Communiqué du Collège

May 2019

SAVE THE DATE!

Wednesday, September 25—Friday, September 27, 2019 the Grade 7 and Grade 8 students will be heading to Camp Arnes. The approximate price of the trip will be $200. More details will follow!

Congratulations to the students that represented Collège Churchill at the Concours d’art oratoire 2019. Lien, Cadence, Jared, Liam and Mohamed won gold medals. Mohamed and Jared will represent the Winnipeg School Division at the Université de St. Boniface on May 4th.

Congratulations to the students that represented our

school at Expo-Science!

Marshall and Parker and Jared, Liam and Mohamed won

gold. Katelin, Rowyn and McKenzie L., Abbey and

McKenzie C., Kaya and Sunny, Lexi and Julia, Chandler,

Karly, Gabrielle, and Heddya won silver.

Jared, Liam and Mohamed also won the University of

Manitoba Innovator Award, the Manitoba Hydro Energy

and You Award and the WSSF Sustainable Development

Challenge Award.

John S. was successful in his endeavours

to become a Page at the Senate for

2019-2020 and possibly up to 2022! The

competition was fierce but he impressed

the judges with his outstanding personal

and academic skills in both official

languages. His teachers have no doubt

that he will represent them very well.

Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and a book by Howard Ashman. The story takes us to downtown Skid Row and Mushnik’s Flower Shop. We follow Seymour Krelborn, a sweet and insecure floral shop assistant, who is secretly in love with his co-worker Audrey. Audrey, however, is too busy with her dentist boyfriend who tosses her around as he pleases. Suddenly, Seymour stumbles across a new breed of plant that he names “Audrey II”. At first, this plant seems to be exactly what the business needed! Customers are flocking from all over, troubles are disappearing and Seymour is getting noticed. We soon find out that plant food and mineral supplements won’t be enough for Audrey II… the plant is thirsty for BLOOD! Will Seymour give in to the plant’s demands, or will he try to fight it? Collège Churchill and Churchill High School are proud to present its macabre musical from April 30 – May 2, 2019 in the schools’ Senior Gym. Performances run nightly at 7:00 p.m., with the doors open to guests at 6:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the cast and crew of the show for $15 (reserved seating) or $10 for general admission. Warning: Mature language and content

Our Leaders organized a variety of games and divided the school into four teams. Each group was represented by different Mario Kart characters for the gym rally. The students then competed in a friendly competition and the winning team received a pizza party.

Congratulations to team Mario for their win!

Don't forget to check our Daily Announcements page on our website under Community and Family for the latest news and to stay up to date with school events!

Just a friendly reminder to let the school know if your child will be absent. Please use SafeArrival to report

your child’s absence. Refer to the contents of this newsletter for a detailed explanation. Merci!

Daily Announcements/Calendar

Post Secondary—Après Collège

Parent Advisory Council (Fundraising info)

Collège Churchill clothing has arrived!

Visit our website under the tab “Community & Family” to order online.

https://www.teamoutfitters.ca/collge-churchill-web.htm

For grad wear visit the following: https://www.teamoutfitters.ca/college-churchill-grad-

2019.htm

Every Day 1 at lunch hour,

there is Math Club in

room 4.

Everyone is welcome!

Change of date:

Graduation will be on June 24, 2019 at the Bethel Mennonite Church at 6:30 p.m. The dinner will be held on June 26, 2019 at the RBC Convention Centre.

We have, for the first time in recent memory,

formed a MYRCA (Manitoba Young Readers

Choice Awards) club, which will meet every

Day 1 at lunch in Mr. Wiens' room. MYRCA puts

together lists of novels for young readers that

are discussed and studied in a book club kind of

setting. This year, we bought approximately 25

copies of selections from their "Northern

Lights" list, intended for Grades 7-9

students. For information on the novels, see

http://www.myrca.ca/2018-myrca-

nominees/. Participants from around the

province will ultimately vote for a winner from

among this year's selections. Contact

Mr. Wiens at rwiens@wsd1.org if you have any

questions.

