Weekly Update: February 19, 2016

Hello Robina Families!!

What a super fast and busy week this was. I want to send out a special THANK YOU to all of our Fundraising Committee parents for putting on and working a very successful family movie night last week. The event was well attended (150+ people) and fun was had by all. A special SHOUT OUT of Thanks also goes to Miss Betty, Mrs. Garlough, Mrs. Kaluza and Mrs. Milson for lending a helping hand and making sure things were good to go with the technology after I left. Last but not least I would like to thank Andrew Kaluza, Jared Wilhauk and Dillan Stewart -- You were all fantastic assistants in helping me get out all the mats and things set up for the movie night.

SPELLING BEE UPDATE

Way to Go Josh and Kaylee! You represented yourselves and our school really well at the BGRS spelling bee! So glad to hear you enjoyed the experience.

100th DAY OF SCHOOL

A number of our classrooms celebrated the 100th day of School on Thursday with various math and reading activities based around the 100s theme. Check out classroom blogs for additional photos, but here are a couple that caught my eye!

SCHOOL COUNCIL AND FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE UPDATE

Thank you to those dedicated parents that continue to donate their time to fundraise, organize events, attend monthly meetings and give feedback to our school. This year's hard working group of ladies continually support and come up with new ideas to fundraise extra funds for our school. This year their efforts and all of the families who support fundraising initiatives in our school have allowed our school to benefit from: 2 new classroom FM sound systems ($1,200 each), some new small chairs for our lower grades and provided for art budgets for each classroom at $100 per class. They also worked with the Legion to secure a donation that paid for one new projector in our school. We very much appreciate everything that our parents do for us. THANK YOU!!!!

ASSEMBLY

We are continuing to work on our Kindness (Anti-bullying) theme for the month. As a special culminating "treat" the students will be watching the movie "Ant Bully". They got a short teaser introduction this past Friday and next week on Friday, Feb. 26 they will watch the rest of the movie during assembly. Students have been invited to wear their PJs, bring a pillow or blanket if they choose and a stuffie. Teachers will be meeting during that time to do some professional learning. The movie will be done by morning recess and the learning day will continue as scheduled.

CONGRATULATIONS to this week's STUDENT OF THE WEEK winners!

CONGRATULATIONS  to Lucas Boschman and Ryce Wagner - this week's Wristband Challenge winners. Keep on handing in those wristbands.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT!

Perhaps some of you are not aware of all the HATS a principal wears in a day . . . or in this case gloves. I unfortunately have spent a lot of time unplugging toilets and mopping up flooded bathroom floors this past week and Mrs. Tewitz "caught me in the act!" of heading to my next clean up job. LOL! We remind students all the time about using the "right" amount of toilet paper and not putting paper towel in the toilets. An extra reminder from home would be appreciated! :)

UPCOMING DATES TO NOTE

FEB 22 - Gr. 4s - Rabbit Hill skiing

FEB 24 - PINK SHIRT DAY - Antibullying Day
FEB 22, 24, 26 - Girls Floor Hockey Practice - 3:15 - 4:15
FEB 29  - Girls Floor Hockey Practice - 3:15 - 4:15

MAR 2 - Girls Floor Hockey Practice 11:55 - 12:20

MAR 2 - Early Dismissal - 2:21

MAR 3 - Spell-a-thon kick off

MAR 4 - NO SCHOOL - PD DAY

REMINDER: Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten registration is now open!

Click on this link for more information: http://rbes.blackgold.ca/parents/registration/

Don't forget to check out Community Events page on our website regularly. We receive updates from the town a few times a month and update our page. Here is the link: http://rbes.blackgold.ca/parents/community-info/

That is all for now!

Have a great weekend,

Weekly Update: February 12, 2016

Hello Robina Families,

I would like to wish all of you a Happy Family Day Weekend and a Happy Valentines Day!

With skating, anticipated family movie night fun, penguin visit for gr. 1, jump rope for heart and Valentine's Day activities added on top of curriculum . . . it was a super jam packed week. I don't know about the students, but I am ready for a bit of a rest. :)

ASSEMBLY

We are working on Kindness and Caring in the month of February. Students and staff are encouraged to "notice" Random Acts of Kindness around the school and write those on slips on paper to share in the kindness box that is located in every classroom. Of course the reverse of Kindness is to be a bully and so our grade 3 and 4s continue to work on their anti-bullying projects in the short assemblies earlier in the week. They will have 2 more weeks to complete their projects before they will be invited to share them with each other. Today we talked about the characteristics of what makes a good friend, reviewed our Learning Manners song and watched "The Bearnstein Bears and the Bully" to help reinforce our discussions around this theme.

CONGRATULATIONS goes out to our currents STUDENTS OF THE WEEK as well as to Kayley, Deagan and Maklin who won Wristband Challenge passes to the LRC. Last but not least, we would like to congratulate the grade 4 students who studied hard for the spelling bee. We handed out their certificates at the assembly as well.

GR 1 PENGUIN VISIT

It is always an exciting time when the penguin comes to visit the grade one students. This time was no exception and the students were all thrilled with the experience and I heard lots of chatter about it afterwards.

BGRS approved Calendar for the 2016 -17 school year can be found here.

UPCOMING DATES TO NOTE:

FEB 17 - PAC/Fudraising committee meeting - 6:30 start in the staff room
FEB 17 & 19 - Girls Floor Hockey Practice - 3:15 - 4:15
FEB 22 - Gr. 4s - Rabbit Hill skiing
FEB 24 - PINK SHIRT DAY - Antibullying Day
FEB 22, 24, 26 - Girls Floor Hockey Practice - 3:15 - 4:15
FEB 29 - Spellathon kick off

COMMUNITY EVENTS:

A separate email is being sent out to all families with information from the Town of Devon and FCSS. There are lots of workshops and information for events around town.


Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Winter Walk Day 2016

Hello Robina Families,

I wanted to share a quick post before the long weekend sharing some photos from our Winter Walk Day today. It was such a beautiful day outside and everyone enjoyed the fresh air, the exercise and the social aspect of the afternoon. I want to send a big THANK YOU to the Town of Devon and Tim Hortons for supplying hot chocolate and Tim Bits for the end of our walk today. Another big Thank You goes out to our parent and staff volunteers who helped with passing out hot chocolate and participation in the walk with the students. Special HUGS and THANKS to Ms. Angell and Mrs. Kaluza for their organization of the event. It was a successful day and a fabulous time was had by all.

CLICK HERE FOR MANY MORE WINTER WALK DAY PHOTOS

Have a wonderful weekend,