Burnhamthorpe Public School

April 2018 Important Dates

Apr. (every Thurs.) Lunch Lady

Apr. 11, 25 Pizza days Apr. 4, 18 Subway days Apr. 10, 24 Pita Pit Days Apr 3 Autism Awareness Day Apr. 5 Jump Rope for Heart Assembly Apr 5 7pm Balanced Day Presentation Apr 6 Spirit Day - Backwards Day Apr 9-13 Anti-Bullying Week Apr 10-12 Dental Screening Grades JK/SK/2/4 Apr 11 Day of Pink Apr 12 7pm Gr 1 Music Concert April 19 School council @ 6:30 Apr 19 PDSB Chess Tournament Apr 20 Jump Rope for Heart Event Apr 16-20 Earth Week Apr 23-27 Education Week Apr 24 Author Michael Wade visits Apr 25 Greg Le Rock visits Apr. 26 7pm Gr 2 Music Concert

Apr 30 Author Tina Powell visits

Apr 30 - May 4 Mental Health Awareness Week

Peel Distric t School Board

School Council 2

Adult ESL Classes 3

Dental Screening 3

Safe Arrival 3

Self Regulation 3

Bits & Bites 4

Inside this issue:

3465 Golden Orchard Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L4Y 3H7 Phone: 905-625-0140 Fax: 905-625-4261 Trustee: S. Lawton & R. Williams Vice-Principal: C. Moschella Superintendent: P. da Silva Office Manager: A. Xhafferi Principal: D. Ahmed Office Assistant: M. King

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Principal ’s Corner

Greetings everyone, I hope you all enjoyed a restful and joyous long weekend with family and friends. Spring is in the air and it feels absolutely wonderful as the days get longer and the weather gets warmer. A few

things we would like to share and remind you of.

*NEW* Reporting Your Child’s Absence: Beginning May 14, 2018, all elementary school parents/guardians need to report their child’s full-day absences, late arrivals and/or early departures from school via our new School Messenger SafeArrival system. See inside newsletter for more information.

Balanced Day Evening Presentation: Throughout last and this school year there has been some communi-cation through the school newsletter that Burhamthorpe P.S. will be moving towards a Balanced Day school day. At 7pm on Thursday April 5th the Burnhamthorpe Administration will be sharing further information on the Balanced Day. Burnhamthorpe’s move to a Balanced day will result in 2 changes to the school day; the first is that the day will transition from 2 x 15 minute recesses and 1 x 60 minute lunch to having 2 x 40 minute Nutrition breaks, secondly, the start time of the day will go from 9 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. for the 2018-2019 school calendar year. This will not impact the required 300 minutes of instruction and the school day will continue to end at 3:30 p.m. This process to transition began during the 2016-2017 school year with approval from the school council and in consultation with staff. More information will be given at this week’s presentation and we will continue to send out reminders of the changes in subsequent newsletter. Day of Pink, the international day to celebrate diversity and inclusion to work towards ending homo-phobia, transphobia and all forms of bullying and discrimination, falls on the second Wednesday of April each year. Day of Pink began when a high school student in Cambridge, Nova Scotia, was bullied with homophobic language because he wore a pink shirt to school. The next day, hundreds of students at his school stood up to bullying and wore pink to school to show their support for equity and inclu-sion.

As a reminder The Burnhamthorpe P.S. parking lot is closed between 8:40 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. & from 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.. During these times the kiss n’ ride is very busy and any cars parking in the lot result-ing in adults and children walking between cars becomes considerably unsafe for everyone as well as slows

down our kiss n’ ride. Please respect these times.

Administrative Professionals’ Day: Peel schools will pay tribute to administrative professionals on Administrative Professionals’ Day on April 25, 2018. The Peel board appreciates the important job ad-ministrative staff do each school day and April 25 provides an opportunity to give these individuals the recognition they deserve.

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Your Burnhamthorpe School Council

Supporting our School and Connecting our Parents.

Comments? Questions?

E-mail the School Council at Burnhamthorpeps.council@peelsb.com. Or send us your email address to stay up-to-date

on all the school council events.

Next School Council Meeting is:

Thursday April 19th, 2018 @ 6:30p.m.

Help us to encourage and enhance parent involvement in Peel

Apply for a position on the board's Parent Involvement Committee

The Peel board’s Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) meets regularly throughout the school year to review the board’s plans for parent involvement as they relate to parent, family and com-munity engagement, and to make suggestions to schools, councils and the board regarding addi-tional parent outreach.

As mandated by the ministry, the purpose of Peel board's PIC is to: support, encourage, and enhance meaningful parental involvement within schools and

across the district, including, outreach to parents who find involvement more challenging work collaboratively with the school board to support student success seek out the advice and ideas of school councils, and other parents and partners as they

plan and implement strategies to involve more parents at the regional level develop strategies for enhancing parental engagement and outreach

Parent application packages will be made available by April 11,2018 at www.peelschools.org/PIC.

FUN FAIR

Planning for the 2017 FUN FAIR is underway. If you would be willing to

serve on the Organizing Committee or would like to volunteer at the

Event please contact us at bpsfunfair@gmail.com. The date has been set,

so mark your calendars: FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018.

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Register today for Adult ESL or LINC classes

Do you know an adult that is interested in improving their English language skills for work, study or daily life?

