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We have had a great month in our new school building. The office staff

have been hard at work in creating our school data in PowerSchool and

Gradebook. Gradebook should be ready soon. It is a huge task to set

up a new school as we don’t receive our students in our data system until

August 28. We appreciate your patience with this.

It was great to have the Dansereau family in attendance for our Grand

opening ceremony. They left us with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. We

have a special booklet that will be going home to the eldest child in every

family.

Staff continue to collaborate on instructional strategies, policies, proce-

dures and school wide expectations. We will share our school handbook

in draft form but it will be updated as we go through the year.

Contacting Us With Concerns

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have a concern. The appropriate protocol is to speak to

the teacher concerned first and then to admin. We have more success solving issues when you call

or make an appointment to speak with us. Commenting on social media is not the appropriate meth-

od for dealing with concerns.. We look forward to growing and learning together this year.

Superintendent—Dr. Nor-

man Yanitski & Trustee

Chair—Johnette Lemke

Grand Opening

Inspiring Great Leaders

Our school has started on a journey to “ inspire great leaders”.

We are using the “The Leader in Me” to unify us as a whole school, using common language (7 Hab-

its). Based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Leader in Me equips students with the

self-confidence and skills they need to thrive in the 21st-century . It works from the inside out.

Our goal is to develop leadership opportunities for all students in our school—big or small. We be-

lieve that every child is capable of being a leader . We have already had student leaders for some of

our special events and students are learning how to be a leader in their own classrooms.

École Dansereau Meadows School 5907 Rue Eaglemont, Beaumont, AB T4X 0X1

October 2014 octobre

Duck News Principal Susanne Stroud Assistant Principal Brian Pedersen

Counselor Denise Harrison

Phone: 780-929-1928 Fax: 780-929-1978 Email:[email protected] Unsubsribe: [email protected]

Inside this issue:

School Times

Staff

2

Office Reminders

Counselor Info

Music Notes

3

SLAs

Math

Halloween Activities

4

School Council

Extra-Curricular

Jr. High Sports

5

Calendars 6

8:15am Doors open

8:25am Classes Begin

10:25—10:40am Recess

12—12:25pm Lunch Recess

12:25—12:49pm Lunch

2:50pm—Students Dismissed

Morning Kindergarten & PreK

8:25—11:15 am

Afternoon Kindergarten & PreK

12:00—2:50 p.m.

Full Day Kindergarten

8:25am-2:50pm

Lunch 12—12:43pm

Office Hours

8:00am—3:30pm

School Times

Staff

Grade Four

Monica Jacejko

Amanda Pike

Caitlin Girard

Grade Five

Simone Lapointe

Catherine Slade

Cami Goldstein

Grade Six

Taylor Broad

Jessica Campbell

Jessica Mair

Junior High

Jamy McRae

Matthew Lewis

Ingrid Parker

Tyler Fisher

Marianne Auch

Dominic Lepage

Nicole Carragher

Music—Amy Olson

PE—Noel Rinsky

PE—Keith Pask

Education Assistants

Darlene Daneluik

Michelle Sturley

Pebbles DeRuiter

Danielle de Crombrugghe

Barbara Volkman

Manjit Korotana

Susan Marshall

Irene Gerlinsky

Tammi Riou

Leanne Marks

Anna-Lise Hobday

Mary Ellen Serafini

Sophie Lavigne-Labelle

Office Staff

Robyn Sept

Laura Crawley

Lorraine Weslosky

Library

Lucie Gagnon

Custodians

Glenn Kisch

Craig Lonsway

Abdhullahi Khalaf

Administration

Susanne Stroud

Brian Pedersen

Counseling &

Learning Support

Denise Harrison

Pre-Kindergarten

Jennifer Blagdon

Kindergarten

Emily Murray

Rachelle Vandersteen

Lauralee Craig

Grade One

Kyla Horvat

Jennifer Awid

Kirstyn Engberg

Heather Edwards

Mikayla Ryll

Grade Two

Sarah Kuntz

Lynn Bonnah

Lindsay Charbonneau

Barb Roy

Adele Smith (2-3)

Grade Three

Mike Crosdale

Carmelle Workun

Kerrie Jay

Carolyn Thompson

Duck News

“This is your

life...make it a

masterpiece.”

