Volume 6

February 2019

Lord Kitchener Elementary School 3455 West King Edward Avenue Vancouver, BC V6S 0C7

Tel: 604-713-5454 Fax: 604-713-5457

http://go.vsb.bc.ca/schools/kitchener

The students and staff of Lord Kitchener school acknowledge that we live, learn and work on the

traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Coast Salish peoples.

A Musqueam

Welcome

Happy Lunar New Year 2019 – Year of the Pig

The Year of the Earth Pig begins on February 5th, 2019. The Pig is twelfth in the 12-year cycle of animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Families are welcome to attend our Lunar New Year Assembly on Monday, February 11th at 10:50 a.m. in the school gym. There will be a Lion Dance, and performances by students and parents.

We wish you prosperity and luck!

Cross Boundary Applications

Those families who do not live in the Lord Kitchener catchment area but would like to attend the school in September 2019 can apply online from February 1st to 28th, 2019. Complete an online cross boundary application: https://xb.vsb.bc.ca . For more information: govsb.ca/crossboundary.

Ready Set Learn!

On Monday, January 14th Lord Kitchener hosted an event for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. Ready Set Learn! was well attended again this year. Brooke from DANCEPL3Y kept everyone moving and smiling with a physical literacy program that engaged the children for more than 45 minutes. A tour of the Kindergarten, and a snack while meeting new friends rounded off the afternoon. Four senior students were great leaders and hosts of the event. Thanks to Mia, Isabella, Kaiel and Nicole from Division 3!

Pink Shirt Anti-Bullying Day

The staff and students of Lord Kitchener School will be participating in a Canada-wide annual Anti-Bullying Day on

Wednesday, February 27th . We encourage everyone to wear either a pink T-shirt or something pink to show that we are united in taking a stand against bullying. In 2007, David Shepherd, and Travis Price of Berwick, Nova Scotia, distributed 50 pink shirts after a male ninth grade student was bullied for wearing a pink shirt during the first day of school. Since that time each February, we continue to wear pink to remind everyone that bullying is not tolerated.

SAFE ARRIVAL PHONE LINE

If your child is going to be late or absent from school please call the phone line before 9:00am. Record student’s name, division # and reason for absence.

A new attendance and safe arrival system has been implemented

and it is important that the office knows of all student absences

and lates, even if you have communicated with the teachers.

Thanks for helping keep our children safe!

604-713-5159 and press “43”

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February 2019 PAC News

Message from PAC (Parent Advisory Council) Please join us at our next PAC Meeting on Tuesday, February 19th – 7 pm in the Library. We will be welcoming a special guest speaker to present information about the EarthBites (Outdoor Classroom) program. Childminding will be available. Lord Kitchener PAC

Outdoor Classroom Update

EarthBites PAC meeting presentation Tuesday February 19th Join us at the next PAC meeting, February 19th for an overview of the EarthBites program. Suzanne Fielden, founder of EarthBites will be visiting to give a presentation highlighting the program and to answer questions about current and future year options. EarthBites is an in-school field trip program supported by PAC fundraising and family fees. Students are visited by an urban gardener and registered nutritionist 5 times a year to learn about growing food and creating nutritious snacks.

GRADE 7 VALENTINE’S DAY BAKE SALE!!

On February 14th at 12:30 and 3:00, the Grade 7s will be hosting a bake sale in the Common area,

outside of the Gym.

They are raising funds for their grad events and for a legacy gift to the school, so bring your loonies and

toonies for this delicious event!

EarthBites Recipe - Simple Seed Butter

Our recipe this winter has been a big hit with the students, staff and parents.

Ingredients

· 1 cup raw sunflower seeds · ¾ cup raw pumpkin seeds

· 3 tbsp hemp hearts

· 3 tbsp sunflower oil · Pinch sea salt

· 1 tbsp honey · Cinnamon (optional)

· 1 tsp vanilla extract · 1 head of celery

Directions 1. Pre-roast seeds 8-10 minutes at 325F, cool

2. Process seeds and hemp hearts a in food processor for 2-3 minutes, stopping to scrape the bowl often 3. Add oil and process for another 2-3 minutes (the butter will clump up then start to break down)

4. Add salt, honey and cinnamon (if using) 5. Process 2-3 minutes, adding a touch oil if to thin, if needed

6. Add vanilla and run the processor another 30secs to smooth the butter

7. Cut small “logs” of celery to be used as a spoon for the butter 8. Garnish with extra seeds, cinnamon, raisins

9. Enjoy!

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Contact Information

Principal: Debra Nothstein 604-713-5454

Vice-Principal: Angela Stewart 604-713-5454

Administrative Assistant:

Extra Clerical:

Kim Roe

Dawn Lincoln

604-713-5454

604-713-5454

Director of Instruction: Richard Zerbe 604-713-5097

VSB Trustee: Oliver Hanson 604-713-5000

Winter Weather

There may be times when schools must be closed due to poor weather conditions such as a heavy snowfall. To find out if the schools are closed due to snow the Vancouver School Board will post information starting at 6am on its website at www.vsb.bc.ca and it will also inform local media stations, including: CKNW AM 980 Radio, CBC AM 690, FM 88.1 Radio, NEWS AM 1130 Radio Fairchild AM 1470 Radio, Global BC TV,CBC TV, CTV BC TV,CITY TV

Student safety is the first priority of the Vancouver School Board. Schools will be kept open except under extreme circumstances to provide the option of attendance for all, but the decision to attend is the responsibility of the family.

