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Clandonald School

Box 710

Clandonald AB

T0B 0X0

(780)853-2122

Feb 7, 2019

DATES TO REMEMBER

Feb 8—No School

Feb 11—Brighter Beginnings

Feb 11—Hot Lunch

Feb 12—Swimming Lessons

Feb 13—Hot Lunch


Feb 14—Hot Breakfast

Feb 15—Kids Connection

Feb 15—Hot Lunch

Feb 18—No School (Family Day)


Feb 20—Hot Lunch

Feb 20—Patrice’s Game Day

Feb 21—Dimetime


Feb 22—Hot Lunch

Feb 22—Curling—Grade 4-6

Feb 25– Brighter Beginnings

Feb 25—Hot Lunch


Feb 27—Pink Shirt Day

Feb 27—Hot Lunch

Feb 27—Celebration of Learning 4-7 pm

Feb 28—Beach Day


Mar 1—Kids Connection

Mar 1—Curling—Grade 4-6

Mar 4—Hot Lunch

Mar 5—Swimming Lessons

Mar 6—Assembly

Mar 7 & 8—No School

(Teacher’s Convention)

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Inside this issue:

Dates to Remember 1

Subscribe to Calendar 1

What’s For Lunch? 2

Healthy School News

Cougar Passport

School at a Glance

Kinosoo Snow Ridge

Dimetime Carnvial

Bus Transportation

Vibe News

FSL

Community/School

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CLANDONALD

SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Clandonald School:

Educating

Hearts & Minds

@clandonaldskool

Email submissions to

[email protected]

Join

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on Facebook

We’re on the web!

http://clandonald.btps.ca

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CLANDONALD SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Hot Lunch

Do you forget which lunches your child(ren) signed up for? Click the February Hot Lunch check-

list link for the student checklist. FEBRUARY HOT LUNCH STUDENT CHECKLIST

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V7nBwPA2GhyQ8QjTVgCTPpIIArE-4xkK3Dh11TZ0OAc/edit?usp=sharing

Healthy Active School Initiatives


Global Awareness Programs Students continue to suppor t Patr ice, our Christian Children’s Foundation sponsored child, by participating in Patrice’s Game Day. Our next game day is on Feb. 20. Students are asked to donate $1.00 toward our $39 monthly contribution which is put toward Patrice’s basic needs.

Community Awareness Programs Students were busy making up baskets of goodies for a few community mem-bers. Thank you, Mrs. Jackson, for all the effort you and the students put into making up and delivering these baskets so community members would know we were thinking of them. International Random Acts of Kindness Week is Febru-ary 18-22. Our students and staff will be thinking of small ways that we can spread kindness.

Kinosoo Snow Ridge Ski Trip We are happy to provide extra-curricular sports and activity options that appeal to all students. The ski trip is a non-competitive active opportunity that some students may not otherwise have a chance to experience. Thank you, Sheldon Quickstad for the use of your bus and Cheryl Lawrence for driving and spending the day with us. Thank you, to the many parents who came along to ski and to lend a helping hand. We appreciate your participation and enjoyed spending the day with you.

Skating Students will continue to skate in Phys. Ed class for the month of February on Monday and Fr idays.

Thank you, to all the parents who have been coming out to help tie skates and bringing along their own skates to join in.

We encourage and appreciate your participation.

Swim Lessons Students Grade 1-6 will be transported by bus to Lakeland College for swim lessons Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the month of February.

Health Challenge It is flu season and we are hear ing from Alber ta Health Services that some schools in our area are experiencing a high percentage of their student and staff population being affected. Consider your health and the health of others around you when you choose whether to wash your hands thoroughly and properly throughout the day. Students will be reminded at assembly about the importance and the proper way to wash your hands. This demonstra-tion will be by a group of students who attended the Healthy Active School Symposium earlier this year and who are excited to share what they know about proper handwashing.

Partnerships Thank you, County of Vermilion River, for the annual monetary donation to our library/learning commons. Your donation allows us to keep our reading material current and to add new learning common resources to keep our students’ learning environment current. We appreciate your donation and support very much.

Bags for Breakfast Program Cornerstone Coop, Bags for Breakfast program, offers a three-cent donation for every plastic bag that is divert-ed from a landfill, encouraging shoppers to bring reusable bags of some sort when doing their grocery shopping. These funds will then be donat-ed back to schools in the area toward their breakfast program.

