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VOL. 13, ED. 1 | FEBRUARY 2016

InsidePage 3Surrey Schools named one of B.C.’s Top Employers;District calendar

Page 4Surrey Schools thanks...

Page 5Mesage from your DPAC;Surrey DPAC meetings

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Frank Hurt student recognized for outstanding youth leadership and service

Page 7Innovative Frank Hurt-Earl Marriott student “exchange” program;Seattle Mariners visit Katzie Elementary

Page 8B.C.’s new curriculum

Page 9 Cedar Hills student wins New York trip for poetry slam nationals

Page 10 District students’ high school completion rate outperforms provincial average;New school spaces available soon

Page 11Dental health starts early

34th Annual Envision Financial Jazz Festival Feb. 19 & 20

s The Surrey School District proudly presents the Envision Financial Jazz Festival; one of Canada’s largest jazz festivals. This event combines two days of jazz performances by 2,000 secondary school jazz musicians with two nights of superb jazz performances for the public. Admission to daytime performances is free; evening performances are by donation to the Surrey Schools meal program. Some of the best music students in grades 8 to 12 from throughout the Pacific Northwest will be performing. Musicians compete for 59 awards and at least six scholarships during the event. Daily performances: The Student Showcase takes place February 19 & 20, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bell Performing

Arts Centre / Sullivan Heights Secondary at 6250 – 144 Street, Surrey. Just drop-in; no tickets or reservations required. Evening performances: Enjoy an evening performance in the Fraser Valley’s finest theatre with many of the finest young musicians from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Bell Performing Arts Centre. Donations at the door. Friday evening, it’s the student all-star bands, or representative bands, as selected by band teachers. There is also a representative vocal jazz choir. Saturday evening, it’s the Showcase Showdown. Enjoy an evening of celebration and performances by eight festival showcase contenders.

Adjudicators will determine and award an evening performance spot to the top two contenders in each category based on their performance and scores during the festival. Two contenders will perform in four categories:  junior band, junior/senior band, senior band and vocal jazz. Festival awards and scholarships will be presented throughout the evening.

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District event calendarFEBRUARY 18, 7 p.m.

Surrey Board of Education Public Board Meeting

District Education Centre14033 - 92 Ave.

FEBRUARY 19Non-Instructional Day

(Rescheduled from February 26, 2016)

FEBRUARY 19 & 2034th Annual Envision

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Surrey school district named one of BC’s top employers Surrey Schools has been selected to the exclusive 2016 BC’s Top Employers list. The annual competition recognizes employers in British Columbia “that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work.” “Our board is obviously proud of this special recognition because trustees believe strongly that our workplaces need to be welcoming and rewarding,” says Surrey Board of Education chairperson Shawn Wilson. “I’ve been a school trustee in this district for more than 16 years and I’ve seen a culture

of pride here in what we do to support children and student learning; not just in educators, but in everyone, whether clerks,

custodians, professionals or tradespeople.” Winners are selected using eight criteria:• physical workplace• work atmosphere & social

• health financial andfamily benefits

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communications• performance

management• training and skills

development• community involvement.

“Our senior leadershipencourages innovation and provides staff the opportunity to pursue ideas and initiatives,” adds Wilson. “This not only contributes to a more exciting workplace, it has also led to our district being recognized in Canada and nationally as leaders.”

Surrey Board of Education trustees congratulate and give a gift to 25-year district employees at the board’s annual Long Service reception.

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Breakfast ClubsBreakfast Clubs of Canada has donated $25,000 to purchase food and ingredients for the Community-Schools Partnership program called Attendance Matters. Attendance Matters runs in 21 elementary schools and provides a nutritious breakfast, literacy games and physical recreation opportunities in the morning before school starts. Community-Schools staff also support students in getting to school each and every day.

Breakfast for LearningBreakfast for Learning has contributed $34,000 to operate breakfast programs at 17 elementary and secondary schools. Breakfasts include toast, cheese, jam, cereal, milk, eggs, yogurt, fruits and vegetables. More than 400 students receive breakfast through Breakfast for Learning support.

ChevronChevron has donated to the district’s ExplorAction program for the fourth year in a row, with a grant of $25,000 this year. ExplorAction encompasses both the Sticks and Stars program for Grade 5 & 6 boys and the Girls in Action program for Grade 5 & 6 girls. Both programs operate at six schools in the district on weekends and during spring break. Sticks and Stars provides world class astronomy and engineering instruction led by HR McMillan Space Centre, along with hockey skill sessions. Girls in Action delivers environment and conservation science instruction coupled with tennis and dance sessions led by Tennis BC and Arts Umbrella.

