2020/2021 IDEC School Calendar

Daily Health ChecksPlease remember to perform a Daily Health Check with your child(ren) prior to drop off each morning.

Daily Health Check Translations: Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog

The May iDEC News is Here

We would love it if you could spend 15 minutes watching our most recent monthly news cast. Our iDEC News team led by Ms. Sutcliffe, along with their student and staff guests do an amazing job sharing important stories about learning, special events and simply celebrating our great school.

A most significant and thoughtful part of this iDEC News edition is the first story about Tuesday’s Orange Shirt Day and the strong connection our Gr. 4 classes have made to Indigenous culture through their inquiry. This week iDEC continues to be filled with special actions classes are taking to honour those who suffered trauma and harm at the former residential school in Kamloops.

KM Club - One More Track it Tuesday!As of Tuesday June 1st, Caulfeild KM Club Runners have covered a combined distance of 5554 KM - outstanding! We are looking forward to finding out the final tally on our last Track it Tuesday, June 8th. Click here to view the complete list of all our KM Club Ribbon Runners from this past week. Congrats to our top runners on their big accomplishments so far.

100+ KM Runners!!

Track & Field Week at iDEC

Bike & Walk to School Week (BTSW)

Many thanks to our CPAC Triple A volunteers this week who helped make this event possible: Anya, Aneela and Adela. Our parent volunteers ensured students received a ticket every time they walked or biked to school.

Our CPAC Traffic Committee received a special grant after completing a grant application last month. This grant provided funds to support these prizes students can win in Monday’s Draw: bike pump, water bottle, headlamps, bike lock, bike bell or a sport bandana.

Sports Day!This year we are gearing up for a fun iDEC Sports Day. To accommodate for our COVID restrictions we have created an exciting 2 day Sports Day Lite event. Ms. Lapinskie has created a schedule that spans two mornings on June 9 and 10 for our Primary (K-3) and Intermediate (4-7) classes respectfully. On Friday June 11th we will all celebrate Sports Day with a slideshow and video together in our classes before the early dismissal.

Here are some helpful details about next week’s Sports Day:

You child’s Sports Day team colour can be found here. Each division has been assigned to a team for Sports Day. Points are awarded for wearing your team’s colours, participation, sportsmanship and spirit.

Each Sports Day team has its own legendary cheer. The words for your child’s team can be found here - it is always good to practice in advance! To hear/watch the cheers performed by our Gr. 7 students you can find those examples below:

Yellow Lions Cheer: https://youtu.be/-3eJRc2qdOo Blue Belugas Cheer: https://youtu.be/QMzZZXtTUJc

Red Ravens Cheer: https://youtu.be/pKqRIJcS5vE Green Dragons Cheer: https://youtu.be/KHUt1bvI50g

Band RegistrationAttention Music and Band Students! Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to join the Caulfeild iDEC Band.

Please click here to review the PDF document created by Mr. Santos that provides an introduction and detailed information about band.

The band program is offered to next school years grade 6 and 7 students who are interested in learning to play a concert band instrument. The instrument selection includes trumpet, trombone, baritone, french horn, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, bass guitar and drums/percussion. For those that would like to register their child for band, we kindly ask that you do so by Friday, June 18th 2021. To register please click on the following link: Elementary Band Program

Mr. Santos will be sending out more information regarding the band in the weeks to come. If you have any questions regarding iDEC Band for next year please contact Mr. Santos directly lsantos@wvschools.ca

Class Placement Input - OptionalIn June each year, we begin the process of planning for the next school year. As enrolment changes always happen over the next few months, our planning needs to remain flexible and will not be finalized until September. Our class placement process ensures that thoughtful consideration of each child’s social, emotional and academic needs is aligned with the need to create balanced and effective learning environments across all divisions. The assignment of students to classes is decided collaboratively by our iDEC team which includes your child’s current teacher, non-enrolling teachers, support staff and the administrators.

If there is information that you feel the principal should consider when placing your child, parents may wish to complete the Optional Placement Input Form. Please note that it is not necessary to complete this form. Again, many hours and great care is taken with regard to the placement of every child in order to honour their individual learning style and create the best learning environment for all children.

If you would like to share your input with regards to your child’s placement next year, please complete the Student placement Input Form 2021-22 from our website and email it to Caulfeild@wvschools.ca by Monday, June 7th. It is not necessary to complete, but if you have input you would like us to consider, this process is an effective communication tool. In order for our iDEC team to follow the planning timeline we cannot consider late submissions.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 E-Bulletin

June 4 Bike & Walk to School Week / District Track and Field Week End

4 Variety show Entries Due (video and permission form) Bear Wear Friday

7 Final Day of KM Club

9 Primary (K-3) Sports Day

10 Intermediate (4-7) Sports Day / Last Day for Book Exchange

11 Sports Day Whole School Celebration - Early Dismissal 12:00,12:10,12:20pm

18 Bear Wear Friday

24 Grade 7 Drive-thru Leaving Ceremony

25 Grade 7 Leaving Activity Day Bear Wear Friday

29 Last Day of classes - Early Dismissal 12:00,12:10,12:20pm

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This week our Caulfeild families joined in the effort to increase their steps and pedaling while decreasing car traffic. Bike and Walk to School Week was our highest rate of participation in recent history. Over the course of the week we are on target to reach 400 participants over 5 days. This represents the total number tickets entered in our prize draw over the week. Some of our students walked or cycled all 5 days, which = 5 chances to win in Monday’s BTSW draw.

400 participants represents 80 students per day. In fact, on Tuesday and Wednesday we had our biggest turn outs ever with 81 and 86 ticket entries which = 22% of our student population participating on each of those days.

