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Stony Mountain School

April Newsletter 2019

Principal’s Message—April 2019

Spring has officially arrived and the Canada Geese have re-turned to prove it! As we move forward in our communica-tion with parents, we will soon be abandoning the monthly newsletter, and working towards news, calendars and up-dates being posted regularly onto our Stony Mountain School website. With spring comes planning for the upcom-ing year. Students entering grade 5 will now be offered band or art as an option. Grades 1-4 will continue with music. An information evening will soon be arranged for the grade 8 students and parents to learn about the options and tran-sition to SCI. A letter will go home in early April with these students with a time and date.

April is another busy month of school activities. April 2nd the grade 4 students begin swim lessons at Selkirk Pool. April 3rd, grade 1 and 2 students are off to the Manitoba Museum. Ms. Harrison will be conducting grade 3/4 choir at the Rockwood Festival of the Arts on April 8th at 9:45 am; grade 1/2 choir on April 9th at 9:30 a.m., and the recorder ensemble April 10th, at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Schoeman will con-duct our band at 11:00 a.m. on the same day. Portfolio Night is set for April 25th, from 5-7 pm. In between all those activities, we will all take a break to enjoy Easter weekend.

We presently have 25 kindergarten students registered for the 2019/2020 school year. If you know of anyone who has a child who is of kindergarten age please remind them to register if they have not already done so. Sooner than later is better as we move forward with scheduling and staffing for next year.

Mrs. D. Fenske

Kindergarten-Fall 2019:

Have you registered your child for Kindergarten? Children born in the year 2014 are eligible for Kindergarten for the 2019-2020 school year. To register please call:

Stony Mtn. School

@ 204-344-5459

Student Information

Please contact the school:

by 9:30 a.m. if your child will be late or absent for the day

If your child has any recent changes in their medical needs (such as allergies, asthma, etc.)

If you have had any recent changes in your personal, or emergency contact information

Thank You Volunteers!

Thank you to our

February/March

volunteers!

They were Betty Breul, Brenda Margetts, Kurnin Costa-Motkaluk, Carmen

Dondo, Sally Lesage



FROM THE OFFICE

Visitors To Our School

For the safety of our students we would appreciate that all visitors (including parents picking up children) please check in at the office. Once you have checked in we will either call your child to the office or send you to your child’s class to pick them up. This system allows us to limit the traffic in our halls as well as knowing who is in our building. Our staff is very good at buzzing the office to let us know if an unfamiliar person is in the building. If you have checked in we can tell our staff that your child’s mom/dad/uncle etc. is here to pick them up. We thank you in advance for helping us with this request.

Student Drop Offs and Pick Ups

The area in front of our school is a very busy place in the mornings and after school. Our main goal is for the safe arrival and departure of all of our students. We are asking that anyone who does drop off or pick up children please exercise extra caution and due diligence when doing so to ensure a safe arrival or departure for our students. At the end of the day many of our students are excited to be heading home and may not be as careful as they should be. Please keep an eye out for them. The parking lot at the back of the school is also being used as a drop-off location helping to eliminate the congestion in front. A friendly reminder that when school busses are loading and unloading in the lot to the west of the school and their flashing red lights are on, they are not to be passed. As an extra precaution, there should be no vehicular traffic in the lot at any time there are busses in the lot.

Stony Mountain Gear

The Stony Mountain Gear sale was so popular it is being extended until April 26th. New order forms are on the Stony Mountain School website as well as on the bulletin board by the Of-fice. Sizing samples are in the office.

Day of Pink t-shirts will also be available. Order forms are on the Stony Mountain website.





The Dream Factory Update

On March 8th, students participated in Hat Day for a Dream Day. The Dream Factory is a local charity that fulfills once-in-a-lifetime dreams of Manitoba kids that are battling a life-threatening illness. Thank you to all students who participated and collected donations. Stony Mountain School raised a total of $405 for The Dream Factory!

Rockwood Festival of the Arts

The 64th annual Rockwood Festival of the Arts will be held in Teulon this year from April 6-18. Several classes from grades 1-8 are entered in the choral, recorder and band categories. There are also several students entered in solo categories. Please note the times of the group performances on your calendar as per the attached schedule. Meanwhile, please feel free to check out other performances in the piano, instrumental and vocal categories. Thank you to all who supported the Patronage Drive. See you at the Festival!

