Winter is almost over! I started writing this mes-

sage after a snow fall and I am finishing it on the

first day of Spring with record temperatures. It is

hard to imagine that only a couple of weeks ago,

Mr. Nuytten’s class discussed the question Have

we had enough snow? The consensus was no, and

this reminded me at the time just how important

snow and ice are: to have fun; to maintain health

and fitness; to feed the rivers and lakes for our

summer activities and provide our drinking water.

We are fortunate to have access to clean drinking

water in amounts sufficient for our needs. Windsor

students learned in February that not all children in

the world are so lucky. In activities planned and

organized by students from

grades 4-6 on the WE day

Committee, all Windsor

students participated in

activities to raise aware-

ness of issues related to

water around the world. In

addition, they also got to

take part in indoor and out-

door activities that made

the most of our access to

frozen water; ice (skating,

hockey) and snow

(tobogganing, snow paint-

ing). A great time was had

by all, and over $500 was

raised for “Water from

Windsor” to purchase wa-

ter filters for a community

in Kenya. Thank you to

those who provided baked

goods which were sold to

raise monetary contribu-

tions, or volunteered to

help students with their

skates.

Students also contributed

to their local community

recently by bringing in items for “Operation Do-

nation”. Proceeds were sent to Winnipeg Har-

vest for distribution to Winnipeg families. Clos-

er to home, our “Wear Pink Day” celebrated our

students’ commitment to stop bullying. This

commitment should extend beyond one day

and last the whole year, as creating a school

culture where people treat each other with

kindness and respect is our constant goal.

Windsor hosted two presentations in the last

few weeks about putting a stop to Bullying:

from ”Bisons against Bullying” and Constable

Kisil of the Winnipeg Police.

Our second reporting period of the year has

come to an end and Progress Conferences

have taken place. These conferences are an

important opportunity for parents, students and

teachers to talk about successes and challeng-

es. However, parents are invited to call their

child’s classroom teacher any time they have a

concern to foster open communication and

respectful partnerships between home and

school.

Spring is a time when we begin to plan for next

year. Our grade 8’s have selected courses for

grade 9 at Glenlawn Collegiate and our Kinder-

garten parents visited Windsor during the Kin-

dergarten Information Evening. Windsor staff

will be working diligently in the next few months

to assure a smooth transition to next year for

all students and we welcome any information

parents may wish to share with us that will help

us support their child into next year.

Finally, staff were blown away by the generosity

displayed by our parent community during Staff

Appreciation Week. Thank you to everyone who

donated food and gifts. We really appreciate

being appreciated! We wish all our Windsor

families a safe and enjoyable Spring Break and

hope that you all have the opportunity to make

the most of the warm spring weather.

Administrator’s Message Mrs. A. Walker—Principal

MARCH 2012

Windsor School News

LOUIS R IEL SCHOOL DIVIS ION

Kindergarten

Grade 2/3 2

Grade 1/2

3

Grade 4 4

Grade 5 5

Grade 6 6

Gym

Patrol Corner 7

Music

Library 8

Grade 7/8 9/10

Arts and Tech

Announcement 11

Winnipeg Police

News Release

12

Homestay

Announcement 13

Important Dates 14

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

P AGE 2

The kindergarten year is

more than half way through

and we are adjusting to new

routines and expectations.

The biggest change is start-

ing our morning with a quiet

work time. During this work

time we focus on printing

upper and lower case let-

ters, writing in our journals,

and reading books together.

During our quiet work time

we are also developing

many important work skills:

1. We are learning how

to work quietly so

everyone in the room

can concentrate.

2. We are teaching

strategies for staying

on task.

3. We are learning how

to help each other.

4. We are modeling how

to organize a work-

space.

In the first half of the year

we focused a lot of our math

work on patterning, counting

skills and recognizing num-

bers. We are continuing to

build on these skills and

have also started learning

adding and subtracting con-

cepts.

Of course we still have

“playtime” because it is vital

to social-emotional and aca-

demic development. It also

makes the children happy!

And happy children learn

more! The students enjoy

being able to choose their

own activities and plan their

own projects. Dress-up,

house, puppets, blocks,

sandbox, painting, arts and

crafts, puzzles, toys and

books – it’s all there - just

like when you were in kin-

dergarten!

Our collective goal for this

month is to bring environ-

mentally friendly snacks to

school. We will be learning

about healthy foods that are

good for growing bodies, and

good for the earth. Children

will learn about composting,

reusable containers and

packaging. Thank you for

your support to help us meet

this goal because we simply

couldn’t do it without you.

