WALTER ZADOW PUBLIC SCHOOL
October 2013
Ms. Kim Shoveller—Principal
Bell Times
Mr. Craig Myers—VP
8:20 - Bell to enter
8:25–10:25 Block 1
10:25–10:55 Recess/Snack
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Nov. 8 - Parent
Teacher Interview
Requests Due
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Nov. 8 - Legion
Remembrance Day
Contest Entries Due
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Nov. 11 Remembrance Day
Assemblies
K-Gr. 4 - 9:30 a.m.
Gr. 5-8 - 11:00 a.m.
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Nov. 12 - Progress
Reports Go Home
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Nov. 14/15 - Parent/
Teacher Interviews
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Nov. 15 - PA Day
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Nov. 19 - School
Council Meeting
7:00 p.m.
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Nov. 21 - Gr. 8
Girls Volleyball
Tournament at RCI
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Nov. 27 - Last day
for Gr. 4 swimming
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Nov. 29 - Arnprior
Optimist Winter
Carnival Design
Deadline
Our New Playground
Equipment has arrived!
10:55–12:55 Block 2
12:55-1:35 Lunch/recess
1:35-2:35 Block 3/Dismissal
Students from Mrs. Sparling’s SK/Grade 1 class were amongst the
first students to use the playground equipment on September 17th.
Below, left to right, are Alannah Scharfe, Bryson Foster, Alonai
Scharfe, and Lauren Staye, all having fun! Thanks to everyone for
the many fundraisers held, and the upcoming ones, to make this
new equipment possible.
Breakfast Club
Every Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday morning,
before school.
Safe Arrival Number
613-623-3874
Please leave your child’s name, teacher’s
name and reason for absence. Calling in assists
our staff to ensure your child’s safety. Thank
you for your diligence!
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Walter Zadow P.S.
CROSS-COUNTRY
Congratulations to the Cross-Country team who competed in the Logos Land Cross-Country
Run on Wednesday, October 16. It turned out to be a beautiful day with over 400 runners
from 9 different schools competing in this event.
Top ten finishers in the grade 4 group were Lindsay Gillan and Nicole Gillan. In the grade 5
group there was Bailey Stonham, Alexis Majaury, Hannah Raudssus, Keaton McGrath and
Craig Scobie. Ryan Lindsay, Brian Sheeler, and Lorianne Trudel were in the grade 7 group.
Grade 8’s included Blair Laughlin, Jarren Adam, Lauren Hill,
Paige Miller, and Jordyn Gibeault.
Athletes who brought home medals were:
Bailey Stonham - second in the Grade 5 Girls
Keaton McGrath - third in the Boys Grade 5
Lorianne Trudel - second in the Girls Grade 7
Blair Laughlin - second in Boys Grade 8
Jarren Adam - third in Boys Grade 8
Congratulations and well done to all runners from Walter Zadow!
Thanks to Mr. Somerville for coaching!
Congratulations to the Cross-Country team who competed in the annual Optimist CrossCountry Run on Monday, October 7. Despite the weather, Walter Zadow students competed
with determination and good sportsmanship and represented their school in a positive
manner.
Special recognition goes to Keaton McGrath who finished first in the boys grade 5/6
division, Lauren Hill who finished first in girls grade 7/8 division, Jordyn Gibeault who
finished second in the girls grade 7/8 division, and Ryan Lindsay who finished third in the
grade 7/8 boys division. Other top 10 finishers included Alexis Majaury, Craig Scobie,
Paige Miller, Lindsay Gillan, Nicole Gillan, Jolie Rattray, and Kaitlin Barr.
Congratulations everyone!
Please remember that Walter Zadow is a scent free school.
Some students and staff have severe allergies to scented products.
Scented products contain chemicals which can cause serious
problems for many people, especially those with asthma,
allergies, or environmental illnesses. Please discuss this matter
with your child at home. Your attention to this matter is
appreciated.
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Sweater Drive for Syrian Refugees.
Every Grade 1 student
received a copy of the
book “Boy Soup” by
Loris Lesynski. Thanks
TD Bank for donating
them to our students!
Thanks to all families who donated the
over 1,100 sweaters that were collected
before Oct. 25 here at Walter Zadow.
Congratulations to Liam Retty for
organizing the very successful sweater
drive. In partnering with Canadian
Lutheran World Relief and other
churches across Canada, sweaters were
collected to distribute to Syrian
refugees living in the Za’atari refugee
camp in Jordan, where they are bracing
for another cold, wet winter.
Thanks to the Canadian Red
Cross we have mittens available
on cold days for students to
borrow. These are available
because of the volunteer knitters
and those who
donate yarn to
the program.
