Clarenville Middle School

Clarenville Middle School

NEWSLETTER

October 15, 2004

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Saturday, Oct. 16^th Giant Flea Market and Craft Fair tomorrow at our gym complex.

Sunday, Oct. 17^th Clarenville Middle School Show Choir auditions for the Sobey’s/Campbells 2004 Stars of The Festival at 11:30 a.m.

Monday, Oct. 18^th At 11:00 a.m. Canadian Half-Pints Basketball Team visits. {See details below - parents and friends welcome to attend}

Tuesday, Oct. 19^th Deadline for school picture requests to be received at the school

Tuesday, Oct. 19^th ‘The Amazing Kreskin’ performs at 7:00 p.m. in gym complex. Details to follow on NTV and local media.

Friday, Oct. 22^nd School Picture Re-takes. Any student missing for the first photographer visit will have their picture taken today.

Friday, Nov. 5^th First Public Speaking session.

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

School newsletters will now be sent home on the first school day of each month as well as the 15^th day of each month. Exceptions will be the months of January and May when it will be distributed on the 13^th of the month. Please note that all newsletters can be viewed on our school’s website at www.k12.nf.ca/ca in the following days. Just click on ‘news’!

THE CANADIAN HALF PINTS VISIT MIDDLE SCHOOL

The Canadian Half Pints basketball stars have the unique opportunity, because they are small, to talk to young people about the importance of not being teased, of being tolerant and charitable. The message is that everyone has a talent to be discovered - one talent of the Half Pints is their outstanding basketball ability. In addition to dazzling students with their on court performance, they have a presentation entitled "Don’t Tease" focusing on how people judge others and on how to recognize and avoid teasing. The school will fund this educational experience with no charge to parents and students. On Monday Oct. 18^th at 11:00 a.m. come along and share in the message. Bring any young children!

LABEL STUDENT ITEMS

Please place your child’s name on all personal items. In the lunchroom on Tuesday October 12^th we could return lunch bags to those containing student names such as Nathan Green, Mitchell Price, Christopher Duffett and Mykala Pardy. Without the names, the process of recovery is much more difficult!

GIANT FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT FAIR

In support of the Clarenville Middle School Show Choir, a giant flea market and craft fair will be held on Saturday October 16^th at the Middle School Gym Complex. The cost of renting a table is $10.00 with admission being set at $1.00 . Further Information can be obtained from Ms. Winsor at 466-7558 . Wait until you see the ‘Baked Goods’ table!

TEACHER-PARENT COMMUNICATION FORMS

In an attempt to communicate with parents on a timely basis, we have designed a form that will be mailed directly to you informing of student achievements or items needing attention. The sign of a good learning community is how they respond when a student experiences difficulty. If these forms give attention to areas where students are experiencing difficulties and a plan is established to assist the student, these forms will prove to a valuable addition to our school. The form can be found on our school’s homepage under ‘news’. Let us know what you think!

TIDBITS

Huge thank-you to Mr. Reg Pretty who donated a printer and two monitors to our school. Much appreciated sir!

Thank-you to TWO DAD’S!! Justin and Jamie Fudge’s dad and Benjamin and Nathaniel Drover’s dad drove to Lethbridge Tuesday Oct. 5^th to get the 200 food hampers. Great job by two great dads! Also, to Ron Goobie and his son Stephen who took the last 12 food hampers and sold.

Clarenville Middle School Show Choir has been selected to participate in this year’s recording of the Sobey’s/Campbells 2004 Stars of The Festival. On Sunday Oct. 17^th at 11:30 a.m. A great opportunity for a super bunch of performers. Be advised that this year it is by invitation ONLY. We are honoured that this school will perform!

Middle School Student wins National Contest. Congratulations to Jamie Sweetland who was chosen winner of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies’2004 ‘Be Kind To Animals Week Photo Contest’ for BEST cat or kitten. Jamie’s photo of her cat ‘Gorgeous’ was chosen out of many entries. Jamie receives a $200.00 gift certificate from Canadian Tire and her cat receives one year of free food. Way to go Jamie!

Ocean Net - ‘Tyler Strong’(Grade 8) would be will be attending the Ocean Net conference in St. John’s on Friday the 15^th and Saturday the 16^th . During the conference he will be discussing environmental issues concerning beach litter. Tyler has already participated in a beach clean-up with Ocean Net over the summer.

RECYCLING NEWS: Our 1^st recycling blitz collected 979 units. Great start !

Middle School Tutoring Program to be established before Friday Oct. 29^th. Senior students in our school will make themselves available to work with students having difficulty with their course outcomes. More details in Oct. 29^th Newsletter.

HOT MEAL / BREAKFAST Program. If any parent or friend of the school can assist on any given day with the current volunteers, please notify Mr. Pardy or Ms. Winsor. Currently we prepare hot meals for students on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Our plans are to start a breakfast program as we have received several donations (see next newsletter). We will need volunteers from organizations or groups to operate the program, much the same as the current High School Program. Suggestions ? A volunteer (s) to oversee this program ?

RECENT STUDENT "WAY TO GO’S"

The following items were published in the daily morning bulletin. The intention is to celebrate the many wonderful student actions and deeds that occur in and outside our school. We have much to be proud of !

Way To Go: The Intermediate Band who was overheard recently playing the selection called ‘The Great Locomotive Chase’. A fantastic job by the 44 member band, with solo’s performed by Kayla Sheppard and Alison Button. To be performance ready this soon in the school year speaks to the talent present! SUPER!!

Way To Go: to Sabrina Stringer (5Pye) who held the door for many students entering the gymnasium at lunch time. Ms. Pye was really proud! This is a special way to go as Sabrina will be moving to her new house in Shoal Harbour and unfortunately, new school on Wednesday of this week.

Way To Go: to Colton Chaulk (5B) who assisted the parent volunteers on Wednesday clean up the cafeteria. Colton wasn’t asked but volunteered. Now that’s the Middle School way!

Way To Go: to Ryan Chaulk for opening the doors for people exiting lunch time yesterday. This way to go was brought to you by Nikita Hibbs and Jessica Laite.

Way To Go: To the students of 7Noel who had received a wonderful note from the substitute teacher last week saying ‘ the students were excellent and very well-behaved’

Way to go : to Alexander Brannan and Shane Reardon for distributing vegetable hampers on Thursday afternoon. A very helpful deed guys!

Way to go: to a senior student, Alexa Thorne, who returned a sweater to Katie Power. Katie was very pleased that you took the time to bring it to her and she strongly felt it was a definite way to go.

Way to go: to two middle school students, Kayla Sheppard and Danielle Avery, who gave their pizza lunch to younger students who were in need of a lunch. Sandwiches were the alternative!

Saturday, Oct. 16^th	Giant Flea Market and Craft Fair tomorrow at our gym complex.
Sunday, Oct. 17^th	Clarenville Middle School Show Choir auditions for the Sobey’s/Campbells 2004 Stars of The Festival at 11:30 a.m.
Monday, Oct. 18^th	At 11:00 a.m. Canadian Half-Pints Basketball Team visits. {See details below - parents and friends welcome to attend}
Tuesday, Oct. 19^th	Deadline for school picture requests to be received at the school
Tuesday, Oct. 19^th	‘The Amazing Kreskin’ performs at 7:00 p.m. in gym complex. Details to follow on NTV and local media.
Friday, Oct. 22^nd	School Picture Re-takes. Any student missing for the first photographer visit will have their picture taken today.
Friday, Nov. 5^th	First Public Speaking session.