
and schools, municipal staff and elected officials, public
health, police, members from active transportation citizens’
groups, non-profit groups and business. Jacky Kennedy from
Green Communities Canada spoke about advances happening nationally to support active school travel. Panelists from
planning, engineering, public health, school and transportation provided impressions about local successes and challenges. Participants added to this knowledge throughout the
day. The Heart and Stroke Foundation will capture actions
that came out of group discussions to inform next steps for
Niagara. Actions that emerge from similar events across
Ontario will be further discussed at a provincial summit in
May.
At the event, our school received a Golden Shoe Award for
leading the way for active and safe school travel in Niagara.
Congratulations to all of you who make it easier for our students to walk, board or bike to school.
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Winter Walk to School Wednesday March 30
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From Our Public Health Nurse
MAKING SAFE LUNCHES AT HOME
Packing lunches for school takes time and energy but taking the time to follow these tips could prevent a foodborne
illness in your family.
CLEAN
Wash your hands for 20 seconds with soap and warm water before preparing any meal.
Make sure you routinely clean countertops, utensils and any lunchboxes or lunch bags.
Raw fruits or vegetables can be contaminated with bacteria. Wash them with clean water and a scrub
brush before eating.
KEEP COLD FOOD COLD
Foods like meat, chicken, seafood, eggs and dairy products must stay cold to stay safe. Use frozen
freezer packs to keep food at or below 4C (40F).
Use an insulated lunch box/bag and keep it away from heat sources. Place freezer packs between food
that needs to stay cold. Refrigerate items the night before to get your lunch box/bag off to a cool start.
Allergy Alert
KEEP HOT FOOD HOT
Hot food must stay hot at above 60C (140F). Use insulated containers and keep them closed until ready
to eat, or take your food cold and reheat it in a microwave.
Please keep in mind that any leftover food items coming home in your child’s back pack can carry bacteria or have
the ability to support bacterial growth. These bacteria can grow rapidly to harmful levels when food safety precautions
are not followed. If these items have not been properly stored, place them in your green bin, do not consume them.
School Bus Safety Training
On February 9, all of our students received bus safety training. The primary students met this cute little robot bus who taught them how to be safe around and on buses, while our junior and intermediate students played a game to learn some great safety tips. Ask your student to tell them the safe way to cross a road when getting on or off a bus. Ask your grade 7 & 8 student what their job is in case of an emergency evacuation on a bus. Ask your student to tell them where the danger zone is around a bus and how he/she can be safe. PAGE
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Coming the week of April 25
Click on this link to check out our Seussical Cast
video:
http://viewpure.com/ETp0SNG34K4?start=0&end=0
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Kids Ask Adults to Back Off, Give Them
Freedom to Fall Down, Make Mistakes
Check out this article that was in the Toronto Star that is about 12 & 13 year olds from Kingston where
they ask parents to stop being so over-protective and to let them make mistakes. Be sure to watch the
video that the students created.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/02/22/kids-ask-adults-to-back-off-give-them-freedom-to-falldown-make-mistakes.html
Carousel Players: Spelling 2-5-5
Last month, the Carousel Players came to visit our school and put on the play called Spelling 2‐5‐5 for us. It was a wonderful production about a boy with autism and his big brother. It had an excellent message about how to respect people’s differences and unique talents. We were really lucky to have won this show in a draw so it didn’t cost us anything! 8
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Grade 8’s—Take note of this event if you require something for graduation this year. This is one
of the projects supported by the Make Change for Children campaign that we collected donations
for last week.
Host a Fresh Air Child this Summer!
The Fresh Air Fund is always looking for a few more special families to discover the
difference they can make in a child's life while enriching their own families summer experience.
Summertime is Fresh Air time for thousands of New York City children who visit volunteer host families in the Northeast, United States and Ontario, Canada through The
Fresh Air Fund's Volunteer Host Family Program. The Fresh Air Fund, an independent,
not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer experiences in the country to more
than 1.8 million children since 1877. Volunteer host families open their hearts and
homes to New York City children during the summer. Host families live in the suburbs,
small towns, or rural areas, and wish to share the pure joys of summer with their New
York City friends. Fresh Air children love to run barefoot through the grass, catch fireflies at night, swim in the lake, and gaze at star-filled skies. Through the eyes of Fresh
Air children, families often rediscover the beauty of their own communities.
For more information on how you can sign up to become a volunteer host this summer,
please contact Jeannete Murphy at [email protected] or Christine
Ferrusi 905-541-1828 [email protected] or visit www.freshair.org. Like
us on Facebook - The Fresh Air Fund of Ontario, Canada
Global Citizens Project
Two students in Mrs. Bohonos’ class are doing a raffle for their Global Citizen project. Emma &
Ainslee will have a jar of jelly beans that the winner will receive. The tickets will be 50 cents
each and on the ticket the student must write their name and their guess of how many jelly
beans are in the jar. The winner is whoever has the closest guess to how many jelly beans
there are. The money from the raffle will be given to the Canadian Red Cross to help end poverty.
Tickets will be sold during first break from March 7—9.
Thank You for your support. Emma & Ainslee