Hannah and Amelia’s Angel FoundationHannah and Amelia’s Angel Foundation has donated $10,000 to support the BLAST (Bringing Learning to After School Time) program at Forsyth Road Elementary. BLAST is coordinated by the district’s Community-Schools Partnership department and operates three days per week. The program provides an enriched learning experience for vulnerable Grade 4-7 students in areas of cooking, art, science,technology, engineering, physical literacy, andleadership skills. Through BLAST, vulnerablestudents are able to gain confidence, newfriendships and a sense of accomplishment in asafe, positive and fun environment.

ScholarshipsStudents and parents can find information on both SD36 Partner scholarships and external scholarships on the district webpage (www.surreyschools.ca) under the “Students” tab.

Telus Telus Community Board has donated $20,000 to the Community-Schools Partnership Clubhouse 36 program.  Clubhouse offers year-round support and out-of-school skill building opportunities to students at Holly, Georges Vanier and Lena Shaw elementary schools. Clubhouse 36 provides consistent, safe, and high-quality programming at no cost to vulnerable students and families. Enriched sessions provided by expert partners in areas of sport, art, science, engineering, technology, cooking/nutrition, entrepreneurship and leadership allow participants to develop and improve their knowledge and skills.

TD Friends of the Environment FoundationTD Friends of the Environment Foundation has donated $9,000 to the district’s Girls in Action (GIA)

program for a third year in a row. Girls in Action operates in six elementary schools with student support on weekends and during spring break. Girls in Action delivers environmental and conservation science instruction from Science AL!VE, coupled with tennis and dance sessions led by Tennis BC and Arts

Umbrella. Environmental science field trips are taken to the A Rocha Brooksdale Environmental Centre where participants engage in direct hands-

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First Book CanadaPrince Charles Elementary received its second $1,000 donation from First Book Canada for funds to be used in purchasing new books for its library. The donation continues to assist the school in expanding and enriching the Prince Charles Elementary collection for all students, staff, and families to use.

Envision Financial Jazz FestivalEnvision has contributed $25,000 to the 34th Annual Envision Jazz Fest. This event combines two days of jazz performances by 2,000 secondary school jazz musicians with two nights of superb jazz performances for the public.  Admission to daytime performances is free; evening performances are by donation to the Surrey Schools meal program. Last year’s festival contributed $1,290 to the meal program.  Envision Financial Jazz Festival 2016 will take place February 19-20 at Sullivan Heights Secondary and the Bell Performing Arts Centre.

Coast Capital supports Attendance Matters/Breakfast ProgramsCoast Capital has donated $2,300 to the district’s Attendance Matters programs at five locations. On top of the monetary contribution, 28 Coast Capital staff members from the “Help Headquarters”; specifically the HR & legal teams and the “Red, White & Me” team, volunteered their time to go into the schools and work directly with the students, much to the delight of the principals and the district’s Food Services department who were able to prepare special meals thanks to the donations.  Attendance Matters currently runs in 21 schools and provides nutrition and eases the transition from home to school for many students who would otherwise not have access to this support.

BC Teachers’ FederationThe BCTF has contributed $2,000 to start a new IDEAS 36 project.  IDEAS 36 is a leadership group of students from across the district who meet to develop projects that matter to students across the district.  The latest IDEAS 36 project supports students from our inter-agency programs.   Inter-agency programs support the most vulnerable and at-risk students, such as those with mental health challenges, are developmentally delayed, or have other challenges to succeed in regular high school. By supporting an IDEAS 36 pilot project with these vulnerable students, the BCTF is enabling them to think of their futures in a positive light, showing they can still make a difference and get involved despite the hardships they face on a day-to-day basis.

Women with HeartWomen with Heart has donated $3,000 to help launch a breakfast program at WF Davidson Elementary. This funding filled a critical need by providing food items and supplies to a new location and feeding more than 20 children who would ordinarily go without breakfast; hungry and unable to concentrate in class each day. Breakfasts include toast, cheese, jam, cereal, milk, eggs, yogurt, fruits and vegetables and ensures that students are starting the day in a healthy, positive way.