Carol Drosdowech

Kindergarten—Ms. Drosdowech

In our classroom we are

learning about babies in our

Roots Of Empathy class. Ba-

by Colton visits our class-

room to help us learn about

babies and what babies do

and need.

In gym we are doing Super

Skipper. This is when we

skip for as long as we can

and the last person skipping

is the Super Skipper of the

Gym class.

Ms. Braun is teaching us

about famous musicians.

She took us to the WSO to

help us learn about instru-

ments. At the Symphony we

heard music by J.S. Bach.

We saw Mr. Mark there.

February was “I Love to

Read” month. We learned a

song called “I Love to Read”

in Music class. Mrs. Mayer

read two books to our class

called “Henry’s Freedom

Box” and “Rosie’s Story”. We

enjoyed the story because it

shows how people feel. We

are reading books to Mrs.

Poirier and making a snow-

Grade 2/3—Mrs. Moir

man about the books we

read.

In Health class we are learn-

ing how to eat properly by

following the children “Brock

Lee” and “Coco Lait” in their

adventures.

Wednesday Feb 29th was

Stop Bullying Day. We wore

pink to support the victims

of bullying.

I hope you liked our latest

news.

Sincerely your Grade 2/3

class of Windsor School!

character, setting, plot, main

events and outcomes in

both a written and oral for-

mat. We are doing word

work with the five vowels (a,

e, i, o, u). The students are

progressing well with creat-

ing “five star” sentences.

We enjoyed reading stories

about “Hairy McClary”, a

playful puppy and “Slinky

Malinki”, a mischievous cat.

In Math we have been work-

ing with numbers to 100;

comparing and ordering

numbers up to 100, identify-

ing odd and even numbers,

skip-counting by 10’s start-

ing at any number from 1 –

9 and counting by 2’s from

any odd or even number.

We are learning about place

value and expanded form of

numbers. We had fun cele-

brating 100 Day with a varie-

ty of Math and Language

Arts activities related to the

number 100. These includ-

ed creating 100 Day sen-

tences which students print-

ed and then typed in the

computer lab.

In Science we have been

learning about solids, liquids

and gases.

In Social Studies we have

been studying Canada. Stu-

dents have participated in

exploration of the map of

Canada and learning activi-

ties about our community,

the provinces and territories,

and the capital city of Cana-

da.

In Computer class students

have been creating word

documents including typing

and saving as well as print-

ing our national anthem “O

Canada”.

In Art, students created won-

derful portraits incorporating

emotions such as happy and

sad as well as striking nega-

tive and positive artwork us-

ing a white piece of paper

and a black square.

We look forward to continu-

ing to explore, discover,

learn, share and participate

in a variety of activities that

will lead us to many more

engaging experiences.

January and February have

flown by! We continue to be

busy in the classroom and

also participate in some spe-

cial events outside of the

classroom. Our field trip to

see the Winnipeg Symphony

Orchestra explored the di-

verse world of music and

language. Students discov-

ered how music inspires

dance, imagery, movies and

movement. The concert in-

cluded wonderful perfor-

mances by an aerial artist

and a variety of dancers.

We also participated in “WE

Day” activities in support of

fundraising for water filters

for communities without

clean water. Students had a

wonderful time skating, to-

bogganing, running an ob-

stacle course, doing water

races and learning about

water filters. February has

been “I Love to Read”

month. We have participat-

ed in “Stop, Drop and Read”.

The class also took part in a

special interactive read

aloud and magic show pre-

sented by our own Mr.

Reevie. It was great fun!

In Language Arts we are

reading text from a variety of

sources including story

books, chapter books, infor-

mation sources and non-

fiction stories. Students are

practicing reading with ex-

pression and phrasing. They

are learning to reflect upon

a story with reference to

Grade 1/2—Mrs. Brown

W INDSOR SCHOO L NEWS P AGE 3

P AGE 4

Owls

This year in class we have

been working on owls. Last

week Rebecca came with

two owls. They were from

the Prairie Wildlife Rehabili-

tation Centre. One owl was

a Burrowing Owl and one

was a great Grey Owl, Mani-

toba’s provincial bird. The

Burrowing Owl was named

Naira which means big

eyes. The Great Grey owl

was named Nascha mean-

ing owl. Nascha was hit by

a car and has only one

wing. How sad! Naira was

kicked out of her nest and

was raised by a person. So

both owls can’t go back to

the wild for the rest of their

lives. They will stay with the

Prairie Wildlife Centre.

