APRIL 2017
NEWSLETTER
Dear parents/Chers parents,
633 PATRICIA AVE.
WINNIPEG, MB.
R3T 3A8
Phone: 204-269-5677
Fax: 204-269-3759
Visit us on the web:
http://
www.pembinatrails.
ca/stavila/
Principal/Directrice
Cheryl Chuckry
Vice Principal/
Directrice
adjointe:
Kim Johnston
We hope that you all had a wonderful Spring Break that was fun and
relaxing for the entire family. With the longer, warmer days now here, we
can finally welcome the sunshine and spend more time outside. Since
their return to school, the children have been so excited to get out and
enjoy the fresh air on our wonderful playground.
We are now heading into our final term of the school year and it will be an
exciting time for the children with the many upcoming events in the next
few months. Both the staff and students are looking forward to our spring
production, ‘Célébrons le Canada – le 150e’ on April 18 & 19. We know
that the children and teachers are busy preparing for this concert and
can’t wait to see this fantastic musical performance celebrating Canada’s
150th birthday.
As well, we will hold our ‘Expo-sciences’ (Science Fair) in early May so
that students participating in this club will have the opportunity to present
and share their science research projects. We are proud that some of our
students will represent École St. Avila once again at the Manitoba
Science Symposium taking place from April 20-23.
On May 4, we will also hold another respect assembly where we will focus
on our next school-wide campaign around ‘Célébrons la diversité’ (Celebrate diversity) in connection with our work around Canada
150. During our assembly, students will have the opportunity to work together in their multi-grade family groups as they reflect upon how
Canadian diversity enriches us, not only as a nation, but as people.
Looking ahead to September, we are accepting registrations for
Kindergarten for the 2017-2018 school year. If you have a child ready
for Kindergarten and have not yet registered, please call the office. We
will be hosting an ‘Orientation Day’ on the afternoon of May 19, during
which time the newest members of our community will visit the school for
a fun-filled afternoon of activities that will be organized in partnership with
the ‘Fort Garry Healthy Child Coalition’.
Cheryl Chuckry– Principal
Kim Johnston– Vice-Principal
66 POSITIVE THINGS TO SAY TO YOUR CHILD
1.I’m grateful for you.
2.You make me proud.
3.Your words are meaningful.
4.You have great ideas.
5.l love being your parent.
6.I trust you.
7.Your opinions matter.
8.You are important.
9.You are loved.
10.I believe you.
11.I believe in you.
12.You look great.
13.You are valuable.
14.You can say no.
15.You can say yes.
16.I know you did your best.
17.You were right.
18.I accept who you are.
19.We can try your way.
20.You are helpful.
21.You are worth it.
22.You make me happy.
23.I love your creativity.
24.Being around you is fun.
25.I can’t wait to hear about you.
26.Don’t be afraid to be you.
27.You’re making a difference.
28.I’m excited to spend time with you.
29.You are interesting.
30.I love seeing the world your way.
31.It’s good to be curious.
32.I love the way you tell stories.
33.What you did was awesome.
34.I admire you.
35. That’s a great question.
36. Your friends are lucky to have you.
37. You don’t have to be perfect to be great.
38. That was a really good choice.
39. Seeing you happy makes me happy.
40. Being your parent is my favourite job.
41. I learn new things from you every day.
42. You make me better.
43. You are a good boy/girl.
44. Thank you for being you.
45. I’m so glad you’re here.
46. This family wouldn’t be the same without you.
47. I understand you.
48. Watching you grow up is the best.
49. That was really brave.
50. I forgive you.
51. I appreciate you.
52. We all make mistakes.
53. Yes, me too.
54. You are very good at that!
55. You can try again tomorrow.
56. Nobody is perfect.
57. I love how you said that.
58. Not everyone will like you and that’s OK.
59. You did that so well.
60. I’m listening.
61. That’s a very fair point.
62. You are beautiful inside and out.
63. I love you.
64. I could never stop loving you.
65. You are enough.
66. You make my heart full.
http://www.adventuresofyoo.com/2016/03/08/66-positive-things-to-say-to-your-child/)
NOUVELLES DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE - LIBRARY NEWS
THANK YOU, MERCI! to our St Avila families, who really came together to
support the library via the Scholastic Book fair. It was great to see many families
attend the fair!