If you or
someone you
know has
some odds
and ends of 3
or 4 ply yarn they would like to
donate, please call the branch at
613-735-1157. They are always
looking for knitters too!
Why we use Kelso’s Choices?
Kelso’s Choices is a Conflict Management Program for Children whose
philosophy is that each child is seen as smart enough and strong enough to
resolve conflict…that all children are capable of becoming peacemakers.
Goals of Kelso’s Choices
Empower children with the ability to determine their own behaviour and
become accountable for their own choices.
Reduce tattling through a proactive preventative approach that keeps
Pictured above is Liz Hildebrandt,
small problems from escalating and prevents negative attention seeking.
our School Support Counsellor,
with Kelso and Lily.
Consistent expectation that all students will use Kelso’s Choices.
Provide cognitive structure for discriminating between small problems students can resolve and
understand big problems require adult intervention.
Increase feelings of self-esteem as students successfully resolve conflicts within the structured
setting and hopefully in their own lives.
Develop the link between home and school to promote using Kelso’s Choices in all aspects of
the student’s lives.
Provides students with an effective conflict resolution tool recognizing it is not always going
to be effective. Sometimes adult intervention is required with small problems.
Provide a safe and non-threatening place for students to practice and internalize their newly
developed problem solving skills.
And of course, spend some time with Kelso, Lily and their other frog friends!!
Walter Zadow P.S.
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RE-CYCLE YOUR ELECTRONICS
Drive 4UR School - Thanks McAllister Ford for delivering our cheque for
$2020 in a white, Ford truck. Representatives are pictured above with school
fundraising committee members Mrs. Callighen, Ms. Shoveller, Mrs. Donis and
Mrs. Kneebone, as well as students from Mrs. Callighens’s class.
Our electronics recycling fundraiser was a
huge success! Thanks to Mrs. McCombe
for organizing it! Many thanks, as well, to
the volunteers who manned the dumpster
- Ross Nixon, Darcy Fridgen, Margaret
McCombe, Ray McCombe, Kelvin
Somerville, Katie Clattenburg, Dalton
Campbell, Scott Ferrier, Justin Recker,
Brad Recker, Bill Currie, Andew McKay
and Scott Kuehl. Our cheque for $893.55
is on its way!
We extend our very sincere appreciation and thanks to Allison Parker and Mrs. Marilyn Parker (pictured above)
who have worked countless hours on moving our Alexander Reid library to its new location at the front of the
school. When they are not working in our new library, Allison is a student at ADHS and Mrs. Parker is one of
our lunch supervisors. All books needed to be packed up and then sorted and placed on the shelves again in the
new library. As you probably know, the old location of the library is now one of our new kindergarten
classrooms. The library is now open again for students to use. Thank you!
Mrs. Steele's grade 3/4 class has
been collecting plastic milk bags to
make sleeping mats for 3rd world
countries. Thank you
to everyone for
sending them in.
Right now they have
all they can use.
Please do not send any
more in until further
notice.
Family Math
Mrs. Okum (AJ Charbonneau) and
Mrs. Stadnyk (RCDSB Consultant) will be
facilitating Junior Family Math workshops
for families of AJ Charbonneau and Walter
Zadow students. A letter was sent home
with grades 4 to 6 students outlining the
program. We hope that some of our
families will take advantage of this unique
opportunity to provide families with ideas
and activities to help parents work with
their children at home on math. The dates
of the workshops are November 11, 18 and
25th. If you missed the note, please
contact the school before November 1st.
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Student Council News
Congratulations to our student council executive: Taylor Gillan (President),
Sydney Moore (Vice President), Jaclyn Gillan (Secretary) who gave
outstanding speeches to our grade 5 to 8 classes. Special mention goes to
Kurtis Malloch and Fin Moore who also had great speeches and are now
two of our House Leaders.
Other student council members include:
House Leaders:
Cougars: Fin Moore, Alyssa Zvonarich
Lynx: Jordyn Gibeault, Kurtis Malloch
Mountain Lions: Shaelyn Edwards, Ashley Hird
Bobcats: Sarah Dean, Blair Laughlin
Class Reps:
Grade 4/5 – Mrs. Staye – Mikey Davidson (Spencer Millerwood)
Grade 6 – Mr. Somerville – Nick Vincent (Jake MacDonald)
Grade 7 - Mrs. Morgan – Sam Kuehl (Noah Vincent)
Congratulations Walter Zadow!
We raised $857.03 for the Terry
Fox Foundation, which is $330
more than last year! Our goal
was a loonie for every person in
our building. Since there are
406 students and staff, we
actually raised over $2 a person.
Way to go Wild Cats!