By Kyla

Art

Hey everyone!! In art the

grade fours created pic-

tures of our Canadian re-

gions and we’ve done a lot!

We had 6 regions to draw,

Interior Plains, Western

Cordillera, the Arctic, St.

Lawrence and Great Lake

Lowlands and the Appala-

chian area.

My region is the Interior

Plains and I drew Delta

Marsh.

We used oil pastels and we

had to mix some colors to-

gether if we wanted a cer-

tain color.

Some people drew one or

two and some people drew

four! Check them out out-

side the grade 4 room

hanging on the bulletin

board!

By Laura

Burrowing Owls

Burrowing Owls are endan-

gered because they mostly

live in the prairies. Their

burrow in the spring can

collapse because of the

rain. Naira eats bugs that

have insecticide

(chemicals) in them. They

die mostly because of the-

se reasons and also be-

cause they get eaten by

predators. Burrowing Owls

take the burrows of other

animals such as foxes,

moles, prairie dogs, mice

and voles. The Burrowing

Owls live in South Western

Manitoba. They migrate to

Mexico during the winter

and only 3% come back.

Scientists are trying to find

out why. They guess that

they are dying because of

sickness, food loss or they

are just staying there. The

reason they migrate is be-

cause they don’t have fur

on their feet like Great Grey

Owls.

By Noah

Grade 4—Mrs. Robin

ines the properties and

interactions of various

substances. Sadly, there

will be no explosions, but

there will be a lot of bub-

bling and fizzing.

Our march through Cana-

dian History continues

with a look at the United

Empire Loyalists, followed

by an in- depth study of

the fur trade. Students will

have the chance to experi-

ence bargaining and bar-

tering for furs in many of

our upcoming activities.

These are just a few of the

many interesting activities

the Grade Fives will be,

and have been, engaged

in recently. Thank you for

taking the time to read

about them.

G. Nuytten

Here are some of the

things that the Grade

Fives have been up to

lately and a glimpse of

some of the things to

come.

We spent a great deal of

time working on the mas-

tery of the process of long

division. All of the stu-

dents showed significant

progress and are continu-

ing to improve on their re-

call of basic division facts.

At this point we are doing

a unit on measurement

and learning about the

concepts of area, perime-

ter and circumference.

In Language Arts and com-

puter classes we worked

very hard on producing a

magazine about our lives

in the future and are

about to begin a new nov-

el study. We have an excit-

ing project upcoming.

Working with Mr. Loney,

prior to and immediately

following Spring Break ,

the students are going to

be creating Freeze Frame

Claymation short video

productions.

In Science, we've studied

and designed a number of

machines, using the six

basic simple machines to

create more complex

ones. Our next unit exam-

Grade 5—Mr. Nuytten

W INDSOR SCHOO L NEWS P AGE 5

P AGE 6

Since January the Grade Six

Class has been very busy,

we’ve organized “Wear Pink

Day”, and presented to oth-

er classes about how to take

a stand against bullying;

we’ve also organized 2 suc-

cessful pizza lunches to help

fund our June camp experi-

ence.

At the beginning of January,

accompanied by the grade

5’s, we went to Max Bell and

did a series of track races.

We also did standing long

jump, 50 and 80 metre race,

baton relay, and the shuttle

relay. IT WAS FUN; WE RAN

FOR RIBBONS. We also wel-

comed a new student to our

class-Trent P.

Then, in spirit of Le Festival

de Voyageur, we had a pan-

cake breakfast that Mad-

ame Neil and her family

made for our class. We had

to sing Voyageur songs to

get food; and then went out-

side to play some voyageur

games like portaging and

racing the rapids.

In February, we went to

Snow Day at St. Vital Park.

We rotated through stations

such as Capture the Flag,

skating, and tobogganing;

the whole day was thrilling.

Also in February, we had

MTYP actors come to our

school and perform in our

gym. It was a play called

“Offensive Fouls.” The play

was about racism and was

really interesting. On Mon-

day February 13th the WE

Team set up a snow day to

raise water awareness, it

was a fun day, complete

with a bake sale to donate

to “Water from Windsor”; the

WE team is also working on

Operation Donation, a food

drive for Winnipeg Harvest, it

is finishing soon.

In Science, we are learning

about electricity, electrical

safety, and how to create an

electrical circuit with a bat-

tery, some wires, and a cou-

ple of light bulbs. We have

learned about protons, neu-

trons and electrons. A pro-

ton is the positive charge, a

neutron has no charge and

the electron is the negative

charge. An atom includes all

of these. We thankfully fin-

ished Health class about pu-

berty and the reproduction

systems!

