On Thursday evening, March 27th, and Friday morning, March 28th, Springfield Heights School stu-

dents will communicate to parents and guardians about their learning this term. Many classes will

share their portfolios which may contain work samples and achievements, areas needing additional

practice, and their goals for the next term. Portfolio sharing supports learning for the following rea-

sons:

· When students are involved in the assessment process and learn to articulate what they have learned

and what they still need to work on, achievement improves. (Black & William, 1998; Sternberg,

1996)

· When students show evidence of learning to an audience, they receive feedback and recognition

from themselves and from others. This feedback helps guide and support their learning. (Black &

William, 1998; Sutton, 1997; Wiggins, 1993)

· When students are offered choices, they are personally motivated. Therefore, the process of select-

ing what evidence of learning to include in their Portfolio gives students an opportunity to con-

struct their understanding and to help others make meaning of their learning. (Jensen, 1998; Kohn,

1999; Stiggins, 2000)

· When parents are involved in talking about learning with their children, the children achieve more.

The more parents are involved, the higher the student achievement levels! (Henderson & Berla,

1995)

Thank you, parents, for your continued involvement, support, and encouragement in assuring that all

students reach their goals! See you all at Portfolio Sharing Conferences, March 27th and 28th!

Mario Beauchamp Scott Lysack

Message from Administration...

M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 4

Springfield Heights School 505 Sharron Bay Winnipeg, MB R2G 0H8 P. 204-663-5078 F. 204-668-9285 www.sh.retsd.mb.ca Principal Mario Beauchamp Vice-Principal Scott Lysack Parent Advisory Council President

Robert Werbowesky rwerbow@mts.net SHS Lunch Program Karen Netzel E-Mail: shslunchprogram@gmail.com Skipper Scholars (Before and After School Program) P. 204-661-8004 Transportation Department P. 204-669-0202 River East Transcona School Division 589 Roch Street Winnipeg, MB R2K 2P7 P. 204-667-7130 F. 204-661-5618 www.retsd.mb.ca

More than half of Springfield Heights School families are

already receiving the newsletter via e-mail.

If you are still receiv-

ing paper copies of the newsletter and are in-terested in receiving it by e-mail, please let us

know by calling the school or sending a note to school with

your child indicating your e-mail address.

Attention - Parents of Children starting

Kindergarten in September

Do you need child care for the other half of the day?

If so, YMCA – YWCA is offering a Kinder Program for SHS families at the North Kildonan

Community Club.

For more information please visit our website at: http://schools.retsd.mb.ca/shs/Pages/

Welcome.aspx. Please fill out the survey posted under announcements.

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2014 Dates

For current information about SHS, important

dates, announcements, contact info, helpful

links, forms, etc. please visit the Springfield Heights School Web

Page located at: http://

schools.retsd.mb.ca/shs/Pages/

Welcome.aspx

ALLERGY ALERT

We wish to thank all families for the concerted

effort regarding the safety of our students with life

threatening allergies. We appreciate your

understanding when sending foods to school and ask you to

continue to avoid sending allergens such as nuts and peanuts.

Although it can be a challenge to prepare alternative lunches and

snacks, we hope you will understand the seriousness of coming in

contact with dangerous allergens. We realize it is impossible to

provide 100% safety, but because student safety is a shared

responsibility of families, schools and the community, risks to

allergic students can be greatly reduced with your help.

Board of Trustees 2013-14

Name Ward Email address Phone Colleen Carswell 1 ccarswell@retsd.mb.ca 204-222-1486 George Marshall 1 gmarshall@retsd.mb.ca 204-221-8464 John Toews 2 jtoews@retsd.mb.ca 204-663-0475 Robert Fraser 3 rfraser@retsd.mb.ca 204-667 9348 Eva Prysizney 4 eprysizney@retsd.mb.ca 204-668-3501 Wayne Ritcher (Vice-chair) 4 writcher@retsd.mb.ca 204-663-6669 Peter Kotyk (Chair) 5 pkotyk@retsd.mb.ca 204-668-4181 Shirley Timm-Rudolph 5 stimmrudolph@retsd.mb.ca 204-414-8239 Greg Proch 6 gproch@retsd.mb.ca 204-663-1925

