April 2019 Issue 8

Victoria Public School 130 Wharncliffe Rd South London, ON N6J 2K5 Tel: 519-452-8640 / Fax: 519-452-8649 Email: victoria.london@tvdsb.ca Website: https://victoria.tvdsb.ca

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Principal’s Message

Spring is finally here and we are hoping we have seen the last of the snow! With the beginning of the new season and spring showers, which unfortunately also bring the mud before the spring flowers, we ask that students please be sent with outdoor footwear (rubber boots or outdoor shoes) suitable for playing in the yard. With the good weather soon upon us, we will also be holding fire drills, a lockdown drill and a tornado drill in the near future so that staff and students are prepared in the event of an emergency. A big thank you to all who attended and organized Victoria's Movie Night last week. What a great way to build and celebrate community! We also invite you to support the upcoming Poetry Cafe, Mad Science Night and Jump Rope for Heart event to be held this month. We would like to remind you that Friday, April 5th is a Professional Devel-opment Day. On that day, our staff will be involved in professional devel-opment activities related to the delivery of the Ontario Curriculum, spe-cifically in the area of numeracy.

Yours sincerely,

Julie Bujouves

CHECKOUT OUR WEBSITE

Please refer to website for all updated events within our school and community.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Apr 5—PA Day

Apr 12—Poetry Café

Apr 17—Mad Science

Apr 19—Good Friday

Apr 22—Easter Monday

Julia Bujouves, Principal

Renee Kellerman, Administrative Assistant

Purveen Skinner, Superintendent

Sheri Polhill, Trustee Ruth Tisdale Trustee

Please keep us informed of changes to a

student’s address and

contact phone numbers. ** Reminder … Do not park in the no parking zones in parking lot and

on streets by crosswalks.**

ANONYMOUS REPORTING Victoria Public School is committed to providing a safe school environment for all members of our school community. As part of our Safe Schools strategy we have established an online reporting mechanism that allows students or parents to report concerns regarding a child, friend, class-mate or student. These concerns may be regarding bullying, health issues, guidance or other concerns. Reports and concerns will be reviewed regularly by the admin-istration and are received anonymously unless the reporter requests a reply. Reports can be through our website or https://forms.tvdsb.ca/Anonymous-Reporting SAFE ARRIVALS

Parents are asked to call SchoolMessen-ger for all student absences or late arri-vals by phone, using the SchoolMessenger App or through the internet.

Phone # - 1-844-305-3756.

Web www.tvdsb.ca/schoolmessenger

This line is available 24 hours a day.

As part of the Thames Valley District School Board’s “Safe Arrivals” procedure, contact must be made for all absences. It is imperative that the phone numbers on file for each student are up-to-date. If no message is received by the school by 9:00 a.m., phone calls will be made to your home/mobile or to your emergency num-bers to verify a student’s absence

Victoria School Council/Home & School Association

Thank you to all who came out to movie night last Friday! We had such a nice group of families of all ages to watch Ralph Breaks the Internet. A big thanks to all the student and parent volunteers who set up and cleaned up, too! Register NOW! Our Parent's Reaching Out grant was approved funding for an all-ages Mad Science Night on April 17th from 6-8pm. This is a FREE event offering a group demonstration in the library followed by 4 break-out ses-sions for up-close experiments in smaller groups. Light refreshments are pro-vided to all. Families must go to www.victoriaparents.com to register for this event. We have only 100 student spaces available! Our monthly school council and home & school association meetings are to-night (April 1st) in the school library. School council meeting at 6:30pm fol-lowed by HSA meeting at 7:00pm. All parents are welcome to join the meet-ings at any point in the year. Lunch Box Orders continue to provide hot lunch selections from restaurants like Domino's Pizza, Subway and Marshall's Pasta every Monday. Orders can be placed up until noon on Sunday every week, if you have not tried these meals yet! Ms. Mann's Kindergarten class continues to sell popcorn on Thursdays for $2 to raise funds for their class. Bring your toonies for a treat! Mark your calendars for May 8th Art's Cafe, Book Fair and Musical Cakes fundraiser. This event has an early start at 4:00pm. Students will have the opportunities to showcase their many artistic talents including visual art, singing through the school choir, performance by the ukelele club, the prima-ry dance club, the J/I dance group, a recorders performance group, reader's theatre and poetry cafe. You won't want to miss these performances! If you are able to make or buy a bakery treat for the fundraiser, please reach out to us at www.victoriaparents.com today.

Victoria Public School

April 2019

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PA DAY

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POETRY CAFE

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Mad Science

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Jump Rope for Heart Kick off Assembly

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Good

Friday

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Easter

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Lunchbox Lunch

Lunchbox Lunch

H&S/Council Mtg—6:30pm

Lunchbox Lunch

Lunchbox Lunch