Receiving our school plaque

from MLA George Rogers

Student Drop Off Zone The front of the school is designated as a Kiss-and-Go area with no parking signs. (We will be adding the Kiss-and-Go signs shortly.) This means parents can stop and drop off students but are not permitted to leave their vehicle. It is a maximum of 2 minutes that you can be in this area. If you leave your vehi-cle, you may be given a ticket.

School Fees are now due. Please pay online.

PreKindergarten (Community)

$800

Kindergarten—$110

Grade 1-6—$60

Grades 7-8—$125 ( $70 in-structional fee & $55 option fee)

Please note than these fees do not cover field trips or spe-cial classroom projects. Teachers will inform you of any additional costs.

Late Students

Please ensure your child checks in at the office when they arrive late.

Signing In

Thank you for signing in at the office when you come into the building.

Absences

If your child is going to be absent, please do not email the absence. Please leave a message on the school voicemail.

Medications

If the school is to administer any medications including non-prescription items, the student must have a severe medical form filled out. The mediation must have a pre-scription label from the phar-macy that indicated the dos-age. Forms are available from Mrs. Weslosky in the infirmary.

Band—Gr. 7-8

The Grade 7 and 8 band is up and running! We spent part of September choosing instruments for students who are new to band and the other part of the month has been spent review-ing notes, fingerings, posture and mouth positions. Students are excited to be starting new pieces, including Christmas music (yes, we start early!!) in preparation for our December concert. We are already sounding great!

Ms. Ingrid Parker,

Jr. High Band Teacher

Welcome to the Music Room!

September has been a very exciting month for us! The students were so excited to see how big the music room was and everyday seemed like Christmas for us. stages.

As our school is working on the 7 Habits, all classes have learned a Leader In Me Cup song.

We have also been working on keeping a steady beat, playing rhythms, singing songs, and of course playing our new instru-ments. Mrs. Amy Olson, Elementary Music Teacher

Office Reminders

Music Notes

Counselor Info— Mrs. Denise Harrison

Parent Coffee Talk

at Bellevue the first Thursday of every month 8:45-9:30, starting on November 6. This is an op-portunity for parents to meet, chat and learn something around parenting. Child-minding will be available.

Counseling and Learning Support Services

IPP building - Parent goal setting letters have been sent home and we look forward to working with you in building a successful plan for your child. We are aiming to meet in the upcoming weeks to work on these at the school level and then meet with parents to ensure that we are working together.

Talk Club - We are offering a Talk Club for children who have experienced changes in their lives. This will be a joint partnership with FCSS and Black Gold. If you are interested in having your child attend this weekly Talk Club, please contact Denise Harrison at the school and we can send a permission form home.


Habit 1: Be Proactive

“No one is born a

winner or loser, but

each one is born a

chooser.”

-Unknown

Flowers from the Dansereau

family.

What are SLAs? It is a new assessment tool the province is providing to help students with their learn-ing.

Over the next few years, they will replace the Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs). The SLAs will support student learning while more effective-ly assessing literacy, numera-cy, and competencies such as: creativity, communication and the ability to apply knowledge to different sce-

narios. Alberta Education, in partner-ship with classroom teachers, is developing the new SLAs. They will be administered at the start of grades 3, 6, and 9. Timeline September 29—October 24 Assessments are made to be flexible and completed over several days. It will not be a traditional examination with a set date and time.

My Child’s Results A detailed report on each student will be received on November 26, 2014. As this is a pilot year, parents will not be able to access the online individual student re-ports at home. Once pilot status is over, this may be an option. Teachers will be able to share results with parents once we have them available.

Grades 1-8 Students will

dress up only for the after-

noon. They will get dressed

after lunch at 12:50 p.m. Par-

ents are encouraged to do

make-up at home before

school or at home at noon.

There is limited time and

space for makeup application

to be done at school.

The morning of Friday, Octo-

ber 31 will be regular classes.

Please see your child’s class-

room newsletter for any spe-

cial class activities that may

be happening on this day.

Kindergarten and Pre-

Kindergarten students will be

having their dress up day on

the day they attend school.

Parade will be held at 1:15

p.m.

Junior high students will have

a dance with fun activities

following the parade. Junior

high teachers will supervise

the dance.