This week Caulfeild iDEC joined the West Vancouver Schools Track and Field Week and participated in a variety of run, jump and throw events. From the 200m, to running long jump, to accuracy tosses our Bears were out getting active and achieving personal bests in the sunshine.

As part of Track and Field Week the WVS District Harry Jerome Poster Contest was also a big success. From all our local schools there were over 200 entries! The judges, Superintendent Kennedy and Board Chair Broady, were very impressed and had a lot of fun judging some creative posters. We are very proud and excited to share our very own Tutu C. from Division 10 was the winner of the Primary Division and received a gift bag for her wonderful poster that demonstrated respect and pride.

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Brian H. Div 3 Brody W. Div 8 Chloe B. Div 3

Ekam C. Div 6 Ekansh V. Div 8 Evan R. Div 6 Kruz R. Div 10

Remember B.Y.O.M As Students in Grade 4 to 7 are required to wear a mask at school please ensure that your child comes to school with a mask every day. We still have far too many students coming to the office for a mask. Please have your children keep spare masks in their backpacks at all times as this will help eliminate the excess and unnecessary waste the disposable masks are creating. Let’s work together to keep our school safe and green!

2021-22 School CalendarOur final 2021-22 iDEC School Calendar is now available. For your convenience our school website

calendar will also be updated with these 2021-22 dates in the coming days.

Beginning Summer Break Early?We have many wonderful activities planned for the last few weeks of classes, culminating in an exciting End of School Year assembly on the last day of school. We hope that all of our students will be in attendance for the entire month of June. However, we are aware that some families may chose to begin their summer break early. If this is the case, please ensure to notify the school office of your plans caulfeild@wvschools.ca, thank you.

Every Child Matters

Dear Parents,

In light of the tragic news regarding the burial of children on the grounds of the former residential school in Kamloops, we as many, are absolutely sickened by this news. We wish first to express our deepest and sincerest condolences to the generations of families who have been affected and live with unthinkable grief as a result.

There have been multiple activities within the school to educate our children about these horrific events. If you feel like you want to do something to show your support of our Indigenous community and to help the survivors, you can make a personal donation to the IRSSS (Indigenous Residential School Survivors Society) here. No donation is too small to help our friends in our community.

Sincerely, your CPAC

Community Engagement

We have been also meeting and greeting record numbers of walkers and bike/scooter riders every morning during this Bike/Walk to School Week. Good luck to all the participating students on winning some awesome prizes!

A Fitness Challenge Completed by the Caulfeild Community!Congratulations Bears! Caulfeild has officially crossed the virtual finish line for our first ever Million Reasons Run. Thank you to all those who participated or donated throughout May to benefit the health of every kid in Canada. Thanks to your support, together we raised $2,208!

A special thank you to our team runners:Ms. Summer HuMs. Marcela ArayaMs. Emma EllisMs. Devon LefeauxMs. Junel Lapinskie

This event wouldn’t be a success if it weren’t for you. You all should be so proud of your efforts, and you deserve to be celebrated. Thank you!

ParticipACTION Challenge!

Ready, Set, Learn

WV Otters Swim Club

Chris Kennedy, WV Schools SuperintendentGet insight into the thoughts and ideas of Chris Kennedy, Superintendent of the West Vancouver School District. Read his latest blogs and follow him on Twitter to learn more from the CEO of WV Schools in: https://cultureofyes.ca/ or https://twitter.com/chrkennedy

We would love to have you connect with us and follow our Caulfeild School Twitter account! Many of our staff are active Twitter users and our CPAC also uses Twitter regularly

The Caulfeild iDEC Virtual Tour: Click and tour iDEC

Although we are not currently able to provide school tours for new families registered for September, we still want to share what learning looks like at iDEC. Mr. Kolkea teamed up with our West Vancouver Schools social media and communications officer Matt Lawson, to create this 2 minute virtual tour of iDEC.

The iDEC News YouTube Channel

As part of our school’s communication goal at Caulfeild, the iDEC News is created every month by our students and staff. The iDEC News is focused on highlighting and developing our student’s communication skills while integrating their use of digital tools.

Connect with Caulfeild iDEC School Website: Caulfeild iDEC Elementary

Phone: 604 981-1200Email: Caulfeild@wvschools.ca

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The WV Otters have swim club programs available for children K-12 at the Aquatic Centre.For information on joining the West Vancouver Otters Swim Club please contact Laura Fleury at otters.registrar@gmail.com

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On a more positive note, we have been enjoying great community engagement during the last few days. It was a pleasure to see so many of your smiley faces during our fun Bingo Night last Thursday. Congratulations to the Bingo Night winners: the Nixons, the Hortes, the Wallaces, the Robinsons, the Lytvyns, the Horswills, the Creeds, the Hongs, the Jivanis, the Vukelics and the Kurzekis.

Our powerful community of sponsors and runners came together to conquer the challenges of child health. Our runners laced up their running shoes and crushed 364 KMs!

Calling All WVS Families for the ParticipACTION Challenge! The community of West Vancouver is competing in the ParticipACTION 2021 Challenge to become the most active community in Canada. The winning community receives $100,000. When the community of West Vancouver wins this competition, the proceeds will go to The Place for Sport. Please help us win this challenge by registering, continuing to have fun moving every day, and entering your minutes! For more information please click here.

Ready, Set , Learn is coming, all families with 3 year old children are welcome to attend! The event will be held on Saturday, June 12th from 9:30-11:30am at Ecole Pauline Johnson. Click here to find out more about this FREE Early Learning Event.