March

14 PD Day - No School

25 Report Cards sent home

27 P/T Conferences (evenings)

28 P/T Conferences (am)/PD(pm) No School

29 - Apr. 6 Spring Break

April

7 School Re-opens after Spring Break (Day 5)

8 PAC Meeting 6:30pm

9 Early Dismissal 2:45pm

18 Good Friday - No School

24 EUBP Easter Breakfast

24 English Program Family Event (evening)

25 PD Day - No School

May

13 PAC Meeting 6:30pm

14 Early Dismissal 2:45pm

19 Victoria Day - No School

21 & 22 Gr. 5/6 Spring Musical

29 K Stay & Play 6:00pm

June

13 Sports Day

26 Farewell Assembly 9:30am

27 Last Day of Classes - Early Dismissal 2:30pm

Springfield Heights Lunch Program

All SHS parents are invited to receive infor-

mation and have input in the 2014-2015 SHS

Lunch Program staff allocation and lunch pro-

gram fee schedule.

The next Springfield Heights School Lunch

Program Committee (SHSLPC) meeting is

March 25th @ 5:30 in the school library.

-Mike Fuellbrandt Chair Pro Tem SHS Lunch Program Committee

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Caleigh and Maggie

enjoying the activi-

ties!

Grade 6 Winter Camp

Festival D'hiver A SHS February tradition

continued with the Annual

Festival D'hiver being a

huge success.

We had a great crowd of

students, parents and staff

enjoying a delicious meal of

chili and dinner rolls while

visiting with friends and

families. After supper,

Pierre Freynet and the Fid-

dle Heads gave a fantastic

musical performance of

French-Canadian

songs. The chilly weather

outside didn't stop anyone

from enjoying the hot choc-

olate and sleigh ride.

A huge thank you to the

staff and all the parent vol-

unteers who made this

happen. Our community

spirit really came shining

through with more than

enough volunteers to do all

the jobs!

Spring is around the corner

so keep an eye out for the

annual plant sale cata-

logue. These are the

French Immersion Parent

Committee's only fundrais-

ers, with both helping to

ensure our children receive

quality enrichment activi-

ties.

-FI PAC

singing, and generally having fun.

The food was great and everyone

seemed to enjoy themselves de-

spite the colder than normal

weather. Thanks for a great trip

campers!

-Mr. Lewicki, Gr. 5/6 teacher

This February, the Grade

6’s at Springfield Heights

went to Winter Camp at

Red Rock in the White-

shell. Students, staff, and

some brave parents spent

three nights participating in

various activities designed

to teach students new skills

and build on friendships.

Students spent their time

building quinzies, snow-

shoeing, skiing, playing

broomball, geocaching, hik-

ing, building fires, skating,

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describing

picture or

graphic.

Camp 2.0 - Version Springfield Heights P A G E 4

We were lucky enough to have winter

activities at school during February 11 -

13. Mrs. Benson brought her dog,

Sneak, to show us how he does an

obedience course in the gym. He fol-

lowed Mrs. Benson around the pylons

turning, stopping, and sitting. Her

friend Samantha brought her dog Zumi

and when Samantha crouched down

her dog jumped on her back!

On Wednesday, we watched Cool

Runnings. It was a funny movie about

the first Jamaican Bobsled team. We

have been studying about the Olympics

in class so it was awesome to watch a

movie about it.

On Thursday, the Chief Peguis Choral

group came to sing some songs for us.

They danced and sang an African song for

us. They even taught us how to sing part

of a song. We sounded great!

It was a fun week!

-Room 27

3’s made headbands and made pea

soup, the grade 4’s colourfully and

beautifully designed wooden spoons

and learned how to make music with

them, the grade 5&6’s learned Voya-

geur songs. Mme Courtney directed

the grade 5/6 choir and the sing-a-

long! Another great Festival this year,

helping us through this harsh winter!

At the last minute, we opted to have

the assembly earlier as to let the stu-

dents and

staff at SHS

watch the

gold medal

men’s hockey

Olympic game! Go Canada! It was a

great and inspiring day! HÉ! HO!

