Celebration of Cultures Dinner

Our Celebration of Cultures dinner is coming up in 3 weeks on Wednesday, January 30. This event celebrates the diversity within our school. With the numerous countries represented, families are encouraged to bring a dish that represents their country. Some families dress up in their national costume and some families perform. It is a fun filled evening and we would love you to join us for this event. Continue to check the school website and the school newsletter for more information.

This year we also decided to have each table decorated by different countries. We would like to borrow any item you have at home that represents your country that is not an heirloom or super fragile. If you have something please bring it to school. Ms. Atagi will return it to after the long weekend (due to the January 31, February 1 Pro-D days.) The dinner is going to be held here at the Middle Campus.

Swimming Lessons for Grade Four

As part of our Active Living component in PE and the Middle Campus Exploratory Program, we have a wonderful opportunity to take our grade four students to the Surrey Sports and Leisure Centre for swimming lessons. The following Fridays are scheduled: February 8, 15, 22, and March 1.

CCSTA buses will be booked and pick up all grade 4 students at 12:10pm. Swimming lessons for one group will go from 12:30-1:00pm and then the other group will be from 1:00-1:30. We will get out of the pool at 2:10pm and be on the buses by 2:25pm. When not in lessons, students have that time to swim and play on their own.

We are asking parents to supplement costs for these lessons. Please send a cheque (written to Surrey Christian School) for $10.00 with the attached page indicating the swimming level of your child. If this causes you undue financial hardship please let your child’s teacher or Mr. Beimers know.

Letter went home today.

If you can’t remember or don’t know your child's swimming level, please refer to this website for a description of each level (or Google the Red Cross swimming levels)

http://www2.whitby.ca/asset/cm-leisure_swimminglessondescriptions.pdf

Please return consent form, swimming level information sheet and money ($10.00) to school by Wednesday, January 16, 2013.

4V's Tuesday Fun

Service Hours for Term Two

Service Hours Begin This Term

For many, the concept of service hours is a new one. This post is written to help both students and parents understand how this works.

Grade four students are asked to earn a total of 8 service hours between now and early March. Service hours can be earned at home, school or at church. Regular chores should not be counted as service. Some ideas include gardening, snow removal, washing the car, vacuuming out the car, organizing recycling, child minding, chores over and above ones that are regularly done at home, and helping out at church. There may also be opportunities to earn service hours at school doing small jobs for teachers or picking up garbage outside. The key is that students need to actively pursue opportunities rather than expect them to materialize.

Every time your child earns an hour of service time please send a note to school so the teachers can track them.

We hope that this will help inspire our students to think beyond themselves and seek out opportunities to serve. Please contact your child's teacher if you have any questions.

Enjoying the Snow

Enjoying the Snow

Christmas Greetings from 4S (this is to make up for forgetting to send the report cards home).