LORD KITCHENER SWIM TEAM

Congratulations to the Lord Kitchener swimmers who have participated in our first two meets. On Saturday, January 19th, a dozen members of the team participated in an afternoon development swim meet at Lord Byng Pool. The swimmers had a chance to practice individual and relay events. Everyone swam incredibly well and learned a great deal about swim meets. On January 25th and January 26th twenty members of the team participated in the St. George’s Swim Meet. Many members of the team set personal best times and many ribbons and medals were won by the team. It was incredibly exciting and fun to watch the team compete.

We have at least one more swim meet on Saturday, February 2nd, at Lord Byng and we are hoping most of the team will be able to participate in the meet. Good luck to everyone. Some members of the team may also be participating in the B.C. Swim Meet in Victoria! Best wishes to all those going.

Also, well done to the team for their training efforts. Twice a week the team has been training from 7:15 am to 8:30 am. They began their training in November and the progress in the technique and speed has been tremendous.

A huge thank you to Anna Nelson for all her coordinating of entries and emails and to the entire Nelson family for their help at the meets. Thank you to Albert Ho and Nathalie Walshaw for keeping track of attendance at all of the early morning practices. Also a big thank you to our head coach, Phil Skinder.

Gillian Wilson-Haffenden

Thank You!

An additional THANK YOU to Ms. Luke and the Me to We club for their amazing help wrapping all of the hamper boxes for our Sister School families for Christmas.

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LORD KITCHENER BASKETBALL

The basketball season is well under way and all four teams are having fun and working hard. We had six pre-season games against ICS and these were extremely helpful in developing our game skills and preparing us for our season. All the teams have already shown significant development in their skills and game strategies. There are four more weeks of games for the juniors and three more weeks for the seniors. The senior teams will then hopefully be participating in the Vancouver School Board Competitive Basketball Tournament. Best wishes to all the teams.

Thank you to Wendy Epp and Cam Nelson who have been the lead coaches of the Senior Boys’ Team and Sev Yeterian who has been helping to coach the Junior Boys’ Team. Also thank you to Ms. Schouten who has been assisting with the Junior Girls’ Team.

It has been very enjoyable coaching and refereeing the teams.

Gillian Wilson-Haffenden

Thanks Natalie and Chloe! Thank you to all those families who purchased 50/50 tickets at the December Craft and Carol Night. And a special thanks to the Snip family who's ticket was drawn and chose to donate their winnings back to the two charities that Natalie and Chloe selected:

BCSPCA and Make a Wish Foundation. With your help the girls raised $300 which was split between the two charities.

Author Visit for Our K-3 Students

Author Deborah Hodge visited the Library on Wednesday, January 23, and shared her love of writing with the Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 students. She showed beautiful images from her visits to the Pacific West Coast and talked how she uses them for her inspiration in her book "West Coast Wild". Deborah read her book, "Bear's Winter Party" and gave us a sneak peek at her soon to be released " Cooking With Bear". She topped the fun morning off with a chance for students to touch some of the furs from animals she writes about in her non-fiction books.

A special thank you goes to our Kitchener PAC for providing the funds for this event.

Ms. Shepherd-Dynes

Spring Break Camp 2019

Week March 25-28th

Kitsilano Gymnastics Club will will be offering Spring Camp programs at Lord Tennyson. Apart from gymnastics our program includes team sports, movie afternoon, social games and some arts & crafts, field trip (Wednesday). Monday - Gym & team sport in the afternoon Tuesday - Gym & Vancouver Aquatic Centre Wednesday - Field trip to: Vancouver Aquarium Thursday - Gymnastics & Movie Friday - Gym & Fun time

Cost is 210 + GST for the full day

9-2:30; Half-Day 185 + GST; Ages

5-12. Drop-ins welcome at $45 per

day, Gymnastics BC insurance $10 per week.

Please let me know if you are interested in signing up your child for this program or have any further questions; kitsilanogymnastics@live.ca or sportkidsgym@gmail.com;

604-349-8167

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FEBRUARY 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

3 4 -PAC Hot Lunch –Gr 7s Curling -Div 9/10 Project

Opera

5 -Lunar New Year

-Milton Randall Drumming -Earthbites Div.. 10,9

6 -Milton Randall

Performance 2pm –Project Opera Div. 9 & 10

7 8 -PAC Hot Lunch -K Vision Screening @ 9am

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10 11 -PAC Hot Lunch

–Lunar New Year Assembly & Lion Dance @ 10:50am

12 -Earthbites Div. 7, 11, 6

13 -Pizza Day -Project Opera Div. 9 & 10

14 -Valentines Day –Gr 7 Bake Sale @ 12:30pm and 3:00pm

15 -Curriculum Implementation Day

NO SCHOOL

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17 18 BC FAMILY

DAY

NO SCHOOL

19 -PAC Meeting @7pm in the library -Earthbites Div. 4,3,5

20 -Spirit Day “PJ Day” -Div 9 & 10 Heritage Day

21 -Project Opera Div. 9 & 10 -HIP HOP starts

22 -PAC Hot Lunch

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24 25 -PAC Hot Lunch –Project Opera Div. 9 & 10

26 27 -Pink Shirt Day

28 -HIP HOP Performance

MARCH 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 -PAC Hot Lunch -Ks Soapstone Carving

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3 4 -PAC Hot Lunch –Gr 7s Curling -Div. 9 & 10 Project Opera

5 -Earthbites Div. 17,15,16

6 -Class Photos

-Pizza Day -Parent Confer-ences Early Dismissal 2:00pm

7 -Parent Conferences Early Dismissal @ 2pm

8 -PAC Hot Lunch –Me to We “We Are Silent” Day

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10 11 -PAC Hot Lunch –Author Visit Gr 4/5

12 -Spirit Day “Look Alike Day” -Earthbites Div. 19, 18

13 -Div. 18 & 19 to

Carousel Theatre -Div. 11 Art Gallery –Byng Jazz Band at Kitchener

14 15 -PAC Hot Lunch

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17 18

19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK