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UPCOMING EVENTS
Friday January 16th 2015 PA
Day—No school for students
French Immersion Grade 1
Registration starts January
16th 2015. www.yrdsb.ca for
more details.
Junior Kindergarten Regis-
tration starts January 16th
2015. Check www.yrdsb.ca
for more details.
The VIP program with Con-
stable French is occurring
weekly for grades 6.
At the end of January there
is a Junior Co-’ed Volleyball
tournament at Woodland.
Spirit Days!
January: Fandom Friday (Wear
your favourite team colours or
jersey.) (Date to follow)
February: PJ Day (Date to follow)
Family Dance—See note un-
der School Council
Parents and families please
slow down and be extra care-
ful in parking loop. Do not
double park in the Kiss and
Ride.
If you are not receiving
weekly emails from the
school please email
THE WOODLAND WORD2014 120 Royal Orchard Blvd. Thornhill, Ontario L3T 3C9 905 889 4910
Website: www.woodland.ps.yrdsb.ca Email: [email protected]
Superintendent: Jackie Young Trustee: Susan Geller [email protected]
Welcome to January 2015
Please note that school, newsletters and School Council information can be accessed at
www.woodland.ps.yrdsb.ca
A Message From the Principal Dear Parents/Guardians
Welcome back! Happy New Year to all our families and all the best in 2015!
Before the holiday break, Woodland P.S. held a food drive for Holiday Heroes in
support of local food banks. Families were very generous and we had a great response. Thank
you for your support of this initiative and for translating our December Character Trait of
Empathy into action. When we work together, rich learning opportunities happen for kids!
As we begin the New Year, I look forward to meeting more of the wonderful families
here at Woodland and working together to support the students for their continued success.
Yours in education, Mme Veronica St. Pierre
Outdoor Recess in Cold Weather
The York Region District School Board is always concerned about the health and well-
being of all our students. One of the components of a healthy school culture includes
opportunities for fresh air and outdoor activities.
As with any condition at the school level, principals have discretion to implement
indoor recess breaks in cases of extreme cold and high wind chills.
At Woodland, we monitor the weather daily and make decisions appropriately for the
conditions. We feel it is important for children to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and have
a chance to move and run. We ask that you send your children to school dressed for the winter
weather – hats, boots, mitts and for younger children – snow pants. Thank you for your
cooperation.
SCHOOL HOURS
First bell 8:05 am
School Starts 8:10 am
Recess 9:50-10:20 am
Lunch: 12:00-1:00 pm
Dismissal: 2:40 pm
2014-2015 Yearbook Photos Needed
Mme Moussay, Mme Valenzuela and Mme Witjes (all staff volunteers) are putting to-gether the 2014-2015 Yearbook. It will be a treasured memory for all the students and families to enjoy. The cost will range from $20-$25.00 depending on the number of pages we end up creating.
We are using Herff Jones Inc. Together we have set up an easy to use system for STU-DENTS/STAFF AND PARENTS to submit their jpeg photos i.e. special moments from field trips, presentations, dances, sports and clubs to the yearbook. Herff Jones has secure encrypted servers to protect the photos. The process is confidential and the pictures can only be viewed by the above named staff. To start downloading your pictures please go
to www.hjeshare.com <http://www.hjeshare.com> and the school code
is: woodland A complete flyer describing this e-share program for our yearbook can be found on our school website under School Forms “E Share Woodland PS Herff
Transportation and Busing—Winter
School bus service may be cancelled from time to time due to inclement weather, extreme tem-
peratures and/or poor road conditions. In these cases, parents and students should plan ahead for
alternate care/transportation arrangements.
If buses are cancelled in the morning, they will not operate in the afternoon.
If you transport your child in the morning you will need to pick them up at
the end of the day.
YRDSB cancellation decisions are made through consultation with school bus companies servicing
York Region. Decisions are based on several factors including precipitation, air temperature and
road conditions. A decision to cancel school bus transportation may be system wide (where all
buses in York Region are cancelled) or municipality specific (where buses in one or more munici-
palities are cancelled).
