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Elm Creek School

Home of the Cobras

June 2019 Newsletter

Canteen Menu

Every Monday will be Soup &

Sandwich Day unless otherwise

stated below.

Wed. June 5 – Croissant $3.00

Thurs. June 6 – Mac & Cheese $3.50

Fri. June 7 – Spaghetti & Meat Sauce $4.00

Tues. June 11 – Croissant $3.00

Wed. June 12 – Hot Dogs $1.50

Thurs. June 13 – Pizza Buns $3.50

Mon. June 17 – Pancakes $1.00

Tues. June 18 – Croissant $3.00

Wed. June 19 – Chicken Fingers & Veggies $4.00

Thurs. June 20 – Hot Dogs $1.50

Fri. June 21 – Taco Salad $4.00

Mon. June 24 – Grilled Cheese $3.00

Tues. June 25 – Chicken Burger $4.00

Wed. June 26 – French Toast $1.50

Canteen is Closed on June 27th & 28th. Thank you

for your support this past year. See you in the fall!

Graduation Time!

Monday, June 24th

at the

Elm Creek MB Church

Doors open at 4:30pm

Ceremonies begin at 5:00 pm

Exam Schedule – June 2019

Monday, June 10 pm French 30F

French 40F

Tuesday, June 11am Pre-Cal Math 40S

Wednesday, June 12 am Biology 40S

Thursday, June 13 am Chemistry 40S

Accounting 40S

Monday, June 17 am Math 10S

Biology 30S

Monday, June 17 pm Geography 20S

Tuesday, June 18 am Pre-Cal 30S

Tuesday, June 18 pm Math 20S

Social Studies 10S

Wednesday, June 19 Science 10S

Thursday, June 20 STRIVE (by appointments)

Principal’s Message

As the 2018-19 school year

concludes, Elm Creek

School would like to

express sincere thanks and

gratitude to the following

staff team members who

are leaving our school

community:

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Mrs. Lori Schroeder –

Canteen Worker (12 years)

Mrs. Gloria Froese - Music

Teacher (11 years)

Mrs. Lindsay Girard –

Resource Teacher (2 years)

Mrs. Tara Janzen – Grade 5

Teacher (1 year)

Mr. Don Featherstone –

Resource Teacher (Oct. 2018–

May 2019)

Miss Shayne Nichols – Educational

Assistant (May & June 2019)

For the upcoming 2019-20 school year, a warm Elm

Creek School welcome to our newest staff team

members:

Mrs. Erin Pethybridge – Grade 4 Teacher

Miss Courtney Giesbrecht - K-8 Music

Teacher

A listing of the teaching staff for 2019-20 is

included further into this newsletter; a complete

listing of all staff will be included in the September

2019 newsletter.

Our first annual STRIVE EXHIBITION

promoting project based and inquiry learning,

took place on Tuesday, May 14. It was successful

beyond our expectations! Thank you to everyone

who was able to attend and support this special

learning event! Please see more details about the

STRIVE EXHIBITION further into this newsletter

as well as on our school website.

Congratulations to all of the middle and senior

year’s student performers, under the direction of

Mrs. Lisa Carlson, for their entertaining and

enthusiastic performances of Aladdin, Mamma Mia

and Grease at the Elm Creek School Fine Arts

Evening on May 16th in the school gym! The event

included a display of artwork done by Grade 7-9

students taught by Mrs. Jackie de Vries.

Congratulations to the Kindergarten-Grade 2

performance of A Froggy Day in Lindentown on

June 4th! Thank you to Mrs. Gloria Froese, our

music teacher and director, along with our K-2

teaching team and everyone who made the

production possible!

Our UNESCO Council students, under the

guidance of Miss Ashley Cook, Mrs. Jackie de

Vries and Mrs. Suzanne Godard (Teacher

Leaders), organized and held a final wrap up

celebration and activity on The World’s Largest

Lesson, which promotes awareness and activism

relating to the (17) Sustainable Development

Goals (SDGs) as developed by the United Nations!

The wrap up event included: a presentation on

activities done so far with the SDGs, a puzzle

activity, and prizes for the “Waste Free Lunch

Challenge”!

Thanks to Mr. Derek Tyler, as our Physical

Education Teacher/Athletic Director, for coaching

and guiding our grades’ 4-12 student athletes

who’ve participated in various track and field

disciplines during this May and June track season!

Thanks also to Mr. Tyler, along with the following

Grade 3-6 teachers, for their guidance and support

of our younger track and field participants: Mrs.

Tara Janzen, Mrs. Crystal Martens, Mrs. Lillian

Middleton, and Mrs. Nicky Spencer!

Congratulations and best wishes to Elm Creek

School’s Grade 12 graduates

who will be recognized as

such on Monday, June 24th at

the Elm Creek School 2019

Graduation! These graduates

will soon become part of the

Elm Creek School alumni!

We wish these students the

very best in all of their future endeavors!

While Elm Creek School is proud of the

accomplishments of our students both inside and

outside of school, we will alsorecognize student

achievement and success in specific school related

areas at our two annual Awards Days. The Grade

9-12 Awards Day takes place on Friday, June 21st,

10:00 a.m.; the Kindergarten – Grade 8 Awards

Day is Friday, June 28th, 10:00 a.m. Both special

events take place in the school’s gymnasium.

