DATES TO REMEMBER

Dates requiring child care are highlighted.

Jan. 3 First Day Back After Break

Jan. 7 Home & School Meeting in library 6:30pm

Jan. 16 Early Dismissal 11:30am

Feb 1 Inservice—NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

AEES NEWSLETTER

AEES is a PEANUT, NUT and SCENT SENSITIVE School

Ph (902) 825-5330 Fax (902) 825-5333 aees@avrce.ca http://aees.ednet.ns.ca

JANUARY 2019

Principal’s Message - Nancy Illsley

Happy New Year! Hopefully when you pick this up to

read, you’ll have had a wonderful, joyous time with your

family and friends. ☺ As the weather gets colder, we

ask you to dress your child(ren) in layers during the win-

ter months. Students will be going outside in weather

up to –20ºC wind chill! BRRR! Hats, mitts, snow pants,

warm jackets, and boots are a must! Extra mitts and

gloves would be beneficial as it is often hard to dry wet

mittens between recess and lunch. Labelling your

child’s items is also essential. Replacing lost clothing

can become quite costly. When you periodically come

into the school, glance into the lost and found. You nev-

er know what you’ll find in there! Here’s to a month of

teaching and learning—and very few snow days!

* SCHOOL CLOSURES *

There are times when school is cancelled due to poor

weather or for other reasons such as power outages,

etc., and it is important for fami-

lies to have back-up plans.

In cases of bad weather, the de-

cision to cancel school is made

by School Board officials after

consulting with the local weather

office regarding forecasts and with the provincial De-

partment of Transportation regarding road conditions.

Closures may occur first thing in the morning or part-

way through the school day and are announced by the

Centre through the messaging system.

Remembrance Day Poster

Contest Winners

Congratulations to the following

students for receiving Honorable

Mentions in the Junior Color Poster

category from the Branch#1 Middleton Legion Re-

membrance Day Contest:

5 Wheeler—Desaya R, Krysta L, Gabe S, Liam R

5 Higdon—Emma P

2018 Primary Registration

If you have a child who will be 5 years old on or be-fore December 31, 2019, please contact the school office (902-825-5330) so that we can add your child to our list for Primary Registration, to be held on -April 4 & 5, 2019. Please pass this information on to anyone you may know who has a Primary aged child.

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SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

The fall Scholastic Book Fair was very successful this year, with total sales of $4100 which resulted in just over $2000 in books for the grades 3-5 classroom li-braries, resource classrooms and the school library. Thank you to the parent volunteers who donated their time to helping run the book fair. I’d also like to thank the students, staff, parents and AEES community for the wonderful and wholehearted support of this fund-raiser for our school.

Congratulations to Wesley Connell 3 Handley for win-ning the Book Fair Door Prize, which was $25 in books for himself and $25 in books for his classroom.

Stacy Bugden Library Technician Book Fair Chair

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING PARTY

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all who donated to the shopping party and to the great volunteers, who helped sort, set up, pack, stack, wrap and deliver for the 2018 Christmas Shopping Party.

A special thank you to the AEES custodians and staff for their help as it was appreciated and we could not have done it without you! Total money raised was around $2800!!! See you on Jan. 7th at 6:30 pm in the school library for our next meeting.

Sincerely, Home and School Committee

When Your Child is Absent…

If your child is not going to be in school,

please call the office (902-825-5330) to let

us know. This can be done 24 hours a day

by leaving a message on our machine.

HOLIDAY CONCERT VIP WINNERS!

Congratulations to the following for winning VIP seating

and parking at this year’s Holiday Concerts:

Primary to Grade 2

- Afternoon concert—Max Reagh, 1Veinot

- Evening concert—Dominic Toole, 1 Irving

Grades 3—5:

- Afternoon concert—Miles Gosse, 3/4 Tidman

- Evening concert—Violet Chiasson, 4 Harvey

Around $350 was raised. A big THANK YOU from the

Home and School!

UPDATING PHONE TREE/SCHOOL INFORMATION

Just a reminder, if you have new information such as a

change of phone number, address, or emergency con-

tact information, please let the office know. We need

to have up-to-date information on our phone trees as

we try to prepare for possible unexpected school clo-

sures and flu season!

Late Arrivals

Late arrivals have again become increas-

ingly troubling this year. 40% of our stu-

dents have had 1-6 late arrivals with an

additional 8% having more than 7. As either literacy or

math is often taught first thing in the morning, 48% of

students are missing instructional time, and this is not

counting the disruption to the class with a late arrival.

We understand there are some good reasons to be late,

like medical appointments, but often we are hearing

from children it is because they slept in or families just

didn’t want to get up on time. The following practices

are in place to monitor late arrivals:

The back door and the inside front doors are

locked starting at 8:20am.

Students are required to stop into the office and

get a late card to present to their teacher. Stu-

dents will not be allowed to go to class without a

late card (meaning they have signed in at the

office.)

Parents/Guardians of students who are late will

receive messages from the Alert System to en-

sure they know their child has been late.

Thanks for working with us to ensure students have the

best schooling possible.

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Student of the Month Awards

P Greene/Whynot— Dryden F, Violet V

P Jones—Zoey D, Brooklynne S

P/1 Gould—Lauren P, Mackenzie R

1 Irving/Hebb—Ruby-Jean J, Elijah S

1 Little—Lily B, Sheldon L, Athena M

1 Veinot—Ryder B, Brynley B

2 Danttouze—Darian S, Hope C

2 Howe/ Danttouze—Owen C, Eliza R

2 Ryan—Ryan W, Lucas M

3 Handley—Xander C, Edwin S, Hailey L

3 Mosher—Zander S, Roen D, Isabella B

3/4 Tidman—Zack B, Ava H, Sam G

4 Gosse—Roen S, Dexter C, Charlotte V

4 Harvey—Vanessa M, Bradley C

4 Kachur—Dante L, Sara P, Kirstin C

5 Eveleigh—Zoey B, Cyrus T, Joe M

5 Higdon—Ethan H, Carley M, Keith V

5 Wheeler—Arihanna R, Kherington L, Jaden B

Achievement Certificate

P Greene/ Whynot—Shelby B

P Jones—Jude C

P/1 Gould—Diesel C

1 Irving/Hebb—Kaylyn B

1 Little—Hailey H

1 Veinot—Jemyha P

2 Danttouze—Ursula J

2 Howe/ Danttouze—Ezra J

2 Ryan—Sophie P

3 Handley—Wesley C

3 Mosher—Olivia A

3/4 Tidman—Nik M-H

4 Gosse—Hailie B

4 Harvey—Orrin K

4 Kachur—Ben N

5 Eveleigh—Matthew U

5 Higdon—Hannah S

5 Wheeler—Jacob D

“Bravo” French Certificates

4 Goose - Raelin B

4 Harvey - Vanessa M

4 Kachur - Erin B

4 Tidman - Nik M-H

5 Eveleigh - Cyrus T

5 Higdon - Cedarlynn D

5 Wheeler - Jayden T

GOLDEN BROOM AWARD

Congratulations to Primary Jones, 2 Ryan

and 5 Higdon who are the recipients of the

“Golden Broom” Awards

for the cleanest classroom

during the month of Decem-

ber. WAY TO GO!!

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