hcs.nbed.nb.ca November 2018

MOTTO: Heart. Character. Strength.

VISION: A Better World Through Education

October Huskies of the Month Huskies of the month are selected based on nominations from staff members. The award is meant to recognize students who exemplify our school H.O.W.L beliefs. This month the recipients are:

Kindergarten Kira Everett Grade 1 Ruby Munro Grade 2 Thea Bubar Grade 3 Sophia Lloyd Grade 4 Alexis Dewitt Grade 5 Colton Trecartin Grade 6 Parker McLean Grade 7 Alicia Trites Grade 8 Brody Campbell Grade 9 Bryan Green Grade 10 Keeley Bunting Grade 11 Brody Hamilton Grade 12 Cole Lawrence

We Act Birthday Drive We Act would like to thank students and staff for their generous donations to this initiative. Together we collected almost 1300 items for donation to the Valley Food Bank to support youth who might not otherwise be able to celebrate a birthday in appropriate style! Parent/Teacher Meetings There will be no school for students on the following days: Nov 9 - Gr. 9-12: Parent/Teacher meetings from 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Nov 12 – Remembrance Day Nov 23 – Gr. K-8 Parent/Teacher meetings from 8:30-11:30

HCS Holiday Basket Raffle In the month of November HCS students and staff will be raising money by selling raffle tickets on various baskets. Each student will receive five tickets to sell and additional tickets will be sold at the HCS Craft Fair later this months. Tickets will be sold for $2 each, or three for $5. Each basket is being sold by a different grade level. Their themes are: K-2 – Winter Warmth 3-5 – ‘Tis The Season 6-8 – Deck The Halls 9-12 – Christmas Treats Thank you for your support! Remembrance Day HCS will be hosting our annual Remembrance Day ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 8th. The ceremony will take place at 10am in the large gym and will include student artwork and performances by the school band and choir. The community ceremony will be held on Sunday, Nov. 11th starting at 10am. The ceremony will begin inside the school before moving outside the cenotaph. Following the ceremony on Sunday attendees are invited to the Hartland Legion for Lunch.

Winter is Coming The snowy weather isn’t far away! Please remember that HCS

is in zone three. Updates about snow days can be found on our school twitter page @HCSHuskies, on the ASD-W website transportation section or by calling 506-453-5454 or 1-888-388-4455.

HCS Home and School HCS has a new Home and School group and we are so excited to start fundraising and doing amazing things in our school. The executives for the committee are President Natalie Paget, Vice-President Kelly Whelan, Secretary Jennifer Shaw, and Treasurer April Close. Please feel free to contact any of the executives if you have any questions at all or if you are willing to help with our fundraisers. Our first fundraiser running from November 30th until December 15th is through Mabel’s Labels. If you are sick of kids losing their clothing, shoes, containers etc. check out the products online at Mabelslabels.com and click on support a fundraiser and select Hartland Community School. To be kept up to date on all our plans join our Facebook group named Hartland Community Home and School Association. Feel free to join us at our next meeting on November 26 at 6:30 in the school library. HCS Christmas Craft Fair! The HCS Christmas Craft fair is opening again this year! The fair will be open from Friday, November 30th from 10am – 4pm and Saturday, December 1st from 9am-12pm. In addition to the various food-related vendors, graduates will be hosting a canteen fundraiser. The Craft Fair will feature over 50 vendors this year with a wide variety of items for sale. Please come support our local artisans and the HCS class of 2019!

Hartland Community School News

Take Our Kids To Work Day On Wednesday, November 14 the grade nine students will participate in Take Our Kids To Work Day. HCS students will be out and about experiencing different careers in our community. In order to participate students must have their permission slips signed. Students who are not taking part or do not have a permission slip signed must attend regular classes for the day. Emma’s PJs Drive For the third year in a row HCS will be a drop off spot for the Emma’s PJs Pajama Drive. Students and parents are encouraged to donate new, clean PJs for donation to local women’s charities. Donations will be accepted throughout the month of November! Student Morning Drop Off

Due to safety concerns, we are asking that all students be dropped off in the back of the school in the mornings between 7:50 and 8:15. As you circle the building, please use the left lane in the back to drop off and use the right lane to continue on around the building. We are asking that all parents respect this and not drop off in front of the building as it is a safety concern. If you need to enter the building with your student, please park in the parking lot and come in.

Please contact the school if you have questions or concerns. Huskies Have Heart!

This year HCS introduced a new motto: Heart. Character. Strength.

To help our elementary students understand our motto they will be focusing on one aspect of the motto for three months at a time. Our students are being encouraged to help keep our hearts smooth, by not using words that hurt, and wrinkle their hearts. Parents can continue to encourage kind and caring language at home to help make sure we help, and don’t hurt with the words we say.

Huskies Athletics News!

Athletes of the Month Each month HCS celebrates four students as Athletes of the Month. This award is selected by coaches and is designed to recognize students who have shown commitment, effort, skill and sportsmanship in the previous month. This month they are: Middle School Girls – Addyson Pirie Middle School Boys – Evan Springer High School Girls – Laura Nancekievill High School Boys – Parker Thibodeau

Senior Girls Capture Silver Congratulations to our senior girls soccer team on capturing a silver medal at provincials, hosted at HCS on Nov. 3rd. The girls had an incredibly successful season and went undefeated in league play. Great job girls!

Huskies Tip off Tournament The senior boys basketball season will get underway on Nov. 9th and 10th as the Huskies host their annual season opening invitational tournament. Teams from Canterbury, Harvey, Woodstock, John Caldwell and McAdam will take part. Hartland plays their first games on Friday at 1:30pm against Canterbury and 8:30pm against Harvey. Come out and support our boys!

Covered Bridge Classic The annual Covered Bridge Classic hockey tournament will be held from Nov. 23rd to 25th at the Hartland Arena. Seven teams will be in attendance, including NSER, Ecole Samuel-de-Champlain, EGR, SJDA, PAJS, Blackville High School and the host Hartland Huskies. The Huskies will play their games on Friday at 7pm as well as Saturday at 1pm and 5:30pm. The championship game will be played 3:30pm on Sunday. Hope to see you there!

Book Fair Something magical is happening in HCS's library this month. Please plan to visit our Scholastic Book Fair from Nov. 20th-23rd as it transforms the HCS library into an Enchanted Forest of Books. Everything from fairies, wizards, gnomes, and unicorns can be found here! So please come, be charmed by a book and let your imagination grow! The book fair hours are: Tuesday Nov. 20th - 9:00 - 2:45 Wednesday Nov. 21st - 9:00 - 2:45 Thursday Nov. 22nd - 9:00 - 8:00pm Friday Nov. 23rd - 9:00 - 2:00 Come shop and support literacy at HCS. A portion of every book sold goes towards book rewards for our school. Elementary Volunteers! Grade 4 volunteers will visit the Central Carleton Nursing Home on Wednesday, Nov. 21st. We’re already looking forward to sharing some Husky cheer! YEARBOOK SALE! Yearbooks will go on sale next week during lunch on November 14th, 15th and 16th. If students purchase a yearbook at the school next week they are eligible for an early bird discount. Early Bird Yearbooks will be $40, with an optional $5 charge for personalization. Yearbooks will also be for sale online through the new year, but the early bird discount will not apply. Yearbooks purchased online will be $45, plus the optional $5 personalization fee. Get your yearbooks next week and make sure you don’t miss out on the memories!

This month’s HCS Newsletter was prepared by the students in our

Journalism 120 class. These students have also been featured recently in

the pages of The Bugle-Observer. Keep an eye out

for more of their work!