Mary Queen of Peace Empowering Students to Become Lifelong Learners Important Dates March, 2014 Mon. March 10th Reports distributed to students Tues. March 11th School Council Meeting @6pm Thurs. March 13th Parent/Teacher Interviews, students dismissed at 11:00am Skating/Bowling Trip (Gr. 1-6) Fri. March 14th Mon. March 17th District Holiday Tues. March 18th PD Day: No school for students K-6 Fri. March 28th Kinderstart Session Jump Rope Fest Our students in grades 3 and 4 participated in this year’s Jump Rope Fest for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Our students had a great time! Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to receive a pair of Ice Caps tickets for the game on April 4th: Claire O’Brien, Xenia Healy, Owen Yetman, Jack Drake, Andrew Veitch, Rachel Locke and Nikolas Roche. Super Job! 137 Torbay Road St. John’s, NL A1A 2G9 (709) 753-7950/51 www.mqp. k12.nf.ca Progress Reports Progress reports will be distributed to all students on Monday, March 10th. Parent/ Teacher interviews are scheduled for Thursday, March 13th. There will be no classes for our kindergarten students on this day and students from grades 1-6 will be dismissed at 11:00am. We will be using the Optis online booking system for the scheduling of appointments and this system will be accessible for your use beginning on Friday, March 7th at 9am and will close on Wednesday, March 12th at 4:00pm. We encourage you to make a special effort to attend parent/teacher interviews. School Holiday/Professional Development Day Monday, March 17th is a District school holiday. Thus, there will be no school for students in K-6. Our next professional development day for staff is scheduled for Tuesday, March 18th, therefore there will be no school for students in K-6. School will resume on Wednesday, March 19th and it will be day 7 on our schedule. Our final PD day for this year is tentatively scheduled for Friday, May 16th. Healthy Living Commotions Shave for the Brave As part of our Healthy Living Commotions initiative we will be having a school wide We are delighted to announce that Mary skating/bowling trip for our students in Queen of Peace has signed up for the Brav- grades 1-6 on Friday, March 14th. Stuest School Challenge for this year’s Shave dents can choose either to go skating or for the Brave in support of Young Adult bowling and the cost is $5 per student. Cancer Canada! We will be hosting Shave Memos were distributed to all students on for the Brave at this school on Friday, April Thursday, February 28th. Permission slips 4th beginning at 12:30pm. This special and money are to be returned to your child’s event will be dedicated to the memory of homeroom teacher by Friday, March 7th. Roxanne Howse, a very dear teacher of Skating (Grades1-6) and bowling (Grades 1-3) MQP who passed away last year due to her will take place from 9:30-10:30am, and bowling long courageous battle with cancer. (Grades 4-6) will take place from 12:451:45pm. Skating will be held at Twin Rinks and If you or your child is interested in participat- Bowling will be held at Plaza Bowl, Paradise ing in our Shave for the Brave Competition, Bowl, or Holiday Lanes. We look forward to you may register online at: http:// a great time! yacc.convio.net/2014sftbmqp or registration and pledge forms are available at the main Important Notice office of our school. Instruction begins at 8:20 am daily for all Thank you to Mr. Geoff Eaton, Ms. Ann students at MQP. Oftentimes, parents/ Connolly, Ms. Tammy Puddister and Ms. guardians call the school asking to call their Nicole O’Leary for volunteering their time to child out of class to take a telephone call. help us out. We look forward to a great Effective immediately, we will no longer be event! calling children out of class for this purpose. We will only allow this in cases of emerIf you would like further information about gency. If however, it is important for you to the Shave for the Brave visit get a message to your child throughout the www.shaveforthebrave.ca, or email school day, you are asked to communicate [email protected]. the message to our secretary and she will ensure that the message is delivered to Let’s work together to make MQP the Brav- your child. When your child is called out of est School! class for a message, he/she is missing out on instructional time which also interrupts the learning of other students. Student Pick Up Parents/Guardians picking up children prior to dismissal time are asked to please check with the main office. Once your child is called we kindly ask you to proceed to the main lobby outside of the office to wait for your child to arrive. This also applies to when you are dropping off items for your child. Our office is a very busy place during the school day and because space is limited, it can become overcrowded. Also, we need to do our best to ensure confidentiality. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. This same policy applies to parents/ guardians wishing to speak with any of our staff during instructional time. Our staff are busy with children in their care during instructional time and they are the number one priority. Thus, staff will not be permitted to take a telephone call during this time. If you wish to speak with any member of our staff, you are asked to please leave a message with the secretary and she will ensure that the message is delivered to the teacher. This policy applies to all parents/ guardians and the expectation is that it is adhered to by all. Thank you for your cooperation! Page 2 MQP Monthly Newsletter Math League Competition School Council Meeting Congratulations to all of our students in grade 6 who participated in the Math League Competition. They are to be commended for their time, interest and hard work! Honorable mention: Charlotte Muise, Tristan Paranavitana, Avani Adluri, Adam Coxworthy, George Xie, and Stuart Peters. Placement of merit : Scott Adams, Fred Chen, Jeffrey Hayward, Mahiba Khan and Ridhi Mittal. Congratulations to Rhidi Mittal for achieving the highest score in our school! We are very proud of this accomplishment! Good luck to our grade 4 and 5 students who will be participating in their competition in April. Our next school council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 11th at 6:00pm. Thank you to our school council members for their interest and continued support! Congratulations to our students on their recent accomplishments! Kiwanis: Jessica Ryder (2nd in piano); Sarah-Grace Li (1st in Violin); Ava Gogal ( 3rd in Musical Theatre and Folk); Sam Bruce (2nd in piano); Thomas Rowe (1st in piano ); Evan Carter (3rd in piano); Erin Johnston (1st in voice and selected for the Kiwanis AllStars); Sarah Watkins (2nd in piano); Avery Gamble (3rd in voice); Evan Natsheh (2nd place in piano); Madeline Roche (2nd in voice); Grace Parsons (participation in non-competitive piano); Aiden Thomas (3rd in piano); Victoria Sullivan (2nd in Nl Folk); Emmy Furukawa, James Song, Nina Yuan and Reegan Cooke for their participation in Kiwanis). Frosty Flip Gymnastics competition: Jayne Hynes (bronze on beam and 5th overall); Lia Dumaresque (gold in bars, floor and bam, bronze in vault, and gold overall); Kiera Breen (gold and a trophy); Alexandra Collins (Gold for bars, vault, beam and floor); Ani Brocklehurst (gold on floor and vault, bronze for beam and overall, 6th place on bars). Synchronized Swimming Provincial Championships: Zaira Freda (bronze medal); Maggie Brown (team gold medal, 2nd in her solo, and 3rd in individual figures); Niamh Mulrooney and Madeline Bateman for their participation. Skating Provincials: Anna Carter 3rd in figure skating provincials and has been selected to participate in Skate Atlantica in Halifax; Jena Dyer (2nd overall). Spelling Bee: Aluel Achiek and Tristan Paranavitana for winning the spelling bee at the school level and being selected to represent our school at the regionals at Holy Heart; Dance group in Disney from Feb. 19th-26th: Lauren Ringer , Erin and Maeghan Groves, Sinead Connolly, Olivia Jones, Emily Halfyard and Emily Martin. Dance: to the following students from the Sorensen School of Dance for performing at a Seahawks Volleyball game: Sophie Fitzgerald, Emily Dormody, Mary and Ella Antle, Ava Gogal, Abby Pace, Nicole Spencer, Charlotte Muise, Shannon Breen and Madeline Roche. Hockey: Jacob Scott for making the St. John’s Caps Atom C team;; to Mason Dawe, David Fisher and Connor Ryan of the St. John’s Caps All Star Team for winning against the CBR Renegades Novice Select team at Twin Rinks; Here and Now Weather Whiz Kid: Heather Sullivan on February 12th. Chess: Norman Chen (Gold). NLTA Christmas Card Contest: Emmy Furukawa. Scouts Eastern Avalon Kub Car Rally: 2nd Place trophy. Way to go students, we are very proud of you! K of C Free Throw Competition Lunch time in our gym on Feb. 18th and 19th was bounding with excitement as 80 enthusiastic students participated in the annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Competition (open to boys and girls ages 9-11). Thank you Mme Connolly (retired teacher of MQP), her two sons: Stephen and Mark, and to Maria Philpott and Susan Barry for making this possible for our students. The results are as follows: 9yrs.: Keira Squires, Clare Noseworthy, Emmy Furukawa, Tyler Curnew, Ian Anderson and Evan Carter; 10yrs.: Norah Clouter-Gergen, Claire KeanRunning, Ella Banfield, Patrick Sanchez, Will Fleming, and Zake D’Entremont;; 11yrs: Isabella Doody, Hayley Peters, Jenna Perry, Aaron Budgell, Alex Power and Ryan Costello; 12 yrs.: Megan Kelly and Evan Mahoney. Congratulations to Norah ClouterGergen for winning the district competition in her division and will go on to participate in the regionals on March 9th. Thank you to all participants, you did an outstanding job. Certificates of participation will be awarded at a later date. Anti Bullying Day Wednesday, February 26th was Anti-Bullying Day across Canada .We were delighted to honour this day here at MQP! We held assemblies for our students in primary and elementary and the students came away with some really strong messages about bullying and how to stand up to bullies. Our students and teachers looked absolutely amazing in their pink stand up to bullying t shirts which was made possible from many sponsors from our school community! It was a huge hit and school spirit filled the air! We appreciate your support! Basketball Congratulations to our grade 6 girls basketball team for winning a silver medal at the provincials. The team members are: Abby Sparrow, Maria Downey, Bella Doody, Hayley Peters, Jenna Perry, Emily Ricketts, Madison Spry, Amanda Searle, Lilly Reid, Nicole Spencer, Annika Healey, Claire Barron, Megan Kelly, Rose Clay, Julie Sheppard, Brynn Furlong, Chloe Penney, Alyssa Parsons, Kate Foss and Larissa Gautreau. Thank you to Peter Sparrow for his time in coaching this team. Great job! Easter Break Students will be dismissed on Thursday, April 17th at 2:20pm for Easter Break. We will reopen on Monday, April 28th and it will be day 1 on our schedule.