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Happy New Year!!!

A warm welcome back to all our families at École Beau Meadow School and Happy New Year!

We hope that you have enjoyed the holiday season and are ready to continue with our school year.

Our School Council is looking forward to their first meeting of 2019 on Tuesday, January 22nd at 8:30am. We work closely together with our EBMS School Council to support and enhance student learning. Please come out to see all the amazing work that is being done!

Jennifer O'Brien Principal École Beau Meadow

École Beau Meadow School J A N U A R Y , 2 0 1 9

École Beau Meadow School

4322-44 Street, Beaumont,

Alberta. T4X 1K3

Telephone :780-929–2175 Fax:780-929-6606

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Principal: Jennifer O’Brien

Assistant Principal: Kerri-Lynn Hickman

Counselor: Heather Lewis

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Musical Notes

Happy 2019 Everyone! I look forward to another wonderful year of singing, creating, listening and moving to music! ~ Madame Jo-Anne Hendriks

The Grade 2 classes are concentrating on music theory while learning fun thematic songs. The Grade 3 classes are beginning to play recorders using the Recorder Karate program. The Grade 4 classes are continuing to play recorders using the Recorder Karate program. The Grade 5 classes are learning to play the ukuleles. The Grade 6 classes are continuing their ukulele practice.

Extra Curricular ~ Mrs. Schlase and Mme Hendriks Grade 3,4, 5 and 6 Choir – We are practicing to prepare for the Leduc Rotary music festival!

Grade 6 Musical Theatre – The parts have been assigned and practices have begun!

Yearbooks 2018/19

Available to order online through the

Powerschool Parent Account.

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Inclement Weather Busing: Please check the Black Gold website for up to date information on busing. http://www.blackgold.ca/ When buses are cancelled throughout Black Gold, the following radio and TV stations will be notified: Radio:

CFCW (840 AM), CHED (630 AM), CFRN (1260 AM), INEWS (880 AM), JOE (92.5 FM), CISN (103.9 FM) and CBC (740 AM), THE ONE (93.1 FM). TV: CityTV, Global, Weather Network.

Beaumont schools are usually open even when buses are not running. Parents should ensure that the school is open before deciding to drive their children to school. Please also ensure the children are able to get into the building before driving away. Occasionally, parents decide to drive their children to school when the buses are not running. In such cases parents need to be aware that they will have to return at 3:15 p.m. to collect their children. When buses do not run in the mornings due to weather, they do not run in the afternoons either. Buses are sometimes required to leave before the end of the school day. Every effort will be made to contact parents, but parents should listen to the radio if they think the weather is deteriorating, in order to be aware of closures. It is imperative that the school has accurate home and work, cell and phone numbers. If you are not sure that numbers are current, call the school and check. Children should be aware of what to do if they arrive home and parents are not there to receive them.

Skating Grades 2-6 Students in Grades Two to Six will be

skating in January and February. Students will be bused to the rink and will skate with

their class. There is no cost associated with this activity as the School Council is generously paying for the buses needed to transport students. Students must wear a

CSA approved hockey helmet, properly fitted skates and gloves or mitts. Skates

must be transported in a cloth bag for protection of the child as well as his/her

classmates. This is also a rule for the safe transportation of skates on Black Gold

buses. Permission forms are available online. Parents are welcome to join their child’s

class.

Skiing/Snowboarding Gr 4-6 Ski lessons are booked for January 25 and March 1 as

part of our Physical Education program for Grade Four, Five and Six students. Parents will be notified

by classroom teachers when permission form is availa-ble on the parent portal on Powerschool.

All students will be taking lessons, regardless of their skiing or snowboarding ability.

SCHOOL BUS TIPS! TELL SOMEONE

When you get off the bus, make sure your parent

knows where you are going or go straight home. If you miss the bus at the school, go into the school office and they will help you call your

parent for a ride, do not walk home.

Early Pick Up School Policy Parents, when coming to pick up your child before the end of the day please, always stop in the office to sign them out on the computer and wait in the office for your child to come down from the classroom. This helps us to know who is entering and leaving the school for the safety of all of our students. If you are sending someone else to pick up your child please make sure the office is informed of who that person is. Also please let the other person know what the policy at the school is for picking up students before dismissal times. Thank you for your understanding with this process.

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Student of the week in December Jonah 3B Olivia 3B Trinah 3B Amber 5P Hannah 5P Abbigail 3B DuCiel 3B Bradley KEA Penny KEA Austin 1S Aurora 1S Aubree 2M Katie 2M Savannah 2D Taylor 2M Luke 2M Layne 1S Gage 4B Kyra 4B Lily 4B Karson KEA Rylie 3A Dom 3A Payton 1B Makhi 1B Lincoln 1B Ronin 6C Rozlynn KEA Ryan 2M Chase 6C AJ 6C Rachel 2R Rylie 3A Ryan 2M Elizabeth 2R Lincoln 1B Ronin 6C AJ 6C Rachel 2R Kaeli 6C Izzy 6C Jakob 3W

Beau’s Book Bag

Happy New Year to all of Beau’s bookworms! In December, the Knitting Club students arm-knit 22 scarves for donation to the Edmonton Boys and Girls Club/ Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS). The students were enthusiastic about knitting for charity; I am so proud of their commitment and community-mindedness. They should be very proud of themselves. The Knitting Club will continue in the New Year and work on personal projects using knitting needles, and later in the year, they’ll be yarn-bombing our outdoor classroom!

The Book Club finished their first read, Walk Two Moons (a 1995 Newbery Medal winner by Sharon Creech) in December. We’re now reading Gary Paulsen’s, Hatchet, which is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning novel of wilderness survival. As a parent/guardian, if you’d like to sit in on our lunchtime reading and discussion, please contact me. The Knitting Club and the Book Club will be starting up right away. Knitting Club will continue to meet at lunch recess on Mondays. The Book Club meets at lunch recess every Tuesday. Library hours: Monday to Friday 9am - 2:45pm Contact: Nikki Mulholland, Library Technician nicolette.mulholland@gshare.blackgold.ca

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Ensemble nous brillons Together we shine

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 PD Day No Students

2

3 4 Milk Monday

5 6

Early Dismissal @ 2:30

No Kindergarten

7 Teacher’s

Convention (No School)

8 Teacher’s

Convention (No School)

9

10 11 12

13

14 Valentine’s Day

15 Skating Gr 1-3 Fun Food Day– McDonalds

16

17 18

Family Day No School

19 20 21 22 Skating Gr 1-3

23

24 25 Milk Monday

26 27 28 Winter Fun Day

February 2019

January 2019

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

Christmas Break 2

Christmas Break

3

Christmas Break

4 Christmas Break

5

6 7 Classes Resume

8

9 Early Dismissal

@ 2:30 No Kindergarten

10 11 Fun Food—Sobeys

12

13 14 Milk Monday

15 16

17

18 Skating Gr 1-3 Boys Basketball Tournament

19

Boys BBall Tourn.

20 21

22 8:30 am School Council

23 24

Fun Food Day-Pizza Hut

25 Skiing Gr. 4-6 Girls Basketball Tournament

No Kindergarten

26 Girls BBall Tourn.

27 28 Milk Monday

29

30

31 Skating Gr 1-3 Gr 6 Legislature Field Trip