-The SHS French Immersion teach-

ers and Mme Courtney!

Friday February 21st the students

presented a beautiful and festive as-

sembly to celebrate the Festival du

Voyageur! Each year the French Im-

mersion teachers collaborate and plan

fun activities by grade level to learn

about the Voyageur life! The kinder-

gartens learned a dance to the song

entitled La Bastringue, the grade ones

made Festival sashes – so beautiful.

The grade 2’s made beards , the grade

Mrs. Benson and Sneak!

Festival du Voyageur 2014 Assembly

Kindergarten classes

danced “ia Bastringue”

for the audience

Grade 5/6 choir perform-

ing "J'entends le Moulin".

Mme. Vokey and Mme.

Jackson’s Gr. 1 classes

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Here are the grade 4 students from

Mme Jorgensen's class experiment-

ing with costumes and movement

to go along with Maurice Ravel's

piece "Gnomus"!

United Way Campaign Spirit Week

“Raiders of the Lost “Art” Some very lucky grade 3, 4

& 5 students will get the

chance to visit the Winni-

peg Symphony Orchestra

and their Adventures in

Music series! On April 23,

the classrooms from Pani

Nazeravich, Mme Jorgen-

sen, Monsieur Morier, and

Mrs Marsh will be joining

SHS music teachers on a

field trip to the concert hall

where they will enjoy the

music from various com-

posers along with artwork

from Manitoba's young art-

ists.

Thank you to our wonder-

ful SHS Parent Council who

made this experience possi-

ble by paying all our ex-

penses!

-Mme Courtney

participate in any or all of the planned activities.

All week we will be collecting hotel sized toiletries – soap, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion. These items will be go-ing to homeless shelters in Winnipeg. On Monday, March 24 we will be having hat day and on Wednesday, March 26 it will be Winnipeg Jet’s Day. Students who bring a donation

of $1 or more on each of these days will have the privilege of wearing these items for the day. On Thursday, March 27, M. Beauchamp and Mr. Lysack will be wearing “special costumes” for the day to celebrate when we reach our monetary goal.

Thank you so much for your con-tinued support. Help the staff and students of Springfield Heights School make a differ-ence in our community.

During the week March 24 – 27, Springfield Heights will host the annual United Way Campaign Spirit Week and Days of Caring Campaign to raise money for the United Way.

The United Way is an organi-zation that supports pro-grams and services in our community. To continue our message of empathy, we are encouraging all children to

Help keep Lunch

Program costs

down. Please remember to

pack your child a fork or spoon!

Reporting Absences

Parents are reminded to please call the school at 204-663-5078 to report

your child will be absent or late for school. A 24-hour answering service is availa-

ble to take calls before/after office hours. For stu-dent safety, we offer a call-back program. This means that you will be called if

your child is not at school and you have not informed us of his or her absence.

Thank you!

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Superintendent Kelly

Barkman.

Save the Planet...from Plastic!

English Ukrainian Bilingual Students Celebrate

Ukrainian Christmas

On Thursday, January 16, 2014 the English Ukrainian Bilingual students of Springfield Heights School

celebrated Ukrainian Christmas with an evening of Ukrainian Christmas carols. This was our annual

concert, Koliada. Students from Bernie Wolfe Community School, and Chief Peguis Junior High

joined our school to celebrate. Students held candles and

sang carols. Pani Loughren directed all the students from

kindergarten to grade 6, as we sang several Ukrainian car-

ols while portraying the nativity scene. We were so fortu-

nate to have Mr. Buternowsky accompany us on the tsym-

baly, a Ukrainian instrument, and Sofia and Helena Z. accom-

pany us on violin. A buffet of food was served including

several traditional Ukrainian dishes. It was lovely to see the

children singing and dressed in their Ukrainian costumes.

-Pani Loughren and the grade 1&2 students of room 8

Have you noticed how nearly everything we buy is packaged

or wrapped in plastic? Have you ever spent a few minutes

turning an empty package every which way to search for the

recycling symbol? Plastic seems to be everywhere and it is definitely piling up

in our landfills. Don't despair, because there's a way to recycle many items

without the recycling symbol!

