1. education
2. school

Thank You
As we enter the month of March, it is time to
change our focus from the dreaded weather
and snow, cold, and freezing weather, to
counting our blessings. It is too often that we
forget the good things in our efforts to complain about the not so pleasant things.
Let’s count our blessings …
 Mme. Koncovy, who retired at the end of
November still comes to school each week
to teach the religion course, no matter the
weather, or the other activities she has to
do that day! She has been a great helper to
our kids, and she continues to provide leadership in the community
 The Hayter Group, who is a very generous
community business, has donated $1000.00
to Brooke Central as a result of a contest on
their website. A representative of the Hayter Group will be at the school before the
 The Municipality of Brooke and, Mayor Don
McGugan, who at their meeting in January
donated $500.00 to Rebound to help cover
the costs of the STAGE and TAG programs
for our junior students. The programs will
run for ten sessions each, one for boys and
one for girls, providing guidance and leadership in the development of strong social and
personal skills. Thank you Mr. Mayor and
your councilors. Well Done!
 The Optimist Club of Alvinston and Districts
who have provided our school with so
much, and continue to support us in our efforts. The Optimists provide us with our
Annual Christmas Dinner and Skate, and are
planning to donate funds to us as well to
help pay for TAG and STAGE. We thank
each and every Optimist for their unwavering support and enthusiastic encouragement
for our programs and efforts on behalf of
students!
 Our new Bus Monitors, who are doing their
holidays to present a cheque to us! They
best to keep our school buses safe for the
are great and we thank them for their generstudents who ride them. Even as senior stuosity!
dents, these kids give of their time and put
 Alvinston Legion, who at the end of January
in an effort to show the younger students
held a meat draw and donated the proceeds,
how to be a good role model, and to be fo$350.00 to be used in a worthwhile project
cused on service to others! We are proud of
for our students. Awesome and thank you
you kids!
for your continued support!
 To the staff members at our school who do
their best each and every day to give the
kids an exciting learning experience. Our efcessful because everyone gives! Bless you
forts to introduce Challenge Based learning,
all!
and to create a meaningful, challenging math
 The local churches and their respective leadculture at Brooke is a direct effort of our staff
ers, who enhance Mme. Koncovy’s religion
to make learning relevant each day, to refine
classes with church experiences for most of
teaching and learning to meet the challenges
our students, which occur at Guthrie Presbyof 2015. Staff have spent hours learning
terian Church, as they learn about the Christabout Inquiry Learning, and are enjoying the
mas Season in December and then the Easter
same challenge of learning alongside their
story in March. Watch for a note home soon
students in this change to traditional school
announcing our Holy Week service coming
lessons.
up. Please join us if you can. Thanks to all
 Mrs. Smith, M. Hewett and their team who
who give for us to have this experience.
have spent hours discussing, investigating
 To Noelle’s Gift, the organization of giving
and planning for the measured implementathat grew from the tragic murder of Noelle
tion of Learning Commons into the Brooke
Paquette in Sarnia. This organization has
Facility and culture. A new way of organiztaken a monetary gift given by Noelle’s famiing learning experiences for students from 4
ly and turned it into significant help to many
to 14, this will involve a conversion in our
of our school board’s neediest families,
school away from a traditional library and
whether with gas, clothing, food, gifts or
computer lab to a combined facility integratshelter, the purpose is to help others in need
ing technology, space, furniture and literature
and the fund does just that. Please if you
to allow students to work individually, in
ever see a fundraiser for Noelle’s gift, please
small groups, or as a large class to investiconsider giving, as it comes right back to
gate projects, challenges and the creation of
families in our community.
new thinking and learning experiences. An
exciting change, this conversion is following  One point of pride at Brooke is our intera measured time line as we need to budget
school sports teams. All of these teams
time, money and effort to make things work
would not exist if it wasn’t for those dedicatwell. Thanks for the leadership in this M.
Hewett and Mrs. Smith.
 Mrs. Baresich, Mrs. Smith and their team
who organized the Brooke Central Christmas
Craft Fair, where once again we have been
very successful! Raising over $4500.00 in
one day is an amazing feat, one to be admired by many communities. It exemplifies
the adage that “many hands make light
work”, as it is a true team effort that is suc-
ed staff members who give before and after
school, or at lunch times for practices and
games. Along with this are the teachers who
look after the programs involving the arts,
music especially, and the many hours of
practice that come before those perfect performances. To those staff members, we say
thank you and well done!
As you can see, we have much to be thankful
for! Well done, for making Brooke the great
place it is for kids and adults alike!
The second Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Brooke Central after the March Break.
The cases of books will be open for display in the Computer Lab from March 26 to
March 31 between 9 AM and 4 PM. This is a great opportunity to purchase reading
material for preschool children to adults. Support your children's reading goals by
buying books at this time. As well, the school's classroom libraries will benefit
through commission made from sales from this book fair. Explore an ocean of books
at Brooke.