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Comet Spirit, Achievement
and Involvement Soaring!
What a great month May was here
at Quaker Road School! On the
sports front, May was ―Track and
Field‖ month here at Quaker Road.
All of our students in Grades 3-8
participated very well at our
School Meet at Centennial Secon-
dary School, and we sent just shy
of 60 students to represent Quaker
Road School at the Regional Track
Meet held at Pride Field in Ridge-
way. Our athletes competed
against some formidable oppo-
nents and did an outstanding job
representing Quaker Road
School. Success is measured in
many ways, and the spirit, lead-
ership and pride that our stu-
dents showed was more inspir-
ing than any First Place Ribbon
would bring. Well done athletes
and coaches and event coordina-
tors, Miss Fulford, Mrs. De-
gasperis, and Mrs. Secord.
Quaker Road is sending 8 ath-
letes on to participate at the
DSBN Track and Field Meet on
June 16, 2014 at N.O.C. in St.
Catharines.
Mr. Leduc and Mr. Winger also
had the pleasure of taking a
group of talented ball hockey
players in Grades 5-8 to partici-
pate in the Annual DSBN Ball
Hockey Tournament held in St.
Catharines. Given this was
Quaker Road‘s first time partici-
pating in this event, our focus for
the day was to have some fun,
and compete well. Our boys and
girls had some different plans as
they put together 4 incredible
games to win their Divisional
Championship. Great job, team!
Thank you to our parents who
helped with driving, and cheer-
ing on our Comets at this event.
As we are now in to June we
have a very busy month to end
our school year as you will see in
the calendar section of the news-
letter. Our Grade 3 & 6 students
are focused on completing the
EQAO testing that will showcase
their academic strengths. We
have many end-of-year trips and
experiences planned for stu-
dents in all grades and of course
our Grade 8 Graduation is just
around the corner, marking a
turning point for some of our
students as they transition from
elementary school to secondary
school. The School Advisory
Council &Fun Fair committee
have been very busy planning
events for our Family Fun Fair
event on Thursday, June 12 from 5-
8 pm. Staff and Students are look-
ing forward to a great night of fun
and excitement with our school
community.
As we end our school year, we will
also be recognizing some staffing
changes for the upcoming year.
Due to a decline in student popu-
lation at Quaker Road, we are
having to say a very sad farewell
to two extraordinary teachers at
Quaker Road. Mrs. Weber-
Tonnos will be moving to Oak-
wood School , and Mrs. H. Haining
will be moving over to E.W. Farr
School in Fenwick. We will miss
both of these teachers very much,
as will our students, and we wish
them every success in their new
positions in their new Schools next
year. Mrs. Smalley (grade 5
teacher) will also be off on leave
for next year, spending time with
the new addition to her family, as
will Mrs. Duncan, our wonderful
Educational Assistant. We hope
they both enjoy the exciting times
with new family members!
We look forward to a great end to
another school year at Quaker
Road.
Principal’s Message
June Dates
.June 2—5 EQAO for grade 6
June 10 Art Gallery visits some
of our classes
June 12 - Fun Fair 5-8 pm &
DSBN Special Olympics
June 13—PA Day
June 16 - DSBN Track & Field
June 17 - Volunteer Tea 1:00
PM
June 18 - End of Year BBQ
June 25—Grade 8 Graduation
6:30—8:00 PM at Centennial
H.S. Report Cards Go Home
June 26— Celebration Assembly
to recognize leadership and
student achievement 10 AM
Quaker June 2014
D I S T R I C T S C H O O L B O A R D O F N I A G A R A
Volume 1, Issue 1
June 2014
Integrity Award Winners 2
A sleep routine for kids 4
Quaker students head-
ing to DSBN Track
5
Jump Rope event nets
considerable funds for
Heart & Stroke Fund
6
Classroom organization
for 2014-2015
8
Inside this issue:
The Quaker school yard was
filled with skippers on May
16th for our Jump Rope for
Heart Event.
Page 2 Quaker June 2014
Character in Action at Quaker : INTEGRITY Award Winners
Kindergarten : Landon C.,
Leah K., (Mrs Boon) Beckett
F., Riley L.,(Team Haining)
Noah W., Victoria R-S., (Mrs
Ellis), Grade 1 : Eva C., Ruby
T., Avery C., Grade 2 : Ryan
S., Grade 2 /3 : Hailey H.,
Dawson B., Grade 3 : Rachel
V., Carmeron L., Grade 3/4 :
Dylan L., Jacob M., Grade 5 :
Dalton Slack, Grade 6 : Ryan
S., Carter T., Dean G., Grade
7/8: Easton P., (Bootsma),
Curtis H., Grade 7/8 (Nevar)
William Z., (Mr. Hannahson)
The grade one class had a visit from Dr.Kim Dobson and her
team to discuss oral health. Dr. Dobson is from the 'Dentistry
in the Village' in Fonthill. The children discussed oral health
and the importance of eating the proper foods and taking good
care of their teeth. The children received a bag with a
toothbrush and some goodies to help remind them to brush
regularly and see their dentist at least twice a year!
