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April
2009 News
Artists
at VW
The
art work in the hallways will be changed on April
17th.
Beautiful work from the classes of Mme. Munro, Mrs.
Hughes, and Mme. Palmer will be going up that day.
Take some time to come and see the work of our amazing
artists.
Marathon
Club
Spring
is arriving (slowly but surely), which means it's
time to break out those running shoes!
The Van
Walleghem Wolverine Marathon Club starts up this
month. This is a running/walking club open to all
students at our school (K-2 students are encouraged
to join, but must be accompanied by an adult). April
practices are Monday and Wednesday after school.
May and June practices are Monday and Wednesday
after school and Friday at 8:00 am.
Anyone
interested in joining the club or finding out more
information is invited to a meeting at noon in the
small gym on Wednesday, April 15th. Our first practice
is Wednesday, April 22nd. Hope to see you there!
Marathon
Club Muffin Runs
The
Marathon Club is looking for volunteers to
help coordinate the “muffin runs.” If you
are interested please contact vcraddock@pembinatrails.ca
for more information.
VW
Cares
Dear
Parents,
We
love our school and all the sights of grass,
trees, lakes, and rocks! But we cannot see
that because, at the back of the school there is
a gigantic lake and we hate to see people pollute
the lakes :( Please stop polluting, it's
bad for the environment and we all want a
healthy community. Although some people
don't care, we do. Some people like animals
and they won't have anything to drink or eat. So
please take care.
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Community
News
Check
here for more information and ways to become actively
involved in the community.
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Thank
You
Thanks
again to the VW Parent Council and parent community
for organizing and contributing to our staff appreciation
week in March.
The tokens of appreciation that came in the form
of baking, gifts, assistance with recess supervision
and the luncheon were much appreciated by staff!
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Administration
Message
1221
Food Items and …
1.3
Houses
The
Action star shone brightly this month at École
Van Walleghem School! The Student Voice campaign
entitled Brick by Brick raised an astonishing $6595
which will build 1.3 houses in Uganda . The
students' touching video was featured on the Pembina
Trails School Division web site and has been entered
in a divisional media contest. In addition, Operation
Donation received 1221 food items for Winnipeg Harvest. The
generosity of our families is inspirational. Our
children will be great citizens having led and participated
in these action initiatives to make the world a
better place.
Please
look for registration forms to come home early next
week. The plans for the 2009-2010 school year are
well underway. We look forward to sharing with
you the class configurations for next year. We expect
to send these out towards the end of the month.
We will then begin the process of class placement
and will invite your input. For information
on class placement please visit our Parent
Student/Handbook .
You
will notice no shortage of opportunities for our
students to get involved in school activities this
Spring. Auditions have just taken place for the
Spring Musical. The badminton teams have begun
practicing. Jump Rope clubs have started. Track
and Field is around the corner. The Space Camp count
down is on. Earth Week events are planned.
What a fine school!
Read
on for more information on these and more exciting
events. Your questions or comments are welcome.
Library
Links
iPods
in the Library?
You
bet! Van Walleghem School Library will run a
pilot program using iPods to store audio books
downloaded from iTunes and Audible Kids. There
are presently 9 iPod shuffles available for circulation.
Each device holds a single audio book.
Interested
students in grades 5 and 6 will be signing out the shuffles with
the book of their choice loaded and ready to go!
The Library hopes to keep expanding its selection
of titles to include audio books for all ages as
well as books in French. Stay "tuned"
for an update in May!
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Wolverine
Words
Our
Van Walleghem physical education department, along
with the assistance of several of our energetic
volunteer staff members, look forward to providing
a variety of extra-curricular activities for our
students this spring term.
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Attention
Parents
Recently,
one of the Pembina Trails School Division's staff
suffered the loss of a young family member because
of inhalant sniffing. Parents need to educate themselves
and talk to their children about this dangerous
activity. Empowering our children with information
and giving them ways to resist peer pressure are
some of the best ways to help keep them safe.
Please
read the information on the links below and share
this with your children.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/Disorders
/inhalantab.html
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/straight
/inhalant.htm
Counsellor's
Corner
Welcome
back! I hope everyone had a restful Spring
Break.
This month I have included some information for
parents about presentations being offered by the
school division that you may be interested
in attending regarding teenage alcohol and
substance abuse.
Should
you have any questions about these presentations
or any another topic please don't hesitate to contact
me at 489-0995 ext. 1972 or by email to klewis@pembinatrails.ca
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Notes
from the Music Room
A
huge thank you to our forty Grade 4/5/6 choir members,
“Trouvers,” who sang beautifully and played their
recorders for seniors at the Convalescent Nursing
Home before the break. They brought joy and
happiness to the seniors in attendance, who sang
and clapped along!
Our
compliments as well, go out to all of our grade
5 students, for their excellent listening skills
when they attended the WSO performance of “The Elements
in Music~ Earth, Wind, Fire and Water” on March
26 th .
Both
groups were excellent good will ambassadors for
Van Walleghem School! And both groups can take a
bow for their excellent efforts!
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Brand
New Mad Science Camps!
Linden
Woods C.C. & Tuxedo Community Centre is offering
Mad Science again for both our week long day camps
(Red Hot Robots & our Brand New Energize
It! camps).
There
will be Free Early Drop off as early as 8:00 am.
Online
registration at www.madscience.org/manitoba
as well, each camper will receive an
official Mad Science Hydration Station (fancy word
for water bottle!).
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Operation
Donation
The
10th annual Operation Donation for Winnipeg Harvest
took place from March 2nd- March 6th, 2008.
Van
Walleghem students and families certainly answered
our call to help people who are less fortunate in
our city. I am very pleased to announce that we
collected 1221 food items or 2035 pounds of food.
Way
to go VW!
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Young
Artists on the Avenue
  
Young
at Heart will be displaying an urban gallery of
student's art from March 25 - June 9, 2009.
Van
Walleghem students' art will be displayed in the
walkway between the MTS Centre & Manitoba Hydro.
Check
out the colourful displays inside downtown's indoor
walkway system, including in the windows of the
skywalk bridges over Portage Avenue . Did
you know you can walk from The Bay to Portage &
Main without stepping foot outside? Navigate
the walkway system or stroll down Portage Avenue
to explore all the whimsical creations brightening
downtown lobbies, windows and businesses.
Get connected to downtown's great art!
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