~ Our Mission ~ To support, model and build teamwork, personal growth, fairness and respect within our school community http://efr.sd59.bc.ca ~ Important dates ~
~ Friday, September 18 School pictures ~ Wednesday, September 23 Open House / Chili cookout 5:00 – 6:30 ~ Tuesday, Sept 29 – PAC meeting 7:00 in the library. Everyone welcome! ~Wednesday, September 30 – Terry Fox Run
September 7, 2015
Principal’s Message Welcome back to another year of learning! I would like to introduce myself for those of you who have students new to our school. My name is Madame Shawnese Trottier. I started at École Frank Ross in 2000 as a primary French Immersion teacher. Since that time, I have enjoyed teaching various primary immersion classes, being the teacherlibrarian, Vice-Principal, and am now in my third year as Principal. I invite you to pop in the office or call if you have any questions or concerns, or simply if we haven’t met yet!
Open House & Chili Cookout!
Please join us on Wednesday, September 23 for our Open House and Chili Cookout! From 5:00-5:30, teachers will be in their classrooms, ready to meet and chat with parents and students. At 5:30 until 6:30, a chili dinner will be available in front of the school in the garden area. We hope you can make it out!
Breakfast Program Our breakfast program has started ag ain! Mornings can be r ushed an d it’s sometimes difficult to make time to g et a nutritious star t to the day. The breakfast program is free and open to all students. Students may come in the front doors after 8:30, grab a snack, and head back out to wait until the bell rings.
Fees/School Supplies Primary supply fees are $25.00, which covers paper, scissors, glue, pencils, crayons, and supplies for special projects. Intermediate students in grades 4-7 buy their own supplies. A supply list can be obtained from the classroom teacher. Please make sure that all Intermediate supplies are labeled with your child’s name. Intermediate French students may purchase a French/English Dictionary for $12.00 and a Bescherelle for $19.00 in the office.
Picture Day is fast approaching!
Lifetouch will be here at th e school to do individual photos on Friday, September 18. Class pictures will be taken on retake day, Thursday, November 5 th . Students will receive proofs of the pictures and you may order packages at that time. We encourage all students to have their por traits taken.
We have many new staff members this year! The following is a list of all staff members and their roles: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mme Shawnese Trottier Principal Mrs. Catharine Leroux Vice-Principal/Grades 2-3 Mrs. Pam Harman Kindergarten Ms. Jenna Kerr Kindergarten/Grade 1 Mme Myriam Laforest Maternelle Mme Donya Clayton Maternelle Mme Christina Morgret Maternelle/1ière année Mme Sandra Heily 1ière année Mrs. Glenda Power Grades 1 – 2 Mrs. Meghan Haugen Grades 2 - 3 Mme Ineke Cook 2ième année Ms. Heather Harrison Grades 2 – 3 Mme Sonja Gowda 3ième année Mme Nicole Jaeger 3ième/4 ième année Mrs. Heather Regner Grades 3-4 Mme Stephanie Parker 4 ième -5 ième année Mrs. Aili Patterson Grades 4 - 5 Ms. Lauren Tisch Grades 5 - 6 Mme Heather Reid 5ième /6 ième année Mrs. Geneva O’Connell Grades 6 – 7 (maternity leave) Mme Emma Noonan 6 ième /7 ième année Mme Karine Clark Teacher Librarian/Literacy Support/Prep Mrs. Donna Fieber Learning Assistance/ Reading Recovery Ms. Lisa Morrison Learning Assistance Mr. David McKeen Music Mrs. Nikki Chmelyk Grade 3 English, Prep, Literacy Mrs. Shannon Anderson Secretary / Bookkeeper Mrs. Rhonda Fields Library Support Mrs. Anne Alexander Level II Support Mrs. Renee Jensen Level II Support Mr. George D’Amato Level I Support Mrs. Lisa Dionne Level I Support Mme Monique Richard Level I Support (French) Mrs. Tonya Pierce Level I Support Mrs. Ann Tucker Level I Support Mrs. Julie Kreuzinger Level II Support
Before School Procedures Please note that supervision does not begin in the morning until 8:30am. Children should not arrive before that time. ALL STUDENTS (yes, even our kindergarteners!) must remain outside until the welcome bell at 8:53. You are welcome to wait with your child outside and walk your little one in at the bell. Learning our school rules and routines helps our youngest learners transition to school more easily.
