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Cougar News
Claude E. Garton
Newsletter
Community Connections
April 2015
Dear Parents and Guardians
Your School Council meets about 7 times a year,
providing input and suggestions to help ensure
Claude Garton is the best place it can be. One of
their goals is to assist families to be as engaged
as possible with the school and their children’s
learning.
Inside this issue:
Character Recognition
1
Student Absence
Reporting
2
Cocurricular
Activities
2
News from the
Library
2
Winter Carnival
2
With that goal in mind, the Council is once again
organizing a Family Evening event, using a small
grant from the provincial government. This year’s
event, “Community Connections”, will take place
on Wednesday 29 April at the school from 6:30
to 8:00 pm. Come together with your child or
children to visit one of the informative booths
from our community partners (e.g. the Health
Unit, Public Library, St. John’s Ambulance, etc.),
enjoy educational activities with Science North,
enjoy some refreshments and possibly win
some prizes!
CHARACTER
RECOGNITION
Claude Garton, along with all other
public schools, is now a depot for
battery recycling. Help to ensure that
batteries do not end up in our landfill
site. Bring all your regular or rechargeable batteries here to be recycled! Merci to the Gr. 4/5 FI class and
Ms Gray who decorated the battery
bin in the foyer. Let’s fill it up!
We look forward to seeing you on the 29th!
Sincerely,
Home and School /
School Council
3
April Calendar
4
Tip from the Health
Unit
4
Todd Miller,
Principal
Claude E. Garton
FREE TRAINING:
SafeTALK & ASIST
Public School
April 13 – May 7, 2015
414 Grenville Ave.
Thunder Bay P7A 1X9
683-6289
Workshops are offered free of charge to
the public in honour of mental health
week. Both safeTALK and ASIST emphasize safety and inclusion and empower
people of diverse backgrounds and experiences to learn life-affirming
helping skills.
For more information and additional dates,
please call 343-5035
Everyone is welcome.
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Cougar News
News from the Library
Voting for the Red Maple and Silver Birch
Reading programs will take place in the library
on April 23/15. Students who have read 5 or
more books in their category are eligible to vote
for their favourite book. Results will be sent to
the Ontario Library Association and the winning books will be announced in May.
Science Fair!
Congratulations to all students who participated in our
school science fair on the 23rd. The quality of the projects was excellent! A special congrats to Holly S., Mia
S., and Micah F. who scored in the top three with the
judges. The Northwestern Regional Science Fair will
take place at Lakehead University on Saturday 25 April.
Claude Garton will be well represented!
The Primary and
Junior divisions
participated in a
mini Winter Carnival on the
12th. Thanks to
Mme Arnone
and Mrs. Carr
for organizing
this, along with
the Gr. 4 and 5
students who
were excellent
leaders!
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
March included the debut of the Claude Garton “Irish Cougars” girls rugby team who participated in their first ever
tournament. A great effort by all team members and a big
thank you to Ms Gray and Mme Sutherland for the coaching efforts! For April, almost 60 students are training for
the Wrestling Tournament on the 23rd, while the Creative
Movement Jamboree practices are beginning for the big
event in May. And we hope to get the spring running program up and running soon. And of course there’s Math
Olympics and the Science Fair—there’s a lot going on!
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PLEASE GET INVOLVED
School Council
The next School Council meeting will be
on Monday 13 April. This committee
advises the school on matters of interest
to the parents and the community. It
assists in developing school priorities
and shaping school policies and procedures. Your input and interest is most
welcome and new members are always
welcome!
Home and School
The Home and School Association supports our students in many, many ways.
If you’re able to help out with upcoming
fundraisers, please contact the school
and we’ll pass along the message.
En Français, SVP
Check out Supporting Your Child’s Success in
French Immersion and Extended French Elementary Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 8, a
new addition to the Ontario Ministry of Education’s parent guides. It contains practical suggestions for simple, everyday things that you
can do at home to enhance your child’s learning in both French Immersion and Extended
French programs.
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumerac
y/parentGuideFrench.pdf
Everyone week this winter a group of Gr. 7 and 8 students organized Primary Intramurals three
times a week in the gym. Over 90 students in Gr. 1 to 3 took part each week, enjoying activities
such as parachute, obstacle courses, capture the chicken, and even pop the other team’s balloons!
The intermediate students were excellent activity organizers, team leaders, and role models.
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April 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
1
Thu
Day 1 2
 Pizza Day
5
6
7
EASTER MONDAY
School closed
12
13
Day 2 14
 Dental Screen-
Day 3 8
Sat
Day 2 3
4
GOOD FRIDAY
School closed
Day 4 9
Day 5 10
Day 1 11
Gr. 7/8 FI & SK to
Day 4 16
Day 5 17
Kingfisher (17th)
Day 1 18
 Pizza Day
 Day of Pink
Day 3 15
Fri
 Dental Screen-  Pizza Day
ing (JK, SK, Gr. 2) ing (JK, SK, Gr. 2)  Gr 3/4 classes
to CLE for Pizza
Project
19
20
Day 2 21
Day 3 22
Day 4 23 Day 5
 Earth Day
 Secretaries’
 Wrestling
Tournament
Day
 Pizza Day
26
27
Day 1 28
Day 2 29
Day 3 30
 Pizza Day
 Community
24
25
PA DAY
No school for
students
 Math Olympics
 Regional Science Fair
Day 4
Connections Evening (see pg 1)
FROM THE GR. 2/3 CLASS…
On Friday, March 27 we spent
370 min. without using power in the classroom. The sunlight provided our room with
plenty of heat and light. We
learned in groups, played an environment version of BINGO,
used many math manipulatives
and ended the day with a beautiful story about protecting Mother Earth. Students encouraged
each other to keep going. We
kept track of our time using
math “Link-its”. Each link representing 10 minutes spent “in the
dark”.