Before I get started on the regular content of the Weekly Update, I would like to offer our condolences to the Heiber family. As you may have heard, Amanda Heiber was involved in a fatal car accident on Hwy. 19 this past Friday. Amanda was an Education Assistant sub for Black Gold Schools and worked regularly at RBES over the last few months. She has two children at Riverview Middle School and this loss is being felt across the Devon community. I would like to extend our deepest sympathy, love and prayers from the RBES staff to her family and friends during this difficult and tragic time.
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There are lots of activities happening right now at RBES and the busyness has increased signficantly over the last couple of weeks. Our grade 3/4 girls floor hockey team has been practicing hard as our school is once again hosting their tournament on Friday and Saturday, March 9th and 10th. Throughout that week, March 5-9, there will be a 3 on 3 floor hockey intramural tournament at lunch time for all of those girls, as only some will get to play in the tournament on the weekend. This way everyone gets to have a tournament type experience. The final game of the 3 on 3 intramurals will be on Friday, March 9th at noon and all students are invited to watch and cheer on their favourite team!
The Skip-a-thon was a huge success and I am continually stunned at how passionate this community is about this particular charity. Through your generous donations, $7,246.00 was raised for the Heart and Stroke foundation. That is so fantastic and considering we were just hoping for a toonie per student, we greatly exceeded our goal! A number of our students will have earned individual prizes. Now that our money count is done, the prizes have been ordered and will be handed out as soon as they arrive. In the meantime, we will celebrate the class with largest amount of donations at next Friday's assembly as they win they table top soccer game. We will also celebrate the 3 students who raised the most money and will post pictures next week. We are so very proud of all the work done to support this worthwhile cause. You can see a few pictures below!
ASSEMBLY UPDATE:
The students are continuing their work on the kindness theme this month. The older students created "compliment cards" to pass out when they see kind things happening. The younger students have been really working hard at "noticing" kindness around them and have been nominating their fellow students for the Random Acts of Kindness chart. (more details further on in the blog)
The agenda for this week can be found here: https://goo.gl/BTcAmz
CONGRATULATIONS!!! to OUR STUDENTS OF THE WEEK:
INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS - CLICK HERE: https://goo.gl/dTnq9L
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FEBRUARY 16TH STUDENTS OF THE WEEK!
INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS - CLICK HERE: https://goo.gl/JfvS7W
CONGRATS TO OUR PIZZA WITH THE PRINCIPAL WINNERS:
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| These lucky kiddos will have lunch with Mrs. Kloschinsky and Mr. Coffin on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Congrats: Kashton, Sheba, Ava and Kai!! |
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR BOKS KIDS (for the last two weeks):
We will be highlighting one BOKS KID of the week from now until the end of the program in June. If you remember, this is a before school activity based program that a number of our students participate in. Well done boys!! Your heart and determination are really paying off.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
PINK SHIRT DAY FEBRUARY 28
We have had a few more requests for the Pink Shirt Day video link again . . . see below!
RBES ANNUAL SPELL-A-THON
We will be kicking off our 5th Annual Spell-A-Thon on Friday! The Spell-a-Thon is a fundraiser for our school and it also helps us become better spellers! The Grades 1-4 students will be tested on 50 words, the Kindergarten students will be given 10 words and our Pre-Kindergarten students will practice spelling their names! Our school-wide test will be on Wednesday, March 14th! Students are asked to learn their spelling words and are encouraged to ask for pledges.
RBES ANNUAL GIRLS FLOOR HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
Robina Baker is once again hosting the Black Gold Girl's Grade 3 & 4 Floor Hockey Tournament March 9th and 10th. We are looking for volunteers - if you are able to help that weekend, please call the school at 780-987-3705 or email us.
More Information and Tickets will be available soon for the Family Dance!
KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-K Registration is open. We will soon be doing our class lists. If you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible. To find out more about each of these programs, visit our website at this link: http://rbes.blackgold.ca/programs/ On those pages you will find the online registration link that will take you to the Black Gold website. If you have any additional questions, please contact the school at 780-987-3705. We are happy to help!
IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER:
EVENTS:
UPCOMING EVENTS: (Click here for a link to our RBES Calendar) - We have been made aware that our calendar on the RBES website is not always syncing with our Google calendar. If you use the link above or subscribe to the calendar using the link above you will not experience any problems.
Tuesday, Feb. 27 - Grade 4 Field trip to Waste Management Center
Wednesday, Feb. 28 - Pink Shirt Day
Wednesday, Feb. 28 - Active Parenting Workshop -- 6:00 - 7:30 -- Meeting Place
Friday, March 2 - Spell-A-Thon Kick Off
Monday, Mar. 5 - Grade 4 Ski Day field trip
Wednesday, Mar. 7 - Early Dismissal - 2:21
Wednesday, Mar. 7 - Active Parenting Workshop -- 6:00 - 7:30 -- Meeting Place
March 9 & 10 - RBES Annual Grade 4 Girls Floor Hockey Tournament
Sunday, March 11 - Spring Forward Time Change
Tuesday, March 13 - Student Led Conferences for most classes except 2D (Kinder classes will be scheduled from the 12 - 14)
Monday - Wednesday, March 12 - 14 - Book Fair
Wednesday, March 14 - Spell-A-Thon Test
Have a fabulous week,
