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Principal’s Message

LOCHDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Dino Klarich: Principal Nadia Volpe: Head Teacher

Enza Palmer: Secretary Shahzyah Juma: Community Coordinator

Sue Coombes : Community Office Gary Wong: School Trustee

FEBRUARY

2017

6990 Aubrey Street Burnaby, BC V5B 2E5

604-664-8743

Dear Parents:

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year to all of you at Lochdale. I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays with family and friends. Our return to school has been a good one as we already approach February. The girls’ and boys’ basketball teams have begun their games. Mr. Baldin, Ms. McNeilly and Ms. Wu are helping and our coaches, Adrian and Jeff have continued to do great work getting the students ready for their games and practices. I wish to thank them for the extra time they put in each week. Also, Mr.Baldin has been assisting me with grade 4/5 basketball which is new this year. Nice to see a good turnout by our students to

these sessions. We have also been celebrating Literacy Week through guest readers from our school and teacher librarian, Ms. Yorke, has the room buzzing with reading activities. I also would like to say hello again to Ms. Grundy who is beginning her teaching at Lochdale once again. Mr. Baldin will be assisting her with Division 6. Welcome again Mr. Baldin.

I would also like to thank Chris Stroppa, a Burnaby Firefighter, and organizer for the treats program that was dropped off early in January. It was greatly appreciated to our families and students. Helen Correia, our LCSA executive member, organized the annual bottle drive a few weeks back. Over $225 was raised. Thank you families for your contributions. We remember Ken Ryan, longstanding volunteer and helper in our school community, who passed away recently with A Celebration of Life that was held on Saturday, January 28th at Cliff Avenue United Church. If you wish to contribute to his legacy fund please see the community office or the GO FUND page online. Thank you.

For most of the month of February, our gym will be closed as we are getting a brand new floor for gym use. P.E. classes will be outside if possible and all evening activities will not continue until after spring break. Thank you for understanding and we look forward to a great new floor for students/parents to use for various activities. Our Pink Shirt Day will be on Wednesday, February 22nd. Thank you Helen for organizing the selling of t-shirts last week. Lastly, our District Professional Development day is on February 17th. Staff will be throughout the district working on various initiatives including the redesigned curriculum.

As always thank you for your support and encouragement as we continue to learn, play and grow as a school community.

Sincerely,

Mr. D. Klarich

Summit Youth

Dance

Friday, February 10

7:00 pm

For any Grade

6/7’s students!

IMPORTANT

DATES:

Monday, February 13—

no school Family Day

Friday, February 17 -

Pro D Day—students

Do not attend

Pro D Day and Spring Break opportunities with Burnaby Parks and Recreation:

Pro-D/Spring Break Activities

https://www.burnaby.ca/Things-To-Do/Be-Active

-Programs/Programs-for-Everyone/Children/

Children-Camps.html

Please copy and paste the link above! Ms. Cowan’s Class! Story Workshop

FROM YOUR COMMUNITY OFFICE!!!

Sue Coombes— Shaz Juma

Community Office Community Coordinator Assistant Lochdale/Windsor

Thank you to the community for a fabulous 2016 and looking forward to a fun and exciting 2017! Update:

For Students: Go Gir ls and Game On are up and running on Wednesdays after school. Lego club on Mondays and Parks and Recreation programs – Arts, hearts and Chocolates and Drawing and Cartooning are both full, but there is still space available on Science Discoveries starting February 16 (Thursdays) for 4 sessions (grades 4-7) call 604-298-7946 to register. Mad Science coming back, more info. To follow.

For Parents: Conversation Tea is still running Fr iday mornings at 9:00 in our community room. Everyone is welcome to attend for a coffee and conversation!! Syrian conversation is running Thursdays 1-2:30 as well and we have a new Arabic speaking parenting program running Fridays 12:30-2:30 at Lochdale!

Upcoming Events: We will be running another Food Skills program in May, more information to follow then. Summit Youth Dance Friday, February 10th 7-9:30 for Grade 6/7 students in the area. Saleema Noon is booked for March 27 for parent information session and March 29-31st for students. Wellness Fair will be coming soon to Lochdale on April 6th. Come visit your local providers and learn about what resoures we have at our finger tips!

Eco-Sculpture Spring Planting will be taking place on Thursday, March 30th, Nurhan, our parent organizer has secured 12 student passes to participate in the planting process.

Comshare Summer Daycamp will continue this summer however , the Burnaby Camping Bureau is cur rently not able to subsidize registration due to funding loss.

HEALTHY KIDS PRESCHOOLES FAIR

Tuesday, March 7/17

9:30 am—12Noon

Cameron Recreation Complex

Free Admission!

Children need to be accompanied by an adult. Adults need to be accompanied by a child.. Stamp your preschool passport to healthy fun! Venture both up-stairs and down, gather resources, play and learn about how to keep our kids healthy. For more info please call 604-297-4453.

Girls Only! COME TRY HOCKEY

Join Us For This Free Event

Would you like to see why girl’s hockey is one of the fastest growing sports and see if you like it? Girls from Burnaby, and neighboring cities, are invited to come try ice hockey in a fun, safe on-ice session with the Burnaby Wildcats, the female division of the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association!

Sunday, February 26

Kensington Park Arena

6159 Curtis St, Burnaby

2:30pm to 4:30pm

*Note: Event is free but pre-registration is required to attend!

Everything Is Provided - Equipment, Coaches and Wildcat Players! It’s not just your brother’s game! Come check it out!

IT’S TIME TO REGISTER FOR BASEBALL

Online Registration for the 2017 baseballseason at Hastings Community Little League is now open at www.hcll.ca. All boys and girls aged 4 to 12 years old and who live or attend a school within the league bounda-ries are eligible.

The Burnaby School District invites applications for the following casual,

on-call positions:

STUDENT SUPERVISORS &/OR CROSS‐

ING GUARDS

Student Supervisors provide support for students during the lunch break,

ensuring student safety in and around our schools and work during the school

lunch break period for 70 minutes. Crossing Guards provide support for

students arriving/departing from school, and work one hour before

school, and one hour after school.

Applicants for these positions will have a Grade 12 education, and demonstrat-

ed ability and experience in working with children. Applicants must be

available to work throughout the Dis-

trict when school is in session.

Applications can be submitted to:

Human Resources Department Burnaby School District

5325 Kincaid Street

Burnaby BC V5G 1W5 applications@sd41.bc.ca