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As the 2018-19 school year ends, a grateful “thank

you” to all of the parents and guardians of our Elm

Creek School students, the Elm Creek staff team,

our Parent Advisory Council, Prairie Rose

School Division staff and trustees, and the

community at large for all of the support given

towards our students and school community!

To the fathers in our school community and outside

of it, Happy Father’s Day on Sunday, June 16th,

2019!

“A good father is one of the most unsung,

unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most

valuable assets in our society.” -Billy Graham

A safe and enjoyable

summer to everyone!

Best wishes,

Bill Yaworsky

The MYRCA Book Club members

(and Mrs Carlson and Mrs Wolf)

we’re very excited to have been

asked to host the MYRCA Awards

this September. The members will

be presenting the awards to the two

authors as well as creating trailers for the two

books.

Lisa Carlson

Club Leader

From the Library

Summer is almost here. It has

been a great year in the library.

We ask that all library books

from the elementary please be

returned by June 18, 2019 in

order to get ready for summer.

Have a great summer everyone!

Christine Wolf

Librarian

2019-2020 Classrooms and Teachers

Note: As in past school years, some courses will

have grade combinations at the high school level

(Grade 9-12).

*Senior Years Teachers: Val Esau, Lisa Carlson, Ashley Cook, Leslie Howard

*Specialist Teachers: Elementary Music: Courtney Giesbrecht Phys Ed: Derek Tyler STRIVE advisors: Mark Findlay, Kerry Fiks Resource: Kerry Fiks Guidance Counsellor: Mark Findlay Social Worker: Bobbi Friesen Speech Language Pathologist: Kristin Hosaluk

Grade Teachers

K Colleen Gnidziejko

1 Leanne Bartley

2 Lisa Salazar

3 Crystal Martens

4 Erin Pethybridge

5 Nicole Spencer

6 Lillian Middleton

7 Jackie deVries 8 Suzanne Godard 9 *

10 * 11 * 12 *

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UNESCO News Thank you to everyone who participated in our World's Largest Lesson assembly and activities. A special thank you to all of the K-8 students who participated in our Waste-Free Lunch Challenge - it was great to see so many people make the effort to bring an environmentally-friendly lunch to school! Congratulations to the winners of the reusable snack bags: Kinsley (Gr. 1), Mason (Gr. 2), Coen (Gr. 3), Owen (Gr. 4), Emma (Gr. 5), Kedah (Gr. 6) and Trinity (Gr. 7). Thanks so much to Mrs. Kari-Ann Friesen who donated her hand-made snack bags - they are beautiful! Suzanne Godard UNESCO Teacher Leader

Grade 4 Habitat Research Project

Mrs. Spencer’s grade 4 class did Habitat research

projects as part of our Science curriculum. We created

an interactive museum for the grades 1-6 students!

Yearbook Reminder Don't forget to order your 2017-2019 yearbook before June 21 to get the discounted rate of $40 (very close to the actual cost of printing!). After this date,

the price will be $45. Our committee is working hard taking pictures, canvassing the community for ads and designing pages to put together an amazing keepsake for students and their

families. Without your support, this yearbook would not be possible! Thanks to those who have purchased ad space or have already ordered a yearbook! If you're not sure if you have ordered a book, send me an e-mail and I can check my list of orders. Thanks, Suzanne Godard (sgodard@prsdmb.ca, or 436-2354) Change of Dates for Kindergarten Students

Kindergarten will be changed

from Tuesday June 25th to Friday

June 28th so the kindergarten

students can be part of the last day

assembly.

There will be no Kindergarten on Tuesday June

25th.

There will be Kindergarten on Friday June 28th

Morning only.

Thank you for your understanding about this change

of dates.

Colleen Gnidziejko,

Kindergarten teacher

Blessings at the Creek

Summer Fun with horse riding or Birthday Parties with pony rides! And so close to home. Come out this summer and try riding lessons at Blessings at the Creek Ranch, located immediately east and north of the Culross Grain Elevator right off Hwy 2. At Blessings Ranch you will learn horsemanship techniques from the ground level – up into riding lessons in the saddle! Every rider will learn how to stay safe while having fun, as well as acquiring a greater understanding of the horse’s language. Horsemanship summer lessons will begin on July 2rd – August 23th, 2019 with lessons available from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. For those who are eager to start earlier, lessons will hopefully with the anticipation of spring, start in June,

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Saturdays from 10 to 4 p.m. For more information please check out the website: https://blessingsatthecreek.wordpress.com/ Or call Elizabeth Dyck @ 204 436 2304 Cell: 204 218 6064

ELM CREEK SCHOOL DRESS CODE

Students are expected to be neat, clean and

appropriately dressed. Our Dress Code Policy

is as follows:

1. Clothing with offensive words, slogans or

pictures is considered inappropriate as well as

any clothing that promotes alcohol, drugs or

tobacco.

2. Clothing should cover the chest/breast,

bottom/buttocks/back, and belly areas.

