Greensborough Public School JK-8

905-472-3474 www.greensborough.ps.yrdsb.ca

April 2016

Greensborough P.S.

Newsletter “A Living School”

From the Administrators:

Can you believe that it is April! It certainly does not yet feel like Spring . With the cold weather and snow please continue to remind your children to dress appropriately. Everyone should still have their winter coats, snowpants, boots, hats and gloves on. Every year in late May or early June, we organize classes for the following year. Input is appreciated from parents when we are making these placement decisions. Our main objective is to create classes that will provide the optimum learning environment for everyone. We will soon be beginning to make decisions about the next school year. If you will not be returning to Greensbor-ough in September, please write a note to the school informing us of your intentions. This will help us in getting a sense of our class sizes for next year. We recognize that children have their own learning styles. We appreciate that parents have valuable information to share with us as we make placement decisions based on children’s capabilities, gender, work habits and behaviours. Teachers have the benefit of knowing the children with whom they are currently working. We rely on their profes-sional decisions. If you have information or suggestions regarding your child’s learning style, which will help teachers make an appropriate placement, please write a note to Mr. Spiers before May 4th. Requests will be accommodated only where placement will enhance a child’s learning. Parents are reminded that schools combine classes for a variety of reasons. This includes organizing classes to meet student learning needs and combining classes to balance class size. All classrooms include students with a range of skills and abilities. They are simply one of the many ways schools meet students’ academic and social development needs. Requests for class placements will be considered where it will enhance a child’s learning but with no guarantees. The grade 3 and 6 students will be taking part in the Provincial Assessment of Reading, Writing and Math during the weeks of May 25—June 8, 2016. Grade 3’s will be writing the Provincial Assessment from May 30 - June 1 and the grade 6’s will be writing from May 31 - June 2. Please do not book any appointments for your child during these two weeks as students must complete the entire assessment.

Sincerely,

Mr. Jim Spiers Ms. Carolyn Brndiar

Principal Vice Principal

Principal: Mr. J. Spiers Superintendent of Schools: Mr. Dan Wu

Vice-Principal: Ms. C. Brndiar Trustee: Mr. Allan Tam

Admin. Support: Mrs. P. Soman School Council Co-Chairs: Tina Sharma & Charles Herriott Admin. Support: Ms. P. Targa School Council Vice-Chair: Barbara Peters

Character Matters Theme for April: Integrity

We are truthful and sincere. We ensure consistency between what we say and what we do, as well as between what we

believe and how we behave.

School Council News Dear Parents,

On Tues April 19th, the Parents and community members of the Greensborough School Council, will be hosting a lunch to honour the staff of our school.

If you would like to contribute towards bringing a dish or make a small cash donation towards this event, please email Tina Sharma at tina.dsharma1@gmail.com by April 10th.

A friendly reminder that we are a nut free school.

Thank you for your support

GPS School Council

Arts Night Written By: Asvitha & Kelvin

Parents and Guardians! Come down to our Arts Night. It is going to be held at Greensborough Public School on Thursday, May 5th from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. The Arts Night is for all grades. All grades will have art work on the walls. Grades 4-8 will perform as well. They will dance, play music, or do drama. The Arts Night showcases Greensborough’s artistic side.

Also, you will be able to get your child’s art work framed. You will be able to buy a framed piece by your favourite artist for only $7.00. We hope that you will save the date and come down to the GPS Arts Night on May 5th!

Gator Girls Running Club

Written by: Angelina

In running club, we run around the hallways. Then when the weather is nice, we get to run outside. Before, we used to do 2 minutes walking and 1 minute running. Af-ter, we did 2 minutes running, 3 minutes walking. Now, we are doing 3 minutes run-ning, 2 minutes walking. We keep doing more and more running. We run two times a week, on Tuesday and Thursday, after school. When we finish running, I feel sweaty and hot, but also good, because I have done what I came for and I have reached my goal. On Thursday, we have an Intermediate or Junior talk. We switch every other week. We talk about what troubles us and how we feel about it. It’s good to tell some-body who understands you, how you feel, and what trouble you the most some-times. The ages for the running club are grades 4 to 8, but we only have grades 4s, 6s, and 8s. We have 4 teachers: Ms. Green, Mrs. Kanhai, Ms. Alvi, and Ms. Agnew. Other teachers will be joining us for our final run. The most fun thing is that on Saturday, May 7th, 2016, there will be a 5 km Women’s Run in Unionville. Greensborough’s Gator Girls Running Club will be participating. 11 of us have already signed up! It costs $45 to $50 each, but the money will go to the Markham Stouffville Hospi-tal for women’s mental health. It will be very fun and the money will go to a good use so we are very excited. We hope to see more people join us for our final run.

Grade 8 Graduation Grade 8 Graduation will be held on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Please save the date in your calendar. Further details regarding time and place will follow.

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GREENSBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOL

Parents/Guardians,

We recently had a Family Math Night at GPS and are seeking feedback from parents about their son/daughter(s) work in math. We are hoping you could take a few short minutes to complete the survey below in the next week. We will use this data to continue improving our mathematics pro-gramming at Greensborough.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GPSPARENTSURVEY2016

GPS Staff

Interested in Running Your Own Business?

York Region’s Summer Company program provides students between the ages of 15 and 29 with an opportunity to open their own business for the summer and test out entrepreneurship. They re-ceive business training, mentoring for the duration of the summer and a grant of $3,000 to help launch their ventures. Applications are being accepted until May 6, and full eligibility can be found on www.ontario.ca/summercompany Last summer, the York Small Business Enterprise Centre had 15 students successfully complete the program, generating a combined revenue of more than $90,000. A variety of businesses were opened including swim schools, dog walking, escape room, tennis school and stationery items im-ported from Japan. It’s a wonderful opportunity for students to gain valuable work experience. If you would like more information on the program, please feel free to contact Jenifer Benakis, Small Business Consultant at 1-877-464-9675 ext. 71517

Congratulations to our March Perseverance Award Winners!

