February 25, 2013

As many of our students

and children continue to

be immersed in technol-

ogy, it is important that

we as teachers, parents

and guardians stay in-

formed, and monitor

their usage. Check out

this link. It has good

resources for parents

and guardians:

http://mediasmarts.ca/

cyberbullying/resources-

parents-cyberbullying

Student Recognition - Friday, March1st The following students will be recognized at the

assemblies on this Friday. The Primary Assem-

bly will be at 10:00 am and the Intermediate

Assembly will be at 10:50 am.

Division 1 – Mr. Oldfield (Gr. 7) Dylan Barcelone Jesse Brown

Zoe Crookshank Donovan Savage

Division 2 – Ms. Sullivan (Gr. 7) Jill Banks Noah Cross

Riley Davidson Erinn Hobson

Katie Indrebo

Division 3 – Mrs. Lewis /Banks(Gr. 6) Max Chiasson Ben Collings

Justin Davidson Garrett Hollinshead

Melaina Mastodonato Claire Mavin

Cody Oliver Ian Petula

Cam Stevenson Marcy Tietzen

Division 4 – Mr. Boettger (Gr.5/6) Hannah Cramb Sidney Elliott

Catherine Forsythe Pavan Narayan

Adam Young

Division 5 – Ms. Whitehouse (Gr. 5) Chase Brown Cole Mostat

Brett Orlinis Rebecca Sheard

Division 6 – Ms. McKinty (Gr. 4) Nolan Banks Lily Chiasson

Jeffrey Chernoff Brittni Jolie

Hayden Krauss Christian Penson

Ariana Reid Hannah Simpson

Div. 7 – Ms. McLean (Gr. 3/4) Ava Ahmed Spencer Braak

Hannah Cross Nathaniel Hees

Kirsten Heinz Tamrin Tuininga

Div. 8 – Mrs. Morris (Gr. 3) Satya Bolton-Hicks Maddy Gunther

Madison Hollinshead Hayley Miller

Adam O’Grady Mason Windsor

Div. 9 – Mrs. Macklem (Gr. 2/3) Peyton Mithmuangneua Tristan Peake

Ryan Segade Abby Solowan

Div. 10 – Ms. Tait (Gr. 2) Ranae Babcock Sarah Banks

Audrey Behan Griffin Leach

Carter Mostat Taylor Olson

Div. 11 – Ms. Bond (Gr. 1) Hunter Clark Ryinn Harry

J.J. Krause James Leishman

Thomas Matkin Danica Parker

Michael Penson Linden Slack

Div. 12 – Mrs. Adams (Gr. 1) Kyana Burnett Ayva Gunther

Olivia Miller Reilly Reid

Andrew Taylor

Div. 13 – Mrs. Taylor (K) Jacob Babcock Misia Choo

Osha North Dane Slack

Div. 14 – Mrs. Butula (K) Reace Boarman Kayla Greenwood

Ryder Lipkovitz Addy Shipley

Principal’s Reader of the Month:

Primary - Linden Slack Gr.1

Intermediate - Annika Krowitz

As Festival rapidly approaches, here is some vital information regarding Grief Point’s music groups which will be participating this year.

Our instrumental and Modules groups will perform at the Max Cameron Theatre (Brooks) on the following days: Monday, February 25th, Class 302A, beginning at 9:30 AM –

Recorders (Divisions 6 & 7) and Ukuleles (Divisions 4 & 5) Wednesday, February 27

th, Class 360A, beginning at 9:30 AM –

Divisions 1, 2, 3, & 4 Modules

Junior Jazz will perform on Tuesday, February 26th, in the Max Cameron Theatre at Brooks, beginning at 9:30 AM (Class 393A); Doughnuts will play at 3:30 (Class 352).

Our school choirs will perform at the Complex in the Evergreen Theatre on the following days: Thursday, February 28th, Class 501A, beginning at 9:30 AM -.

Kindergartners (Division 13&14), Primary Choir Grades 1-2 (Divisions 10, 11 & 12), and Junior Choir Grades 2-3 (Divisions 7, 8 & 9).