Page 4 Quaker June 2014
Bedtime can be a very difficult time for anx-
ious children. Anxious children do feel
calmer when things are predictable with
regular routines. However, it takes some
practice to be firm and consistent and to set
limits because anxious children can be de-
manding, difficult to please, and can have
emotional outbursts. Be prepared to spend
several weeks to establish a good routine.
1. Start Early—1 Hour Before Planned Bed-
time
2. Have Your Child Put Their Pajamas On
3. Have a Quiet Activity—Story, Chat Time,
Snack
4. Help Your Child Identify and Feel Their
Body Becoming Relaxed
5. Ensure Your Child Gets Into Their Own
Bed!
6. Help Your Child by Using Relaxation
and Imagery to calm them down
7. Put On Quiet Music or A Tape
8. It‘s OK to Check On Your Child At Regu-
lar Intervals (10-15 minutes), But Only
Check In and Leave (Don‘t get pulled in
by the worry dragons)
From : Tools for Taming and Trapping the
Worry Dragons : Children‘s Workbook—
BCCH 2008 (Thanks Mrs Toews-Peplinski)
A sleep routine parents
can use
Don’t put your brain on
pause for the summer!!
With easy access to Dreambox (every
student has an account they can access
through Quaker‘s Destiny) every stu-
dent at Quaker can keep their math
skills sharp through the summer. If stu-
dents use Dreambox for as little as 15-20
minutes a day through the summer they
can actually retain and even progress in
their math abilities before they begin
their next grade in September.
Don‟t underestimate the importance of
a good night‟s sleep for teens as well.
Nicole McCance, a Toronto-based mental health
expert, says that sleep is crucial to the healthy de-
velopment of teen‘s brains. In the last two years,
she says she‘s seen an increase in teens struggling
with lack of sleep, and blames social media—with
kids online until the wee hours of the night– for the
increase.
―Sleep deprivation causes negative thinking, and
its hard for teens to get out of it, because their body
is so tired. It also causes irritability, which parents
often attribute to just being a teen and hormonal.
Lack of sleep wears the body down, contributing to
depression, sadness, and a general lack of interest
in life,‖ she says.
- The Globe and Mail, May 11, 2014.
Page 5
The Quaker Track Meet at Centennial H.S. a Huge Success
The weather cooperated on Tuesday, May 6th and staff, students and
parents were thrilled to see some awesome performances from our
grades 3 to 8 students. Quaker sent 56 students to the area 2 meet at
Pride Field in Ridgeway on Monday, May 12th and again the weather pro-
vided us with a great day of athleticism and teamwork. Congratulations
to the following students who qualified to move on to the DSBN wide
meet on June 16th.
GRADE 4
Jacob Millar—800 m 1st, 400 m. 1st
Ryan Gomm—200 m. 3rd
GRADE 6
Carter Teal—100 m. 1st, 200 m. 1st
Grace Teal—100 m. 1st, 200 m. 1st
David Greczkowski—1500 m. 1st
GRADE 7
Jenn Van Schyndel—1500 m. 1st, 200 m. 2nd
GRADE 8
Alex Barnes—1500 m. 1st, 800 m. 2nd
Important Dates in the
Elementary School
Calendar 2014-2015
Sept.– January
September 2 : First Day of School
September 12 : Early Release Day
October 10 : Professional Activity
Day
October 13 : Thanksgiving Day
November 5 : PIC Conference
November 14 : Professional Activ-
ity Day
December 22 : Winter Break Be-
gins
January 5 : First Day of Class af-
ter Holiday
January 16 : Professional Activity
Day
Research by Carol Dweck has iden-
tified two sets of beliefs that people
can have about students‘ intelli-
gence (and that students can have
about their own intelligence). They
may have a fixed mind-set, in which
they believe that intelligence is a
static trait: some students are smart
and some are not, and that‘s that.
Or they may have a growth mind-
set, in which they believe that intel-
ligence can be developed by vari-
ous means—for example, through
effort and instruction. A growth
mind-set doesn't imply that every-
one is the same or that anyone
could be Einstein, but it does imply
that everyone‘s intellectual ability
can grow—even Einstein wasn‘t
Einstein before he put in years of
passionate, relentless effort.
BOTTOM LINE : Students‟ mind-
sets have a direct influence on
their grades and teaching stu-
dents to have a growth mind-set
raises their grades and achieve-
ment test scores significantly.
Page 6 Quaker June 2014
Quaker Road you are amazing!! The Community Spirit our staff and students rou-
tinely exhibit is heartening. We even had Intermediate students with casts on
their legs trying to participate in our Jump Rope for Heart activity. Our students
and the Quaker community raised $4 634.75 for the Heart & Stroke Foundation.
