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NEWSFLASH! Aspen Grove School * 9720-63 Avenue* Grande Prairie, AB * T8V 1K3* 780-538-3009 June 19, 2018 Greetings from Aspen Grove! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! - Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your volunteer hours. There is absolutely no way that this year could have been as successful without your help. Our volunteers were honored at a luncheon and short ceremony on Wednesday, June 13 at 1:00 pm. On June 20, at 2:00 pm, the Bluebird Dancers will be in their full regalia, ready to dance for our entire school. Parents and little ones at home are welcome to join in. June 21st is the official National Indigneous Day. Look to the calendar on the right for the full schedule of events. This Friday and the last week of June will wrap up the Provincial Achievement tests for our grade 6 students for the 2017-2018 school year. We encourage getting plenty of rest and sticking to routines, as an excellent way to bolster student results. We are so proud of our students! As the students move through the building, they are reminded to move repectfully and quietly in the hallways as a way of supporting their school mates. Best wishes, Grade 6! Our bike rack is completely full in the morning with students taking full advantage of the bike riding weather. What an excellent way to promote good health! We encourage all students to wear their helmets to protect themselves in the event of an accident. This is a second reminder that Grande Prairie bylaw confirmed all students under the age of 18 must wear a Important Dates at Aspen Grove June 18-21- National Indigenous Peoples week June 18- Medicine Pouch making June 19- Bannock and Games June 20- Games, math Games and Blue Bird Dancers- Join us for 2:00 in the gym June 21-National Indegenous Peoples Day-Smudging, Medicine Wrap, Dream Catchers June 22-27 Gr. 6 PAT June 26- Kindergarten Grad June 27- Celebration of Learning P. 1
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NEWSFLASH!
Aspen Grove School * 9720-63 Avenue* Grande Prairie, AB * T8V 1K3* 780-538-3009
June 19, 2018
Greetings from Aspen Grove! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! - Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your volunteer hours. There is absolutely no way that this year could have been as successful without your help. Our volunteers were honored at a luncheon and short ceremony on Wednesday, June 13 at 1:00 pm. On June 20, at 2:00 pm, the Bluebird Dancers will be in their full regalia, ready to dance for our entire school. Parents and little ones at home are welcome to join in. June 21st is the official National Indigneous Day. Look to the calendar on the right for the full schedule of events. This Friday and the last week of June will wrap up the Provincial Achievement tests for our grade 6 students for the 2017-2018 school year. We encourage getting plenty of rest and sticking to routines, as an excellent way to bolster student results. We are so proud of our students! As the students move through the building, they are reminded to move repectfully and quietly in the hallways as a way of supporting their school mates. Best wishes, Grade 6! Our bike rack is completely full in the morning with students taking full advantage of the bike riding weather. What an excellent way to promote good health! We encourage all students to wear their helmets to protect themselves in the event of an accident. This is a second reminder that Grande Prairie bylaw confirmed all students under the age of 18 must wear a
Important Dates at Aspen Grove June 18-21- National Indigenous Peoples week June 18- Medicine Pouch making June 19- Bannock and Games June 20- Games, math Games and Blue Bird Dancers- Join us for 2:00 in the gym June 21-National Indegenous Peoples Day-Smudging, Medicine Wrap, Dream Catchers June 22-27 Gr. 6 PAT June 26- Kindergarten Grad June 27- Celebration of Learning
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helmet. At Aspen, we care about all our students and for that reason, we strongly encourage all of our students who ride their bikes on Grande Prairie streets to be safe and wear a helmet. Aspen Grove School Council and Aspen Grove School Foundation would like to extend an invitation to you. If you would like to learn more about either branches of parent involvement in our school, please join us for future meetings. Everyone is welcome to attend our next meeting on next Monday, September 17 at 6:30 pm. On June 27, we will be saying a farewell to our grade 8 students as they take the next steps of their educational journey and move onto high school. Grade 7’s will be stepping into the role of leaders at our school. The evening will begin with a family barbeque, followed by an awards ceremony recognizing the efforts of all our students in grade 7 and 8. The night will end with a Junior High dance from 8:30 - 10:00 pm. To assist in planning, we ask that all families RSVP via the newsletter tear away that was sent home last week. We have many pictures in the body of this newsletter to help bring to life all the activities and learning that takes place at Aspen Grove. Please take a look! Have a great week! Aspen Grove Admin Team
June 28- Celebration of Learning Play Day- Report Cards sent home-last day
Greetings Parents,
On behalf of myself, Jae LeClerc (VP) and Amber Prior (VP), and the entire Aspen Grove School staff, we are happy to share with you
the following information as we move into June. We are very busy wrapping up a successful 2017-2018 school year and have already
started preparing for next year. Our planning, priorities, and our culture continuously brings to life our school mission statement:
“striving for excellence in education and nurturing responsible, caring citizens.”