In Art, Mr. Loney is teaching

us about warm/cool colours

and we are learning about

landscapes.

In Math, Mme Bradshaw is

teaching us about estima-

tion and division.

In this term, we are studying

WWI in Social Studies and

are learning how to be inter-

esting writers in ELA.

In Phys. Ed., we had our fit-

ness test, which includes

running laps, push ups and

sit ups. We have also been

Grade 6—Mme Neil

playing soccer and basket-

ball.

In Music, we have started

recorder once again and

have learned to play “Soft

Kitty.” We have also been

doing lots of work on the

barred instruments. A field

trip that we are looking for-

ward to is going to the Winni-

peg Symphony Orchestra in

March.

We had a Camp Arnes info

meeting at Darwin School.

We are sharing a chartered

bus with the grade 6 class at

Darwin; we are going to

Camp Arnes during the last

three days of school in June.

We just got our report cards

and we have spirit week dur-

ing the last week before

spring break and we are re-

ally excited! Go PUMAS! Go

CHEETAHS! Go LYNX! Go

PANTHERS!

Written by the Grade 6 stu-

dents, edited by Mme Neil

P AGE 7

Windsor students continue

to enjoy being active in Phys-

ical Education class.

The Early Years classes have

been busy playing table ten-

nis, improving their bouncing

skills, developing their fit-

ness by participating in nu-

merous running games and

skipping rope activities as

well as having fun playing

lead up soccer games.

The Middle Years classes

played table tennis, learned

the rules and skills needed

for basketball, completed

their second round of fitness

assessments, played various

soccer activities and are cur-

rently learning the game of

team handball.

Our Grade 4 and 6 students

enjoyed participating in

sponge polo during the last

round of intramurals.

Our volleyball season came

to a close at the end of De-

cember with both our teams

finishing strong. Some of

our Grade 5 and 6 students

also participating in a mini

volleyball tournament in De-

cember and did exceptional-

ly well! This lead right into

the beginning of our basket-

ball season. Windsor was

able to field 3 teams this

year. All of our teams

showed great improvement

throughout the season. A

highlight was our girls’ team

finishing 1st overall in the

7/8A League (Pool B)! Our

Grade 5 and 6 students will

be participating in a Mini

Basketball Tournament on

March 19th and 21st. Go

Wildcats, go!

A huge thanks goes out to

Mr. Bill Leonard and his

company who purchased 12

new basketball jerseys for

our school. They look great

both on and off the court!

Gym News—Mrs. Bale, Mr. Messejnikov

Special Thanks

Thanks to Windsor School students for supplying many examples of the art work in this issue.

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Patrols work hard to provide a safe crossing to our students. They come to school early and

leave late; their priority is to help students cross the street safely. We thank them for their ded-

icated service! We recently added a new post at Springside and the school parking lot. Patrols

cross students in the morning and at the end of the day at this post.

Patrols are on duty from 8:30 AM until 8:50 AM, 11:40 AM until 11:50 AM, and 3:25 PM until

3:40 PM. On days when the wind chill is colder than -32°C patrols will NOT be on post; be-

tween -29°C and -31°C patrols will be on post for no more than 10 minutes.

Thank you for your support, Mme Neil – Patrol Supervisor

Patrol Corner—Mme Neil

W INDSOR SCHOO L NEWS P AGE 8

The grades 4-6 students at-

tended the WSO’s Educa-

tional Series, “Music in Mo-

tion” on March 14th. Con-

gratulations to Jodi Hill,

whose artwork inspired by

the motion in the piece,

“Ride of the Valkyries” by

Robert Wagner, was chosen

to be shown at the perfor-

mance in a collection of art-

work from students around

the province.

Students in the grade 1 and

2-3 classrooms will be work-

ing on cooperative move-

ment skills by learning folk

dances from around the

world. We will be attending

the 22nd Annual “Folk

Dance in the Park” on May

23rd. Rain date is May

29th.

Grade 4 students will be at-

tending the annual “Grade 4

Orff Day in May” on Wednes-

day, May 9th at the CCFM

(Franco Manitoban Cultural

Centre). Field trip forms will

be going home mid-April.

There is no cost to students

for this event.

Trustee Mr. Hugh Coburn,

read to the grade 5 stu-

dents about the history of

book mobiles. Mr. Benja-

min Amoyaw from the

Manitoba Government

made a wonderful presen-

tation on immigration to

the grade 6 class. Grade 7

and 8 students had a

presentation on bullying by

a group of students from

the University of Manitoba.

