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the Greensville Public School website
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Greensville Public School welcomes new and returning students for the start of the 2009-2010 school year!
This website will be your best source to find out about school events, news, and other
information important to members of our school family, so visit often.
As always, please let us know if you have any suggestions for improvements to the website, or features you'd like to see.
Have a great year!
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 February Newsletter
School Board Calendar 2009-2010
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News
(Click the headline to see the details)
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Junior Speeches| | During the month of January, Greensville's Junior students were busy researching and preparing speeches to present to their classmates. Each of the classes chose 2 finalists to compete in a School-Wide Finals on February 11.
Speaking in the gym at the finals were Izabella Brukker, Jack Smith, Celina Clark, Adam Boyes, Madalyn Walker and Sabrina Brittain. A panel of judges were brought in to our school to listen to the speakers.
In a very close contest, the judges declared Madalyn Walker to be our winner. taking second place honours was Celina Clark and in third place was Sabrina Brittain. Madalyn will now move on to the Cluster Final on March 4 and compete against students from other schools. Good luck Maddy!
Congratulations to all of our speakers. You did a fantastic job!
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School Sign Pictures and online survey| | As mentioned in the January newsletter, School Council has solicited funds to obtain a new "non lit" school sign. The 3 sign samples that we are considering for the new school sign are shown below. A link is provided to a simple one question survey that School Council is conducting, in order to obtain family feedback. Just click on the link and you can let us know what sign you and your family like best. Please have your responses in by February 1st so that council can review the responses by our next meeting and we can begin the process of this exciting opportunity. Thank you for your feedback.
School Council
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Rockton Fair Winners 2009| | Every year, a selection of art, poetry, and other school work is submitted to the Rockton School Fair. Students from grades two to four submitted entries in June. The following students won prizes in their divisions. (Grade levels are those the students were in for the 2008-2009 school year.)
Grade Two - Caroline Maby, Tyler Ryenga, Sally Palmers, Finn Sulentic, Kelsey Shrubsole, Abbey Jacques, Aerial Wilson, Emily Veldhuis, Michael Andreychuk
Grade Three - Jack Smith, Sarah Hejno, Janica Brockhausen, Emma Gunn, Gabriella Hazarus, Grace Lloyd, Zofia Olejarz, Joelle McArthur, Kara Nicholson, Adam Boyes, Austin Garafalo, Josh Giacomodonato, Shelby Robertson, Molly Taylor
Grade Four - Brooke Day, Lelia Weiland
Congratulations to all of our students who entered their work in the fair and especially to our ribbon winners.
 | The work is on display in the front foyer of the school.
For a sneak peek at the winning entries, click on the thumbnail image or click here. |
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EQAO 2008/2009 results are available| |  Greensville Public School has posted exceptional results for Grade 3 students, compared to the board and the province as a whole. Read about how our students did in the report published by the EQAO, available from our About Us > Information page, or by clicking here.
EQAO ensures greater accountability and better quality in Ontarios publicly funded school system. An arms-length agency of the provincial government, EQAO provides parents, teachers and the public with accurate and reliable information about student achievement. EQAO also makes recommendations for improvement that educators, parents, policy-makers and others in the education community can use to improve learning and teaching. For more information, check the EQAO website. | |
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Talent Show| | On Thursday, June 4 Greensville held it's 7th Annual Talent Show. We showed our stuff to the whole school in the afternoon and to our families in the evening. Forty-three students were involved in the production. Performances included dancing, singing, gymnastics, instrumental wizardry and even an unusual handshake! Thanks to everyone involved: the kids for all of their hard work and parents for helping to get them prepared at home!
Check out the photos - The photo album can be found on the Spotlight page, or by clicking here.
Hope to see you next year! | |
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Introducing abc123 videos for parents| | Helping your child improve his or her reading, writing and math skills is as easy as abc123 with new video resources, now available in English and French.- A - Apply what your child learns in the classroom to regular activities at home.