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Mrs. LeClerc has been offered and has accepted a great opportunity as Vice Principal of Avondale School for 2018-2019. After having
been a Vice Principal at Aspen Grove School for the past 5 years, Jae is returning to Avondale School where she had 11 years of
experience as a classroom teacher and as a Reading Recovery teacher. While we are sad to see Mrs. LeClerc leave our school, we are
happy for her and wish her all the best in her new assignment. Mrs. LeClerc has done many wonderful things at our school and was
instrumental in organizing and providing numerous opportunities for students to be engaged as learners. She is an advocate for
students and strives to have all students be active participants in a range of activities. Her contributions towards our parent
engagement evenings, connections with First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, supports offered for literacy interventions and student
success, and efforts towards student extra-curricular opportunities needs to be commended. We need to acknowledge her vast
contributions to our school. Mrs. LeClerc always wants the best for all students and wants them to strive for excellence and become
responsible, caring citizens. From all of us at Aspen Grove, THANK YOU Mrs. LeClerc for everything you have done to make Aspen
Grove a special and great school.
We sincerely thank Mrs. LeClerc for her dedication and commitment to Aspen Grove School over the years and wish her well in her
return to Avondale as Vice Principal. Mrs. LeClerc, we wish you all the best and keep in touch!
We also we share the following adjustments moving towards the 2018-2019 school year:
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• Mrs. Prior – continuing at Aspen Grove as Vice Principal
• Mrs. Young – continuing at Aspen Grove as Learning Support Teacher on full-time contract
• Ms. Cheikh – continuing at Aspen Grove for 1 year 0.5 FTE job share with Mrs. Phillips (while Mrs.
Zaichkowski is on maternity leave)
• Mrs. Hinteregger – continuing at Aspen Grove (accepted continuous contract) – currently Gr. 1
• Mrs. Sewall – continuing at Aspen Grove (accepted continuous contract) – currently Gr. 5/6
• Ms. Ross – returning to Aspen Grove (0.5 FTE classroom; 0.5 FTE Gr. 5-8 Literacy Support)
• Mrs. Trofenenko – transferring to Aspen Grove from Derek Taylor School (0.5 FTE classroom; 0.5 Early Literacy
Intervention/Support)
Mr. Bishop - will also be continuing in the grade 7 role in the fall
The above adjustments to our staffing offer each of these individuals an excellent opportunity to continue the great work they do.
We are excited for each of our staff and thank them for all they do – you exemplify our Awesome Aspen Attitude!
Please join me in congratulating these staff members! Thank you for all you do!
Yours in education,
Mike Humbke
Principal
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All students were treated to the active story
telling of Denise Miller, where she told stories of her Metis heritage.
Bikes, bikes and more bikes!
Don’t forget your helmet!
On behalf of everyone at Aspen Grove School, we thank you for your partnership throughout the school year and most recently with our Pancake Breakfast. Through your generosity, all students were able to attend our Pancake Breakfast. Donations collected at the Pancake breakfast will be
deposited into student funds so we can continue to support students at Aspen Grove.
Thank YOU!
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Aspen Annual Pancake Breakfast
June 8, 2018
Thank you to for sponsoring this well attended event. We certainly appreciate the community support. What a great way to start the last month of the school year. As you can see, there were smiles all around!
IMPORTANT Reminder to all students: All library books need to be returned to the library. Any text books that may still be at home need to be returned as well so that we can accurately account for our books. Thank you to those of you who have already returned library books and texts.
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Grade 2G Magnet Fair... Budding scientists showing off their ‘sticky’ inventions!
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Fine Arts Abound in ⅔ SA Oscars in their future?
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On behalf of everyone at Aspen Grove School, we thank you for your partnership throughout the school year and most recently with our Pancake Breakfast. Through your generosity, all students were able to attend our Pancake Breakfast. Donations collected at the Pancake breakfast will be deposited into the Student Funds account so we can continue to support students at Aspen Grove.
Thank YOU!
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