SAFE ARRIVAL Dear Parents/Guardians, At Winnipeg School Division, one of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely at school each and every day. To enhance our existing absence-checking procedure, we are introducing a new, more efficient student absence reporting system called SafeArrival. This new system will reduce the time it takes to verify student attendance, make it easy for you to report your child’s absence and easy for staff to respond to unexplained student absences. With SafeArrival, you are asked to report your child’s absence in advance using any of these 3 convenient methods: 1. Using your mobile device, download and install the SchoolMessenger app from the Apple App Store

or the Google Play Store (or from the links at https://go.schoolmessenger.ca). The first time you use the app, select Sign Up to create your account. Select Attendance then Report an Absence.

2. Use the SafeArrival website, https://go.schoolmessenger.ca. The first time you use the website, select Sign Up to create your account. Select Attendance then Report an Absence.

3. Call the toll-free number 1-855-278-4513 to report an absence using the automated phone system. These options are available 24 hours/day, 7 days a week. Future absences can be reported at any time. Please report absences in advance using SafeArrival instead of sending notes or calling/emailing the school. Staff will be using the SafeArrival notifications to let you know if your student is absent (when you haven’t reported the absence in advance). If you have children attending other schools, please continue to report absences using the existing procedures for those schools. Thank you for your patience and cooperation as we implement this new system.

Attendance

The strongest indicator of a student’s academic success is their attendance. Regular attendance and arrival on time is the responsibility of every student and their parents/guardians.

Attendance is taken at the beginning of each class. If a student will be absent from school please enter their absence on SafeArrival as soon as possible.

Please note extended absences interfere with a student’s progress

therefore; it is the student’s responsibility to check with teachers about

missed work and to hand in assignments.

La vie après Collège Churchill

Want to discuss your future university,

college or trade school? Would you like to

learn how to travel, discover

apprenticeship programs or research

gap-year employment? Plan your

post-secondary success by visiting the

Career Advisor, Ms. Kazmerowich, in the

Guidance Office at Churchill High School.

She is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Friday afternoons. Follow us on

Twitter https://twitter.com/ChurchillHSWSD or

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/churchillWSD/

Please find more information on our career counsellor webpage.

Information on financing and scholarships:

studentawards.com

scholarshipscanada.com

canlearn.ca

WSD Financial Help

For more post-secondary information please visit our website,

Après Collège.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat/

Sun

1 Day 4 2 Day 5

3 Day 6

4/5

Concours

d’art

oratoire

provincial

at USB

6 Day 1

Non-Instructional

Planning Day

No classes

7 Day 2

8 Day 3

9 Day 4

Mini-Olympics

10 Day 5

Mini-Olympics Rain date

11/12

13 Day 6

14 Day 1

P.A.C. meeting

6:30 p.m.

15 Day 2

Grade 12 Next Steps

Presentation Bloc D

Churchill High School

Library

16 Day 3

Glenlea Greenhouse

plant delivery

and pickup

17 Day 4

18/19

20

Victoria Day

School closed

21 Day 5

22 Day 6

Grade 12 U of W

Presentation Bloc E

Churchill High School

Library

23 Day 1

Nettoyons-athon

p.m.

24 Day 2

Nettoyons-athon

p.m. Rain date

25/26

27 Day 3

28 Day 4

29 Day 5

30 Day 6

Fine Arts Night

31 Day 1

May 2019

April 30-May 2, Drama Production, Little Shop of Horrors

Band and Choir Trip 10-12

June

3-5 Grade 12 Provincial Français Exam

4 Staff meeting p.m., no classes p.m.

7 Canoe lessons ODLV p.m.

11-12 Grade 8 Common English Exam a.m.

12 Grade 12 Essential Math Exam

13 Grade 12 Applied Math Exam

14 Locker cleanup

17-20 Exams

18-19 Grade 8 Common Math Exam a.m.

21 Exam review

24 Graduation at the Bethel Mennonite Church 6:30 p.m.

24 + 26 Grades 7 & 8 activities

25 Bird’s Hill Outing

26 Grand March 4:45 p.m.

Grad dinner and dance at the RBC Convention Centre

27 Grade 7-11 Awards Day in the Senior Gym 9:30 a.m.

Report Cards sent home 11:30 a.m. (after Awards ceremony)

28 Last day of school