BOARD OF TRUSTEES

O U R D I V I S I O N – I N C L U D I N G I T S S C H O O L S A N D S C H O O L S Y S T E M – I S G O V E R N E D B Y A B O A R D O F

N I N E T R U S T E E S , W H O A R E A C C O U N T A B L E T O T H E P U B L I C F O R T H E S A F E T Y , Q U A L I T Y A N D C O S T

O F E D U C A T I O N V I A H U M A N R E S O U R C E P R A C T I C E S , P O L I C I E S A N D B U D G E T A R Y D E C I S I O N S .

Trustees are elected every four years during municipal elections and meet the first and third Tuesday of each month, 6:30 p.m. at the Ad-ministration Offices. (589 Roch St.)

Our trustees are building on a solid past to create a new and exciting future for the students in their care.

Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Ward 4 Ward 5 Colleen Carswell - (Chair) John Toews Eva Prysizney Brian Olynik Michael West - (Vice-chair)

Jerry Sodomlak Rod Giesbrecht Brianne Goertzen Peter Kotyk

For trustee profiles please visit: http://www.retsd.mb.ca/yourretsd/BoardofTrustees/Pages/default.aspx

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Springfield Heights School 505 Sharron Bay Winnipeg, MB R2G 0H8 P. 204-663-5078 F. 204-668-9285 www.shs.retsd.mb.ca Principal Nori Dehn Vice-Principal Sherri Black Parent Advisory Coun-cil President Morgan Fraser E-Mail: morganfra-ser7@hotmail.com SHS Lunch Program Karen Netzel E-Mail: shslunchpro-gram@gmail.com Skipper Scholars (Before and After School Program) P. 204-661-8004 Transportation Department P. 204-669-0202 River East Transcona School Division 589 Roch Street Winnipeg, MB R2K 2P7 P. 204-667-7130 F. 204-661-5618 www.retsd.mb.ca

Springfield Heights Students Visit Stony Fossils at Mariash Quarry

On Friday June 16th, 2017, the grades 3 and 4 classes went to Mariash Quarry to learn the history of our land of millions of years ago. This quarry is very educa-tional in helping students learn the timeline of our land and how archeologists and paleontologists made discoveries which help us better understand the land in which we live. In the morning students studied rocks and minerals and then tested the hardness of rocks and minerals in small groups. Then, they shared and compared their test results with other groups. In the afternoon, students were able to hunt for 440-million-year-old fossils and hear about the or-ganisms that inhabited the Ordovi-cian Sea that once covered the ar-ea. Once students selected a few fossils, they had time to clean them and choose some to take home. It was a cool weather day which was great for digging for fossils. Thank you to the many parent volunteers for joining us at the quarry and helping us dig out some great fossils! Ms. Slota, Mme Jorgensen & Mme Muller

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Congratulations to the following staff at SHS

Message from Administration... Dear Parents/Guardians, Happy June, Everyone! It is unbelievable that it is the end of the school. Thank you very much for working with us to support your children all year. We love to see how much they have learned and how much they have grown. Our students are very proud, and so are we. SHS’s Report to the Community is sent out with this newsletter. Please check it out to see our accomplishments. We are very grateful to our general Parent Advisory Council for providing us with treats and a yummy lunch in May. In addition, we were spoiled by the English Ukrainian Bilingual Program PAC in June with delicious homemade treats. Thank you very much to all for thinking about us and for your great support throughout the year. Best wishes are extended to the following staff members who will be leaving SHS for future endeavours: Madame Thorsteinson, Mad-ame Esther, Monsieur Boyes, Mr. Hrychuk, Madame Kelly, Mrs. Clarke-Johnson, Mrs. Cooney, Miss Kuzyk and Mrs. Popowich. Their dedication and caring have greatly contributed to the success of our children. Please see below for further information of staff for next year. Thank you for joining us for our grade 5 farewells. Our students and staff enjoyed their special times to celebrate with you. Mark your calendars as a reminder that the first day back to school for students is Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Also, plan to join us for our Open House on Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The EUB program will be having their welcome BBQ on September 28, 2017. We are looking forward to seeing you there. I would like to share again that I have immensely enjoyed my time at Springfield Heights School, getting to know and work with you and your children, and the staff and community. This is a wonderfully dedicated and talented staff, and you are an amazing community, so supportive of your children and the school. I will miss all of you. I wish you and your children all the best in the future. Thank you for your support during my time at Springfield Heights. Best wishes for a happy, safe and fun-filled summer. Nori Dehn Sherri Black

