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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
March 2019
Bridlewood J.P.S.
60 Bridlewood Blvd
Scarborough, ON
M1T 1P7
Telephone: 416-396-6080
Fax: 416-396-6082
Principal:
Rhonda Cohen-Pierobon
Office Administrator:
Diane Jones
Superintendent:
Ian Allison
School Trustee:
Manna Wong
School Council:
Chair:
Yota Skederidis
The weather last month has been very challenging for
all of us, that we experienced our first snow day in 8
years! Finally however, spring officially arrived at
5:58 p.m. Wednesday March 20th to everyone’s
delight.
As a school, our main focus this term lies within
supporting teaching and learning through our
Growth mindset and equity lens. Recently, several
staff members attended a Board Equity session and together we will
examine teaching practices as they relate to positions of power and
privilege and Inclusive Design. In addition, teachers met to review
math practices and new resources have been ordered to support our
programs. Thorough active collaboration, we have developed a school
- wide literacy continuum for the purpose of creating common teach-
ing practices and scaffolding of language expectations as our students
move up the grades. At the Kindergarten level, our teachers and early
childhood educators have been working on Interactive Read A-louds.
Once again, our various school committees met to plan and
organize valuable programs and initiatives for our students. Staff and
students, organized a tribute to Greek culture and folklore celebrat-
ing Greek Heritage Month. The Eco club led by Mrs. Hough, Ms.
Thistle and Mr. Naumann organized “Earth Hour”; Mr. Keno and Mr.
Kuran are launching the Pals program and several Scientists in the
School have been booked for the coming weeks. The SAC has
organized the annual chocolate fundraiser and our school-wide trip
will take us to Markham theatre on May the 2nd and the screening of
the Disney nature movie: “Penguins”
A reminder that school will be closed on Friday April 19th and
Monday April 22nd for the Easter weekend. For our friends and
families celebrating upcoming Holy days we extend our well wishes
for a safe and healthy time with families, friends
and loved ones.
Rhonda Cohen-Pierobon Principal
Follow me on Twitter @ Rhonda Cohen –
Pierobon
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Upcoming April Dates
April 2 World Autism Awareness Day
April 4 Ukulele Club ends
April 5 Pasta lunch
April 6 Trustee’s Eco Fair 11:00 - 2:00p.m. L’Amoreaux C.I..
April 8 SAC meeting at 6:30
April 8-9 KGT—Gr. 3/4 making Pizza with Pizza Nova
April 10 International Day of Pink
April 11 Safety Patrollers Police Movie Day (with Mr. Kuran)
April 11 Scientist in the School (Tessier, Hough & O’Connor)
April 12 Gr. 6 and SK Grad Photo 9:00 a.m. in Library
April 12 Souvlaki lunch
April 18 Pizza Lunch
April 19 - 22 Good Friday and Easter Monday—school closed
April 23 Primary TSO trip
April 24 Earth Day – School ground clean-up; Actual date is Apr 22
April 25 Ms. Ling’s Gr. 2/3 trip to Big Al’s Aquarium
April 26 Pasta lunch
April 26 Recognition Assembly ; Spirit Day Theme: Crazy Hat Day
April 26 - 29 Orthodox Easter weekend
April 30 Bus Safety Presentation
Please Save the Date…...
Please join us for:
Bridlewood School Council
Meeting
April 8, 2019 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Everyone Welcome!
Best Wishes go
out to Mr.
Kenno and his
wife as they
prepare for the
upcoming
birth of their
daughter!
Have a
wonderful time
with your family
and enjoy the
paternity leave.
We look forward to having you back at school after
the Easter long weekend. We love your new
signature:
Kyle, Jen & Baby
“Swim to Survive” We are pleased to share that we have been given new dates for the
TDSB’s grade 4 “Swim to Survive” program. Our new designated
swim times are Wednesdays May 15th, 22nd, 29th. More infor-
mation will be shared with parents and guardians shortly.
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Bridlewood Counts!
Ms. Ling’s Gr. 2/3 class used
measurement to prepare deli-
cious Brownies!
Mr. Kuran’s class had a blast
learning about lines of
symmetry, practicing their
critical thinking, problem
solving and collaboration skills
while being engaged in a digital
escape room from breakout.edu.
Grade six
Measurement
activity
today.
Mr. Kenno’s
class’s task:
creating a
triathlon
track showing
distances and
approximate
times for the
completion of
each of the
sections:
Running,
cycling, and
swimming.
The students in
Mrs. Hough and
Ms. O'Connor's
class are learning
how to tell time
playing
‘Time Bingo’!
Building
structures
in rooms 31
and 33!
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Character Development
ECO SCHOOL UPDATE
March - Honesty
April - Co-Operation
May - Integrity
June - Perseverance
Planters are planted
International women’s Day March 8th was
International Women’s
Day: The 2019 theme is:
Better the balance,
better the world. The
celebration of March 8 as Interna-
tional Women's Day recognizes the
struggles of women against all forms
of discrimination and exploitation,
and focuses on the need for global
equality, democracy and peace.
Monday, March 18th, marked Global Recycling Day. Our Eco team
would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the hundreds
of green initiatives that take place in our community each and
every day! Thank you for all that you do!
Earth Hour
The T.D.S.B. Earth Hour was held on Friday March 29th, from 2:00 -
3:00 p.m., followed by a world-wide hour on Saturday March 30th,
from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. At Bridlewood, everyone was encouraged
to reduce their consumption of electricity as a pledge to help reduce the
effects of climate change. Classes engaged in conversations on how we
can learn without relying so heavily on electronics. It was an op-
portunity to emphasize that Earth Hour is a symbolic gesture, and a
commitment to make our daily habits more sustainable.