Underwear should not be showing.

3. The length of shorts and skirts should be at

mid-thigh.

4. Strapless tops are not acceptable. Tops

with straps should have a strap width equal to

a minimum of four centimeters.

5. Headwear (hats, visors, earphones, etc.) is

not to be worn by students in the building

6. For health and safety reason, footwear

must be worn in the school and on the

playground at all times.

*For further details on school dress code,

please refer to the PRSD or ECS website

under AP#511 – Student Standard of Dress.

STRIVE Exhibition May 14th,

2019

Our inaugural STRIVE Exhibition at Elm Creek School took place on the evening of Tuesday, May 14th, 5:00 – 7:00 pm.

STRIVE, which is an acronym for Self Taught Real-world Independent Valuable Experience, is a new multidisciplinary, student-centered project-based learning environment that was launched at the school for our Grade 9-12 students during the 2018-19 school year!

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At the STRIVE Exhibition, our students displayed more than 20 projects, representing a variety of disciplines and topics! Our high school students were excited to share their projects with more than 150 family, friends and community members in attendance throughout the evening!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the STRIVE exhibition evening and took the time to listen to our students as they shared their projects and their passion for what they are learning!

Elm Creek School Parent Advisory Council

Activity Report 2018-2019

Our PAC committee was small this year, but we

managed to accomplish a number of projects that

helped make a big impact at our school!

Thanks to your support of the Peak of the Market

vegetable fundraiser, we were able to donate almost

$2000 worth of items to our classrooms by fulfilling

wish list items for the teachers. We also helped to

support our awesome Hot Lunch Program by

purchasing a second stove for the canteen.

We hosted our first ever pancake breakfast in

December to help raise awareness and funds for the

school’s Helping Hand Fund, and UNESCO’s drive

for the Carman and Area Christmas Cheer Board.

This year we increased funding to classroom field

trips to help battle increasing costs. We also

financially supported a number of student

presentations which were held at the school. We

supplied milk and cookies to staff and students to

wrap up I Love to Read Month. We brought in

meals for our teachers during the spring and fall

student-led conferences. We continue to provide an

award to a graduating member of the Grade 12 class

which will be presented later this month!

A big THANK YOU also to the Elm Creek Co-op

for their support through our equity number which

provides us with the funds to make so many of these

projects possible.

If you’re interested in learning more about PAC and

how you can get involved in the fall, please contact

President Jason Dyck, or watch for our fall annual

general meeting date to be announced and plan to

attend!

Kari-Ann Friesen

PAC member

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ATTENTION ALL KIDS

THE BOYNE REGIONAL

LIBRARY

INVITES YOU TO JOIN THE

2019 SUMMER READING

PROGRAM

Register at the Library

starting June 25th

IT’S FUN - IT’S EASY -

IT’S FREE FREE MEMBERSHIPS FOR ALL

SCHOOL AGE KIDS IN ELM

CREEK, ROLAND and the

MUNICIPALITIES OF GREY AND

ROLAND June 25th – Aug. 24th Receive one ballot for each book you

take out of the library from

June 25th thru August 24th

18 Grand Prize Basket Draws on

August 27th at 9:30 AM at the library

Track & Field Champions!

Congratulations to our grades

9-12 track and field team on

winning the Zone IV "A"

Aggregate Banner! This marks

the sixth year in a row that Elm Creek has won the

zone championship. The meet was held on May

28th-29th in Winkler and 39 of our high school

athletes competed in a large variety of

events. Good luck to the following athletes who

will be competing at the Provincial Championships

at the University of Manitoba on June 6th-8th.

Zach McLaughlin - Varsity boys shot put

Jaylyn Deurbrouck - JV girls high jump, JV girls

4x400m relay

Emily Janzen - JV girls 4x400m relay

Leah Janzen - JV girls 4x400m relay

Amber VandeVelde - JV girls 4x400m relay

Elementary/Middle Years Track & Field

On June 3rd our grades 4-6 students hosted

Roland Elementary for our annual "Track

Day". Congratulations to everyone who

participated. Our students competed to the best of

their abilities, demonstrated excellent

sportsmanship, and had some great results! Thank

you to the grade 7/8 students and parent volunteers

who made the event a success!

K-3 Tabloid Day

Tabloid Day is on June 12th. Please be sure your

child is dressed for the weather. It will be a fun day

of outdoor activities and games.

Grade 7/8 Track Day

Unfortunately the grade 7/8 divisional track meet

was cancelled. A letter will be coming home

outlining information on our in-house track day that

will be happening for this year.

Derek Tyler

Athletic Director

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Fine Arts Evening in Elm Creek

“Mamma Mia! Here we go again!” with another Fine

Arts Night at the Elm Creek School! Students from the

Grades 7 to 9 art class displayed various pieces of art

ranging from paintings to sketches to sculptures to

hand-sewn fantasy creatures. After months of

practicing, the Drama Club performed selections from

three famous musicals/movies, Mamma Mia!, Grease

and Aladdin, including singing, acting and dancing.

Congratulations to all the artists and performers who

worked so hard to put on a great evening!