Holbrook Weekly Memo – Dec 16-20, 2024
Holbrook Families,
Please be sure to check the email about the Holbrook Winter Concert as there is some important information in the email for all families. This is our last week before the Winter break as school will be closed from Dec 23- Jan 3, 2025. Students will return on Monday, Janurary 6th, 2025. We wish all of you a safe and enjoyable holiday break!
Holbrook Holiday Market Coming to Holbrook on Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 Holbrook will be hosting our annual holiday market on Tuesday December 17th, 2024 from 9-3pm .
This is a great opportunity for students to shop for their family and friends. Items will range in price from 25¢ to $5.00. Please send your child to school with their money in a small baggy or envelope marked with their name as well as a shopping list.
*To make the market successful, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are looking for….
- Donation of items that are gently used. Items may include costume jewelry, books, toys, games and household items
- Volunteers for set up and clean up
- Volunteers for sales during the day, to help primary students shop and/or wrapping gifts
- Wrapping paper, newspapers or gift bags to wrap gifts
ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST HAVE VULNERABLE SECTOR POLICE CHECK AS WELL AS A FILLED IN HWDSB VOLUNTEER AGREEMENT
Please drop off donations to Holbrook school anytime before December 16th, 2024! All proceeds will go towards Holbrook School!
Have time to volunteer or do you have any questions? Please send an email to Mrs. Helm at [email protected] – Thank you!
We are having a Mitten Tree Drive at Holbrook. We are accepting mittens that we will add to our Mitten Tree and donate to a local charity – Neighbour to Neighbour at the end of the month. We will also be having a food drive – students & family members may bring a canned or non perishable food items to the school to support our Community Partner – Neighbour to Neighbour. You may also bring your food item in during the Holiday Market Day on Tuesday, Dec 17thh or the Holiday Concert Day on Thursday, Dec 19th as this will be the last day for any donations. Thank you!
Our Lost & Found will be sent to our local charity at the end of this week so please be sure to check for items that may belong to your children.
As the weather turns colder please make sure that students are dressed appropriately for the weather and that all clothing items are labelled with student’s names. To avoid the spread of various illnesses throughout the school community please try to make arrangements to keep students that are sick out of school until they are well enough to return. We will continue to contact families to pick students up if students become sick while at school. Thank you!
Also remind students that the snow and ice stays on the ground. We had some incidents last week with some minor injuries so please review this rule with your children. The snow can be rolled, sculpted, built with but must not be thrown, kicked or tossed. We are trying to work towards students being able to slide on the hill so please be sure that the have proper snow pants and boots for this. We are reviewing the expectations and monitoring / supervising this closely and if issues arise we will need to come up with another plan. Thank you!
Please review the importance of respectful behaviour throughout the school and in our school washrooms with your child or children as we have had some issues lately and this is an area that is unsupervised by staff. Our caretakers do an excellent job maintaining our school and keeping all areas clean and safe however, there have been some graffiti and vandalism over the last couple of weeks.
Thank you!
UPCOMING EVENTS AT HOLBROOK
Monday, December 16th – Morning – Dental Screening all 1st and 2nd Year Kindergartens and Grade 2’s
Tuesday, December 17th – Holbrook Holiday Store – in the gym – 9-3pm
Wednesday, December 18th – Holbrook Holiday Concert Dress Rehearsal – students & staff only
Thursday, December 19th – Holbrook Holiday Concert for Families – Families invited – 9-10am
Friday, December 20th – Popcorn Day and school spirit day: Comfy clothes day, like cozy sweats or sweaters. Last day of school for the Winter Break – students return on Monday, January 6th 2025
12 Days of Kindness- Healthy Action Team (HAT team)
Dec 16 – Day 8: Paper chains for each class with positive message (materials provided for teachers)
Dec 17 -Day 9 : Mindful eating: think, smell and touch your food
Dec 18 – Day 10- Fresh Air Day and enjoy your nutrition break
Dec 19 -Day 11: Say something nice to yourself
Day 20 – Day 12: Holiday Dance party: with music or the announcements or a school wide holiday in the gym.
Holbrook Fundraisers:
Mabel’s Labels
Timing: Open year round!
Support Holbrook with every Mabel’s Labels order you make! The school will receive a percentage back for all sales tied to our Holbrook School (Hamilton) fundraiser and the steps are simple!
- Visit https://mabelslabels.ca/en-CA/fundraising/support
- Search for Holbrook School (Hamilton)
- Make your purchase online as you normally would
View more information about all fundraisers on the website here. If you have any questions please contact the school office at 905 385-5369.
A reminder if your child is going to the park after-school, they aren’t allowed back in the building to use the washroom as no one is there to supervise them inside the school as the instructional day has ended.
A reminder that due to several allergies and medical conditions Holbrook is a Scent-Friendly environment. Please remind students that they should not be bringing scented colognes and perfumes to school and we respectfully, ask that students not apply these before coming to school. Thank you.
Please be mindful that our school parking lot has no parking or stopping so we will ask parents that are driving to enter the city park lot west of the school and walk your children over to the playground to meet their new teacher. For safety reasons we will not be allowing vehicles in the school parking lot unless they are staff. A reminder that the parking closest to the school along the fence is reserved for staff so please park on the very west side.
Our school day begins at 8:45 am but we will have supervision on the playground from 8:30-8:45 am if you need to drop off and leave. Our day ends at 3:05 so please be sure to be on time to pick up students at the end of the day. We will have supervision on the playground from 3:05-3:20pm.
We also ask that parents please avoid entering the school at playground or side entrances. If you need to enter please ring the buzzer at the front of the school and myself or Ms. Miles, ,our office administrator, will be happy to assist you. We ask this of parents and guardians to avoid interruptions to our staff while they are instructing and supervising large numbers of students. Our staff will happily spend some time on the first few days talking with you at entry or dismissal. If you wish to speak with the office or your child’s teacher at another time please call us at 905 385 5369 and we can set up an appointment. Thank you.
Please be sure to let your child’s teacher know if your child has any medical conditions or if they require any type of medication (puffers, epi pens, etc.) while at school. We have medical forms and plan of care forms that we will send home that need to be filled out and signed by the physician treating the child and the parent / guardian as we are unable to administer any medication ( this includes over the counter medications – tylenol, topical creams, cough/cold etc.) without a completed medical form and the appropriate signatures. Contact our school office at 905 385-5369 if you have any questions about medical forms or using the parent portal.
A reminder that if any of your contact information has changed (phone, email, address) or you need to add or delete those that can pick up your children or emergency contacts please let the office know as soon as possible as this ensures that we can quickly and accurately access contacts when necessary.
I will send a Holbrook Weekly Memo out each Sunday with details of the upcoming events and the week ahead so be sure to check your emails to stay updated. Pease be sure to register for our school website by visiting : www.hwdsb.on.ca/holbrook/ and click on the “REGISTER” tab at the top of the page to complete the registration process as you will receive notifications when any new posts are added to the school website.
Thank you,
Have a great week!
Mr. G. Carey, Principal
Holbrook Elementary School
Updated on Sunday, December 15, 2024.