Weekly Update: November 21, 2014

This past week was a week filled with activity. The students had the opportunity to enjoy Mission Impossible in the gym. To check out some photos of all the fun, check out Mr. Henderson's physed blog at: http://www.rbespe.blogspot.ca.

We had our first school council meeting with our new executive on Tuesday. Our chair, Colleen deVos has created a FaceBook page for all the parents to stay up to date on the council happenings. You can view a live feed under our parent information tab and the go to school council / fundraising. You can also click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/rbesschoolcouncil to take you straight there. Make sure you Like the page to have the updates show up in your newsfeed. A parent training session for the Google platform (gmail, calendar, drive and documents) will be offered on Thursday, November 27th at 9:00. Please contact Mrs. Kloschinsky if you are interested in attending.

Congratulations to this weeks Student of Week winners! 

We celebrated a number of other items at our assembly this past Friday. Mr. Henderson passed out the remainder of the Cross Country awards. Pastor Gil came out to collect the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes. Thank you so much to the parents, students and staff who collectively filled 92 shoe boxes this year. Ryce won the draw to have his shoe box personally delivered to a child in Nicaragua by Pastor Gil.

During assemblies we are continuing our theme on responsibility this month and we were very thankful to have Constable Durling come out to our assembly and do a presentation for us. 

Upcoming items to note:

Our next family movie night will be on Friday, December the 12th. Doors open at 6:00, with the movie starting at 6:30. In the spirit of the holiday season, we will be watching Arthur Christmas. You can click here for the movie trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430607/

Tickets will be sold:
December 8-12 
Mornings: 8:15-8:45 am 
Lunch: 12-1 pm

Please come and join us for the fun!

Christmas Concert News:

We are once again once again excited to invite you to our Annual Christmas Concerts!

Cool Christmas - Hot Christmas

December 1, 2 & 3 

Doors Open at 6:45 pm 

Concert Starts at 7:00 pm (and will run for approximately 45 minutes)

Robina Baker Gym 

Monday, December 1: Concert for: 4S, 1N, 2MT, 2S, 1K, 1L 

Tuesday, December 2: Tuesday: Concert for: 4F, 3R, 3FT, 3FM, 2D, 2AP

Wednesday, December 3: Concert for: Kindergarten

** More details to be sent home and posted shortly

Report Cards and Reporting to Parents:

Report Cards will be formally handed out two times this year. At the end of January and the end of June. As you know we already had one formal set of interviews in the fall and we will have student led conferences in the spring. Parents will have the opportunity to book individual appointments in the spring as well if either the parent or teacher feels a one on one conference is needed. Parents are able to email or call teachers any time throughout the year to sit and discuss the progress of their child. All curriculum reporting is done through the blogs on a weekly basis and will be summarized on the report cards as well.

We are currently in the process of building a consistent template for all of our grade 1-4 students. The teachers will work together through the draft on our December PD day and the templates will be ready for our report cards at the end of January.

School Board Visit:

Our school board will be visiting on Thursday, November 27 in the morning. Two representatives from each of our grade 4 classes will be taking them around on a tour.

Have a great week,

Weekly Update: November 14, 2014

Hello Robina Baker Families,

Well that was one very short, but extremely busy week.  A lot was packed into those three days. A travelling art show arrived at our school. All classes will be able to have the opportunity to view the art work. One piece will be used to write a continuous story that will move through each of the classrooms.

We have started a new theme this month for assemblies. We are working on RESPONSIBILITY. The students watched a video clip and then had a great discussion with Mrs. Mullen. They worked on some responsibility badges that are posted on the bulletin board outside the main foyer by the stairs. The grade four students are starting a series of mini workshops with our school CAP team during assembly times and are working through a variety of age pertinent topics.

Congratulations to our students of the week! Since we had two short weeks in a row, these students were selected to represent those weeks.

Upcoming Week REMINDERS and information:

Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes are due on Thursday, November 20. There are still shoe boxes available in the office if you haven't had time to pick one up yet.

The Cross Country Team had group photos last week and all certificates will be handed out during the Friday, November 21 assembly. Please plan to attend if you would like to participate in this celebration with your child. The presentation will happen immediately after student of the week awards are handed out.

Our PAC (school council) meeting is being held on Tuesday, November 18th at 9:00 am in the staff room. All parents are welcome to attend.

Please chat with your child:

Since the beginning of the school year there have been issues in both the boys and girls bathrooms. We have tried a number of strategies to teach and model for the students what appropriate bathroom behaviour is. Unfortunately, we are still having instances of paper towel being thrown in the toilets, whole rolls of toilet paper being removed and put into the toilet as well as students not flushing. We would appreciate if you could reiterate this message with your child as it is causing problems at least once a day where a toilet gets plugged and then is out of order until the situation can be handled. Thank you so much for your help.

Have a great week,

Weekly Update: October 31 and November 6, 2014

Hello Robina Baker Families;

From all the wonderful stories I have heard from your children, Halloween was a success in their eyes and they had a fabulous weekend.

Thank you to all the parents that came out to join in the parade and the various Halloween festivities around the school on Halloween Friday. Here is a small sampling of some of the cool costumes we saw! (I apologize, it took me awhile to get these loaded into a slide show for your enjoyment).

Before Halloween, all of our students had the opportunity to work with Dawn and learn some yoga. Whenever I was able to pop into the gym to check on things, all students seem to really be enjoying themselves. The best comment I heard was, "Mrs. Kloschinsky - I am learning to relax!" - I think we could all learn to do that. :)

Mr. Henderson and I had a great lunch with our Pizza with the Principal winners - Olivia, Mikayla, Marissa and Kolbe. We had a fabulous lunch that was sponsored by FLORIDA PIZZA (Thank You, Thank You) and some excellent conversation. Congratulations to our 4 winners!

Congratulations goes out to our two Golden Garbage Can winners for the month of October. This month, Miss Betty delivered the Golden Garbage Can award to the PK class and we had to take a picture they were so excited!

The parent meetings made the week go by fast and we appreciated having the opportunity to meet with all of you that came out.

Thank you to Mrs. Becker who organized the Book Fair as well as Mrs. Nicholson for volunteering to help with sales. A HUGE Thank You goes out to all the students, staff and parents for supporting our library. A total of $3,300.06 was raised to buy new books.

Leadership Symposium - Caydence, Zayne, Ella, Mylie Mrs. Houle, Mrs. Kaluza and Mrs. Kloschinsky had the opportunity to represent RBES at the student leadership symposium. They all learned some fabulous new ideas to help to continue to promote a healthy school and lifestyle for RBES students. Look for more health promoting activities very soon. It is important to focus on good mental, emotional, physical and nutritional health. After all - you only get one body and you should take good care of it!

The Remembrance Day Assembly was lovely and the student's all sang beautifully. A special thank you goes out to Johnna Rymes who played the trumpet for our ceremony along with Clarence Samuelson for the Last Post and Reveille. We truly appreciated all that came in uniform and were especially thankful to have Legion members as our guests.

Even though next week is a short week, we will still have our regular assembly along with student of the week celebration.

Reminder:

2 shopping weekends to gather stuff for Operation Christmas Child. If you want to do a box with your family instead of bringing one or two items for the classroom box, please pick up a box in the office. Also, one of our boxes will be personally hand delivered by Gil and there will be a draw to see whose box that it. Please put a sticky note on your child's box with their name and class to be entered into the draw. Gill will be taking photos of the child opening one of our hand delivered boxes.

Have a fabulous long weekend,