Quaker staff get involved in the
Rankin Run to raised money for
Cancer Research on Saturday, May
24th. The staff who were in atten-
dance were Ms. Haining, Mrs.
Boon, Mrs. Smalley, Mrs. Toews-
Peplinski, and Mrs. Haining.
When the Comet had a chance to
speak to Mrs Haining she noted
that, “I love that day, it is amazing
to see 1 300 people come together
to raise awareness for cancer as
well as money being raised to help
Niagara based cancer research
and survivors”. Next year we are
hoping to have more Quaker par-
ticipants.
Page 7
Grade 6 , 7 & 8 students participated in the
Annual Silver Birch student conference.
These students were members of the Quaker
Road Forest of Reading book clubs. Ms Sims
ran this club in our school library during nu-
trition breaks from January to April. Thank
you to the parent council for purchasing the
books for students to read.
Fun Fair Announcement by Seth Johnson
One of our Junior students has really shown marked improve-
ment in literacy this year. Check out his announcement about
Fun Fair
Good Morning Quaker Road, today I‘m here to tell
you about our annual upcoming FUN FAIR!!!! It will
take place on June 12th at the school, and it will
open up at 5:00 pm—8:00 pm. It is a great night to
just hang out with friends but mostly have FUN with
friends and family. We will be offering FUN stuff like
Bouncy castles, face painting, lots of games, BBQ,
cotton candy and much more. A special thanks to all
of the grade 8‘s and staff for helping us with the
games and food. We really hope to see all of the
kids and parents at the fun fair and thanks for read-
ing this and have a great day Comets!!
- By SETH JOHNSON
Book Fair „Knocks it out of the
Park” with Fund-raising achieve-
ment.
Quaker‟s Spring Book Fair raised over
$1900, of which 50% will be directed to
support our library. This is the second
book fair of the year and would not have
been possible without the efforts of Mrs.
Shannon and Ms. Fulford who put in
many hours organizing the event. Many
parents also volunteered time to help
run the book fair. Thanks goes out to
our Quaker community for again sup-
porting this event and student literacy.
Madame Sims our French
teacher/school librarian will be using
these funds to purchase more text re-
sources for our library.
Classroom Organization for
Quaker School for 2014-2015
Kindergarten 1 : Mrs. Boon
Kindergarten 2 : Mrs. Ellis
Grade 1 : Mrs. Bernard
Grade 1/2 : Mrs. Shannon
Grade 2/3 : Mrs. Longo
Grade 3 : Mrs. Toews-Peplinski
Grade 4 : Mrs. Secord
Grade 5/6 : TBA
Grade 6 : Mrs. Fulford
Grade 7/8 : Ms. Haining
Grade 7/8 : Mr. Bootsma
FSP—1 : Mr. King
FSP—2 : Mr. Hannahson
FSL : Ms. Sims
LRT : Mrs. Degasperis
Prep : Mr. Secord
Prep (.25) : Mrs. Dickson
Student shows that reading is a key to
building knowledge.
Reading response based on;
Space Robots ‗Self-Repair‘ means fewer space walks
From : CBC News
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/)
Its important to read because when you read you
learn a lot, in fact I learned about robots that re-
paired the ISS today by reading. When you read
you want to learn more and when I kept reading I
got to watch robots doing work in space live! Read-
ing can lead to tons of surprises and because I read
and I got to watch a once in a lifetime experience.
- Ryan S. (gr. 6)
Was Riel a Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist, continued.
killed a single man in battle, instead he
viewed the battlefield from his horse, with a
cross held above his head. The reason Louis
Riel was fighting was that he was trying to
free the Metis from being under the govern-
ments strict rule over them. He was striving
for a country were the Metis had a represen-
tative spot on the government, had posses-
sion of their own land and
I think that Louis Riel wasn‘t a terrorist be-
cause he never did anything wrong in my
opinion. His mother was a Metis, so he felt
obligated to lead his own people. He didn‘t
want to fight and was forced into it because
the government refused his request and after
he wrote a letter on what the Metis wanted.
He was actually a very peaceful man. He
gave himself up to the government in the end
without complaint. Louis Riel was truly a
freedom fighter.
- Research and writing by Aiza M. (gr.7)
Was Louis Riel a Freedom Fighter or a Ter-
rorist? (State your opinion and back it up
with historical facts).
Louis Riel was a Metis leader that fought for their
rights. But in the process of defending them, many
battles and fights were started. Because of that,
everyone started looking at Riel with a different
opinion in mind. After his people killed the gov-
ernment official Scott, everyone started hating him.
Louis Riel became a wanted man, on the run from
the government.
I think that Louis Riel was a freedom fighter, even
though he killed Scott, because he didn‘t do this
out of hatred, but because he needed to prove his
point of freedom for the Metis. Riel also never had