Pani Loughren who will be teaching the K/Grade 1 EUBP class

Madame Martel who will be teaching morning and afternoon Kindergarten French Immersion

Madame Thomas who will teach grade 3 French Immersion

Monsieur Robinson who will teach grade 2 French Immersion

Madame Koop who will teach grade 3/4 French Immersion

Madame Guillou who will be full time teacher librarian (this is an increase in teacher librarian time for our school)

Madame Fournier who will teach grade 5 French Immersion

Mrs. Brooks who will be a resource teacher/guidance teacher

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Plan for Summer Fun...and Learning!

by the Resource Team

Inclusion Committe TOGETHER WE LEARN BETTER!

At SHS we are proud to foster an inclusive environment while promoting and celebrating our diversity. The main goal of the Inclusion Committee this year was to promote an increased sense of belonging by providing exciting extracurricular experiences and authentic celebra-tions for all of our students.

This year in our school, all kids had chance to participate in many recess or lunch clubs at all grade levels and 98% of our students took advantage of the opportunity! One of our most popular clubs was the Grade 3 Board Game Club where students got to play games with senior citi-zens during the lunch hour on Wednesdays. We also would like to say a big “Thank-you” to all our students and teachers for organizing and displaying their work on our “Here We Are Board” throughout this school year. This was a beautiful way to celebrate all of our wonderful classes.

As co-chairs of the Inclusion Committee, Pani Cap and Mme Kerri would like to give our sincerest thanks to the members of our committee. You have worked hard this year and your efforts have not gone unnoticed. Thank-you for your hard work, knowledge, experiences, and great ideas on how to continue to make our school a place where all members of the school community feel safe, accepted, and included. We look forward to continu-ing on our path toward further inclusion in the coming school year. Inclusion Committee

As another school year is drawing to a close, it is exciting to reflect on how much learning your child has done in their classroom. No need to wor-ry, though - there are lots of fun ways to put that learning into practice over the summer. Here are a few ideas:

Put a visit to the Winnipeg Public Library on your weekly calendar. There are comics, graphic novels, picture books, ebooks and more available to borrow. All you need is your library card to get an unlimited supply of books that are suited to your child's interests and read-ing ability!

Take the time to make some recipes together. It's a great combination of reading, math and science skills all at once.

Make writing a priority. If your child is just beginning to write on their own you can provide a variety of markers, pens and different sizes of paper and see where your child's imagination takes you.

Try some interactive play where reading and writing skills can be useful like a restaurant (menu, taking orders, bills) or grocery store (lists, receipts).

A special journal and marker can be the start of a longterm pen-pal relationship...for you and your child! You can use it to write notes back and forth all summer.

Take time to learn and explore new things together. A family visit to a local attraction like a zoo, museum or natural park is a good way to spend a day learning and having fun.

Last, but not least, be sure to limit your child's access to screen-time like tablets, computers, video games and television. Thirty to sixty minutes a day is plenty of time!

Have a great summer!

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Patrols June has been a fun month. We went to Lilac Resort for our year end wind up. The patrols had the opportunity to go on the water slides, in the pool and the hot tub. It was a wonderful day! I look for-ward to many fun activities next year as well. This year, I have had the privilege of working with 110 of the most responsible, hardworking team of kindergarten, bus and street patrols in my 15 years of being a patrol supervisor. They did their job everyday (especially on the coldest days) to ensure that our students got to and from school safe-ly. I am very proud of the patrol leaders in our school. Way to go, everyone! I would especially like to thank my patrol captains, who are my eyes and ears on the street. Hailey, Declan, Trinity, Kaylie, Sierra and Madison walked all the street patrol posts and took attendance every morning and afterschool, all year around without a break. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. Also, I’d like to extend a big thank you to the parents who have encouraged and supported their chil-dren throughout the year. I’m sure it wasn’t always easy to convince them to do their job when the north wind was blowing this winter. Lastly, I would like to thank Mme. Jorgensen and Mme. Muller who have been very helpful. Have a safe and fun summer! Cheryl Marsh Patrol Supervisor -

Summer Fun Math

Ideas to keep your child thinking about math over the summer months:

Board games involving numbers: Snakes and Ladders, Cribbage, Card games

Computer games: Multiplication.com, Sumdog, ABCYA

Going to the store: counting our money, change

Baking: using measuring cups to understand fractions

Garden: repeated addition, multiplication for rows of vegetables, perimeter and area of the garden

Tickets to an event: how much will they cost? How much change will I get back?