Teacher Student Name

Mrs. Chomyn & Ms. Benamou Keeno C.

Mrs. Manohar & Mrs. Mosgopoulos Lucas S.

Mrs. Qureshi & Ms. Dayal Olivia B.

Ms. Morris & Ms. Patel Justin G.

Ms. Lawson Aarav N.

Mrs. Semerdjian Angela H.

Mrs. Young Zoheb M.

Mrs. Maybury Isbah A.

Mrs. Turner Seher S.

Mrs. Bayley Simon P.

Mr. Primiani Strahan P.

Mr. Dienstmann Abiegith V.

Ms. Green Kai L.

Ms. Alvi Sanudini G.

Mr. Woods Aroush U.

Mr. Shanthakumar & Mrs. Moller Kavishaa S.

Mrs. Kanhai Carmen L.

Mr. Schuck Lauren E.

Ms. Roveda Sakeen V.

Ms. Schreiber Seif I.

Mr. Hambly Sumaiya S.

Mrs. MacGillivray Jonas D.

Mr. Quan Tracey H.

Ms. Agnew Dayshawn B.

Mrs. Strickland Anish V.

It’s time to pause to PLAY April 18 – April 22, 2016!

Get ready to get active, eat healthy and stay safe! Children and youth are encouraged to put televi-sions, videogames and computers on pause for one full week. Instead try physically active, safe PLAY, eating healthy foods and other fun family or community activities. Take the challenge and see how much fun it can be! Stay tuned for more information coming home.

We need to get more active. Did you know that: -Only seven per cent of elementary school aged children get at least 60 minutes of heart pumping

exercise at least 6 days a week

-Boys and girls are inactive at least eight hours a day -Inactive lifestyles put children at risk for preventable health problems including Type 2 diabetes,

obesity and cardiovascular disease

For health-related information call York Region

Health Connection at 1-800-361-5653, TTY 1-866-252-9933 or visit www.york.ca/healthyschools

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GREENSBOROUGHP.S.isacceptingonlinepaymentsthroughSchoolCash

ONLINE!

School Cash Online provides the following benefits: • A convenient fee payment option that saves time • Reduces paper • No more need to send cash or cheques to school • A quick way to register. It takes less than 5 minutes to register.

Parents that opt to participate will receive notification via email of student fees owed (both required and optional), and can make secure online payments by credit card or Interac and receive a receipt.

To view a presentation about the program, go to http://www.kevsoftware.com/movies/

ParentRegEnglish/.

When you register your children under their York Student Number, you are

able to choose your language of choice in the program.

Followtheeasystepsonthenextpage

toregisterandgetstarted! PLEASE NOTE: Your purchases will appear on your

Statement as “School Cash Online-YRDSB”

Step 1: Register Click on the School Cash Online button on our school’s website at http://

greensborough.ps.yrdsb.ca/ and select the “Get Started Today” button.

Complete each of the three Registration Steps

*For Security Reasons your password, requires 8 charac-ters,

one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter and a number. Step 2: Confirmation Email A registration confirmation email will be automatically forwarded to you. Click on

the link provided inside the email to confirm your email and School Cash Online account. The confirmation link will open the School Cash Online site prompting you to sign into your account. Use your email address and pass-word just created with your account.

Step 3: Find Student NOTE: A STUDENT NUMBER IS REQUIRED –See page 1- label attached This step will connect your children to your account. Enter the School Board Name-YRDSB Enter the School Name – Greensborough P.S. Enter Your Child’s Student # and Last Name (NOT Report card OEN #) Select Continue On the next page confirm that you are related to the child, check in the Agree box

and select Continue Your child has been added to your account

Step 4: View Items or Add Another Student If you have more children, select “Add Another Student” option and repeat the steps above. 5 children can be added to one parent account. If you do not wish to add additional children, select “View Items For Students” option. A listing of available items for purchase will be displayed.

NEED HELP? If you require assistance, select the GET HELP option in the top right hand corner of the screen or contact School Cash Online – Parent Help Desk at 1-866-961-1803 or parenthelp@schoolcashonline.com.

April

Please visit our Website at www.greensborough.ps.yrdsb.ca

Looking ahead to May

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

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5 Sub Day

OFIP Tutoring (3:45-4:45)

6 Pizza Day

7 Junior Boys Basketball Tournament (4 - 8pm)

8 Gr. 2 Annual Speech

Pineapple Competition (11:10am)

11 OFIP Tutoring

(3:45-4:45)

12 Sub Day

OFIP Tutoring (3:45-4:45)

13 Pizza Day

14 Parent Presentation

(Increase your Child’s Success) @ 7:00pm

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18 OFIP Tutoring

19 Sub Day

OFIP Tutoring Staff Appreciation Lunch

20 Pizza Day

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22

25 OFIP Tutoring

26 Sub Day

Junior Boys Basketball Area Tournament (GPS)

OFIP Tutoring

27 Pizza Day

Gator Gathering - 2:00pm

28 Junior Girls Basketball

Area Tournament (GPS) Movie Night @ 6:30pm

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

2

3 Sub Day

OFIP Tutoring

4 Pizza Day

5

Arts Night

6

P.A. Day (No School)

9 OFIP Tutoring

Regional Badminton

10 Sub Day

OFIP Tutoring

11 Pizza Day

Gauss Math Test (Gr. 7 & 8)

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