Mr. Reevie, one of our edu-

cational assistants, gave

an amusing presentation

and magic show to the Kin-

dergarten and grade 1-2

classes. All in all, February

presented itself as a terrific

“I Love To Read” month.

In February we celebrated “I

Love to Read” month , and

many guest readers were

invited to Windsor School to

read to students.

The Honorable Nancy Allan,

Minister of Education, came

to read to our Grade 4 class

and donated some books to

our library. We are very

thankful for her generosity.

She talked about the Mani-

toba Legislative Assembly,

which connects to the stu-

dents’ study of Canada.

The grade 2/3 class had the

pleasure of listening to one

of our school trustees, Mrs.

Colleen Mayer, who read

books on Black History.

Library—Mrs. Poirier

Music—Ms. Braun

P AGE 9

ELA

In ELA the gr. 7 and 8’s have

been working on our media

unit. We watched a video

called “Merchants of Cool”

which talked about advertis-

ing. After that we were put

into groups and started

working on magazine pro-

jects. Each group choose a

theme to base their maga-

zine on. The themes ranged

from house design to cars to

teen magazines.

Band

We had an annual Band

and Guitar Concert. This

year it was combined with

an Art Show. The band class

also added an extra curricu-

lar band class once a week

to its practice schedule for

all the “keeners”. The extra

curricular band class played

“Kashmir” with the guitar

class. The regular band

class played “Get Back” by

the Beatles, “Mars” by Gos-

tov Holst and “Amazing

Grace”. Coming up soon for

the band class is also an

honour band that a few stu-

dents will be chosen for.

Social Studies/UDL

In Social Studies we com-

bined curricula in a UDL

(Universal Design For Learn-

ing) unit. We studied Ancient

Egypt. We did several pro-

jects, a lot of them were

hands on such as Masks,

Flooding the Nile Diorama,

sarcophagus making, Cano-

pic Jars and Mummifying a

Chicken. We did a writing

project called A Day in a Life,

we wrote a day as either a

Pharaoh, Scribe, Merchant

or Soldier. The Chicken

Mummification process was

a bit gross but really inter-

esting. We would put the

chicken in salt for a week or

two and change it then we

soaked it in oil and cinna-

mon. You can read more

about this on the following

page. We are going to start a

new unit soon on the

Greeks.

Guitar

In Guitar we just had our

Guitar Concert and we

played “Sweet Home Ala-

bama” and “Kashmir” with

the extracurricular band stu-

dents and the extracurricu-

lar guitar kids played “Crazy

Train”. We are now learning

“Back in Black” by ACDC.

Math

In math the grade 8’s had

their first math exam of the

year. Now they are learning

how to multiply and divide

integers. The grade 7’s

have their math exam a

week from now. They are

learning about addition and

subtraction of integers.

French

In French we brought in ba-

by pictures and wrote 5

things about ourselves in

French and had to guess

who everyone was. This

game is called Bébé mys-

tère.

Art

In art we made canopic jars

out of clay and painted

them. We drew sarcophagi

and coloured them. We are

now drawing faces with dif-

ferent facial expressions.

Inquiry

In Inquiry we took pictures

around the school and then

put them in Photoshop to

change the pictures so peo-

ple had to guess what they

were.

Grade 7/8—Mme Bradshaw

fluids such as flow rate, aer-

odynamics, viscosity, densi-

ty, mass, volume and many

others. Students recently

completed a lab activity

where they tested the flow

rate of various fluids such as

laundry detergent, soft soap,

water, ketchup, and hand

cream. They also explored

the impact of viscosity on

flow rate. Students will con-

tinue to explore further char-

acteristics or fluids, and they

will apply their understand-

ing to hydraulics and pneu-

matics.

Grade 7/8K Social Studies

Students in Mr. Arnold’s

class and Mme Bradshaw’s

class have been working ex-

tensively on an integrated

unit based on ancient Egypt.

Subjects integrated into the

unit are English Language

Arts, Science, Math, Art, and

naturally Social Studies. Stu-

dents completed various

tasks at different centres

that focussed on a different

type of intelligence. At the

verbal/linguistic center stu-

dents researched what a

typical day would be like in

the life of an ancient Egyp-

tian, and they wrote a letter

from a given perspective.

