Mission Statement Valleyview Centennial School strives to provide lifelong quality learning experiences within a safe, suppor�ve, and respec�ul school community. Students, staff, parents, and community

collaborate as a team in an effort to meet the academic, emo�onal, physical, and social well being of students and staff.

A Caring and Sharing Place

February 2017

Main Office Phone: 204-729-3950 E-mail: valleyview@bsd.ca Call Back Phone: 204-729-3951

Web: h4ps://www.bsd.ca/schools/valleyview Fax: 204-729-3953

February:

3 - Professional Development Day - NO SCHOOL

3 & 4 - Basketball Mid Season Tournament

6 - Fire Safety Week

14 - Cinnamon Bun Day

15 - 2017 - 2018 Registration packages sent home

7:00 p. m. - Public Budget Consultation Forum @ Kirkcaldy School

16 - 100th Day

Grade 6/7 WE Day activities

20 - Lois Riel Day - NO SCHOOL

22 - Grade 6/7 to Festival du Voyageur - Winnipeg

23 - Spirit Day - Team Day

24 - Professional Development Day - NO SCHOOL

Kindergarten registration forms will be available in the

office starting February 15, 2017.

Registrations will be accepted for children who reach

their fifth birthday on or before December 31 of 2017.

Proof of birth date (birth certificate, passport or landed

immigrant card) and proof of residence (utility bill,

mortgage agreement, or driver’s license)

are required at the time of registration.

ATTENTION PARENTS/GUARDIANS

Registration forms for the 2017 - 2018 school year will

be sent home on February 15th.

Please mark any changes on these forms and return

them to school by February 27th .

It is very important that we have current information

about your child, current address, home phone number,

cell number, email address & emergency contact.

If your child will not be returning to Valleyview

Centennial School for the 2017-2018 school year,

please indicate it on the registration form and return the

forms to the school.

Mr. McCannel is looking

for ice cream pails.

Please drop off to the

office!

MARCH 22, 2017

VALLEYVIEW CENTENNIAL’S SCHOOL

50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Assembly in the gym with special guests.

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Mix & Mingling with tea & cake

SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Grace Lutheran Church for the lovely donation of

mittens and toques.

Thank you for thinking of us!

FEB.16th

February 14th

EAL CONFERENCES WITH

INTERPRETERS

Thursday, March 16th, 2017

3:45 - 4:45pm.

Please mark this date down in your

calendar. Your child’s conference

time will be sent home at a later

date.

Thank you,

Miss Turcott

The Grade 6 students have started AWESOME writing

with Mrs. Swallow. The idea of looking at the small,

awesome things in our lives came from Neil Pasricha’s

‘Book of Awesome’, where he describes popping bubble

wrap, sharing your French fries, the smell of bakery air –

anything and everything that may be awesome to people,

but may also be taken for granted. He encourages us to find

awesome everywhere!

First topic chosen by the students:

Valleyview School’s Awesome Gym

♦ You step on the best polished floor and run like a

mad man. You smell that great amazing smell of

clean waxed floor. ( by Kein) ♦ When I go into the gym, it is shiny and looks cool.

It smells like arm pits and dirty underwear. (Brent) ♦ The gym smells like a room full of sweaty hockey

players, with spots of perspiration speckling the

floor. (Hunter) ♦ The amazing basketball aroma makes me feel like

I’m at home. (Connor) ♦ It is spectacular when you get a three point shot in.

Its so cool. (?) ♦ The wrinkly feeling of the climbing walls, the never-

ending echo of runners traveling across the gym –

awesome! ( Kadence) ♦ The awkward groan of the old wooden doors as you

open them and are greeted with the inviting wide

open space, occupied by a simple and adorable fold

up jungle gym and the darkly colored climbing wall.

That faint, brand-new smell of the new maroon col-

oured mats that cover the creamy white walls. You

can tell you are in for a treat. ( Nia) ♦ I hear soccer balls being kicked, goals being scored,

people cheering with excitement. ( Yelana) ♦ That loud ‘crack’ as you open and step onto that

newly polished gym floor and take in a big whiff of

that sweaty athlete odor. ( Keira) ♦ Our gym – awesome!

