DATES TO REMEMBER
April 15 Growing Bodies, Open Minds
Library: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
April 18 Good Friday: no school
April 21 Easter Monday: no school
April 22 Mulching Night: 6:30 p.m.
April 24 Community Dodgeball Night : 6:30 p.m.
April 26 Jump Rope for Heart Assembly
April, 2014
The calendar says that spring will make an appearance and snowsuits will become a distant
memory! The days of muddy, wet boots and socks will quickly arrive and we will be looking for
sunshine and dry weather to take care of the mud that will appear in our playground. In the
meantime, please keep extra socks in backpacks just in case!
Our School Council continues to meet on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the library.
Everyone is welcome to this one hour meeting where we share information about school events and
plan to support learning and activities for our Southridge community. Our next meeting is Tuesday,
May 6. Hope to see you there!
The next time you visit our school, please notice the new additions to our yard. The playground
games have been repainted and new ones have been added to our new tarmac areas in our junior
and Kindergarten playgrounds. Money from our fall Treasures fundraising activity enabled us to
provide these activities for our students.
The key of the month for April is Initiative: acting responsibly without being asked. This key will be
introduced by our Green Team under the direction of Mlle. Brough at our upcoming Superstar
assembly. Please see below for other Earth Week activities. We hope you can join us.
We look forward to an exciting remainder of the school year!
Sincerely,
Kelly Lantink
Phillip Sallewsky
Principal
Vice Principal
EARTH WEEK
In recognition of Earth Week, the Southridge School Council has organized two evening events.
On Tuesday, April 22, please join us for our annual school yard clean up and tree mulching. We will
have many, many yards of mulch delivered and need your help to spread it to all of the trees on our property.
Please bring a shovel, recycling bin, wagon or wheelbarrow with you for moving mulch if you are able. We
will also have a limited number of tarps available to help. The fountains will be open for you to refill your
reusable water bottles. Please join in at the mulch station in the Queen Street Parking lot or behind the
school by the basketball nets where our Green Team members will provide direction. It’s sure to be a busy
night!
On Thursday, April 24, rousing games of dodgeball will take place in both Southridge gyms. For a faster
pace, please join in the games in the Panda Jungle. The Star Theatre will be the location for the slower,
gentler version of the game. For students wishing to join in with a quieter activity, or for those wishing a break
from the gym, our library will be the site of our board game bonanza!
BIG BOX OF CARDS FUNDRAISER
Our Big Box of Cards Fundraiser is in full swing. Sample boxes of cards were sent home with the
youngest or only child in each family. Each box of cards sells for $30.
Payment for all boxes sold is made when orders are placed. All orders should be returned on
Tuesday April 22nd. Orders will be sent home with students in the week of April 28th to May
2nd.
The sample box of cards must be returned to school if you are not ordering any boxes.
Southridge School makes $10 for each box of cards sold. All funds raised will go directly towards
the purchase of technology to support learning at Southridge.
THANK YOU
EXTENDED DAY PROGRAMS
This season, we had a well-maintained and
well- used outdoor rink. We couldn’t have had
a more cooperative winter!
Registration for the Extended Day programs is
taking place online now. Flyers have gone
home with the information. If you’re interested
in registering your child for this before and/or
after school program, please go to
www.beforeafter.wrdsb.ca
Special thanks goes to our ‘rink guys’ who
spent countless hours during the wee hours of
the morning flooding and clearing so the
surface was ready for the skaters.
INTRAMURALS
Busy might be the best description for the Panda Jungle in the upcoming weeks. Having just
finished this year's Indiana basketball schedule, we've now moved into a nutrition break floor hockey
league where flashes of wizardry with the puck are balanced by one slow, old and awkward
participant. This one will wrap up just before Easter and then - wait for it - we begin the spring
season of the game of life. Dodgeball. It's back. Flying foam and diving bodies.
On the primary side, our P.A.L.S. will be back in the jungle running an indoor soccer league for all
interested students in grades 1 - 3. Students will be placed on teams and the games will run during
the nutrition break as usual. More smiles, more fun, no competition - just some loud music from the
new P.A. system. Thanks again to School Council, we use our new system every day!
CLASS PLACEMENTS
We will begin the process of developing classes for students at Southridge School in May and June.
This is a very thorough process, involving classroom teachers, special education teachers and
administration. Many factors are taken into consideration during this process, including learning
styles, strengths, challenges, combinations of personalities and social and academic needs. We
trust that you will appreciate that your child’s best interests are addressed through this process. If
you have any information about your child that may impact class placement, please submit this in
writing to the office by May 23, 2014 for us to consider during our meetings. Requests for specific
teachers will not be addressed in order to appropriately meet the needs of all students.
SCHOOL COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT
2012 – 2013
School: Southridge Public School
Principal: Kelly Lan nk
School Council Chair(s): Krista Sco , Karen Boniface
Accomplishments of School Council 2012 – 2013:
Met monthly to build connec on and communica on between the community and the school.
Planned, organized and implemented a Nutri on for Learning snack program. Through the dedica on of
our council members and our parent community, a snack program ran successfully 5 days each
week.
Raised funds to support the use of technology – specifically data projectors - at Southridge through numerous fund raising events, including weekly pizza lunches, magazines, Treasure books, Fudge and
Mint Smoothies sales and a Dance-a-thon. Funds raised also helped to off-set the cost of off-campus
trips for all students and to pay the cost of the end-of-year trip to Lions Lagoon (bussing) and Forest
Heights pool.
Promoted community spirit and connectedness through a June Fun Fair. This successful event saw hundreds of parents, students, friends and neighbours interac ng as they played games, had a face
painted, sat for a henna or airbrush ta oo, played mini golf, bid in our silent auc on or ate popcorn,
candy floss or a snow cone. The money raised from this event supported the Nutri on for Learning
snack program at Southridge
Promoted community spirit and connectedness through Community Movie Nights. Approximately 150
people brought blankets, pillows and snacks to enjoy each of two movie nights held in our gym on a
Friday evening. The $1 admission fee allowed for it to be an economical evening for families, while
providing support to our Nutri on for Learning program.
Contributed to school spirit through crea ng, selling and delivering Candy-grams. Students and families
purchased candy-grams that were ‘sent’ to friends around the school. Council ensured that all students were included in this ac vity held during our month focusing on Kindness.
Planned the addi ons to our greening ini a ves, resul ng in grant moneys being acquired to create a
new green area in the back field and to add to the trees previously planted in the junior area.