During our Earth Hour, classes chose to take part in alternative
activities including:
-students creating and posting pledges to commit to reducing energy
consumption beyond the hour
- read-aloud books with environmental themes
- a nature walk
- an art or craft activity
- Visiting sites such as http://www.ontarioecoschools.org/document/
earth-hour-campaign-kit/ and (https://www.earthhour.org/
We thank everyone for their support. By: ECO Team
Nowruz which means ‘New Day’ is the
Persian New Year, a holiday celebrated on the
spring equinox. A symbolic illustration of
Nowruz is setting up a decorative table called,
Haft-Sin. Haft-Sin meaning seven with nat-
ural items recycled from life in spring. Today
the Haft-Sin table includes seven items specifically starting
with the letter S. The items are: sabzeh -lentil sprouts grow-
ing in a dish - symbolizing rebirth, samanu- a sweet pudding
symbolizing affluence; senjed- dried fruit - symbolizing love;
seer- garlic - symbolizing medicine; seeb- apples - symbolizing
beauty and health; somaq- sumac berries –symbolizing
(colour) sunrise; serkeh- vinegar - symbolizing age & patience.
CO-OPERATION
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COCO WITH
MS. COHEN
PANCAKE TUESDAY!
Coco with Cohen was a huge
success! It truly was a great
opportunity for classes to meet
with me for story time and to
catch up during a sweet
hot chocolate break.
Ms. Tessier, Mrs. Singh and
Ms. Davies Gr. 3/4 classes
A heartfelt ‘Thank You’
goes out to Kai Wong from
Ms. Esposito’s grade 1/ 2
class and to Kai’s family for
the sweet treats shared with
the staff in honour of
Nowruz. Wishing you all a
happy Nowruz and a
wonderful spring!!!
TEA
TEA WITH
THE
‘P’
Tea with the P is back and already over 50 people
submitted
requests for
Tea time!
Stavroula,
Gabriel,
Aaron,
Aamena,
and Kiyan,
and enjoyed
an afternoon
tea break in
the office.
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Student Voice
Victoria won 1st place for
her acro solo & 2nd place
overall, judges most
potential award with a
half paid scholarship to
dance expo this summer.
Her duet came 1st place
and 1st overall. Her
group routines were
awarded special awards
and top scores.
Gr. 1 student Dorian Ragany en-
joyed a day at Forest Valley Outdoor
Education Centre. Visiting students
had the opportunity to explore and
inquire the environment around
them including: tubing and taking
part in a lunch cookout.
Our ‘PALS’ student
leaders watched
“Nike Ads” that
empower women in
sports, and
discussed messages
coinciding with
National Women's
Day.
Its Pizza Time!
The Bridlewood Safety
Patrollers enjoyed a
pizza lunch courtesy of
the Toronto Police.
Its Ice cream Time!
The girl’s volleyball
team enjoyed an ice
cream courtesy of
coaches Mr. Skicos
and Esposito.
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YouTube Kids Safety TIps
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On Wednesday, March
30th, the two
kindergarten classes
attended the show Jack
and the Beanstalk play
Here are a few pictures of
the kiddies. By: Mrs. Tran
The Kindness Program
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Kindness and Empathy program
On March 26th and 27th, Karen and her dog Kendal were in to visit with our students and to
speak about the ‘Values through Humane Education Program’. Also known as the Kindness
program, it teaches kindness towards animals; responsibility of being a pet owner; safe
practices around animals and how to develop empathy for all life.
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Drama, Arts, music Toronto Symphony Orchestra Featuring Second City alumni, and
hosted by Kevin Frank, this
delightfully funny show included
performances of orchestral works
that were created through
improvisation. Our junior students
participated by giving suggestions,
and the actors acted out scenes to
background orchestral music.
The first ones are of Kindergarten drama doing imaginative play in response to the book
"The Squiggle". The last four pics are of Mr. Kuran's class doing a drama "Flocking"
activity. By: Ms. Condello
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Crazy Hair Spirit Day
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Greek Heritage Celebrating the Greek Heritage Month with dancing, performances,
making bracelets, the best of Greek Myths and food!
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Eco Fair 2019
Hosted by Trustee Manna Wong
Saturday, April 6, 2019, L’Amoreaux Collegiate Institute
Poster and Multimedia Challenge
Instructions for Students
How do I help create a Plastic Free World?
If plastic pollution was bagged up and arranged across all of the world’s shorelines, we
could build a plastic wall around every shoreline and the sea. Plastics wash up on beach-
es and can be found in the stomachs of more than half the world’s sea turtles and nearly
all of its marine birds. Plastics litter our cities and oceans, and growing evidence shows
how they contribute to health problems in humans and animals. By 2050, there will be
more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans! This is a problem we can help solve by
cleaning up plastic trash, drastically reducing the amount of plastic used and recycling
100 percent of the rest. How do you limit your use of single use plastic?
Elementary and Secondary students are invited to display
their creativity and to share with us the ways in which they
can work towards “Building a Single-Use Plastics Free
World”. What do YOU think is the best way to limit the use
of single use plastic items? All entries will be displayed on-
site at Eco Fair 2019 and will also receive a certificate of par-
ticipation.
Poster & Multimedia Challenge Specifications
Deadline: Wednesday March 22, 2019
Poster Submissions must be:
White paper (no larger than 11” by 17” no smaller than 8.5” X 14”)
Good use of space – not a lot of blank/empty space
No spelling mistakes
Clear message relating to environmental stewardship (Building a Single-Use Plastic
Free World)
From Trustee Wong