CHOCOLATE MILK TICKETS (10 tickets/sheet) _________ SHEETS @ $7.50/sheet

WHITE MILK TICKETS (10 tickets/sheet) __________ SHEETS @$7.50/sheet

TOTAL $ ___________ Enclosed STUDENT NAME ______________________________

Milk Tickets

Cougar Passport


Through the Cougar Passport program, students are presented with different challenges each month. Students are

divided up into teams and each team has a staff leader. Teams meet each week, Wednesday morning, at snack

time. The challenges and conversations starters encourage academic achievement, character development, com-

munity and global involvement and healthy active choices.

COUGAR PASSPORT February

I will plan and treat

someone in my family to a random act of kindness.

I am trying my best in swimming lessons.

I told someone “I love you”.

I wash my hands often. Especially every time I use the bathroom and before

every meal.

I am respectful even when it is hard.

I know 10 ways to protect

our planet.

See the reverse side for ideas and add your own.

I am an Ag. Society member. I chose to read when I

was home for three snow days.


School at a Glance

Above/Right– Hot Breakfast

Left—

Recess

(Below) VIBE Conference

(Above) Skating and Broomball at the Chrome Dome


Ski Trip January 25 Kinosoo Snow Ridge

See more pictures

on the Clandonald

School website.


DIMETIME CARNIVAL THURS. FEB. 21 CLANDONALD SCHOOL

FEBRUARY BUS TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION

PROPER WINTER ATTIRE: It is very important to have children dressed appropriately for the cold weather.

We know it’s hard to look cool when you are wearing a ski pants and winter boots (although some of the outfits I

have seen this year are pretty sweet), but they become so important in keeping students safe and warm if a bus was

to break down in an area of poor cell service. They don’t have to wear it on the bus, but they do have to carry it

with them. Parents may ask their bus driver if they can leave it on the bus during the week so they don’t have to drag

it back and forth from home, but they need to have it with them. If a bus driver does not feel a child is properly

dressed and does not have the proper winter attire in their back packs or with them, they can refuse them transpor-

tation as long as they make direct contact with the parent. Please make sure your child is prepared for the cold

weather on the bus and at school (i.e. outside recess, outside gym, etc.).

BUS DRIVER NOTIFICATION: When the weather is cold it is very impor tant that you let your bus driver know that you will or will not be on the bus so they can adjust their stop times so students are not wait-ing longer than necessary at their bus stop. INCLEMENT WEATHER: If the bus is not running due to inclement weather your bus dr iver will call you. If you have already left for work before your children get on the bus you can check the BTPS web-site at http://www.btps.ca/Section%207.php We try to update the website as soon as we are notified by the bus driver. The inclement weather administrative procedure can be found at http://www.btps.ca/board/admin-

procedures/Section_7_Transportation/701.12AP_Inclement_Weather_AP_Bus_Contractor_Driver_Based_Bus_Cancellations/ AND

http://www.btps.ca/documents/general/701-11AP%20-%20Inclement%20Weather%20.pdf. Buses will not run when the temperature is -40oC with or without the wind-chill. For jurisdictional bus cancellations if the bus does not run in the morn-ing they will not run in the afternoon; therefore, if you transport your child(ren) yourself to school you will be responsible to bring them home as well. SUBSCRIBE FOR BUS CANCELLATION NOTIFICATION Parents can now subscribe on the website to be notified their bus is not running at http://www.btps.ca/Subscribe.php

Chrysti Mannix

Director of Transportation

Buffalo Trail Public Schools

[email protected]

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VIBE News Jodi Simmonds Vermilion is Being Empowered

VIBE Superflex programs are up and running in the Grade 3/4 classroom and in the Kindergarten classroom. Although

the characters in the grade levels differ, the concept behind Superflex programming is the same. The character Super-

flex and his academy of superheroes have flexible brains and can have flexible thinking. They can think of others be-

sides themselves and behave in ways that make it easier to work and learn with others. The Rock Brain character and

his group of characters called the Unthinkables do not have flexible thinking, think predominantly of themselves, and

often behave in ways that make it difficult to get along and uncomfortable for others. Superflex is a program designed

to help students learn appropriate social skills in a way that is engaging, fun, and meaningful. Each class includes a story,

discussion, and activities. I encourage you to ask your child about the characters and the behaviors they've been learn-

ing about.

VIBE was thrilled to help facilitate Lorelee Marin's visit to our school. Lorelee is a long time friend and supporter of

VIBE. We were so lucky to have her agree to present not once but twice to elementary students as she normally only

presents to junior and senior high classes.