Student Learning Assessments (SLA) - Gr. 3

Halloween Activities—Friday, October 31

Curriculum Connections—Math

Grade 2

Apply strategies for addition and related subtraction facts to 18. Recall addition and related subtraction fact to 10 by end of Gr. 2.

Grade 3

Recall and apply addition and related subtraction facts to 18.

Recall multiplication and divi-sion facts to 5x5 by end of Gr. 3.

Grade 4

Apply strategies for multiplica-tion and division facts to 9x9.


Grade 5


See Alberta Education for more info on curriculum.

Learning Basic Facts

Students are expected to know basic number facts.

Grade 1

Begin to learn strategies for addition and related subtrac-tion facts to 18. Recall addi-tion and related subtraction fact to 5 by end of Gr. 1

Duck News

Habit 2: Begin With

the End in Mind.

“I may not be there

yet, but I am closer

than I was yesterday.”

Dr. Norman Yanitski, Susanne

Stroud & Brian Pedersen

We are excited to have suc-cessfully established a School Council for our school.

The next meeting will be for the executive to create oper-ating procedures. The execu-tive will be guided by a mem-ber from the Alberta School Council Association.

Executive

Chairperson - Alan Skinner (2 year term)

Vice-Chairperson - Kristina Corbett

Secretary - Stephanie Bailey

Fundraising Liaison - Paula Williams

Volunteer Coordinator - Carley Durroch

Communications Officer - Shadufta Tasneem

Parent At Large - Robyn Steed

(All positions other than Chairperson will carry a 1 year term. ) All parents are welcome to attend the School Council meetings. The date for the next meeting has not yet been set.

Coaches

Premier Girls

Monica Jacejko

District Girls

Mikayla Ryll

Premier Boys

Brian Pedersen and Irene Gerlinsky

A huge thank you to our staff who have volunteered to coach volleyball this season.

We are also happy to have so many interested students that enable us to create sev-eral teams.

District Boys

Barb Roy

Please do not hesitate to con-tact them if you have ques-tions about the game sched-ule or other team issues.

School Council

Junior High Sports—Volleyball

Extra-Curricular Activities

Choir 4-6—Mrs. Olson

Practice—Day 2 at noon

Student Council—Mme

Stroud (coming soon)

Gr. 4-8. Listen for announce-ments on sign up and meet-ing day.

Cheer Team—Ms. Goldstein

Intramurals—coming soon

Listen for announcements.

Jr. Curling—Ms. Mair

Oct. 23—Dec. 19

Grades 6-8 at the Beaumont Curling Club from 3:30—4:30 p.m. There will be a cost for this activity. Only room for 12 students. Listen for an-nouncements on sign up.

We are thrilled to have a vari-ety of extra-curricular activi-ties. Thanks to our staff for volunteering their time to or-ganize these activities. This is addition to their teaching duties.

Running Club—Mr. Pask

Wednesday & Fridays at noon.

Choir Gr 2-3 - Mme Ed-

wards & others

Practice—Day 1 at noon


Habit 3: Put First

Things First.

“The key is not to

prioritize what’s on

your schedule but to

schedule your

priorities.”

- Stephen Covey

Mayor—Camille Bérubé

École Dansereau Meadows School

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Early Dismissal

No Kindergarten

classes

2

Custodian Ap-

preciation Day

3

Photo Day

4

5 6

Photo Day (PK

& K)

Parent Associa-

7

8 9

Photo Day

(PK&K)

10 11

12 13

Thanksgiving—

No School

14

PD Day—No

classes

15 16 17

Volleyball Tour-

nament

18

Fall Shopping

Fair 10am—3pm

19

Be Proactive

20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31

Halloween Ac-

tivities Day

October 2014

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2

Begin With the

End in Mind

3

Remembrance

Day Assembly

9:30am

4 5

Early Dismissal

No Kindergarten

6 7

ATA Institute

Day—No Clas-

ses

8

9 10

Mid Term

Break—No

School

11

Remembrance

Day—No

School

12 13 14 15

16

First Things

First

17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24

Progress reports

available

25 26

Parent Teacher

Conferences

27

Parent Teacher

Conferences

28 29

30

November 2014

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