Rockwood Festival of the Arts Schedule:

April 8 Teulon Collegiate 12:30 p.m. Grades 3&4 Choir

April 9 Teulon Collegiate 9:30 a.m. Grades 1&2 Choir

April 10 Teulon Collegiate 10:30 a.m. Recorder

11:00 a.m. Band

Stony Mountain School Presents

Peter Pan Thursday, May 16th at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The grades 6-8 Drama class will be presenting their version of “Peter Pan”. Tickets will go on sale after Spring Break. You can get your tickets from the Office. Please come out and sup-port our school.

This superb adaptation of “Peter Pan” captures all the magic and charm of everyone’s favorite story. The Darling children love to hear of Peter Pan’s adventures during his visits through the open window of the nursery. Then one night after Nana has taken his shadow and Wendy has sewn it back on, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell whisk the children off to Neverland to be part of the adventures. Wendy, John and Michael become friends with the Lost Boys and Princess Tiger Lily and Wendy becomes everyone’s mother. When the evil Captain Hook captures Wen-dy and the Lost Boys, Peter Pan comes to their rescue. Together with the ticking crocodile, Peter Pan puts Captain Hook in his place and returns the Darling children to their home.

Show time 1:30 p.m. and 7p.m.

Tickets available in the office! $5/ticket Age 5 and under Free



Divisional Curling

The boys had a couple tough games but showed great sportsmanship and skill! Pictured: Logan M., Max V., Matthew P., Justin B.

Our mixed team overcame some adversity to make it to the A side finals playing for the banner including a 6-0 comeback win! They are our divisional A-side runner-ups! Pictured: Evan D., Hailey E., Jayla B., Daniel F., Wade B. Our girls’ team managed to win a couple of very tough games and make it to the A side final to play for the banner. They came up short but stayed smiling the whole time and made some great curling shots fin-ished as the runner-ups in the A-side! Pictured: Sophia D., Hailey E., Precious P., Rayna M. Missing: Jayla B.



Boys’ Basketball

On March 13 and 14, our Boys' Basketball team travelled to Stonewall to participate in the Interlake Divisional Basketball tournament. Thanks to the boys from grade 6-8 who joined the basketball team this year. We were small team in numbers but we were dedicated and we worked hard. We played our best games of the season at Divisionals. Good luck to the grade 8 students moving on to SCI and we hope to see the rest of the players return next season. Also thanks to parents who drove to games and came out and supported our team. Mrs. Comte, Mrs. Darragh, Mrs. MacMillan

Girl’s Basketball

The girls basketball team had a great season. The team finished the regular season with a record of 5-4 (two losses to both Teulon 8 and Stonewall 8) earning them 3rd overall in the nine team league. It also earned them a spot in the competitive pool at the divisional tournament. Never having beat ei-ther Stonewall or Teulon, the team were successful at achieving one of their goals when they beat Stonewall in the round robin portion of the tournament by a score of 17-15. Finishing 2nd in their pool, the team faced Stonewall the following day in the playoff round of the tournament. The girls played fearlessly and the game was a back and forth affair. In the end, the older, more experienced Stone-wall grade 8 team prevailed, with a 19-16 victory. For such a young team, losing by such a close score in the semi-finals was a satisfactory accomplishment. There were too many individual accomplish-ments to mention them all. In the end, each and every athlete on the team got better, became more confident and cognitive, and, hopefully, have developed a fondness of the game of basketball.

Stony Mountain School’s Cross Country Ski Club

Ski instructor Kristen Madsen from the Manitoba Cross-Country Ski Association, came out to give Stony Mountain’s Ski Club an adventurous and educational introductory ski lesson. The weather and snow were perfect, and we are looking forward to hitting the trails next year for another season!



Stonewall Collegiate Institute

An open house will be held for all current grade 8 students on Wednesday, April 10th at 7:00 p.m. at Stony Mountain School in the Gym. Students/parents will be given a brief overview of what grade 9 will like for

their children next year. This meeting is an excellent opportunity to find out about your child’s first year in high school and have any questions that you may have answered.

Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m. at Stonewall Collegiate Institute. Students and parents are invited to attend sessions with SCI Grade 9 elective teachers and to stop in at one of their computer labs to choose their Grade 9 courses.

Students along with their parents will be selecting courses at this Open House so it is

imperative that all students attend.

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