Mission Learning Today—Leading Tomorrow Vision To Create a Nurturing School and Community Where All Are Engaged in Successful, Lifelong Learning
Pense Lions Press
December 2015 September,2014 2013
SLC NEWS All students and staff at Pense School have been divided into 5 Spirit Teams: The Dingy Dinosaurs, The Danger Skunks, The Sneaky Lobsters, The Ghostly Sea Urchins and The Screaming Tree Frogs. These teams will be competing all year to earn spirit points. Spirit points are earned by participating in school spirit days and activities. At the end of the year, the team with the most spirit points will earn a team prize. On Monday, November 23, the SLC planned a kick off assembly where the teams gathered to create a team poster and compete in a cheer competition. The Dingy Dinosaurs came out ahead! All staff and students are encouraged to participate in next week’s Salad Dressing Week to earn team points.
The Pense School Christmas Concert will be on Tuesday, December 15 at 7:00 pm. School Community Council Meetings: December 7 January 11 February 1 6:00 @ the school. Thank you to our SCC for volunteering your time.
As the weather gets colder, please ensure your child is dressed warmly with toques, mitts and proper footwear. Please send cutlery with your child in their lunch if they require it. Students must wear proper footwear in the school at all times. In the case of an emergency, students will not have time to put on shoes before being evacuated from the school.
Thank you to all the students for participating in the Pense Legion Remembrance Day Contest. The students submitted poems, posters and essays. The work of 5 students was selected to advance to the Zone competition.
The School Community Council is hosting another fundraiser. We are selling Pat’s Hockey tickets for the January 29 game against the Saskatoon Blades. Tickets are $15 each. We will all be placed in a section together. It will be fun for all the families to sit together. Please have order forms in by January 6. The classroom that sells the most tickets in the Regina area wins a Pregame experience! Please, let’s get all of our family and friends out for a fun filled evening of Hockey!!
The Grade 3-4 students have been working diligently on their cursive handwriting skills.
BAND NEWS Winter Concert – Sunday, December 13 at 7:00 pm at Lumsden High. The Winter Band Concert for all band students in grade 6-8 will take place at Lumsden High Sunday, December 13 at 7:00 pm. This concert will feature the bands from all grades as well as the choir and jazz band from Lumsden High. The 6-8 Band students will have a rehearsal in the afternoon of December 8 at Lumsden Elementary School.
Magazine Subscriptions or Renewals for Christmas Our students will be running their annual magazine subscription campaign again in January but you can support our campaign all throughout the year. Did you know that 40% of the funds will stay here in our community. We are using the same company for 2016, QSP. With nearly 40 years of experience, QSP is the leader in youth fundraising and during that time has raised over 500 million for Canadian youth. You can order (or renew) online: Go to www.qsp.ca and register or click on Just Shopping! Use our Group Online #3734795 or just Search our School Name, Pense School Receive your magazines FASTER! Save 4-6 weeks delivery time compared to paper orders Receive your Photo Product voucher via email right away when you purchase photo items online! Thank you in advance for “saving” your magazine orders and helping make our campaign a success. Please call the school if you have any questions.
Students in kindergarten, grade 1 & grade 2 attended a Buster The Bus presentation. Buster was in school again this year teaching students the importance of school bus safety.
We are extremely lucky to have Mrs. Brown start knitting club again this year. The first knitting club will be on Monday, December 7 from 3:20-4:15 in the library. If you have any looms or spool knitting beehives please return to the school. All students are welcome to attend.
On Tuesday, November 17t the Grade 7/8 class spent the morning participating in the 2015 Student First Anti-Bullying Forum. This event was hosted by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education and included 9000 grade 6-12 students. The students listened to a variety of speakers via digital link, including a keynote by University of Regina Professor, Dr. Alec Couros. Dr. Couros provided an interactive and engaging address on the impact of social media in the lives of young people. He provided many example s of the positive effects but also demonstrated some of the pitfalls. Representatives from the Ministry and Sasktel outlined aspects of the recently implemented Ministry Anti-Bullying Action Plan. During the live broadcast, students participated in a real time digital forum with the 9000 student participants. Students were able to ask questions and actively discuss aspects for the presentation in a secure digital format. A highlight of the presentation was a “shout out” regarding #myclasschat, a monthly student lead Twitter chat initiated last year by our class, as a model of positive social media connection! A second portion of this event, a live post-forum chat, took place on Thursday, November 19. For more information on this event, including a link to view the key note by Dr. Couros, visit http:// iamstronger.ca/pages/provincial-virtual-youth-forum
Pense School
Prairie Valley School Division # 208 Box 1937, 3080 Albert St. North Regina, SK S4P 3E1 Phone: 949-3366 Fax: 543-1771
[email protected] http://www.pvsd.ca
221 Manitoba Street Pense, SK S0G 3W0 Phone: 345-2311 Fax: 345-2445
[email protected] http://pense.pvsd.ca
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Greek Day
Ranch Day
1000 Island Day
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SCC meeting 6 pm
Gr. 6-8 Band Rehearsal in Lumsden
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Winter Band Concert at LHS 7 pm
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Candy Cane Sales Christmas Concert 7 pm
Roll up The Rim to Read Ends
Candy Cane Sales
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Classes resume Tuesday January 5. Enjoy your holidays!
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Kindergarten Days are 1, 3, & 5 Band Days are 2, 4, & 6