Through the Continuing & Adult Education department, the Peel District School Board offers a wide variety of English language classes that help parents experience success in Canadian English in both listening/speaking and reading/writing. Courses are designed for a range of basic, intermediate and advanced English (Levels 1 to 8) as well as the more experienced learner needing to prepare for an IELTS exam. Classes are ongoing - Register anytime. All learners that complete a session will earn a certificate of learning from the Peel District School Board. Classes operate from six locations in Brampton and Mississauga with three specially designed adult centres at:

Bramalea - Adult Education Centre - 25 Kings Cross Road, Unit 3

Brampton - Adult Education Centre - #300 - 7700 Hurontario Street

Mississauga - Adult Education Centre - 100 Elm Drive West, Room 117

To learn more or to register, call 905-270-6000, then press 2 Also visit www.peelschools.org/adulteducation or follow us on Twitter: @PDSBLearnESL

Important changes coming to SafeArrival system in May 2018

he Peel District School Board is currently using the SafeArrival system by Synervoice Technologies. As Synervoice has been sold to West Communications, there will be slight changes to our SafeArrival system and how you will report your child’s absence from school. The phone number to report your child’s absence will stay the same, but there are a few other changes.

Beginning May 14, 2018, all elementary school parents/guardians need to report their child’s full-day absences, late arrivals and/or early departures from school via our new School Messenger SafeArrival system.

The phone number will stay the same: 1-855-209-6155 Website has changed to: go.schoolmessenger.ca

Download a new app: School Messenger App (from Google or Apple) (please be sure to delete the old Safe Arrival app after May 11)

Please continue to use our current Synervoice system until Friday, May 11, 2018. The new School Messenger SafeArrival will be live on Monday, May 14, 2018.

Important to note:The transition to a new company and system will require parents to set up a new account with School Mes-senger SafeArrival as data will not be transferred from the old system to the new. More information on how and when to set-up your new account will be coming in the next month.

Did you know…...

Self Regulation is about understanding stress and managing tension and energy.

What that means is when we experience stress (good or bad) our body’s natural reaction is to tense up.

Sometimes this tension is noticeable and sometimes it is not. When our body is tense it burns endless

amounts of energy. For children, this means that they have less energy to perform other tasks such as

simply being able to sit and focus on learning something new. We have come to notice that one major

stress for children is a result of a lack of quality sleep. Often it looks like misbehaviour when a child is

unable to focus and sit calmly but in truth we come to learn that they just do not have the energy re-quired. Learning is stressful (a good stress!) but without enough energy children are unable to remain

focus long enough to learn (the same holds true for adults– think about it!).

On April 10-12, 2018 our Grade JK/SK/2 and 4 students will be assessed by a Registered Dental Hygienist who will take a quick look in your child’s mouth. A form will be sent home if a child is identified.

Peel Public Health provides dental screening in select grades as required by the Ontario Ministry of Health.

Upcoming Music Concert Performances "Blackout" - April 11th (9:30 a.m. performance for the school) - April 12th (7:00 p.m. evening for parents & families) Classes performing in "Blackout" are: Mrs. Glynn-Morris, Mme. Petkovics, Mrs Watt, Mme. Spratt, Mme. Butler and Mme. Braund. "Speedplay" - April 25th (9:30 a.m. performance for the school) - April 26th (8:00 p.m. for parents and families) Classes performing in "Speedplay" are: Ms. Innes ( Grade 2&3 class), Mlle. Dinh, Mme. Singh, Mme. Zuraw. We are looking forward to presenting our performances!

Heart and Stroke Foundation Jump Rope for Heart Burnhamthorpe is pleased to be holding a Heart & Stroke Jump Rope for Heart event on April 20

th at1pm. All money raised will support Heart & Stroke in their mis-

sion to promote children’s health and fund vital heart and stroke research. Jump Rope for Heart encourages kids to get active by skipping rope while they col-lect pledges for heart disease and stroke research. They also learn the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and giving back to their community. This year Heart & Stroke is striving to get 1 million kids jumping in close to 4,000 schools across Canada. Let’s be part of it! We need your help to reach our School fundraising goal of $3500. Please help support your child’s fundraising efforts by registering them online at jumpropeforheart.ca and send out do-nation request emails to friends, family and colleagues. Online fundraising is the quickest way to reach all of your con-tacts and online donors receive an automatic tax receipt. Plus, when students raise money online they can earn bonus prizes including a skipping rope*, and gift cards from Chapters/Indigo, Canadian Tire, Mastermind Toys and Amazon.ca! Please visit jumpropeforheart.ca and start fundraising today! Each student will be bringing home a pledge envelope starting April 5

th, if you prefer to collect donations in-person.

Please ensure that their pledge envelope is returned on the day of their school’s Jump Event Day. Thank you in advance for your support.

Anti-Bullying Week – Apr.9 – 13th Burnhamthorpe will be celebrating anti-bullying awareness week where the cli-mate team will be celebrating a wide variety of tribe based activities, promoting lesson plans and making pledges to create a positive and caring school environ-ment. Earth Week – Apr. 16 - 20th Burnhamthorpe will be having week-long celebration of environmental awareness and respect for our earth activities. It will consist of promoting knowledge about environmental issues, reducing trash and learning how to become more energy efficient in our school and community. Mental Health Awareness Week - April 30th until May 4th Burnhamthorpe ill be bringing awareness of mental health and wellness to our students. Each lunch hour, students will be welcome to join teachers as the Bulldog community learns strategies to help us main-tain and improve our mental health. Activities will include yoga and breathing exercises, dancing, physical exercise, journaling, art activities and more. Look for a schedule of events to be sent home after Easter. Students are asked to RSVP to the events they are interested in participating in so that teachers can plan for supervision. Autism Awareness April 3rd Autism Awareness day at Burnhamthorpe. Please donate a Toonie between April 3 to April 4th. All proceeds will be donated to Kerry’s Place. www.kerrysplace.org

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