Comet Spirit, Achievement and Involvement Soaring!

June Dates to Know

June 3 to 6—Grade 6 EQAO

June 6—Gr 7/8 Trip Meeting 6:30 PM

June 10—District Track & Field

June 12—Volunteer Tea & Special Olym-

pics

June 13—School FUN FAIR!!

June 17 to 21 : Gr. 7/8 go to Camp

Wahonawin

June 24—Grade 8 Grad 6:30—8:00 PM &

Primary Play Day

June 25—Final SAC meeting 6:30 pm at

M.T. Bellies

June 26—Report Cards , End of Year

BBQ

June 27—Awards Assembly

Quaker Comet/ June

D I S T R I C T S C H O O L B O A R D O F N I A G A R A

Volume 1, Issue 1

June 2013

Perseverance Award

Winners

2

Relay for Life 3

School Track & Field 4

Pelham Summerfest 5

Classroom Organization

2013—2014

6

Inside this issue: What a great month May was here at Quaker

Road School! On the sports front, our Junior Bas-

ketball teams pulled together in very tight time-

lines to participate in the Region 2 basketball

tournament. Both girls and boys teams com-

peted well against some formidable opponents

and did an outstanding job representing Quaker

Road School. Success is measured in many

ways, and the spirit, leadership and pride that

our students showed was more inspiring than

any championship would bring. Well done

teams and coaches, Mr. Hannahson and Mr

King! Mr Bootsma and Ms Bezotosny spent much

of April and May working with our Intermediate

students who participated in Flag Rugby. As

one of the few schools in our Region to have a

team, our Comets found themselves ―on the

road‖ often to face their competition. They

showed remarkable improvements with all of

their hard work and perseverance and made

Quaker Road proud with how they competed

and conducted themselves. Again—great

sportsmanship and leadership by all. In Track

and Field action, our Grade 3 –8 students were

great participants at our School meet held at

Centennial. They showed incredible athleti-

cism, and did a great job representing Quaker

Road school in the community. It was fantastic

having so many parents out to support our stu-

dents, and to help out with some of the events.

From this event, we had 62 students move on

to represent Quaker at the Regional meet held

in Ridgeway on May16th. Once again, our

students did a great job, with many advancing

on the DSBN meet which will be held in

St.Catharines on Monday, June 10th. Thanks

to all volunteers, and especially to Mrs De-

gasperis, Ms Fulford and Ms Sims for coordi-

nating/organizing the events.

As we are now into June, we have a very busy

month to end our school year as you will see

in the calendar section of the newsletter. Our

Grade 3 & 6 students are focused on complet-

ing the EQAO testing that will showcase their

academic strengths. We have many end-of-

year trips and experiences planned for stu-

dents in all grades and of course our Grade 8

Graduation is just around the corner, marking

a turning point for some of our students as

they transition from elementary school to sec-

ondary school. The School Advisory Council

and Fun Fair committee have been very busy

planning events for our Family Fun Fair event

on Thursday, June 13th from 5-8 pm.

Staff and Students are looking forward to a

great night of fun and excitement with our

school community. We look forward to a

great end to another school year!

Do you need Daycare for 2013-2014?

Depending on Parent Interest and registra-

tion numbers Quaker may be able to se-

cure a daycare facility on site. At this point

there has not been sufficient demonstrated

need. The link to create your account and

place your child on the applicable registra-

tion list is https://niagara.onehsn.com

Relay for Life Fund- Raiser

a Huge Success!!

Thanks to our awesome

Quaker Community for help-

ing to make our Relay for

Life Event such a success.

Congratulations to all our

students and parents for

making the day such a suc-

cess. Special recognition to

Pearson Almas for collecting

$275 for the Canadian Can-

cer Society. Way to Go!!

Page 2 Quaker Comet/ June

Perseverance

The following students demonstrate the effort and determination to complete a task to the best of their

ability and STICK to the task even when it is DIFFICULT.

Kindergarten : Josh L., Grade 1 : Zachary J., Ryan S., Jad

T.,Brody G., Lucas W., Grade 2: Elijah J., Grade 3 : Jacob M.,

Hunter L., Grade 4 : Emma C., Grade 5 : Lucas H-C., Claire A.,

Connor B., Grade 6 : Jordan L., Grade 7 : William Z., Lindsay

P., Mitchell K., Kevon S.