Sand Castles: use and describe some geometric shapes, sphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, triangular prism, cone

Hike, nature walk: identify any natural occurring patterns, can you continue the pattern?

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The students of M. Boyes’ Room 30 welcomed Chief Jim Bear from the Bro-kenhead Ojibway First Nation. Mr. Roger Ballantyne, Director of Education at Sargent Tommy Prince School in their community, was also present.

Chief Bear spoke to the students about the experience of growing up away from family in an “Indian” residential School, as they were known then. Chief Bear gave the class gifts including an eagle feather, a raven’s wing, a dream catch-er, a shield, a drum, and a walking stick. Prior to his visit, the students created art based on

the Seven Teachings of the Ojibway, and they prepared writing pieces about the pro-cess of Reconciliation in Canada. The art and the writing were placed together in a birch-bark book the students made, and presented to Chief Bear as a gift for the students of Sargent Tommy Prince School. Chief Bear was very moved by the students as they read to him from their book. It was a won-

derful experience for both the students and the visitors, as they made Reconciliation a reality in their classroom.

News from the Classroom...

When our class got there they taught us some Japanese words and some of their culture. Then we got to do origami like a bird and a piano. After that we wrote our names in Japa-nese. Then we watched a Japanese dance and then we did a dance called the Coal Miner’s Dance. Then we had a snack and we got to see cool statues and a cool helmet and then headed back. The most important thing was that we had fun.

-Justin, Kingston, Ryan, and Logan from Salle 14

Japanese Cultural Centre

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On Friday May 4, Mr. Hrychuk and Mme. Kerri's Grade 3 classes went to the Japanese Cultural Centre. We saw Japanese flags, watched karate and tried a Japanese folkdance. We saw a lot of dolls and we made lots of origami like cranes and pianos. We ate some Japanese crackers and they were awesome! We even got to write our name in Japanese using ink!

Mr. Hrychuk’s grade 3 class Room 11

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Grade 5 Camp “Hi Alexander.” exclaimed Ava as she was eating her lunch. Alexander replied chewing on his perogies, “Hi Ava.” “Do you remember,” questioned Ava as she was finishing her banana, “when we all went to Camp Arnes?” “Of course I do!” Alexander said with an exited voice. “What was your favorite part?” asked Ava as she got up to go put her lunch away. “I loved Zip lining but I also really liked …,” said Alexander as he was getting interrupted. “Cool!” interrupted Ava, “I liked that too but…” “Hey you, interrupted me!” shouted Alexander, “I was going to say I liked archery, too!” “Sorry!” joked Ava, “I also loved the Cooperation Games and Instincts for Survival!” “Oh yeah those were pretty good, too.” remarked Alexander. Ava added, “Rock Climbing was fun, too!”. “Yeah!” laughed Alexander, “It was so funny when everyone said it was the first Declan in space to ring the bell!” “Yeah that was really funny!” giggled Ava, “The food though was great!” “It’s not like the camp food that you hear and read about in books!” reminded Alexander, “When we first got there at lunch, they made taco salad.” “and…” Ava tried to say. “PEROGIES!!!” interrupted Alexander, “THEY HAD PEROGIES FOR DINNER!!!” “WOAH WOAH WOAH!” hesi-tated Ava, “That was not the best part.” “YES IT WAS!” roared Alex-ander, “Ok maybe it was not but you are just saying that because you hate perogies.” “Well I know I had fun at Camp Arnes and I loved the campfire and the Extravagan-za Game!” mentioned Ava. “Oh yeah I forgot about that, what team were you?” ques-tioned Alexander. “Same team as you, the Mythi-cal Creatures!” responded Ava, “We came third remember?” “That was so much fun!” cheered Alexander. Then all of a sudden the bell rang to go outside. “Bye Alexander!” said Ava. “Bye Ava!” replied Alexander.