- B - Bring reading, writing and math into your family's everyday life. That could mean counting items at the grocery store or reading signs while you take a walk.
- C - Check out ontario.ca/abc123 to view video podcasts and watch real families like yours using some practical ideas to help their children learn.
- 1 - There's only one requirement for watching the video podcasts: a computer with a media player, such as Windows Media.
- 2 - Two new videos will be posted every month - so bookmark the abc123 website and keep checking in for simple ways to help your child learn.
- 3 - You can view the video podcasts in three different ways:
- watch them online
- download them to your computer or
- put them on a mobile device with video capabilities (such as an iPod).
Complete instructions about how to download the videos are available at ontario.ca/abc123.
Besides the video podcasts, the abc123 website offers tip sheets and guides for parents who want to help their children improve their skills in reading, writing and math. These tips and guides are available in English and French, as well as Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Punjabi, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
View full text on podcasts at: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/abc123/eng/podcast/. | |
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Peanut Allergies - A parent's perspective| | As parents with a child who has a severe allergy to peanuts, we'd like to let everyone at the school know that we appreciate your understanding and efforts with regards to the peanut-free rules in place at the school. Our son, Matthew Dredge is allergic to peanuts and we have been advised by his Allergist to treat him as if he is allergic to all tree nuts, as they are processed in the same factories and there could be traces of peanut on the other nuts.
Matthew was diagnosed when he was a little over 2 years of age. I gave him peanut butter thinly spread on toast for breakfast and within minutes his eczema began to act up. Within 5 minutes of eating a very small bite of toast his entire face was hives and his eyes were red, it did not affect his breathing or level of consciousness that time. Since then we had a scare last March when he was at my Dad's and a bowl of peanuts was left out in error. Matthew came within a few inches of the bowl and again he broke out in a rash, and this time his nose began to swell. The following week at day care, our day care provider, Barb, had a helper come, as it was a P.A. day. Matthew and Hannah arrived at 07:00 and the helper who is aware of Matthew's allergy to peanuts arrived at 09:00. She sat down beside Matthew, and within 5 minutes his entire face was raised hives. Our day care provider asked if anyone ate peanut butter, or brought peanuts to day care. The helper then advised Barb that she ate peanut butter for breakfast and had washed her hands/face and brushed her teeth prior to arriving at Barb's. We took Matthew back to his Allergist and she advised that our families remove all traces of any peanut product from their homes, as he is more severe than we had first thought. She also advised in September at his annual visit and testing of the peanut allergy that she is not hopeful that Matthew will out grow it as we first thought.
I know this is the first time some of you have come into contact with a child who is allergic to peanut/tree nuts, and we know it is an inconvience for you to read labels to make sure that there is no trace of peanut and tree nuts. A major concern we have is cross contamination of food, for example Tim Horton's tim bits, because Tim Horton's serves peanut butter cookies there is a good chance that if someone touches a peanut butter cookie and then a tim bit and Matthew eats a tim bit he could go into anaphylactic shock. This means we have minutes to save his life. The same could happen if someone bakes with peanut butter/peanuts at their home and then makes cookies without peanuts in them for school. If the bowl and utensils have not been washed properly then the cookies that are presumed safe are in fact not safe for Matthew to eat. Matthew does carry epi pens to and from school; we have epi pens at school in the classroom and in the office, at day care and at home. Matthew's allergist agrees with us, if Matthew has an accidental exposure than we have minutes to react to save his life.
The Allergy Asthma Information Association created a very helpful pamphlet on peanut/tree nut allergies which has a lot of information in it.
Once again, thank you very much for being understanding, and for taking the time to read this - it could in fact save our son's life.
Jennifer and Tim Dredge | |
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This website contains links to external information. Although every effort has
been made to validate the content on linked sites, we have no control over that
content. We provide links to sites that we think are of interest/use, but it
remains the responsibility of the parent/caregiver to determine which sites are
appropriate for their children.
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