On Wednesday, September 30, we will all run for 45 minutes to honour this hero. Terry challenged each Canadian to raise $1.00 – this year we are challenging each student at the school to raise $2.00. The week before the run, students will be running laps so that we can ‘run across Canada’! Please visit http://www.terryfox.org/SchoolRun/ to donate online.
The Cross Country Running Club will start meeting at recess on Tuesdays and Thursdays to practice running on the track. This is an opportunity to get ready for the District running series that is explained below….
2015 DAWSON CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING SERIES
Wednesday Sept 23th Wednesday, Sept 30th Thursday, Oct. 8 Canalta School/Newby Park Kin Park (Field beside Ecole Frank Ross (meet at (Meet beside Soccer Field) Baseball Diamond) Track area) • LOOK FOR THE RED TENT FOR REGISTRATION • Races are open to all elementary school students at no cost. • Registration takes place at 3 pm at each site , Group Warm-‐up at 3:15, • K-‐3 Race at 3:30 (1 km race), 4-‐7 Race at 3:45 ( 1.8 km race), • Awards at 4 pm • Race results separated by Grade (K-‐1,2-‐3, 4-‐5,6-‐7) and Gender (M/F). • Awards for Series racers in each age category • Students must run 3 of the 4 races to be eligible. School District Elementary Cross Country Race Thursday, October 15th Kin Park-‐ Race Starts K-‐1-‐ 10:30 2-‐3 10:45 4-‐5 11:00 6-‐7 11:20 Register through your school For more information Contact Series Coordinator: Eric Wolf at DCSS 250-‐782-‐5585 Our school once again is pleased to be a part of the BC School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program. For 13 weeks during the school year, our students will receive picked, washed and ready to eat produce – at no charge! Any students that are new to the school will receive a reverse consent form from their teacher. If you do not want your child to participate, or your child has allergies we need to be aware of, please return the form to
the office. If we do not hear from you, we assume you are happy to take advantage of this opportunity.
Ecole Frank Ross Nutritional Policy
Healthy Eating and Good Nutrition impacts a child's physical well-being and ability to attend and learn in school. Therefore at Ecole Frank Ross, the following has been developed to align itself to the district policy. •All foods sold to students shall adhere to the Foods from the Serve Most category and Serve Sometimes category. Our hot lunch program shall align itself to these categories •PAC fundraising is normally done once or twice a year at Ecole Frank Ross. These fundraisers may included the sale of items from the Choose Least or Not Recommended categories such as the selling of Purdy's chocolates. • Special Occasions are an integral part of Ecole Frank Ross. It has been decided by staff and parents that foods from the Serve Most and Serve Sometimes list will be allowed at Hallowe'en, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter. Items from the Choose Least or Not Recommended categories will not be allowed.
•The school will not support the distribution of items from the Choose Sometimes, Choose Least and Not Recommended categories to celebrate a special day for a child. An example of this is, cakes or cupcakes,
candies, licorice etc that are sent to school to celebrate a child's birthday. If this happens, we will ask parents to come to the school to pick up the items. To avoid such an unpleasant experience for both child, class and school, we ask that all parents adhere to this request. We understand how important a birthday is to a child, if you are sending items to school, please send items from the Serve Most Category only. • We encourage parents to provide nutritional snacks, lunches and drinks for their children. Please avoid providing soft drinks, high sugar content juices, chips etc in lunches. So often, we see children coming to school with coffee lattes, slurpees etc. We would like to discourage these at school.
•Special Celebrations At Ecole Frank Ross there are four special events that will allow items given to students or sold to students from Choose least and Not Recommended categories •At Carnaval, the cultural tradition of making taffy out of maple syrup will be allowed and given to students so they could have a taste of French culture. •At Tombola- a major fundraiser for French Speaking students, the cake walk will be allowed to take place. The French Café however will attempt to serve from the Serve Most Category and Serve Sometime Category. •At the Grade 7 breakfast at the end of the year, foods served with be from the Serve Most and Serve Sometimes list ( ie.-syrup for pancakes will be allowed) • End of Year Track Meets/Fun Day- Fruit /popsicles will be allowed.
