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The week of May 6-10 is Education Week! The theme this year is “Learning for Tomorrow: L’apprentissage pour demain.” Our Jump Rope for Heart event takes place on Thursday, May 2. Thanks to all parents who have volunteered to help! The Grades 3 and 5 Sharks program begins on May 3 and we will be practicing for our school Track and Field event during the week of May 13.

During the month of April, parents, teachers and students collected ideas for our playground renewal plan. A draft plan should be completed by the end of May and be ready for your comments at the Family Fun Night on June 6. On the April 22 P.A. day the Edward Johnson staff invited Dean Huyck, a teacher from the Trillium School in Milton to talk about how we help students with anxiety. Some of the strategies are shared in this newsletter. We also completed a school self-assessment and will be using the results to build our school improvement plan for 2013-2014. Our staff book study group continues to meet regularly to discuss student self-regulation.

Please feel welcome to join our May activities.

Yours truly,
Anne Lehoux

[ View the May 2013 Newsletter ( PDF ) ]

Camp Paradise Meeting for Grade 6 Parents

Tuesday, April 17, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Join us for a parent information session about Camp Paradise. Our Grade 6 students will be attending the camp from June 12-14, 2013!

Jump Rope for Heart

Our school Jump Rope for Heart event will take place on Thursday, May 2. A letter has gone home to all families explainig the event. The kick-off assembly will be Friday, April 19 at 12:00 noon. Pledge packages will be sent home that day.
Please join us in supporting this event by volunteering, becoming a skipper or making a donation to the Heart and Stroke foundation. Thank you in advance!

The weather is finally looking and feeling like Spring! Although the sun is shining the playground is still quite messy. Please continue to send boots for your child for recesses and some extra socks!

The March Dance-a-thon was a great success. Our School Council raised $6678 for playground renewal. THANK YOU so much for your contributions and thanks to our School Council members and other parents for providing music, prizes and many volunteers for the dance-a-thon! The students had a great time.

Also in March, Dennis Wendland from Evergreen www.evergreen.ca presented information to the staff, School Council and to the students about working towards a naturalized playground. We are all enthusiastic and excited to make this happen. The next step is to create goals and an action plan for seeing these goals come to life in our yard. Stay tuned for further plans!

Our mascot Eddie met our adopted eagle Pawgwa at the Mountsberg Conservation centre during the March Break with Mme Motto. Photos of Eddie and Pawgwa will be posted on the web site.

Happy Spring!

Anne Lehoux

[ View the April 2013 Newsletter (PDF) ]

Portraits will be taken at Edward Johnson Public School Tuesday April 2nd and Wednesday April 3rd!

Download the Life Touch Canada Portrait form (PDF)

We are excited to announce the Spring 2013 is now available on line at www.ugdsb.on.ca/coned.

Here is also a list of the Spring 2013 Youth & Children Programs offered through Continuing Education.

Visit www.ugdsb.on.ca/coned/kids 

[ View the Spring 2013 Youth & Children Programs PDF ]

Dear Parents

We begin the month of March with our Dance-a-thon on Friday, March 1st!. We are all looking forward to dancing to a beach day theme! Please join us. Thank you for your contributions to the School Council’s fundraising initiative towards playground improvements. Mdle Jakab’s class will lead us into March Break on March 7th with their annual Cabaret! Parents are invited to join us for this presentation. On behalf of the Edward Johnson staff, have a refreshing March Break!

Sincerely,
Anne Lehoux

[ View the entire March 2013 Newsletter (PDF) ]

Just a reminder that our Dance-a-thon is next Friday, March 1, 2013 beginning at 9:15 a.m. The purpose of the Dance-a-thon is to raise funds for our Playground Improvement Plan. Alternate Kindergarten students will dance on Monday, March 4, 2013. Classes will rotate throughout the day and parents are welcome to come and dance with the students. Please return all pledge forms the day of the dance-a-thon or earlier. Donations of $20.00 or more will receive a tax receipt. In order to receive a tax receipt, Cheques must be made payable to the Upper Grand Learning Foundation for Edward Johnson P.S.