February Golden Shoe and PE Students of the Month

Congratulations to Lucas (Rm 205) and Evan (Rm 202) as the February Primary and Junior PE Students of the Month for demonstrating good sportsmanship and healthy choices!

Ms Higgins class (Rm 212) lost the Golden Shoe to the new Primary winner of the Golden Shoe - Room 208!  The Junior Golden Shoe has moved as well to Room 308!  Congratulations to both classes and the entire school for completing a total of 139,095 push-ups in the month of February!!

Next month's challenge is the standing knee crunches - good luck!

Pizza Lunch Feb 25th - Call for Volunteers!

Our next Pizza Lunch is Friday, February 25th!  If you are available to help feed our kids pizza from 11:15 am - 12:30 pm please contact Angela Gagnon!

Also, don't forget to get your pizza forms in with money by Tuesday, February 22nd to make sure your child gets pizza!

Next Home & School Meeting Feb 23rd - Agenda

Just a reminder that our next Home and School meeting is next Wednesday, February 23rd.  All parents and staff are welcome and as always we will have free child care in the Kindergarten room 103.  The meeting starts at 7:00 pm and will be held in the Staff Lounge on the second floor.  Below is our agenda for the evening:

• Welcome and Introductions
• Principal Mary Anne Davis' Report
• Urgent!  Planning for this year's Fun Fair
• Committee Reports
• Other Business

If you would like to add any items to the agenda please let us know at the Home and School Chairs Email or at the beginning of the meeting.  We look forward to seeing you!

Home & School Meeting - Jan 25th Minutes

The last Home and School meeting involved a visit by Chris Broadbent from the TDSB.  Please click here to see the minutes of this meeting. 

Please join us for the next meeting on Wednesday, February 23rd starting at 7:00 pm in the Staff Lounge.  As always, free child care will be held in the Kinder room (103).

McMurrich Funfair/BBQ – Volunteer Opportunities!

Don’t miss out on being part of the most favourite event at McMurrich – our Annual Funfair/BBQ!  Our kids’ excitement for this event is only second to School Holidays!  To ensure this year’s event is a success we are looking for people to sign up to volunteer on the day of the Funfair and/or to be involved in the planning process – it is not too late to get involved!

Volunteering on the big day can include:

• Set up
• BBQ duty for burgers, hotdogs, food sales
• Ticket sales
• Inflatable (bouncy castles) supervision
• Prize table (the kids’ favourite)
• Craft stations
• Games tables
• Clean up
• And much more!

We also would like more volunteers to help with planning the activities.  No amount of help is too small!  If you are interested in volunteering or finding out what you can do please contact the Funfair Committee.  We need your help to make the Funfair a fun and successful event!

Activity Boxes for Indoor Lunches - Donations Wanted!

We are looking for new and fun ways for our students to spend time during lunch when they have to stay inside due to poor weather conditions.

Do you have any games or activities at home that you wish to donate to our school?

What kinds of things?

• Board games
• Dominos
• Puzzles
• Colouring books & crayons/pencil crayons
• Activity books (e.g. Wordsearch, Sudoku, Crossword puzzles, Mazes)

Where do I drop them off?

There will be a couple of bins located outside of the main office for students and parents to drop off their donations.

When can I drop off?

Anytime between Monday, February 7^th and Friday, February 18^th.

Please ensure that all items are in good condition, that there no missing pieces and that Activity/Colouring books are unused.

We appreciate your donations and your support in this new initiative.

Intermural Floor Hockey Schedule(Grades 1/2)

Please check the Sports calender for the schedule for Intermural Floor Hockey for Grades 1 and 2.  The games run from February 15th until April 5th and are held at lunch in the gym.  Parent spectators are welcome - join us in the gym at 12:00 pm!

January Golden Shoe Award and PE Students of the Month!

The excitement of the Golden Shoe award continues!  For the month of January, the school was challenged to do side squats with the entire student body completing 408,208 side squats for the month.  Wow!

Ms. Higgins' class (Rm 212) has managed to hang onto the Primary Golden Shoe for another month by completing 13,980 side squats by their entire class!  Congratulations!  And for the Junior Golden Shoe, Ms. Ramabaran's class (Rm 301) pulled out all the stops by completing 127,840 side squats.  That is an average of 4,570 side squats PER STUDENT.  Take a minute to think about that.  There are 21 school days in January.  That means over 217 side squats EACH SCHOOL DAY - ouch!  Great work and congratulations to both classes!

The challenge for February is the push-up which was expertly demonstrated by Gioia for the whole school - good work Gioia!

Congratulations also go to the PE Students of the Month for January for making healthy choices and demonstrating good sportsmanship:

Primary - Holden (Rm 203)

Junior - Micah (Rm 202)

Dance-a-thon - Request for Volunteers!

The Dance-a-thon will be held at McMurrich on Friday, February 4th.  It is always a very exciting event at McMurrich!  If you are interested in volunteering at any time during the day, please email Angela and note which time you would prefer.  The schedule for the day is below:

9:00 - 9:50 am

Rm 301 (Rambaran), Rm 308 (Tavares)

10:00 - 10:25 am

JK/SK

10:40 - 11:25 am

Rm 205 (Amaral), Rm 208 (Craig), Rm 210 (Davidson), Rm 209 (Capitao)

12:40 - 1:30 pm

Rm 213 (McKenzie), Rm 200 (Madonia), Rm 212 (Higgins)

1:40 - 2:30 pm

Rm 300 (Cooley), Rm 202 (Lee), Rm 203 (Davis)

2:40 - 3:05 pm

JK/SK

Pledge forms have been sent home with your children.  Have fun!

Student of the Month Assembly - Changed Date

Please note that the Student of the Month Assembly has been moved to Friday, January 28th and will start at 9:00 am.