Grade 8 Information

 To our Parents/Guardians of our Grade 8 students, Please find below of list of important dates for you to be aware of:

Bill Crothers Secondary School, 44 Main Street, Unionville, Ontario.

Thursday October 12^th, 2017 – Students in the West and Central area of Region

 Information sessions will be from 7:00 – 8:30 pm in the school cafeteria and/or Gym                                                 
 Applications will be available from the Bill Crothers school website:  Friday, October 13^th, 2017

Applications are due:  Friday, November 3^rd, 2017

Tommy Douglas Secondary School

October 4th- Parent Engagement Evening, 7-8:30pm

November 1^st- Grade 8 Transition Day for students during the day

November 22^nd- Grade 8 Open House 7-8:30pm June 6^th- Life Beyond Grade 8

Maple High School

IB INFORMATION NIGHT October 17, 2017 Current Grade 8 students and families interested in the Programme are invited to attend an information session at the school offering the IB Programme in their area.  During each session, information about the Programme and the application process will be shared.  Maple High School @ 6:30 p.m.

Orange Shirt Day

September 29 is Orange Shirt Day!

The Orange Shirt Day movement started in 2013 to highlight the pain and suffering of thousands of Indigenous children who were sent to residential school throughout the last century. The colour of the shirt is connected to the experience of Phyllis Webstad who was sent to Cariboo Residential School near Williams Lake, BC, in 1973. Six-years old at the time, Phyllis went to her first day of school wearing a new bright orange shirt. New clothes were a rare thing for the young girl, who was being raised by her grandmother. However, upon arriving at the school, the nuns stripped her of the shirt, forcing her to wear the school’s institutional uniform. Webstad has felt the impact of that event long after it occurred, “that feeling of worthlessness and insignificance, ingrained in me from my first day at the mission, affected the way I lived my life for many years. Even now, when I know nothing could be further than the truth, I still sometimes feel that I don’t matter.” The shirt has since gone on to become a symbol of a national movement that recognizes the suffering of Indigenous children at residential schools across the country and to show a renewed commitment to ensure that every child matters. At JLPS we will be recognizing the resiliency and bravery of Residential School Survivors by wearing orange on September 29th. Please help your child support our efforts, while also earning a point for their house team.

Re-Organization 2017-18

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Re: Re-organization of Grade 1 to Grade 8 Classes

Welcome back to another exciting year!

Each year we monitor, on a regular basis, the change that takes place between June and September in our school’s enrolment in order to make the most effective classroom organizations to meet the learning needs of all of our students.  We are happy to welcome many new families to our community for the 2017-18 school year. As the Johnny Lombardi community grows, changes become necessary to our class organizations. We have been allocated additional staffing in order to help accommodate this increase in population due primarily to house closings.  This has made it necessary to move students into classes to abide by the requirements mandated by the Ministry of Education and are necessary to meet provincial class size requirements.

 

Staff are committed to a successful school year for each and every student at our school. Decisions are made for many reasons including meeting provincial requirements, supporting students with identified needs and balancing classes so students are learning in the best environment possible. We have tried to keep the movement to a minimum but this year a full grade 1 to 8 school organization was necessary. We understand that change can be difficult, rest assured that in all of our classrooms, our teachers differentiate the instruction, assessment, and expectations based on each student’s individual strengths, needs and interests in order to program and deliver the Ontario Curriculum. Thank you for your ongoing support and understanding.

All Students from grade 1 to 8 received a letter today confirming their teacher. Some students have remained in the same class and some have moved. Please review this information with your child so that we may begin on Tuesday, September 25 with students in their confirmed homerooms.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Rita Angellotti
Principal

Support our Litterless Lunches!

In our province, we generate more than 400,000 tonnes of waste per year – that’s 2.2 kilograms per person, per day!  We can avoid much of this waste by reducing, reusing and recycling.

The JLPS Eco-Team has kicked off our first initiative-LITTERLESS LUNCHES!

Students are asked to bring a lunch that has no waste.    

A waste-free lunch may include:

• Reusable lunch bag/box
• Reusable sandwich container
• Reusable drink container
• Reusable containers (for veggies, yogurt, snacks)
• Reusable cutlery
• A cloth napkin
• Whole fruit

A waste-free lunch does not include:

• A paper or plastic lunch bag
• Sandwich baggies
• Individually wrapped lunches and snacks
• Disposable cutlery
• Paper napkins

Packing a waste-free lunch for your child not only helps cut down on the amount of waste we generate, it also helps children learn about the importance of making the 3Rs a part of their daily routine.

Thank you for your support,

The JLPS Eco Team

Operation Smile

A heartfelt thank-you to our school community for their generous donation to our Operation Smile Charity drive. Together as a school we helped to raise  from donations and our school store $820.00. These funds will be used to support the operation of 4 children in the world.
Thank-you for helping to make 4 children's lives easier and to help them smile.

Way to go Lightning!

Terry Fox Walk

All members from our community are welcome to join us for our annual Terry Fox Walk on Thursday, September 28 from 1:00-1:45 pm.

The routes are as follows:

Grades 1-4 - Stanton to Ironside, Ironside to Chatfield, Chatfield to Lawford, Lawford back to the school.

Grades 5-8 - Lawford to Chatfield, Chatfield to Ironside, Ironside to Stanton, Stanton back to school.

Please continue to support this very worthwhile cause by sending in a $2.00 donation with your child that we will donate to the Canadian Terry Fox Campaign.

Help us build our Library!

We're so excited to announce that once again we will be taking part in the 2017 Adopt a School program, which starts this Saturday! From September 16 to October 8, we will encourage our school community to help transform our school library. JLPS will receive: Every dollar raised in-store and online to support our students and school library Eligibility for a match of up to $1,200 from the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation 30% off books at Indigo, Chapters and Coles when using program donations Starting this Saturday, community members can visit the Adopt a School website and support our school through the Book Bonus, the Tell a Story, Give a Story matching program and the Adopt a School Story contest!

Book Bonus: For every two books donated online to our school, the Love of Reading Foundation will donate an bonus book to our school, up to 100 books!* NEW! Adopt a School Story Contest The five most-loved stories in each province will be entered into a random draw for a chance to win* a grand prize of a $2,500 Indigo eGiftcard to purchase books!  The remaining four top “hearted” schools in each province will win a $500 Indigo eGiftcard to purchase books.   Tell a Story, Give a Story Every time an approved story is posted to our school’s Adopt a School profile, the Love of Reading Foundation will donate a book to our school, up to 20 books!*   NEW! Books for Updates Love of Reading will donate one book to our school every time you make one of the profile updates outlined on our school’s dashboard!*

* The Love of Reading Foundation values a book at $10.To learn more, see their  Program Overview and Contest Details pages. For additional program information, visit their Frequently Asked Questions page. On behalf of the staff and students at JLPS, we thank-you for helping us to build our Library.