Please note the following:
Parents, students and school staff are asked to access the following radio and
television stations after 6:00 a.m. to receive bus cancellation information:
a) WEBSITES: YRDSB www.yrdsb.ca, Woodland PS http://www.yrdsb.ca/schools/
woodland.ps/Pages/default.aspx OR School Bus City www.schoolbuscity.com
b) RADIO: AM Radio Stations —590 AM, 640 AM, 680 AM, 860 AM, 1010 AM, 1050 AM, 1540
AM 1580 AM
FM Radio Stations—88.5 FM, 89.9 FM, 92.5 FM, 93.1 FM, 94.1 FM, 94.9 FM, 95.9 FM, 97.3 FM,
98.1 FM, 99.1 FM 99.9 FM 101.1 FM102.1 FM 104.5 FM 100.7 FM 107.1 FM
c) TELEVISION:
CITY TV, THE A-CHANNEL, CFTO TV, THE WEATHER NETWORK, GLOBAL NEWS
D) TELEPHONE: Call for bus transportation messages 1 877 330 3001
Girls On Track Registration is underway for the Girls on Track team for girls in
grades 6-8. One team is full and the second team is filling up
quickly. Parents can visit www.girlsontherun.ca for more infor-
mation and to register their daughters. Please be advised that
all registration occurs online and that once the team has filled,
registration will close.
Parents please feel free to attend the Council Meetings and stay informed, you don’t need to be a
voting member. If everyone shares a little of their time so many awesome opportunities can arise.
The Council meeting dates this year will be as follows in the library 7:00—8:30 pm:
February 9th, April 13th and May 25, of 2015.
Woodland Family Dance
June 4 2015
Organizers have begun their planning for the
FAMILY DANCE and are looking for
Silent Auction donations as well as
volunteers. Please email
[email protected] if available. More details to follow on the school website.
2014-2015 School Council
Adriana Ordonez, Stephanie Bell, Jothi Paramar, Sheliza Jetha, Kathryn Quirke, Genevieve Seabrook,
Joanne Spillman, Jennifer Lui, Katherine Sheridan, Jackie Argue, Hilary Jacob, Chris Vaughan, Janet Morse,
Moujan Nabavi and Tewfik Zitouni.
GENTLY USED GAMES AND BOOKS NEEDED! School Council is looking to assist the students at Woodland PS on those indoor recess days!
If you have complete games and books that you are no longer using, please consider donating
them to the school for the students to use. Send them in with your child or drop them off
at the office. Thank you!
January 2015 Woodland P.S. 120 Royal Orchard Blvd
Thornhill, Ontario
905 889 4910
WEBSITE
http://www.yrdsb.ca/
schools/woodland.ps/Pages/
default.aspx
SCHOOL HOURS
First bell 8:05 am
School Starts 8:10 am
Recess 9:50-10:20 am
Lunch: 12:00-1:00 pm
Dismissal: 2:40 pm
February 2 2015 PA Day
February 16 2015
Family Day—No School
Inclement Weather
Check the following:
www.yrdsb.ca
www.schoolbuscity.com
S Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9
VIP GRADE
7
10
11 12 Day 1
School
Council
7-8:30 pm
Choir @ Lunch
Ten Ten
Sports Begins
13 Day 2
Pizza Forms
Due
VIP Gr 6
14 Day 3
15 Day 4
VIP Gr 6 16
PA Day
No
School
17
18 19 Day 5
VIP Gr 6 20 Day 1
Choir @
Lunch
21 Day 2 22 Day 3 23 Day 4
Pizza Day 24
25 26 Day 5 27 Day 1
Choir @
Lunch
28 Day 2
Junior Co-ed
Volleyball Tour-
nament @
Woodland
Gym closed
29 Day 3
Junior Co-Ed
Volleyball
Area Finals
@ Baythorn
30 Day 4
Pizza Day 31