Thanks to your generous purchases we received:
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Merci!
500 dollars worth of books to add to our library collection
a cash commission to purchase Ozobots for our Makerspace and financial support for our
MYRCA club lunch celebration for 65 students
The library will soon be home to many new books purchased with the profits of the book fair.
Thank you for supporting this great literary fundraiser, it is very much appreciated!
Winners of the Book Fair Contests
Rory in Mme Shewchuk’s class won the Estimate the Marshmallows contest. Rory won some
books from the bookfair!
Isla in Mme Morin’s class won the Family Event Draw winning 25 dollars in books and 25 dollars
worth of books for the class.
NOUVELLES DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE - LIBRARY NEWS
MYRCA LUNCH
Our Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Awards celebration was held on Thursday, March 23th
with 65 students attending the lunch hour event. Thank you so much to Jennifer and David
Watt, Mme Morin, Mme Trakalo, Mme Critch, Mme Ormiston, Mme Westra and Mrs. Lesyk
who helped organize and serve the lunch to this large group of students. Your help was very
much appreciated!
After the vote, our favourite MYRCA book and the winner at Saint-Avila is
Minrs by Kevin Sylvester! We anxiously await to see which author will
receive the MYRCA award.
A big thank you for Jennifer and David Watt for leading the MYRCA meetings this year! The
students loved the MYRCA based activities and the great discussions around the books. The
MYRCA art contest was a huge hit! Thank you for volunteering your time and sharing your
love of literature with the students! Looking forward to starting all over again next year!
Merci
NOUVELLES DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE - LIBRARY NEWS
Robots in the Makerspace
During the month of April, our Makerspace will be all about robots. We will be bringing back the all
time favourite, the Sphero Sprk+ as well as introducing them to the Lego Mindstorm robots and
Ozobots.
Sphero Sprk+
The students loved the Sphero robots which are designed to inspire curiosity, creativity and invention through connected play and coding. Activities include programming them to move around the
student created maze or completing an obstacle course.
Lego Mindstorms
This robot combines the versatility of the Lego building system with the ability to create and command the robots to walk, talk, and do anything the students program. The students will program the
EV3 robots using the ipads and their coding skills.
Ozobots
An Ozobot is a tiny robot that reads colour code. These robots are a perfect way to introduce younger students to coding in a simple way. Ozobots have a sensor beneath them that reads colour
codes, or the different combinations of colours.
SPORTS SCOOP
Mme Malik K-3
Congratulations to all of the students who did their best during the March endurance run.
All students are showing great progress.
In April we will continue our unit on dance. Rope jumping skills, yoga, and Tai Chi will also be
taught during physical education classes. Balancing activities will be continued on a regular basis.
We will continue working on the fundamental movement skills as well as manipulative skills. This
will be done through a variety of games and activities during physical education classes. We will
begin our unit on tennis and other striking sports this month.
École St. Avila was successful in obtaining a Healthy School grant to promote yoga. We are
in the process of planning a week long lunch hour yoga celebration at the beginning of May. Assistance is needed with the set up and take down of the activities. Volunteers will also be needed
to prepare the healthy snacks for the participants. This event will take place during the beginning
of May. If you are interested in helping with the celebration contact Mme Malik by email.
The KidSport™ Fund
The KidSport ™ Fund is a national charity created to assist children from financially disadvantaged
families to enter into sport programs where they can develop life skills such as fair play, leadership
and teamwork.
Application forms are available at:
http://www.kidsportcanada.ca/manitoba/
SPORT SCOOP– M. Wallack
Congratulations to our grade 6 boys and girls who played basketball during intramurals. We had
boys and girls representing our school at the Viscount Alexander tournament. We had 3 teams
representing our school in the grade 6 divisional tournament on March 21st and 23rd at Chancellor
School. They all played with enthusiasm and effort. Every time they touched the basketball they
gained more confidence. M. Wallack and the parents were all proud! Thank you to all the parents
and teachers who came out and supported our favorite athletes.
MUSIC NOTES NEWSLETTER
♪ In CA-NA-DA, we get to them all! ♪
Our concert is on April 18 and 19! “Célébrons le Canada! Le 150e!”. Throughout March and the
next three weeks in April, we have been and will be rehearsing and preparing our concert! All evening performances are planned for 6:30 pm to 7:40pm. Matinees will vary. Your child’s homeroom
teacher will provide costume information.
Here are the planned dates and grouping for the performances:
TUESDAY, April 18:
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5 /6 Mme Girouard, 5e Mme St. Pierre, 2e Mme Dufault, 2e Mme Mulaire (Mme Danielle), 1ère/2e
Mme Trakalo, and 1ère Mme Westra
Soirée:
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Matinée:
12:45pm to 1:45pm (Kindergarten PM will perform to rehearse)
WEDNESDAY, April 19:
e
6 Mme Morin, 4e Mme Lemoine, 4e Mme Desrosiers, 3e Mme Osman and 3e Mme Shewchuk, Kindergarten AM & Kindergarten PM Mme Marcoux
Soirée:
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Matinée:
9:00am to 10:00am (Kindergarten AM will perform to rehearse)
Please note that we are intending to record all the matinee performances and hope to keep
recording from the audience to a minimum. Please remember to be careful posting photos taken
of the students on social media, since not all students have permission to have their photos and
videos posted online. When sharing on social media, please post photos and videos of your child
only.
The Grade 5 & 6 students will be asked to be available to handle the lighting, sound, or being
stagehands. A letter will be sent home for this and your child should know on which night he/
she will be helping. All technicians and helpers should arrive by 6:15pm.
See you at our next community event! Mme Fournier, Enseignante en éducation musicale
On adore lire….
At St-Avila, we adore reading especially… in French. On March 14, we kicked off our two week
campaign of “On adore lire… Ça marche bien à St-Avila.” To celebrate, we held an assembly as
well as a contest. Students enjoyed 15 minutes of uninterrupted reading for two weeks including
the chance of winning a book at each grade level.
We were also graced with the presence of a famous French Canadian actress. We had Josée
from the television show “Canot Cocasse.” Josée took some time from her busy schedule and read
to the Kindergarten to Grade 4 students in French. To learn more about “Canot Cocasse” or to
watch some shows, please check this link: http://unis.ca/canot-cocasse
You may also watch it on television on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7:00 on Unis.tv (MTS
and Shaw).
On March 24th, students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 read to each other by doing a reading
activity called the human library. This activity gave everyone a chance to share their love reading
in French. On adore lire…
How do you say “FUN” in French?
Tu parles!
SUMMER 2017
7- to 12- year-olds can learn conversational French at weekly day camps starting July 4, 2017.
Register for one week, or more!
Venez-vous amuser en français!
Cost is $180 per week
Division de l’éducation permanente
200, avenue de la Cathédrale
Winnipeg (Manitoba) R2H 0H7
204-237-1818, ext. 349
http://ustboniface.ca/tu-parles-program
FREE Family Movie Night at the Fort Garry Community Centre April 7, 2017
Doors open at 6:30pm
Movie starts at 7:00pm
Bring a pillow FREE popcorn!
880 Oakenwald
**Hot Food at the canteen!**
Hot dogs! Taquitos! Corn dogs!
For more info: www.fortgarrycc.ca
Fort Richmond Collegiate and Acadia Junior High
Jazz Bands present
Spring Fling 2017
Live music!
Swing dance lessons!
Food available!
Silent Auction with great prizes!
Fun community event!
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2017
6:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
TICKETS AT THE DOOR:
$5.00 Adults
$2.00 Students (Grades 7 to 12)
Children (Grade 6 & under) FREE
Acadia Junior High Gym
175 Killarney Avenue
Pembina Trails Voices
181 Henlow Bay | Winnipeg, MB R3Y 1M7 | 204.488.1767
https://ewww.pembinatrails.ca/affiliates/pembinatrailsvoices
Pembina Trails Voices is celebrating its 15th season of offering a world class choral experience to
students in Pembina trails School Division. All interested choristers from Kindergarten through
grade twelve are invited to be part of the excitement!