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K-Kids at the Kiwanis K Family Recognition

This year the K-kids were very successful. Here is a quick recap of what we did! At the start of the year, we held elections to decide who would be a part of our executive for our K-Kids club. The elections were open to all of the grade fives and the grade fours who were in combined classes. After the elections, the first activity was WE Day. Thirty-two K-Kids got to go and we all had lots of fun. When we went there we learnt about all of the cool activities we could do to raise money. We sold lots of Rafiki bracelets at the Christmas concert and parent–teacher conferences. The money raised helped support a village in Kenya. At the winter concert, while we were selling Rafiki bracelets we also collected around one hundred items for Koats for kids to help Winnipeg’s kids stay warm. A week later, we had a very fun spirit week and we donated over 300 dollars each to the Children’s Wish Foundation and the Siloam Mission. During the winter, the K-kids volunteered at their local Food Bank and organized a food drive for Winnipeg Harvest. The whole school participated by donating non-perishable items. For the spring musical we made over 200 flower pens which we sold for $2 for 1 or $15 for a pot of 6 flowers. All of the money that was made went to our Sister Village in Africa which we have been supporting for a number of years now. Our last initiative was a Freeze Fundraiser, the 1st week of June. The River East Transcona Teachers Association gave us $100 to use for this effort. With the $100 we bought jumbo Freezes. The Freezes were sold $1 for half or $2 for a whole jumbo Freeze. All the money we made went towards the Children’s Hospital Foundation. So this year, the K-Kids club have clearly donated over $3000 locally and internationally.

Jump Rope for Heart Thank you Springfield Heights students for being Heart Heroes! The Jump Rope for Heart event held at Springfield Heights School on May 31st reinforced the importance of healthy living and social responsibil-ity. Students from grades 1 to 5 took part in skipping and fundraising for the Heart and Stroke Founda-tion. They surpassed last year's goal and raised an amazing $1054. Thank you for the generous dona-tions. The funds raised were presented to Teresa Bowerman from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and are vital for heart disease, stroke research and health education in Manitoba.

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BIG THANK YOU! ЩИРО ДЯКУЄМО!

The students, teachers, and parents in the English Ukrainian Bilingual Program would like to say thank

you to all the supporters and donors of our program this year! A big thank you to the Carpathia Credit

Union for many years of continued support. This year, thanks to their donations, we were able to or-

ganize many learning activities and field trips dedicated to celebrating the 125th anniversary of the

first Ukrainians coming to Canada.

Finally, on behalf of all the children and teachers, we would like to say thank you to the EUBP Parents

Committee for their support and dedication of our students' Ukrainian education. The following events

were funded through the money raised by our parents this year:

-Annual Fall Barbecue

- St. Nicholas assembly

-"I Love to Read in Ukrainian" with Chief Peguis school students

-Koliada, Christmas Caroling

-Pysanka Workshop

-Easter Breakfast

-A visit from Ukrainian author Marsha Forchuk-Skrypuch

-Annual Year End Field Trip

-125th Anniversary of First Ukrainian in Canada art activity

-Grade 5 Awards Assembly

Thank you all for your on-going generosity and support for our program. It is truly appreciated!

Fire Safety House Call 911 if there is a fire! That is one of the things the Kin-dergarten to Grades 3/4 classes learned when the Fire Safe-ty House parked in front of our school. Each class had a short tour where we learned to do the following things if there is a fire in your home: 1) Go quickly, but not too quickly. 2) Use stairs instead of an elevator. 3) In a two storey house, call out of a window for help

saying “Fire!”. 4) Crawl rather than walk because hot air and smoke rise. 5) Feel the door before going through it. Hot means

“Stop!” At the end of the tour we had the opportunity to jump out of the fire safety house, just like we would if we needed to in our homes. By Grade 2/3 EUBP Class Room 10

R.A.D. Recycle All Day! Mary from the Green Action Centre visited the R.A.D. Team and the grade 3 classes on June 8. Here are a few facts that we learned from her: If you recycle one aluminum can, it can power a television for three hours! If a classroom keeps a box with recycled paper in it for a year, forty trees will be saved! A 12 foot tree only produces over 80 paper bags. The week of June 19-23 was then designated as R.A.D. week—Recycle All Day. Each day was dedicated to a different activity so we could practice being kind and generous to our planet, Earth, by collecting a recyclable or participating in an environmental activity.

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Thank you to all the staff, students and parents! for a successful Spring Musical! We've had so much fun this year developing our recorder skills in the music rooms! For all current grade 3 and 4 students, please remember that your recorders will be needed for the next school year. Keep them safe and clean, and practice a little throughout the summer. Remember: Left hand on top Right hand on the bottom Say "too" for each note Use only a small breath And cover the holes with flat fingers! See you next year! From the SHS music department, Mrs. Courtney & Ms. Finlay

Bicycle Safety Tips

Bicycle Safety Top Ten Rules of the Road For Summer! 1. Wear your helmet.