You can recycle plastic bags and most plastic packaging in the plastic bag bin

at your local Safeway store. Safeway then sends them to Trex

(www.trex.com) where the plastic is recycled into durable decking materials.

Just make sure the plastic is clean, dry and free of food residue. You will be

surprised at how quickly the plastic piles up. Your planet will thank you!

During the last week of January, Mrs. Ilchena-Carlson, our divisional

early years consultant came to Springfield Heights School. She was

conducting a Writing Residency which included memoirs in room ten

and poetry in room thirteen! We spent three days preparing for

them, one and a half days writing, and on the last day we proudly

shared our memoirs! Then we finally displayed them in the hallway on

the bulletin board for all to see.

It was an amazing experience!

-Room 10 Grades 3/4

Ukrainian Bilingual Class

What can be recycled?

Grocery bags

Bread bags

Case overwrap

Dry cleaning bags

Newspaper sleeves

Ice bags

Wood pellet bags

Ziplock and other reclosable

bags

Produce bags

Bubble wrap

Salt bags

Magical Memoirs

Canadian Red Cross PeopleSavers course for kids! P A G E 7

Recognizing that safety training and first aid can be taught to children of all ages, the Canadian Red Cross has developed the Peo-

pleSavers course for kids. The course is now being offered through RETSD EdVentures Continuing Education. Certified instruc-

tor Pam Jansen will lead your child through an age-appropriate workbook where the PeopleSavers mascot teaches how to check

for safety, call for help and care for an injured person until medical help arrives.

“Now I know I can help when someone needs it.”

● Quote from an eight-year-old student of PeopleSavers

Give your child the opportunity to prepare to respond with confidence to a variety of everyday situations that may be potential-

ly dangerous at home and in the community. Sign up for one of these classes:

Ages 8-10 WY03B Monday, March 17, 5:30-8:30 p.m., John Henderson School $35

Ages 10-12 WY04 Wednesday, Feb. 12, 6-9 p.m., John Henderson School $35

WY04B Tuesday, March 25, 6-9 p.m., John Henderson School $35

You can visit the EdVentures website at www.retsd-conted.com, contact RETSD EDVentures Continuing Education at 204-667-

6193 or email office@retsd-conted.com to register or for more information.

The Lunch Lady is proud to serve the students at your school. To set up a Lunch Lady Account, and order from our pro-

gram at any time, please go to www.thelunchlady.ca >ORDER HERE to see what we have to offer. If you have questions

about our program please call us at 204-257-6873.

We all know we need to hydrate more. If we can get water in a form that tastes good with benefits, maybe we will drink

more. So, on the face of it, what’s not to like!

But here is some interesting stuff we found out.

There seems to be no actual evidence of any specific health benefits

There have been lawsuits against producers for making questionable health

claims.

As for the vitamins -most of these products focus on B vitamins and Vitamin

C, which are water-soluble and not stored in your body. Once your body

gets what it needs, it simply flushes out the rest. The best way to get your

vitamins is the way they were designed to be obtained – from your food.

This is an alternative to pop and you are fooling yourself if you consider this

any more than a beverage [author Christopher Wnajek]. The best choice to hydrate is still WATER.

Don’t judge a bottle by its shiny enticing label. Turn it over and read the label. Despite the fruity names, most prod-

ucts have 0% or less than 1% actual fruit content

The largest brand called VITAMINWATER is owned by Coca Cola

Most brands are made with filtered/treated “municipal water”

These drinks can be as sweet as pop, containing the equivalent of 6 teaspoons of sugar [33 gm] or if low calorie, be

sweetened with products derived from high fructose corn syrup.

Still thirsting for Vitamin Water – why not make your own in an infusion pitcher or large glass jar that can hold at least ½

liter of water. Simply add herbs, fruit, and/or veggies to your filtered water in a pitcher, store in the fridge, let rest, and

serve. The longer the water sits, the more nutrients are extracted from the ingredients. 24 hours is usually sufficient. And

you will know the vitamins and minerals came from a nutritious source.

Read more http://www.trueactivist.com/why-buy-artificial-vitamin-water-when-you-can-make-your-own-natural-versions/

Ruthie Burd – founder of the Lunch Lady and curious Mom

So is Flavoured Water with Vitamins good for you or is it just clever marketing?