Sunshine Learning

Achievement & More

(S.L.A.M.)

S.L.A.M. is a full-day literacy pro-

gram for children ages 6-12 with

learning disabilities/ADHD (diagnosis not

required) to keep them on their toes dur-

ing the summer months. For the first

half of the day children will be involved

in hands-on, engaging literacy activities,

for the other half of the day working on

social skills through recreational ac-

tivites. Children will work and play in a

friendly, supportive environment with

low adult-child ratios. Children will also

have the opportunity to work one-on-one

with a facilitator daily on their individual

literacy needs.

WHERE : Welland Safety Village

More information needed? Phone Sarah

Farrell 905-641-1021

Congratulations to Lucas W.

2013 CanSkater of the Year

Niagara Centre / Skate Canada

Healthy Eating Celebration

in Grade One

“I tried the dragonfruit and I liked it. I liked the salmon the best. I did not like the beans. I liked the tofu too.” - Cole W.

“I tried the pizza it was delicious. It was different because it was cold and it had veg-gies. It was also good.” - Erika

“I found out that I like beans and vegetable pizza.” - Jackson

“I liked the vegetable pizza and I liked the crackers.” - Austin

“I liked some of the food like the fruit pizza it tastes really good. I enjoyed the fish roll it tasted good” - Sofia

Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life

Fun Fair!!

We are looking for any

and all delicious

baked goods for our

fun fair. If you can

help please contact

Nikki Boon.

905 - 246 - 9184

Nolan Gough, Rachel Moore, Alex Barnes

and Anthony Perna, Intermediate students at

Quaker Road, have been chosen to represent

our school on June 3rd at the Welland Sus-

tainability Conference. Each year the Wel-

land Conservation program invites students

from across the board to be part of the Wel-

land Youth Sustainability Conference. The

conference is a full day of education, aware-

ness and fun for grade 7 & 8 elementary

school students across the city of Welland.

The day will involve learning activities,

guest speakers, presentations, discussion

groups and competitions that all have the

goal of teaching our leaders of tomorrow

about the importance of environmental sus-

tainability and how they can participate at a

local level. They also will incorporate tech-

nology into their teachings and build on the

students’ prior knowledge of conservation.

Our students will be discussing global and

local topics regarding energy, water and ag-

riculture. We can’t wait to hear what our stu-

dents have learned and hopefully apply some

of what they have learned at the school.

Quaker Road school is contributing to the fight

against cancer and held a Canadian Cancer Soci-

ety Relay For Life event on Friday May 31st.

This event was a wonderful celebration of sur-

vival, a tribute to the lives of loved ones and a

day of fun, friendship and fundraising— all of it

focused on the fight to beat cancer. Students

were involved in a activities and games to help

them learn more about cancer prevention and

the benefits of leading healthy lifestyles.

Quaker was thrilled to raise almost $2 000.

Students and staff brought in pictures of

friends and family that have been touched by

cancer. Thank you to all the survivors who

were able to participate in our opening ceremony

or in our survivors lap and to those who sup-

ported our fund-raising efforts.

Let’s see your licence Mister!! The Grade

one’s clearly enjoyed their visit to the Safety

Village on May 23rd.

Page 4 Quaker Comet/ June

School Track & Field Day

May 8th

A Great Day for Students, Staff & Parents

Atom Boys

*Michael Dykstra, *Jacob Millar,

Dylan Heidebrecht, Dalton Slack,

Connor Leblanc, Zachary Perna,

*Cade Royer

Bantam Girls

Hanna Nystrom, Stephanie Nicholls,

Meagan Rynberk, Rachel Moore,

*Randi Deline, Taylor Gerrits,

Kaitlyn Kettle

Atom Girls

Deanna Stickney, Hailey Mills,

Makayla Dube, Katie Madsen,

Kaydence Cardinale, Jordan Wil-

ton, Madison Molnar, Isabelle

Bradley.