Friday, March 1st, Class 502A, beginning at 9:30 AM -

Senior Choir will perform last in their class.

FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS

Anti-Bullying - Wear Pink Day

Wednesday Feb. 27th

We are inviting students to wear

something pink on Wednesday,

February 27th to help recognize the

negative impact that bullying can

have and help bring general aware-

ness to what ‘bullying’ actually is.

For more information you can check

out: www.pinkshirtday.ca

The Powell River Gymnastics Society has on-going registration for it's Win-ter and Spring session until the end of February. Limited space is available in the preschool classes and recrea-tional after school programs! Parent and Tot drop in is every Mon, Wed and Sat from 9am-10am. Adult drop in is Mon and Wed from 7-9pm. We offer special event and birthday party bookings every Sat and Sun-day! Book in advance! For more in-formation please call the gym at 604-485-0520.

Tai Brown

Journal Writing

Mrs. Adams Grade 1 Class

Second Term Report

Cards will be issued on:

Wednesday, March 13th

“Have A Heart – Fill the

Cart” Food Bank Fundraiser

Last week three students, Han-

nah Cramb, Sidney Elliot and

Catherine Forsythe, came up

with a plan to help out our local Food

Bank around Valentine’s Day. The “Have

A Heart – Fill the Cart” Fundraiser en-

couraged students to bring in cans and non

-perishable food items. They organized a

classroom competition and decided that

the class bringing in the most items would

win an extra PE period! Close to 400

items of food came in! The winning class

was Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Banks’ Grade 6

class with over 100 items.

Powell River Kings

and Reading Heroes

Throughout the school

year we have been very fortunate

to have two members of the Pow-

ell River Kings come to our

school and read with a variety of

different students on Monday

mornings. Jordan Benton and

Matt Joyaux have been excep-

tional role models for our stu-

dents. On behalf of all of us at

Grief Point, we want to thank

them and wish them all the best in

the future. Next week on Thurs-

day, February 28th our PR Kings’

Reading Heroes program will

come to an end with Catch a King

Reading. A bulletin board in the

front of the school has been set up

with clues to a couple of books.

Based on the clues, students need

to try and figure what the books

are. On Thursday at lunch they

are to scour the playground and

try and find one of the Powell

River Kings reading that book!

They can enter a draw for some

wonderful prizes. We would like

to thank the Powell River Kings

Hockey Club, the Powell River

Literacy Council and First Insur-

ance for providing these wonder-

ful opportunities for our students!

Mrs. Macklem’s Class

R.I.P. Clifford Clifford, our beloved guinea

pig who lived in Ms. Taylor’s Kindergarten

class for the past seven years, peacefully

passed away last weekend in his sleep. A lot

of our students have fond memories of little

Clifford, some even took him home over

weekends when they were in Ms. T’s class.

He was a great little guy who will be

missed!

Grade 6 & 7 Basketball Updates

Our Elementary Basketball season is well under

way and both our Girls’ and Boys’ teams are im-

proving each week. As always, we were very happy

with the amount of students who showed an inter-

est in participating. We would like to thank our

parent volunteers who have been coaching our stu-

dents this year.

Our Girls’ Team school sponsor is Mrs. Banks and

our volunteer coaches are Mr. Banks and

Mr. Fontaine.

Our Boys’ Team school sponsor is

Mrs. Lewis and our volunteer coaches are

Mr. Savage and Mr. Cross.

PAC FUNDRAISER

The Grief Point PAC will be sending home infor-mation soon regarding an upcoming fundraiser in partnership with the Chopping Block.

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 25 - Music Students to Festival

March 1 of the Performing Arts

February 27 Pink Shirt Day - Anti-bullying

February 28 Destination Conservation

March 1 Recognition Assembly

March 6 Hot Lunch - Pizza

March 13 Second Formal Report Card

March 15 - Last day of classes before Spring

Break

April 2 School Re-opens after Spring

Break

CRAZY HAIR & HAT DAY