Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2016!
The
Holidays are now almost over and we hope that everyone has had the opportunity to
spend time with people that matter to you - family, loved ones and friends. We
also hope that you all had time to rest, relax and rejuvenate so that 2016 can
be a fantastic year! Now that the New Year has started, please take some time
to reflect on the positive aspects of 2015 and embrace those with enthusiasm
and bring that energy into 2016. Monday January 4th is the first day
back which brings thoughts of getting back to routines and setting some goals like: being early
for school, making new friends, completing homework, reading with a parent or
an older sibling every night and challenging yourself to try something new.
Students brought
home their Progress Report Cards on December 11th. This report primarily focuses
on information relating to both your child’s learning skills and academic
performance relative to the Ministry of Education’s grade level expectations.
Both of these areas are important. If students do not have good or excellent
learning skills then they are not able to perform academically to the best of
their ability. If your child is still
receiving an N (needs improvement) or an S (satisfactory) in any of the
learning skills, then attention must be paid to their personal goals. When you read your child’s report with them
talk about how you can support their intended improvements for the remainder of
the first term of school. Our goal is to have each of our students
achieving E (excellent) in all of their learning skills to ensure success in
all future learning. These learning
skills are life skills, which, when mastered, will lead students to future
success regardless of the academic or career pathways they choose.
To
support your child’s learning, you should be seeing
homework, assignments and test dates recorded in their agenda every night. A regular routine for homework completion is
necessary for success. When students complete their work during class time, use that
extra time to read just a little more each night or engage
your children in fun math-based games such as: Monopoly, The Game of Life or Yahtzee
to mention a few. It is recommended that
backpacks are packed the night before to eliminate the rush in the morning. We
offer these suggestions to help get our students on the right track for the
remainder of the school year.
The cold weather is finally
upon us and for the skiers and snowboarders out there, we wish for record
amounts of snow in January and February so we can all play catch-up to an
extremely slow start to the season! This also means that it is important for
children to come to school dressed ready for our winter weather wearing snow
pants, boots, hats, mitts, jackets and scarves. Students are expected to go
outside for morning recess and lunch recess so that they can get some activity
and exercise everyday.
Please remember to get your children to school on time
by 8:25 am. Thank
you to those parents who do
this consistently!
By having your child
in class ready to learn you enable them to be as successful as possible and benefit
from all the great teaching at Pine Grove P.S.
Greg Brown
Principal
Principal
