School Website: http://www.sd61.bc.ca/school/mckenzie/ Attendance: attendance27@sd61.bc.ca

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of McKenzie School is, in partnership with parents and the

community, to build a strong foundation of knowledge, skills and

attitudes in our students.

FRIDAY, January 12, 2018

A Message from our Principal:

Welcome back and Happy New Year to all of the McKenzie Community. I hope that your winter break was restful and that you managed to avoid the dreaded flus that have been circulating! January brings a new commitment to school for all of our students. We have a lot going on in the next term and it’s exciting to see the students enthusiastic about the various learning opportunities that are coming. As a part of Curling Canada’s kick off to the Olympics, we are fortunate to receive free intro-ductory curling lessons right here in our gym through the Rocks and Rings program. We will have the program here at the end of January and in early February for two full days. We also continue to have our free tennis lessons sponsored by the Society for Kids at Tennis and this term we have five new divisions taking part in weekly tennis lessons, also here at the school.

On January 26 we will be having a special assembly and welcome Ms. Morgane Michael who is promoting a “21 Day Small Act, Big Impact” challenge for our students. This whole school initiative will conclude right before Pink Shirt Day on February 28th where will be have a cele-bration assembly. This is a timely event as our PAC recently sponsored a speaker about Anti-Bullying that some of you may have attended.

Joanna Snow, Principal

IMPORTANT DATES TO NOTE

Jan 18 Div 1 & 2 Skating

Jan 19 Pro D Day—Students not in session

Jan 22 Strong Start Closed

Jan 23 Glanford Music Program Visits McKenzie

Jan 23 Curling Program Starts

Jan 26 PAC Special Food Day

Jan 26 21 Day Small Act Big Impact Kickoff Assembly

Feb 28 Pink Shirt Day ORDER FORMS & WEB ORDERS SOON

We recognize the following students for: contrib-uting to the school community; developing school culture in a positive way; sharing responsibili-ties; taking initiatives to help oth-ers and show kind gestures.

Hunter MacDonald

David Creed

Sabrina Vaid

Sehajleen Sandhu

Kara DeMan

Colm Wolf Gage

Amber Rutherford

Henry Jeanpierre

Charlie Meloche

Brody Golinsky

Aedan Murney

Alex Le

Arthur Walton

Amy Ribic

Misha Velasco

Emily Bowden

Emma Norman-Webb

Sebastian Hodge

Ethan Calder

Ray Weber

Liam Piercy

Gage Kilpatrick

Jolten Kurisummoottil

Kenzie Elliott

CJ Kightly-Steffler

Samuel Walton

Malvin Liu

Tess Murphy

Middle School Information Nights: If your child is in Grade 5 you are invited to attend a Middle School Information night at your catchment school. Most fam-ilies at McKenzie live in the Glanford or Colquitz catchments. Glanford is hosting an Open House on Thursday January, 30 from 7:00 – 8:30 and Colquitz is hosting their Information Night on Thursday, Feburary 7 from 7:00 – 8:30. For information about other schools, please see the information below.

1000X5

1000 Books by Age Five Children’s Book Recycling Project Greater Victoria

January 27 - Family Literacy Day

…Donate books to increase early literacy

Do you know that reading books to babies and preschoolers is the most significant indicator of early

school success? Cuddling and reading to your little ones shows that you value reading, builds com-

fort, enjoyment and early skills that last a lifetime.

Help make that true for those still to gain those habits. January 27 is National Literacy Day. As

well as enjoying a new story with your child, please make an extra effort to drop of gently used pic-

ture books for babies and preschoolers in the drop box in the…… All very young children benefit

from being read to – help make that a reality for more. Thank you for being part of the150,000

books donated over the last eight years.

MOVING ON TO MIDDLE SCHOOL….

Are your children outgrowing all their clothes? Can’t keep up to the costs of everything they

need? The McKenzie PAC’s clothing exchange can help! Located in the boys’ change room

just off the Demers Gym, you can select clothes for your kids free of charge. If you’ve been

before, you should check it out again. It has grown, and we now have hundreds of gently-used

pants, shirts, pajamas, hoodies, jackets, shorts, dresses, and shoes. Some are even brand-

name or new with tags. Please consider donating your quality used clothing and child-size

hangers to the exchange, and we’re always looking for volunteers to help us maintain the ex-

change. For access to the change room, please go to the office and ask a staff member to

let you in.

Do you shop at Country Grocer? If so, please save your receipts and bring them to the

school to place in “Juggie” the receipt eater outside the main office. The PAC re-

ceives 3% back in gift cards when we turn them in.

Campbell’s Labels for Education: Please save Campbell’s labels and bring them in to the

jug by the office. The “Labels for Education” Program includes Campbell’s and Habitant soups, Prego

pasta sauce, Pace salsa, Goldfish crackers, and V-8 vegetable cocktail. In the past our PAC has

used the proceeds from the labels to buy gym equipment for our school. Please Note: Effective

January 1st, only products with the Labels for Education logo (pencil with Canadian

flag on it) are eligible. Please include the whole label, with the UPC code and La-

bels for Education logo.

School House Teaching is offering a

Math workshop on

Wed., January 17th, 6:30 to 8:30.

Please join us as Trevor Calkins, a renowned math workshop

presenter, shows you ways to support your child using his

hands-on, fun Power of Ten cards.

Please register for this event by calling: 250-385-9030 or email: lynn.schoolhouse @shaw.ca

$20—includes a set of Power of Ten cards and place value cards

$10—includes a mini handout