INTERNATIONAL RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS WEEK is February 18—22. We spend a lot of time talking about

kindness with our students at Clandonald School. Teaching empathy and kindness have been proven to have a signifi-

cant impact on our behavior and is now thought to be the best way to discourage bullying. You'll notice that for the

last few years, kindness has been the theme of the VIBE Pink Shirt Day shirts. Clandonald students created our Kind-

ness Garden display in the lunchroom and are currently "harvesting" kindness bouquets for special guests at our

school. I would encourage you to think of some small ways that you can spread kindness as a family this February. Per-

haps you might shovel snow for a neighbour, deliver a homemade food item to a friend or maybe a senior in our com-

munity, or create a family card and deliver it to someone who may be having a difficult time or perhaps is a little lonely

this winter,

PINK SHIRT DAY: On Feb. 27, we encourage you and your children to wear pink to send the collective message that

we do not tolerate bullying. On Pink Shirt Day we will be talking to our students about what bullying is and isn't, our

role as bystanders, and how kindness and empathy are key to driving appropriate and encouraged behavior. We will

also be out in the community looking for people wearing pink and surprising them with a little gift for their support

and participation. We hope to find you wearing pink.

VIBE programming will be moving to Wednesdays in February to accommodate Clandonald swimming lessons and also

so that I can be in the Kindergarten class on days when the most students are there. Thank you, School of Hope, for

accommodating this schedule change.

VIBE CONFERENCE Our grade 6 students attended VIBE Day at St. Jerome's School on Jan. 24. Students worked

with the RCMP to develop team building skills and Be Fit for Life on their obstacle course. They also learned about

tobacco, healthy relationships, mindfulness, healthy snacks, and completed an indigenous craft and learning activity. A

huge thank you goes out to Cornerstone Coop for their sponsorship of this event and all of VIBE's partners who lead

such great sessions. I am always so proud of the way that our students and staff represent our school and our commu-

nity at these events. Well done Cougars!

VIBE Wellness Blog https://vibewellness999255287.wordpress.com/blog/

You'll find VIBE staff introductions, contact information, and short articles and

event information for parents. Please check it out and let us know what you

think. You can also find us on social media (Facebook - VIBE (Vermilion is Being

Empowered) and Instagram (VIBE Wellness). In addition, we will be continuing

with our monthly articles in both Vermilion newspapers.

https://vibewellness999255287.wordpress.com/blog/

https://www.facebook.com/VIBEvermilion/


https://www.instagram.com/vibewellness/?hl=en


https://www.instagram.com/vibewellness/?hl=en


VIBE News Jodi Simmonds Vermilion is Being Empowered


FSL NEWS Sarah Gusnowski

What is a Healthy Relationship?

Communication and boundaries are the two major components of a healthy relationship. ... In a healthy relationship

with excellent communication, both partners: Treat each other with respect and speak openly to one another

about thoughts and feelings. Do you model this with your children?

Communication: one of the essential parts of conversation is listening. Being a good listener is one of the best ways

to be a good communicator.

Examples of being a good listener are:

Remove or avoid distractions. ...

Watch for non-verbal communication and tone of voice. ...

Be the mirror. ...

Empathize, sympathize, and show interest. ...

Practice silence.

Ask probing questions. ...

Don't interrupt or change the subject. ...

Think before responding

Boundaries: guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for

other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.

Examples of building better boundaries and maintaining them are:

1. Name your limits. ...

2. Tune into your feelings. ...

3. Be direct. ...

4. Permit yourself. ...

5. Practice self-awareness. ...

6. Consider your past and present. ...

7. Make self-care a priority. ...

Seek support

Also in a healthy relationship, you want to make sure that you are speaking openly about your thoughts and feelings

(examples: I statement... when you do that it makes me feel...)

By practicing these things with your child/youth, it can give them the skills to have and maintain healthy relation-

ships.

If you are looking for more information on what makes up a healthy relationship and what are signs of a healthy

relationship that you can read and help you to model with your child/youth. There is also information that shows

you if you are in an unhealthy relationship. Please use the website provided http://depts.washington.edu/hhpccweb/

health-resource/healthy-vs-unhealthy-relationships/.


COMMUNITY EVENTS

Hatha Flow Yoga

A warm flow class, developing strength and flexibility

through postures and sequencing. Introduction to arm

balances, inversion and backbends. All levels are welcome!

6 Week Session

Monday Nights

March 11—April 15

7pm—8pm

At Clandonald School

$60.00/Session

$12/Drop In

Bring a mat and water!

For more information or to register text:

Jolene 780-581-7155 or Anita 780-787-2201


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