Some possibilities were

pharaoh, merchant, scribe,

and sailor. At the visual/

spatial center students cre-

ated their own tomb design

based on a specific set of

requirements. At the kines-

thetic center students creat-

ed a diorama using sand,

soil, modelling clay, and vari-

ous other materials. The dio-

rama represented the im-

portance of The Nile River to

the people of ancient Egypt,

as well as representing the

various classes of people.

They also went through the

lengthy process of mummify-

ing a chicken, preparing a

sarcophagus with a mask for

it, creating canopic jars for

the various organs and

wrapping the mummified

remains in cheese cloth,

spices and objects that An-

cient Egyptians believed

would be needed in the af-

terlife. At the Logi-

cal/Mathematical center

students completed a com-

parison between our num-

bering systems and those of

the ancient Egyptians. Stu-

dents participated in crea-

tion and implementation of

the final evaluation for the

unit.

Grade 7/8K English Lan-

guage Arts

Students in Mr. Arnold’s

class are completing their

unit on “The Giver.” They are

currently researching for a

debate based on one of the

following topics related to

the novel: euthanasia, capi-

tal punishment or raising the

legal drinking age. After top-

ics are researched, argu-

ments will be prepared and

presented in class following

a given format. Students will

be building on their research

skills and moving on to an

independent research pro-

ject.

Grade 7/8L English Lan-

guage Arts

Students in Mme Brad-

shaw’s class are completing

their unit on media. Stu-

dents were grouped based

on interests and they are

creating a magazine. Some

topics for magazines include

cars, teen, house and home,

and video games. Each stu-

dent in grade 8 is writing

three articles and three ads,

and students in grade 7 are

writing two articles and two

ads. Group members will

compile articles and ads to-

gether, create a table of con-

tents and a cover, and then

publish their magazines.

Grade 7/8 Science

Students recently started a

new unit on fluids. We are

exploring characteristics of

Grade 7/8—Mr. Arnold

W INDSOR SCHOO L NEWS P AGE 10

W INDSOR SCHOO L NEWS P AGE 11

Administrative Assistant Program

Register Now. Start in September.

Ten month program, follows school year calendar

Classes start at 9:40 AM and end at 3:40 PM

Intensive computer training in Microsoft Office 2010

Manual and computerized accounting

Teacher-led instruction

Office work practicum (6 weeks)

Focus on employability, resume and interview skills

Mature Student High School Diploma available

Please visit us at our

Information Evenings February 22 & APRIL 25 from 7 – 8:30 PM

beginning with a presentation in the Dining Room

ATC Programs

Admin is t ra t ive Ass is tan t Automot ive Techno logy Building Trades Culinary Arts Early Childhood Educator Electri-c a l T r a d e s E s t h e t i c s H a i r s t y l i n g Information Systems Architect New Media Design

Pastry Chef

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W INDSOR SCHOO L NEWS P AGE 12

Tuesday, March 13th

, 2012

PUBLIC ADVISORY - RIVER ICE CONDITIONS

The Winnipeg Police Service River Patrol Unit would like to remind the public that given the mild weather condi-tions recently, thin ice and open water is present on our rivers and retention ponds. All waterways are considered to be unsafe as ice thickness can be very unpredictable.

Parents, guardians and teachers are asked to remind children of the dangers involving cold water and thin ice. This is an extremely dangerous time as open water on the rivers is swift and very cold.

Members of the public are asked to refrain from venturing near any bodies of water as rivers banks can be slip-pery.

PLEASE BE SAFE.

For further information contact either: Constable Natalie Aitken, Public Information Officer Constable Jason Michalyshen, Public Information Officer Office: (204)986-3061 Fax: (204) 986-3267 Email: WPS-PIO@Winnipeg.ca Web: www.winnipeg.ca/Police

Tuesday, March 20th

Early Dismissal @ 2:15—Staff Meeting

Friday, March 23rd

Last Day of Classes before Spring Break

Monday, April 2nd, Day 5

First Day Back to Classes

Friday, April 6th

No School Good Friday

Tuesday, April 10th

Spring Photo Day

Friday, April 20th

No Classes for Students—P.D. day

Tuesday, April 24th

Early Dismissal @ 2:15—Staff Meeting

Friday, May 18th

No Classes for Students—P.D. Day

Monday, May 21st

School Closed—Victoria Day

Tuesday, May 22nd

Early Dismissal @ 2:15—Staff Meeting

Friday, June 15th

No Classes for Students — P.D. Day

Friday, June 29th

Early Dismissal @ 2:15—Last Day of Classes

Important Dates to Remember