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Message from your DPAC Education in B.C., and especially here in Surrey, is heading into an exciting period of transformation and the opportunities for parent input may never have been greater. We encourage all parents to get involved! The Ministry of Education is completely over-hauling the B.C. education curriculum and has put a lot of information online at curriculum.gov.bc.ca where you can see what’s happening and give your feedback. In our November 2015 Surrey DPAC meeting we discussed and illustrated the use of Fresh Grade in our Surrey classrooms. It was an engaging and productive conversation with the DPAC school representatives and parents. We encourage all parents to communicate with their teachers and schools on their level of participation with the new online reporting technology. https://www.freshgrade.com/parents/our-products/ Our September 2015 Parent Forum was a tremendous success and we are excited to see the recent PAC Memo – January 2016 from Superintendent/ CEO Surrey Schools Jordan Tinney.The PAC Memo provides a digest ofinformation from the Surrey SchoolDistrict. This January 2016 PAC Memocan be viewed at http://surreydpac.ca/index.php/category/news/

The Surrey District Parents’ Advisory Council met with a panel of all Surrey MLAs at our general meeting on Wednesday, January 27 to discuss issues surrounding education funding, safety & crime and the impacts of Bill 11. In February, we are planning a discussion on child advocacy. There may be times when parents need to advocate for the needs of their children and many parents don’t understand where to begin. We look forward to presenting great information and resources for parents. Our meeting is scheduled for Wednesday February 24, 2016. BCCPAC will be hosting our Annual Spring Conference and AGM in Kelowna April 29 to May 1, 2016 at the Coast Capri in Kelowna. Please look to their webpage for more information and updates at www.bccpac.bc.ca If you want to know

more about DPAC, just look for Surrey DPAC online – our website is www.surreydpac.ca and we are surreydpac on Facebook and Twitter. You can find information about upcoming events and numerous resources, and there are links to our email list on both the website and Facebook page.

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BOARD MEETINGS BEGIN AT 7 p.m.

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Innovative Frank Hurt–Earl Marriott student “exchange” program promotes academics and friendship [As part of a semester-long connection and collaboration between Frank Hurt Secondary school in Newton and Earl Marriott Secondary school in South Surrey, students from a writing class at each school got together to hear a guest speaker and share ideas and experiences. Grade 11 Earl Marriott student Emerald Schreier provides this report of the day.] Eileen Cook, a successful young adult author gave a presentation on “How to Write a Novel.” This talk could not have come at a better time as Ms. Schellenberg‘s Writing Class is currently finishing up their novel outlines. Furthermore, the EMS writing class was joined by their pen pals, Frank Hurt Secondary’s Creative Writing Class. Each Marriott student was able to sit with their “pal” as they took in the wealth of personal-experience-based knowledge Cook had to offer. This marked the second time Mariners met with their pen pals. After exchanging three letters via Ms. Schellenberg (Earl Marriott) and Ms.

Barnett (Frank Hurt), Earl Marriott’s writing class boarded a bus to Frank Hurt. The day was spent by Mariner’s bonding with their pen pals in person and experiencing school life outside the walls of EMS. On December 4th, it was Frank Hurt’s turn to visit. Both Marriott and Frank Hurt students benefitted from Cook’s strength in pursuing writing despite repeated rejection. Cook wrote four manuscripts before she was published. This reminded the students in attendance that writing for a career is no easy task, but through perseverance can be pricelessly rewarding. Having someone at another school with a shared passion for writing to communicate with and then meet, was an incredible experience that forged lasting friendships. Having Eileen Cook there was the perfect conclusion to a fun-filled encounter. This penmanship alliance between Earl Marriott and Frank Hurt was an enormous success and hopefully will continue on for semesters to come.

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The Seattle Mariners “Dream Team”, including team mascot Mariner Moose, delighted Katzie Elementary students with a visit and presentation at a special school assembly.Mariner pitchers Steve Cichek (left) and Charlie Furbush (centre) joined Mariner Moose to teach D.R.E.A.M. Team principles of Drug free, Respect yourself & others, Education, Attitude and Motivation.

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B.C.’s new curriculumApril 18 an added non-instructional day A new, updated education curriculum has been developed for K-12 education in our province. This work has been years in the making with many educators involved in its development. To support the implementation of the curriculum, a non-instruction day (NID) has been added on April 18, 2016 for teachers to familiarize themselves with the new curriculum and plan for its implementation in the coming year. For the current school year, the curriculum has been optional for teachers in kindergarten to Grade 9. It will become the official curriculum in those grades starting September 2016. The new Grade 10 to 12 curriculum will be optional for teachers in the 2016-17 school year and full implementation is scheduled for the 2017-18 school year. The Ministry of Education is currently seeking feedback on the 10-12 curriculum. The curriculum redesign continues to focus on the foundations of reading, writing and numeracy, while emphasizing higher-order thinking and deeper learning in all areas, as well as extending flexibility and choice in the classroom.