Peewee Boys

*Carter Teal, Kai Xiang Xu, *Easton

Pummell, Jack Huibers, David

Greczkowski, Jackson Edge,

Bantam Boys

*Jerry Stewart, Ryan Dykstra, Na-

than Van Schyndel, *Alex Barnes,

Anthony Perna, Jacob Borisenko,

Richard St. Laurent,

Kevon Stoklosa,

Peewee Girls

Grace Teal, Jenn Van Schyndel,

Teja Chmay, Mariam Soryal,

Sarah Cann, , Paige Norton, Laine

Students who moved on to area 2 meet at pride field on may 16th

* indicates those who successfully moved on to Board-wide Meet June 10th

Midget Girls

Enya Pastirik, Cassie Anger,

McKenna Leblanc, Meagan Arm-

strong, Jaimie Rainville, Seana

Wismer, Holly Hicks

Midget Boys

Chris Keightley, Bram

Greczkowski, Zach Pummell, Joel

Larmand, Jesse St.Louis, Noah

Stickney, Jeremy Bockus, Sam

LeClair

Page 5 Technology Corner Wanted : Pelham Artists aged 8—18

Pelham Summerfest is again holding a Pel-

ham Night of the Arts, Friday, July 19th, from

4:00 to 10:00pm. There are many great activi-

ties planned, but we need your help to make

it a fabulous event. We invite Pelham youth,

aged 8 to 18 years of age, who are visual art-

ist to look through their portfolios and submit

a drawing, painting, photo, print, sculpture or

assemblage to display on Friday, July 19th.

We really want to show that the youth of Pel-

ham are truly talented.

Also included in the evening’s festivities are

performance arts which include music,

dance, drama and other. This is for all ages,

so please spread the word and get involved.

Deadline for submissions to Jessica Ruddell

at Pelham Town Hall is June 28th. For more

information call Jessica at 905-892-2607

ext.341 or email: jruddell@pelham.ca

Our Intermediate students have been us-

ing technology in some innovative ways to

share their ideas and learning. The tech-

nology known as “Extreme Collaboration”

brings student collaboration from mobile

devices to the SMART Board so students

can text ideas to a single SMART Note-

book page using an iPad, iPod or Laptop.

In fact they can use any device with a

web enabled browser. This technology has

obvious uses for class brainstorming—

collecting a multitude of ideas from the

class (even from those who feel a little

timid offering ideas in the whole class en-

vironment), can be used to poll opinions,

question and answer. Students are really

engaged by the “Bring your own device”

classroom as they have an opportunity to

use the technology from their connected

lives outside the classroom for meaningful

learning opportunities.

When chatting with some of the student’s

about this learning platform Chris noted,

“what was really amazing about this ap-

proach was that everyone in the class

could talk, even those who are usually

scared to talk openly.” Mansi added that,

“I think using extreme collaboration was

great because kids in my generation like to

use their technology inside the class as

well as outside the classroom”. Ryan felt

that, “it made the class more interesting,

unique and fun. It allowed me to express

my feelings in different ways”.

Kaitlyn Kettle, gr. 7 student at Quaker attended a

special DSBN Technology Camp for Girls on May 4

& 5th at the Scotia Bank Convention Centre.

Congratulations to the

Quaker Road Rugby

team for your excellent

sportsmanship and team

play. On Thursday, May

23rd the team faced off

against some very tough

competition and qualified for the knock-out

stage of the DSBN tournament. While there day

ended sooner than it should have, the team

stayed positive and fair-minded. Thanks Comets,

you did our school proud!!

Classroom Organization for the 2013-2014 School Year

Kindergarten : Mrs Shelley Boon, Mrs Heather

Haining, Ms Christina Haining,

Mrs Beth Ellis

Grade 1 : Mrs Cathy Bernard

Grade 1/2 : Ms Deana L’Ecuyer

Grade 2 : Mrs Helen Shannon,

Grade 3 : Mrs Anita Longo, Mrs Toews-

Peplinski

Grade 4 : Mrs Cheryl Secord

Grade 5 : Mrs Amanda Smalley

Grade 6 : Ms Kristina Fulford

Grade 7/8 : Mrs Kandas Weber-Tonnos & TBA

Grade 7/8 : Mr Nathan Bootsma

Fundamental Skills : Mr Ted Hannahson, Mr

Matt King

French/Library : Ms Stephanie Sims

Prep. Coverage : Mr Travis Secord, Mr Westin

Nesbitt

LRT : Mrs Kendra Degasperis

Vice Principal : Mr Gerry Winger

Principal : Mr Mark Leduc

Some Reminders

All Library books to be

returned by June 13th.

Changes? If you are changing

address, changing sitters, having

a phone change or a school

change, please let the office

know.