I love to Read Month

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February was a busy month in

the library with I Love to

Read.

We had guest readers who

energised like Kristin Marand,

DJ from Energy 106. Guest

readers who educated us like

Erna Braun, our Minister of

Labour and Immigration and

Member of the Legislative As-

sembly for Rossmere. Guest

readers who made us laugh like

Big Daddy Tazz, the comedi-

an. Guest readers that kept us

entertained like Bubba B the

MC.

Or even a guest author like

Anita Daher, who presented

her new picture book, Itty

Bitty Bits.

Thank you to all of our guest

readers who visited SHS!

Students had a chance to participate in

three different contests: Olympic Read

Challenge Bingo Card, Guess the Staff’s

Favourite Book When They Were our Age

Contest and the daily, Guess the Book

Characters of the Day contest.

Students especially had a lot of fun trying to

match staff members to their picture! Can

you guess who is who?

Congratulations to all the contest winners!

Contests

News from the Library...

The Spring Scholastic Book

Fair will be Thursday March 27th

and Friday the 28th during parent/

teacher conferences. The theme

will be Book Fair Fiesta! A Cel-

ebration of Reading!

Krisitin Marand Erna Braun

Big Daddy Tazz

Bubba B the MC Anita Daher

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Time to Get Involved! Looking back this has been a great year for PAC. Fundraising went well and the meetings have been well attended with great

presentations. It may be a bit too early to look back, but it is definitely time to start looking forward. Soon we need to start

planning for next fall's fundraising campaign and September's Meet the Teacher night. If you have been thinking of getting in-

volved, now is the time - and we need your input! Spring is also the time we choose next year's PAC Executive, so watch for a

handout that will be sent home explaining the various positions and how you can help. With a little planning and involvement,

hopefully next year at this time we will be looking back on another great year.

-SHS PAC

Reading is fun!

While weather outside is frightful, books are so delightful. Why not curl up every

day on the couch with your child and enjoy books together.

Remember to talk about a book a little bit before and after the reading:

Let’s look through this book at the pictures. What do you think it is about?

Can you try to tell this story by looking at the pictures?

What was the story about?

Tell me about some of the things that happened in this story.

What was your favourite part? Why?

Was there something that you did not like? What was it? Why?

Happy Reading! -SHS Literacy Team

TABS Don’t forget, Springfield

Heights school is collecting

tabs! You can drop them off

in the Bin by the front en-

trance or room 25!

Reporting Absences

Parents are reminded to please call the school at 204

-663-5078 to report your child will be absent or late for school. A 24-hour an-

swering service is available to take calls before/after office

hours. For student safety, we offer a call-back program.

This means that you will be called if your child is not at school and you have not informed us of his or her

absence.

Thank you!

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Mennonite Brethren Children's

Centre is a Nursery school for children ages 3-

5 that offers two part-time programs

(M/W/F or Tue/Thur) from 9:15-

11:15am from Sept to May.

We offer an introduction to German, as

well as Biblestories and Kindergarten

readiness.

Come check us out at our Open

House/Registration night:

Wednesday, March 5/14, 7pm 1315

Gateway Road (enter via office doors)

All registrations require a $25 non-

refundable registration fee, and medical

numbers.

Contact: Nanette Schmidt-Director

phone. 930-6837

email. mbbcc1315@mymts.net

Hop into spring break at Oak Hammock

Marsh!

From March 31 - April 4, have fun participating in

daily themed activities at Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive

Centre or register for one or all of our day camps. Camp runs

daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is for children ages 6 to 9. Camp

is filled with fun indoor and outdoor themed activities that may

include scavenger hunts, animal tracking, outdoor cooking and

nature crafts. For more information on daily themes or to reg-

ister a camper please visit: http://www.oakhammockmarsh.ca,

or call (204) 467-3300.

Mark your calendars!

Grade 5&6 spring

musical Peter Pan to

hit the SHS stage on

May 21 & 22!

K-Kids Battery round up until the end of the

year! Thank you for your support -

keep bringing them in!

Drop off all batteries

to Panni Cap in

room 29.

-K-Kids

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