St. Andrews Junior High News

Chapters Night

The St. Andrew’s Chapters Night was a big success, thanks to outstanding parent support! We all enjoyed the festive atmosphere and music, provided by St. Andrew’s students. We have a big thank you to Ms. Wong and our music students for making the evening especially festive. Thank you to our student volunteers for all their help, and to Mr. Howard, Ms. Dubeau and all the teachers who made it out to support our event. We would also like to thank Daphne Strathdee for coordinating this event, as well as all of our parent volunteers.

Ward Forum Meeting

Monday, November 30th, 7-9pm

Our School Trustee, Gerri Gershon, is having a Ward Forum meeting on Monday November 30th at Sunny View School. Our new Director, Dr. Chris Spence, will be addressing us with his “Vision of Hope”. Everyone is welcome! All details and the agenda are attached.

Nov 26 – 7:30 – 8:45 pm
Featuring the Grade Eight Band, Senior Band, Marching Band, Grade Eight Strings and Senior Strings

Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased from your child’s music teacher. A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door on the night of the concert. All tickets are $5; children five and under are free. Proceeds from the concert will be spent on replacing old musical instruments. Please plan on staying for the entire concert.

• Anti-Bullying Assemblies
• “Stand Up Rise Above” T Shirts
• “Stand Up Rise Above” Wave
• Bullying Awareness and Prevention

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A few TidBITS from last week at St. Andrew’s JHS and a few upcoming items this week

• St. Andrew’s Chapters Night
• Great New Offer from American Eagle Outfitters and SPC Card
• Spirit Week is Coming!
• Forest Valley Excursion
• Operation Christmas Child Concluded

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A few TidBITS from last week at St. Andrew’s JHS

• Leadership Conference
• Character Development
• Special Police Presentations
• Remembrance Day Assemblies

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In this issue:

• St. Andrew’s Chapters night at Bayview Village – Nov 23
• Homework Hassles Speaker update
• Pizza Lunch update
• A word from our school trustee – Gerri Gershon
• Great press for our High performing Athletes Program

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National Anti-Bullying Week, November 16 – 22, shines a light on bullying, sending a clear and positive message that it is neither acceptable nor inevitable in our school and community. During this week, our students will have the opportunity to work together to develop activities to prevent and deal with bullying through education and awareness.

These are the key messages that our Anti-Bullying Awareness Week will focus on:
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Seven Steps to End Homework Hassles

Is the burden of doing or policing daily homework with your child getting you down? This is a reminder that we have an amazing speaker coming on Monday night to talk to us about the “Seven Steps to End Homework Hassles”.

Now’s the time to get the scoop on how to motivate your child and what you can be doing to ease the homework headache. See details in the
attached flyer.

Please join us at 7pm in the Library. The presentation will be followed by a brief Parent Council meeting.

In this update….

• Halloween Memories
• Remembrance Day at St. Andrews JHS
• Information for Parents in the School
• Arrival times – Morning and Lunch
• Report Cards are coming
• Principal’s Message
• Nut Free Environment
• Student Leadership Council News
• Grade 8 Secondary Information Evenings for Parents
• Communication between home and school…staying informed!
• ESP School Safety Survey
• Character Development – This is “Empathy” Month
• Pizza Day – Win a lunch for your class!

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• Nov. 9
  • Photo retakes (a.m.)
  • “Seven Steps to End Homework Hassles” Presentation – 7pm in the library
  • Parent Council Meeting – follows presentation
• Nov. 10 – Police/Community Liaison Officer Presentations
• Nov. 11 – Remembrance Day Assemblies
• Nov. 12 – Pizza Lunch #1
• Nov. 13 – PA Day – no school for Students
• Nov. 13-15 – Future Aces Leadership Conference – Talisman Resort
• Nov. 18 – Forest Valley Excursion (gr. 7)
• Nov. 23 – Parent Council Chapters Night
• Nov. 23-27 – Spirit Week
• Nov. 26 – Concert – 7:30 p.m.
• Nov. 27
  • Term 1 Reports Home
  • St. Andrew’s Day Assembly
  • Food Drive Begins (until Dec. 16)
• Nov. 30 – Ward Forum 7:00 pm
• Dec. 3 – Evening Parent Interviews
• Dec. 4 – Morning Parent Interviews

The Halloween dance was a huge success – thank you to the teachers and students (as well as the parent volunteers during the Halloween bake sale) for their time and effort preparing the event.

As the letter sent home regarding the dance stated, this was a regular attendance day and students were expected to be in school at the dance or in class. Those students not attending the afternoon for whatever reason had to have a note with them in the morning. There were no students that were allowed to leave the dance early because it didn’t meet their expectations and students were not allowed to call home from the office to have permission to leave school. These events are in place for the students and a lot of effort goes into organizing them.

We hope that there will be continued enthusiasm for events such as this as many school memories are formulated at these events. Thank you to the parents who did write notes for their children to be excused (for whatever reason) as you helped to make the job of the office staff less hectic. For those of you at the dance, it was a great party and a ton of fun – thank you!