2. Obey traffic rules.

3. Keep to the right.

4. Shoulder check.

5. Turn carefully.

6. Be careful near parked cars.

7. Watch out for moving cars.

8. Watch for pedestrians

9. Been visible

10. Stay away from busy streets.

PBIS It’s almost the end of the school year and our students have been beeeeezy fol-lowing our school expectations which are to be Respectful, Responsible and Safe. Every time a student is caught following an expectation, they receive a dolphin dollar which is then placed in a large flower along with all the other dolphin dollars that were received. On June 22nd, the entire school had a picnic to celebrate achieving our goal of dolphin dollars received. Way to go SHS students and staff! On May 12th, Room 27 and 28 had two police officers present a campaign called “Cool 2Be kind”. The Cool 2Be Kind campaign is an initiative of the Winnipeg Police Association and focuses on teaching youth in grades K-8 the value of being kind. They presented us with $500.00 in which we will use to buy new recess equipment. The lunch program also provided us with $500.00 to use towards recess equipment.

A big thank you goes out to the lunch program and the Winnipeg Police Association!

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Parent News...

General PAC News

As this school year comes to a close, and staff and students alike are anxiously awaiting the beginning of summer, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the parents and family members who have volunteered their time and efforts at the school this year. Whether you’ve helped out in a classroom, on a field trip or other school events, at a PAC meeting or event; basically any time you have lent to the school, thank you all. It’s all of you volunteers who help make it extra special for our kids, and I know the staff appreciate it just as much. I would like to wish everyone a safe and wonderful summer, with time to en-joy the outdoors, holidays and that family time we all need in our busy lives. PAC will be here once again for our first meeting on Tuesday, September 12th at 6:30pm in the library. If you’ve never been to a PAC meeting, please come out and see what it’s all about. It’s open to all parents, and you can start by simply coming to hear all the details of the meeting, or jump right into volun-teering your time at one of our events throughout the year. You choose how much you want to be involved! We hope to see you there! Have a great summer! Morgan Fraser PAC President

Lunch Program News

Curious about how we, as parents, organ-

ize supervision of our children during lunch? Ever wonder where your money

goes? Want to get involved?

The committee meets in the evening eve-ry 6-8 weeks. We determine the budget for the year, and support the program

coordinator who is responsible for the day to day administration of the program.

Our next meeting will be in the new school year. If you want to get involved,

contact the chair at mike.fuellbrandt@gmail.com

Medication

Please pick up your child’s medi-cation prior to the summer vaca-tion. Please note that medica-tion cannot be sent home with

your child. If your child re-quires medication at school in September, please contact the

office for an Authorization Form or obtain one from our

website under Documents and Forms.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING

We would like to thank you for your help in reducing the risks at school for our students who have life-threatening food allergies. Your support of our re-quest to refrain from sending peanuts and nuts is

greatly appreciated. We realize this may have posed some inconvenience for you when preparing lunches and snacks for your child. However, eliminating the

allergic substances from the classroom is an im-portant part of reducing the risk of a fatal reaction occurring at school; considering the fact that a very small amount can cause a severe Allergic reaction,

leading to death within minutes.

Lost and Found

There are a large number items in the lost and found bin. If you are at the school, please check for lost items at the lost and found bin located in the hall near the gym doors. All unclaimed items will be donated to a charity at the end of June.

End of Day Arrangements

Please try to keep consistent end of the day arrangements for your child. June is extremely busy for the school office and it is difficult to get information to students about chang-es for the end of day pick-up. We appreciate when parents/caregivers provide a consistent and safe procedure for the end of the school day. Also, try to refrain from picking up children early unless ab-solutely necessary. Having to gather student’s belongings, homework, etc. to leave early is disruptive to classroom in-struction.

Release of Report Cards We are unable to issue report cards earlier than our last day of school, June 30th. If your child will not be in attendance on June 30th, please let your child’s teacher know what you would like the school to do with your child’s report card by providing us with one of the following: 1. Written permission allowing someone else to pick up the report card. 2. A stamped, self-addressed envelope, so that we can mail your child’s report

(suggested size 9 x 12).

Warmer Weather and

Clothing

With the arrival of warmer weather, please ensure that discretion is used and that appropriate clothing is worn. No tank tops, muscle shirts, short shorts or spaghetti straps are permitted. Thank you for your cooperation.