February 16th is World Read Aloud Day - plan to join the world reading aloud to your children and have your

children read aloud to you.

Did you know?

Reading 20 minutes each day can introduce at least 1,460,000 words per year!

Our Awesome School Clusters:

What an amazing line up of clusters we have

this time around! Clusters are enrichment

activities that allow the students voice and

choice in their learning. Cluster choices this

time are:

♦ Party prep – students planning Valleyview

School’s 50th birthday party ( March 22) ♦ Song writing songs – students learning how to

write songs and add in instruments ♦ Artzooka – anything the students want to

explore that is art ♦ Break out – our very own adapted Escape room,

with students creating clues to design their own

mystery to solve. ♦ Hockey – includes ice and floor hockey ♦ Mindfulness/self-esteem – learning to deal with

stress and being mindful while feeling good,

and finding ways to help others feel good, too. ♦ Finger knitting/corking – learning to knit using

your fingers ♦ Markers/design challenge – create useful items

using the design process ♦

All clusters include academic rigor, student

choice, and the creation of a product or

service for others. Ask your child what

clusters they are in. If you have skills or a

passion in any of the above areas, please

contact the school to get involved. We

encourage and appreciate all community

involvement! Dates: January 24, February

1,10 21, and March 2. Our cluster assembly

will be March 13th at 2:30. Feel free to drop

in and see what we learned!

Why Clusters are important at Valleyview

School by Ulia

I think that clusters are important because we

get to do a lot of things that we can’t do at

home. Clusters are fun. Each time we do

something in clusters, we are learning some-

thing new! There are a lot of thing we can do:

If you want to learn how to draw a detailed

picture, you can. If you like to write and

make up music, you can do that too. Clusters

is all about learning something new and

having fun. Whatever you want to do it is a

chance to go for it!

Scholastics Book

Fair, I Love to Read

Week, and Family

Literacies Night

Mark the week of March 6-10 on your

calendar – its going to be exciting! Its ‘I Love to Read

Week’. Many activities are being planned to enrich our

reading, writing and thinking!

Scholastics Book fair will be running Wednesday,

March 8th from 1:00-4:00 and 6:00-7:30 (during Family

Literacies Night), and on Thursday, March 9th from

1:00-4:00. Look for the flyers to come home near the

end of February. As always, there will be hundreds of

books to choose, from pre-school to teen picks.

Volunteers are needed to help work at the book fair for

both afternoons. Please contact Mrs. Swallow if you are

available.

Family Literacies Night has become an annual event.

The community involvement in the past has been

excellent! It provides families the opportunity to

participate in new literacy activities as a family and with

others from our community, and to enjoy and be actively

involved with building these skills with your children.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, March 8

from 6:00-7:30. The format of the evening is come

and go at your pleasure, with you and your children

choosing which activities to participate in. It is open to

all families from our school. As a staff, we look forward

to sharing our love of literacy with you!

Showcase Fair

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

All students will be par(cipa(ng in this event. Some

classes may choose to do a class project, while other

classes may have individual projects happening.

The categories are:

♦ Visual Arts/Performing Fair – this is an

opportunity to showcase your Arts Smarts.

It can be visual ( drawing, pain�ng, sculp�ng,

etc.) or performance based ( dancing, singing,

playing an instrument)

♦ Discovery Fair - this is a project about any topic

that is of interest to a student.

♦ Historica – this is a Social Studies based research

project

♦ Science Fair – this is a compe��on with the

winners moving on to the Western Manitoba

Science Fair in March

Class �me will be given to research and create their

project. Of course, extra �me can be spent at home also.

Supplies that are available at school will be provided,

however if special supplies are needed, it is up to the

student to provide them. More informa�on to follow!

Finger Knitting

Cluster is in need of

Yarn. If you would

like to donate to the

school please drop it

off to the office or to

Mrs. Donnelly’s

classroom.