1. JACK STUART SCHOOL
Phone #: 672-0880 Voice Message #: 672-0898
March 25, 2010 Issue #17
CLASSROOM NEWS
Class 2Hop by Dakota F.
Student-led Conferences
I love Jack Stuart School. I loved the by Mrs. Sommer
student-led conference. I am moving
to Saskatchewan today and I will miss We had a great parent turnout over the
everyone I have met at JSS. I am glad past two evenings for student-led
I got to know you all and I will miss conferences at Jack Stuart School. What
you. I will e-mail the class and Mrs. Hopwood can read a wonderful way to support your child in
it. Good-bye Jack Stuart School. his/her learning. It was exciting for us to
see how proud our students were of
Class 4/5K by Lauren P. sharing with you their knowledge and
skills, and how articulate they were in
In Art we are making leading you through the process. Thanks
sandtastic art. You to all who filled out the feedback/response
draw a picture, color it forms; it really does help us with
with pencil crayons future planning. Reactions from
and then you embellish parents, both written and in
it with sand. In Science discussions were very positive.
the grade fours made devices and All in all, a terrific
showed them to our parents. I made an experience!
elevator. In Math we just had a quiz on
multiplication and division. In L.A. we all
did a report on a sport in the Olympics.
My sport was figure skating. I hope you
Parent Council Notes by Tracey Woods
have a fun and safe spring break!
Alberta School Council Association is coming out to our
school on Wednesday, April 28th, to put on a
Parent Volunteers presentation called the “School Council Kick Start”. The
presentation provides information, tips and ideas to
Debbie Mokry, Kim Van energize school councils. This presentation is open to
Roon, Debbie MacPherson, eleven parents at our school (not just council members).
Laurel McTavish, Sianna’s It starts at 7:00 p.m. and will be only one hour. If you
uncle, Carissa Knockleby- are interested, please RSVP to Tracey by April 21st at
Cornell, Lynaea Trussler, tl-woods@hotmail.com or 780-608-1242.
Chelsea Hille, Elisha Taylor,
Mayuko Okada, Jen de
Hoog, Angela Davey,
Danielle Laing, Emily’s
Grandma, Amber Davis, Parent Council is organizing a bottle drive for grades 5/6
Andrea Roth, Jennifer Flint, students and their parents to fundraise for Ranch Camp.
Wanda Byce, Tricia Dey- This is an optional fundraiser and the profits will go
Twomey, Crystal towards participating students’ Ranch Camp fee. Last
Nahajowich. year we were able to pay for the majority of the students
and their parent’s fee, which usually is around $110.00
each. The bottle drive is scheduled for Wednesday, April
Lost and Found 14th. Information will come home after spring break.
The Lost and Found box is once The cookbook fundraiser profits, $2,129.80, were turned
again overflowing. Please check it over to the school to purchase fm modulation systems.
out to see if any items belong to Our next council meeting is on Wednesday, May 19th at
you. Anything left by April 8th will 7:00 p.m. in the office. The agenda will include trying to
be donated to charity. help the school with a solution to the lack of parking.

2. Important Dates
March 26 Day-In-Lieu of Interviews – no school
Lieu
March 29 Spring Break Begins
April 6 Classes Resume
April 8 Hot Lunch – Eastside Marios
April 19 School-based PD – no school
April 22 Hot Lunch – McDonalds
April 26-30 Music Festival
**Next Newsletter – April 15, 2010
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