Grade 8 – Mrs. Madore – Owen Poole
Grade 5I – Mme Lecavalier – Craig Scobie (Bailey Stonham)
Grade 6I – Ms. DeJager – Mikayla Cardiff (Keilidh Green)
Grade 7I- Ms. Inglis-Herron - Emily Parlee (Cailin Walsh-Estrabrooks)
Grade 8I - Mme Steeves–Adam – Jarren Adam (Tristen Warnock)
Students are organizing a "We Scare Hunger" food drive this week for our
local Arnprior Food Bank.
Send in non perishable items and help your child earn points for their
House Team.
PARENT-TEACHER
INTERVIEWS
will be held on
Thursday, Nov. 14 in the
evening and Friday, Nov. 15 in
the morning. Please watch for
the form to request an
interview time which will be
going home shortly.
All forms need to be returned
to the school by
Friday, Nov. 8th.
Thank you for your support of our recent Norcard Gift
Shoppe campaign. The retail sales totalled $3589 with our
school receiving 50% of this as profit ($1794.50). This will
help our fund for various programs. Thanks also to Susan
(last name not provided) for the $20 donation to this
campaign.
Every $25 sale entitled the seller to an entry for the draw to
receive a Polaroid Tablet. We had students with a single
entry and others with as many as twelve entries. The winner
of the tablet was grade 5 student, Hayden Simpson!
Congratulations Hayden! Enjoy your new tablet!
Pictured above, Mrs. Callighen presents Hayden Simpson
with his new Polaroid tablet he won from the Norcard
campaign. Thanks Mrs. Callighen for running this
fundraiser!
Our next campaign is nut free cookie dough and coffee.
This begins Nov. 11th and will run until Nov. 22nd. Because
the dough is a frozen food product, this campaign will not
have an on-line or out of town delivery option. You will be
notified when the coffee and cookie dough are expected to
arrive at the school, so you can arrange to pick it up.
Thanks, in advance, for your support of another project at
WZPS.
Walter Zadow P.S.
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Staff News
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Our junior teachers (Mrs. Staye, Mr. Somerville, Ms. DeJager, and Ms. Steele), along with
Mr. Myers and Ms. Shoveller, spent a day with Dr. Marian Small last month learning about teaching
Math. Mrs. Staye attended a workshop in Ottawa with Dr. Small. All of our Junior math teachers
will be working together in November, continuing to focus on effective strategies to teach math in
the Junior Grades.
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Our Kindergarten classes (Mrs. Murch-D'Amours & Mrs Tarar, Mrs. Dawson & Mrs. Iob, and
Mrs. Sparling), have been invited to be a part of an inquiry with Assistant Superintendent Cathy
McCann-Kyte, looking at pedagogical documentation of student thinking. Each class will have their
own IPad to document learning, capture student thinking and inform next steps for instruction.
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Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Blokland, and Mrs. Callighen, took part in a "Common Assessment" activity with
their grade 2 and 3 students. The students completed a task and their results were shared with
other grade 2 and 3 teachers at AJ Charbonneau. Mrs. Jackie Stadnyk, RCDSB Education
Consultant, worked with this group of teachers looking at student reading and writing.
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Thanks to Mrs. Madore and Ms. Inglis-Herron for being part of a math day with grade 9 teachers
from ADHS. The teachers worked on planning a math lesson which Ms. Inglis-Herron delivered to
the grade 7 Immersion class. The teachers then had the opportunity to go to ADHS to see
Ms. Perry-Bell teach grade 9 math. The teachers were looking at proportional reasoning with the
students using manipulatives.
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Congratulations to Mrs. Cassidy-Rouleau who took part in our Board's Leadership Assessment
Program in October.
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Thanks to Mme Lecavalier and Ms. Inglis-Herron who have volunteered to run "Opportunity Rooms"
for our students at recess. This provides a place for students to work, with the help of a teacher,
during recess.
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Thanks to Liz Hildebrandt, our School Support Counsellor, for organizing homework club this year on
Tuesdays and Thursdays and to Mme Steeves-Adam for volunteering her time to help out at the
club. If you have questions about the club feel free to contact your child's teacher.
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Thanks to Mrs. Roberts for organizing the Terry Fox run again this year.
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Thanks to the following staff members for volunteering...
Mr. Somerville - coaching cross county
Mrs. Roberts - for being the Robotics Staff rep
Mr. Somerville - coaching gr. 8 girls volleyball
Mrs. Fransky - volleyball - gr. 7 girls
Mrs. Blokland & Mrs. Staye - volleyball gr. 7 & 8 boys
Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Cassidy-Rouleau and Ms. Hildebrandt - staff reps on School Council
Mrs. Callighen for organizing the Norcard Campaign
Ms. Shoveller & Mr. Somerville for organizing the Magazine campaign
Mrs. Mosley for being our Technology Mentor for staff