M A Y 2011 NEWSLETTER
Maple Wood Public School
2650 Gananoque Drive
Mississauga, L5N 2R2
Phone (905) 826-3902 Fax (905) 826-9941
Fanitsa Housdon
Larisa Jeffrey
Acting Principal
Office Manager
Giving students the wings of courage and independence to soar into the future
Trustee:
Superintendent:
Meredith Johnson
Dianne Miles
416-706-9215
905-569-9946
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TEAMPLAYER PROGRAM
This past month we highlighted the ‘Y’ of
TEAMPLAYER. Many examples of ‘youthleadership’ were demonstrated by our
students in their day-to-day routines here at
Maple Wood.
book profits for our library. With these
profits, new novel sets for the junior division
will be acquired, as will picture books that
relate to our monthly TEAMPLAYER
initiatives. A big thank you must also be
given to the staff and students who helped
to keep the book fair running smoothly!!
For the month of April we will be focusing on
the ‘E’ of TEAMPLAYER. A student who
shows exemplary effort
works both mentally and
physically,
striving
to
accomplish their personal
best. We are confident that
most, if not all of our
students, will exemplify and
further
develop
the
attributes of ‘exemplary effort’, not only this
month, but throughout the year.
'Reada the Reading Fairy' is planning to
make a special delivery of books for her
friends at Maple Wood Public School. She
informed me that she would be sending
books to create a new primary non-fiction
bin and would be sending some new novels
and graphic novels for the junior students.
MWPS SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS
SAFETY IN THE KISS N’ RIDE
As always, please send any requests,
comments or suggestions to the School
Council
via
our
email
address:
maplewoodps.council@peelsb.com."
LIBRARY LINK
Thank you to all who attended
our 2011 Book Fair. We were
able to raise almost $1000 of Scholastic
Happy Reading!
Ms. Barber
Teacher-Librarian
In an effort to promote safety in our Kiss n’
Ride area, parents are asked to have their
child(ren) exit vehicles using the curb-side
doors. We also ask that drivers exercise
patience and wait for the flow of traffic in
the drop-off lane to move ahead,
rather than trying to hastily overpass
the vehicle ahead of them
by using the drive through
lane. We thank you in
advance for following these
safety procedures!
JUNIOR CHOIR
On Thursday, April 28th, the Maple Wood
Junior choir performed at the Peel Music
Festival. The adjudicator commented on
the good clarity of the singing and awarded
our choir a second place finish, with a mark
of 85. There were five other choirs at the
competition and students enjoyed hearing
each other sing and listening to the
adjudicator's comments. The
rainy and extremely windy
walk to Edenwood United
Church did not dampen our
spirits and everyone felt happy
and proud of their participation. Thank you
to our parent volunteers!
Congratulations
Junior Choir and Mrs. Monague!
this memorable afternoon together for our
families!
BICYCLES AND
SKATEBOARDS/ROLLER BLADES
Students who are riding their
bicycles,
skateboards
or
rollerblades to school are
reminded that they are to wear
a helmet and to either walk their bicycle
or to carry their skateboarders or
rollerblades, once they come
onto school property (starting
from
the
sidewalks)
Parents/guardians are asked to
review these expectations with their
children so that we can all work together
to promote safety!
GRANDPARENT TEA
Our Annual Grandparent Tea was held on
April 11th in our library. It was a wonderful
event and our students were proud to
have their grandparents join them for
refreshments and story sharing. Mrs.
Barber, our teacher-librarian
had preselected a number of
books that were enjoyed by
all. Thank you to Mrs. Barber
for organizing this memorable morning!
AUTHORS’ TEA
Mrs. Lynch-Pappas’ Gr. 2s and Mrs.
Reuter’s Gr. 2/3s enjoyed the opportunity
to share their Fairy Tales at our Author’s
Tea, which was held on April 14th. Family
and friends listened to these wonderful
stories,
while
enjoying
refreshments in the library.
We would like to thank Mrs.
Lynch-Pappas, Mrs. Reuter
and Mrs. Barber for putting
AWARDS OF DISTINCTION
We would like to recognize and
congratulate
the
following
Award of Distinction recipients who were
acknowledged at a very special studentled assembly on April 21st here at MWPS.
At our assembly, student archaeologists
were hard at work digging for artefacts
and uncovering clues as to what makes
these people so special’.
We
congratulated Mrs. Hepburn, who is
always willing to lend a helping hand to all
of our staff and students. We celebrated
Mrs. Jeffrey’s smile as it’s the one that
greets us all each and every morning as
we come in! We thanked Mr. and Mrs.
Smithson for their volunteer work here at
our school and praised Jagger Rachlinski
for leading by example and for being such
an integral member of our Maple Wood
Team! Please join us in congratulating
these outstanding TEAMPLAYERS for
their day to day contributions!!!
Celebrating Faith and Culture: May
Date
May
Celebration
Yansa'altt
1
1
2
6
10
17
Beltane
Yom HaShoah
12th Day of Ridvan
Akshaya-tritiya
Wesak Day
Sakyamuni
Buddha's Birthday
Faith/Country
Aboriginal
Spirituality
Wicca
Judaism
Bahá'í
Jainism
Buddhism
Buddhism
Date
17
Celebration
the month of 'Azamat
Faith/Country
Bahá'í
22-23
23
23/25
26
29
Declaration of the Báb
Victoria Day
Jashn-e-Sadeh
Zarathosht-no-Diso
Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
Bahá'í
Canada
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism
Bahá'í
Thank you to all our grandparents and students for
SHARING YOUR SMILES!!!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our
Education Week Open House and helped celebrate
our staff and students’ efforts around our
Math Initiatives and our Healthy-Active Living!