Pembina Trails Voices is a choir program which offers a five concert season for our various
performing ensembles. Choirs also perform as guest artists at community events, sing in the
Winnipeg Music Festival (National Classes), record and tour annually, either locally or
Internationally. PTV choirs are frequent guests of other professional music organizations in the city
such as the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Winnipeg Singers and Winnipeg
Philharmonic Choir.
Interested students who love to sing and would love to sing with others who share their interest in
choral music, are invited to consider auditioning for the 2017 – 2018 season. Audition packages
are available the week of March 20 from your school office, your school’s music teacher, or from
the PTV office at 181 Henlow Bay. All audition forms must be returned by Friday April 21 st. For
further information see our website at https://ewww.pembinatrails.ca/affiliates/pembinatrailsvoices
Sincerely,
Dr. David Sawatzky
Artistic Director, Pembina Trails Voices
Sign Up to Have Fun and Send Kids to Camp!
Join us for the 4th Annual Great Manitoba Portage on Saturday May 27, 2017!
You can support your favorite camp and also help the Manitoba Camping Association & Sunshine
Fund reach its goal of sending 1000 kids to camp this summer! This year marks the 80 th
Anniversary of the Manitoba Camping Association and with your support we would like to send an
additional 80 kids to camp!
Where: The Forks
When: Saturday, May 27, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Team Registration (4 people): $300
Not able to attend but interested in helping send kids to camp by supporting the Sunshine Fund?
Please visit http://www.mbcamping.ca/making-a-difference/the-great-manitoba-portage.cfm to
access the donation link to sponsor a team member racing on behalf your favorite camp!
Prizes will be awarded to the:
Team that places first in their category
Top fundraising camp
Top fundraising team
Most team spirit
What can you expect?
Interested in portaging a canoe over the Esplanade Riel Bridge? Know someone who likes eating
contests? Have a sharp shooter you can call upon for their skills?
The Great Manitoba Portage will challenge some of your camp skills in a fun, time-based event.
Check out our website for full course details.
Get in on the action and register today!
To register your team or to access complete event details, click here!
For questions please contact Dana Moroz at 204.784-4175 or
[email protected]
Thank you and we hope to see you there!
APRIL 2017
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
3—Day 5
4—Day 6
5—Day 1
6—Day 2
7—Day 3
10—Day 4
11—Day 5
12—Day 6
13—Day 1
14—Day 2
SAHASA
Parent Council
Meeting
Good Friday
No School
6:30pm
17—Day 2
18—Day 3
19— Day 4
Spring Concert
Spring Concert
6:30pm-7:30pm
6:30pm-7:30pm
Matinee
Matinee
20— Day 5
Pizza Special Lunch
21— Day 6
Metro Common
Day
No School
12:45pm-1:45pm 9:00am-10:00am
24—Day 1
25—Day 2
26—Day 3
27—Day 4
28—Day 5
For the most current information on events please see École St Avila School website
April 3 (Monday)
Classes resume
April 14 (Friday)
Good Friday—No School
April 20 (Thursday)
Pizza Special Lunch
April 21 (Friday)
Metro Common Day—No school
April 18 (Tues) & April 19 (Wed)
Canada 150 Concert (6:30-7:30pm both days)
May 18 (Thursday)
Pizza Special Lunch
May 19 (Friday)
Kindergarten Orientation (1:00-3:00pm)
May 22 (Monday)
Victoria Day—No School
June 15 (Thursday)
Pita Pit Lunch
June 16 (Friday)
Divisional Common Day—No School
June 16 (Friday)
Babysitting Course 8:30AM
June 27 (Tuesday)
Grade 6 Farewell Ceremony 9:00 am
June 28 (Wednesday)
Report Cards available to view ONLINE
June 30 (Friday)
Last Day of School