Upper Pine School February Newsletter

Winter has once again tried to get the best of us, but we are all persevering through and there is light at the end of the tunnel. It feels good to have more and more daylight each and every day. A busy month is approaching and all students and staff are working hard and playing hard.

Valentine’s Day will bring some fun activities with a Buddy dance after lunch. Intermediates will then continue with the dance as the Primary students go off to do some fun Valentine Activities with each other. Mr. Neufeld’s class will be selling chocolates with a Valentine that students can give to any family or friends.

February 27th is also scheduled for our Winter Carnival and the staff is busy planning fun outdoor events. If you’d like to volunteer as a supervisor or to even run an event please contact your child’s teacher directly and they will guide you to the appropriate place. Dates to remember:

Feb 14th – Valentines Dance/ActivitiesFeb 15th – Make up Subway day

Feb 18th – No school – Family day

Feb 20th – PAC Hot lunch day

Feb 20th – Elementary Girls BB tournament

Feb 21st – Elementary Boys BB tournament

Feb 22nd – Make up Pizza day

Feb 25th – No school

Feb 27th – Winter Carnival + Pink Shirt Day

March 4th – Heartbeat Theatre Cultural event 1 pm

• PAC meeting 3pm – babysitting provided

March 7th – Tiny Islands Cultural event 9:30 am

March 8th – Science Fair/Passion Project day

March 11th – Report cards go home

March 13th and 14th – Early Dismissal

• 13th – PAC Treat Day

March 15th – Last day before Spring break – School reopens April 1st.

Feb 28th – Apple Schools Presentation to parents – 5:30 in the library – An invitation should have made its way home to all parents of our school community. appleschools.ca is a website you can access for more information before the meeting. This is a wonderful opportunity for our school to become involved with Healthy Living, Healthy Eating and Mental Well Being.

New Hot Lunch option will begin on the next order starting February 25th – March 13th and the first hot lunch for the new “Chopped Leaf” option will be April 4th. There will be more information coming out with the menu options for “Chopped Leaf”.  We are excited to be partnering with Chopped Leaf in trying out this option for our students and staff at Upper Pine, thank you to the PAC for scoping this out for us.

Cold weather/snow weather: to clarify – if the busses are cancelled due to cold weather students are still welcome at school, teachers are expected to get to work (of course some vehicles may not start so some may be late) – if busses are cancelled due to an accumulation of snow, students are still welcome at school, teachers are expected to get to work – of course they may be late if they have to wait till roads are plowed or even wait for daylight so it is safer to drive. On our last cold day, we had about 25 students, teachers decided to group them as primary and older ones and then decided who would do some math lessons or games, who would do art, PE and Language Arts/Library –  authentic learning was happening.

Inside days – our outside cutoff is -20 degrees with wind. We do have some different options for students during inside recess or lunch time with a variety of teachers opening different areas of the school for students.

Stay Warm everyone.

Mrs. Melody Braun for the Upper Pine School Community