Park Avenue Community School Newsletter
395 Eighth Street, Nanaimo, BC V9R 1A9
Ph. 2507545591 Fax 2507545818
PRINCIPAL:
SECRETARY:
Mr. Robbie Dhillon
May 2015
Mrs. Sharon Binng & Mrs. Marina Lockhart
FROM THE OFFICE
Dear Parents:
As we make our way through May, our school
community shifts into high gear readying for numerous
end of year preparations.
Enhancement trips are being planned by many teachers
right now and please note some of these may leave
before the regular start of school day, and possibly end
afterwards. Please keep a close eye on the permission
slips just in case your child is to be at school before the
regular start of the day. Reminders, as always, will
come out on our email list serve.
We have started our planning for next school year.
There is more information in this newsletter; I would
encourage you to keep reading.
We are also expecting three student teachers, who will
be here for three weeks, starting on May 19th. Ms.
Baker, Ms. Zieber and Ms. Gurr will be sponsoring these
student teachers, who are all from Switzerland.
Thanks, as always, to members of our PAC for their
continued contributions to the school. Your help and
assistance is appreciated by the staff, students Park
Avenue community.
Yours truly,
Mr. Robbie Dhillon
Principal
http://schoolsweb.sd68.bc.ca/parkave/
assists us in determining our numbers and school
organization for the upcoming school year. Please
also ensure you have registered your child at your
new catchment area school as well. If you know of a
family moving into our school community (or has
already moved in), encourage them to come in to
register before June 15 as this is the district deadline
for guaranteed placement in our school. After that
date, we can still accept students from within our
community providing we have room for them, but we
may not be able to confirm this until September.
SCHOOL DRESS CODE
As the warmer
weather
approaches I
thought it would
be important to
remind everyone
about the dress
code.
In accordance with School District 68, we expect
students to dress in a manner that is appropriate and
conducive to a positive and safe working and learning
environment.
Appropriate dress is safe and:
 Free of any reference to alcohol, drugs, gangs,
hate, obscenity, profanity, racism/discrimination,
sex or violence;
 Not
disturbing
or
distracting
to
others
(undergarments are fully covered, tops meet
bottoms at the waist, no spaghetti straps, tube tops
or backless tops and skirts and shorts are at least
a hand-width below the buttocks.
SCHOOL CALENDAR 2014 – 2015
Victoria Day (students do not attend) ...........................Mon May 18
School Dismisses at 1:20 ............................................ Mon May 25
Zone Track Meet (Rotary Bowl) ..................................Wed May 27
PAC (6:30 PM) ................................................................ Mon Jun 1
District Track Meet (Rotary Bowl) ................................ Thurs Jun 4
Grade 7 Evening (6-8 PM, Gym) .................................Thurs Jun 18
Fun Day (AM) .................................................................. Fri Jun 19
Report Card 3 issued...................................................... Wed Jun 24
Last Day of School (school dismissed at 2:20) .............. Wed Jun 24
Pro-D (school based) students do not attend.................Thurs Jun 25
Administration Day ......................................................... Fri. Jun 26
SCHOOL TRACK MEET GRADES 3-7
Thank you to Ms. Zieber for organizing this for our
students and to the many parents and staff who helped
out. The Zone Track meet is on Wed May 27th for those
students that qualify and the District meet is on
Thursday June 4th for those that qualify from the zones.
ARE YOU MOVING IN OR OUT OF THE AREA?
If you are moving (and
you child is changing
schools) please advise
the office as soon as
possible. Your cooperation greatly
PARENTAL REQUESTS FOR STUDENT
PLACEMENT 2015-2016 SCHOOL YEAR
We are in the process of planning the next academic
year. It is important you trust the teachers and
administration to build classes which suit the students’
both academic and social needs. We take a lot of care
in doing classroom composition for each grade. We
make up each class list in a way that maximizes the
quality of teaching and learning conditions for all
students. The classroom composition for each grade
has to reflect the acceptance of all individuals within
an inclusive school as we attempt to provide
appropriate educational programming to all children. If
you have specific educational reasons/concerns you
would like us to consider about your child, please
contact Mr. Dhillon (in writing) as soon as possible, but
no later than May 25th. We do consider these
requests along with all other pertinent information
provided by classroom teachers and support staff.
Please note your request will be considered but we do
not guarantee it can be honored. It does become,
however, an important part of our planning process.
As teachers may change schools and grade groupings
are dependent on our enrolment numbers and
balancing learning needs, please describe optimal
learning environments without referring to specific
teachers. We are not able to take requests for
individual teachers.
TENTATIVE TEACHER STAFFING FOR 2015-2016
The tentative organization for next year appears below.
I must stress that the organization outlined below
may change depending on movement of students
into and out of the community during the summer
and final postings of teachers. A shift of a few
students from one age level to another can have an
impact on the structure of several classes. You can
help us by letting us know if there are any families out
there who plan to move out of our community or move
into our community during the summer. Give us a call
2507545591 or send a note if you have some
information to share.
Principal
Mr. R. Dhillon
Teaching Staff
Grade 6/7
Grade 6
Grade 5/6
Grade 4/5
Grade 4
Grade 3/4
Grade 3
Grade 2/3
Grade 2
Grade 1
Grade 1
Gr 1/Kinder
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
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Mr. D. Snowden
Mr. A. Drexhage
Mr. R. Schlitz
Mr. M. Robertson
Ms. J. Holme
Ms. B. Klein
Ms. L. Saffin
Ms. J. Fulton
TBD (Ms. Gauthier on maternity leave)
Ms. L. Baker
Ms. J. Tretick
TBD (Ms. Radu on maternity leave)
Ms. C. Grindler
Ms. K. Gurr
Learning Support/ELL: Ms. L. Zieber
Student Support teacher: Mr. L. Shaw
Library. Ms. H. Fargo
TBD (posted): Band, Music, FSL, SST, ELL
Counselling/SST: Ms. T. Caruso