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Cedar Hills student wins New York trip for poetry slam nationals Grade 5 Cedar Hills elementary student Riya Arora’s performance was the judges’ and audience favourite at the inaugural regional Canada SCORES Poetry Slam held in Burnaby. She beat out the field of contestants in the event organized by the Canada SCORES Vancouver charity. The society is an extension of America SCORES, which combines soccer, poetry and community service in after-school programs for vulnerable youth aimed at helping children reach their full potential. Riya will now compete in the 10th Annual National Poetry SLAM! at the School of Visual Arts theatre in New York City, April 9 to 12. All her expenses are covered by Canada SCORES and America SCORES. While in New York, Riya will also participate in writing and performance workshops with renowned poets and spoken word artists. She will also get a tour of the city.

Cedar Hills teacher Sukhjinder Sidhu encouraged and coached Riya, whose poetry slam topic was “Soccer’s role in my life”. The Canada SCORES program was introduced in the district last year through the district’s Business Development and Community-Schools Partnership departments. C-SP outreach worker Stefan Leslie—a former Vancouver Whitecaps soccer team player—provides student mentorship and helps coordinate the Canada SCORES after-school program among five elementary schools and one secondary school. For a poetry slam, students create and perform their own poems without any music, costumes or props. The work is judged as much on the manner and enthusiasm of its performance, as its content or style.

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Artist’s rendering of the new Clayton North-area secondary school.

District students’ high school completion rate hits new high and outperforms provincial average The proportion of Surrey School District students graduating within six years of starting secondary school continues to rise and is at another all-time high. The six-year completion rate is the percentage of students who graduate with a Dogwood diploma within six years of starting Grade 8 for the first time. According to a recently released B.C. Ministry of Education report, 89 per cent of district students graduated within six years in 2014-15. That figure is a 0.2 per cent increase over the previous year and maintains a continuous rise in this key measure of district performance. The combined rate for high school completion in all public and private schools in B.C. for the same year was 83.9 per cent, about five per cent less than the Surrey School District figure.“It’s certainly great to see how well our district students are doing in this benchmark, generally and in relation to the provincial average,” says Surrey Board of Education chairperson Shawn Wilson. “Even more importantly is that overall, our district maintains our long trend of improvement. Thanks go to our students,

teachers, support staff and school and district administrators for their efforts.”

Also according to the ministry report, a greater proportion of Surrey students are graduating with honours; increasing four per cent year-over-year to more than half of all graduating students. The data also tracks the performance of special needs, English Language Learners (ELL) and aboriginal students. These three categories report figures from a much smaller number of students, so there are larger fluctuations from year-to-year. While the six-year completion rate for aboriginal students fell from 61 per cent to 55 per cent, the rate has risen for all other aboriginal graduation rate categories documented in the report. More aboriginal students are also graduating at the honours level than in the previous year. The six-year completion rate for special needs students rose from 60.6 per cent to 65.8 per cent while the rate for ELL students changed slightly from 92.6 to 92 per cent.

Construction on the new Clayton North-area secondary school began in January and will take about two years to complete. The $55.2-million school will have a capacity for 1,500 grade 8 to 12 students. Meanwhile, a ten-classroom addition to Adams Road elementary in Clayton will be ready for occupancy in September. In South Surrey, a two-classroom addition for Rosemary Heights elementary and four-classroom addition at Morgan elementary will be ready to move into later this spring. The three elementary school projects add 375 spaces.

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It is a common misconception that baby teeth are not important because they will fall out anyways.  Baby teeth are important for:

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Start healthy habits early Healthy habits lead to good dental health. Follow these tips to protect your child’s baby teeth: Brush your child’s teeth twice daily with fluoride toothpaste.Your child will need your help with brushing and flossing until they are able to write, not print, their own name. Use a pea size amount of fluoride toothpaste on a small soft toothbrush. Massage gently at the gumline and brush the outside, the inside and the chewing surface of all teeth. Daily cleaning with fluoride toothpaste is important because fluoride can prevent cavities and stop existing cavities from getting larger. When the teeth are touching and brushing is well established, floss daily. Ease the floss between the teeth. Curve the floss against each tooth, and gently scrape up and down.

Sipping and snacking Tooth decay can happen when a child sips or snacks frequently, or for prolonged periods of time. Snack at scheduled times, not less than two hours

before mealtimes. Milk, fruit juice, any food or sweetened drinks all have sugars in them that can cause tooth decay. Decay can result if the teeth are in contact with any of these for long periods of time. Sticky foods are particularly troublesome because they remain on the teeth for a long time. Water is the best thirst quencher and will not contribute to decay.

Check regularly for signs of tooth decay Check all sides of the baby’s teeth and look carefully along the gum line. The first sign of tooth decay can appear as whitish areas on the teeth, which may progress to brown. If you suspect a problem, consult your dentist.

Visit to the dentist The first dental visit is recommended within six months of the first tooth coming in or by your baby’s first birthday. The dentist will recommend the frequency of your child’s visit.

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