Important Dates:

April 2 Classes resume

April 11 Pink Day

April 12 Parent Council Mtg. 6:30

April 20 Earth Day Community clean up.

April 25 Taco In a Bag lunch

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April 2018

Canadian Red Cross Pink Day is an initiative that provides students, staff and the community with the opportunity to discuss the impact of bullying and how they can use their power to help create a safe and respectful school environment. Students

shirts for sale at $8.00. Watch for the order forms soon. Students are more than welcome to wear their shirts from last year or wear

Tear off ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Newsletter Contest! Return this with the correct answer for your chance to win a $10.00 Gift card! Draw made April 6. Parent Name:__________________________ We are asking for parent volunteers for which event? ______________ Congratulations to last months’ winner, Larissa Kells.

Jump Rope for Heart Thank you once again for your gener-ous support of this fundraiser for the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Our top fundraisers were Alexis & Conner Doerkson and Izzy & Dex Graham. The final total raised is $12,353.35.

BOKS BOKS has been running on Tues-day at lunch and Thursday morn-ing and lunch time this last ses-sion. 60 students in grades3 & 4 were able to participate in the physical activity program that pro-motes healthy lifestyle choices

and provides students with the basic tools to learn in the classroom. A huge thank you to Mrs. Manns for coordinating and facilitating the program at R. J. Waugh. Dates for the next session have not yet been determined.

Earth Day Clean-Up R. J. Waugh students will be partici-pating in an Earth Day community clean up on April 20 in the afternoon. If you would like to volunteer, please contact your child’s teacher.

Scholastic Book Fair Thank you for shopping at our annu-al book fair. Proceeds from our fair allowed us to purchase $250 worth of books for classroom libraries, $265 worth of books for the library and $350 to be put toward future purchases of literacy materials. Thank you to Amy Baker, Tanya Polasek, Jen Kendall and Laurie MacNiven for helping out at the fair. A special thank you to Mrs. McEntee for the extra time she gave to make it all a great success!

Warm Weather Reminder With the warm weather comes a very wet playground at R. J. Waugh. Students are reminded to stay out of puddles and to wear appropriate outdoor clothing. It might be a good idea to pack extra socks and pants “just in case”.

DIAL Testing There will be DIAL testing in May for students enter-ing Kindergarten in the Fall. We will be in touch with families of these students after Spring Break to set up a suitable time.

Allergy Reminder Parents are reminded to keep our children with food allergies in mind when packing lunches and snacks. Please remember pea-

nuts, peanut products, tree nuts and shellfish are items that are not to be sent to school. Thank you for being considerate of the health needs of all R. J. Waugh stu-dents.

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for support-

ger initiative

Hunger He-What is Roots of Empathy? ROE is an award win-ning, evidence based program that has shown dra-

behaviors, to increase knowledge of human devel-

Elks Poster contest Winners The following students were the recipients of awards for the posters they created on the topic of Healthy Lifestyles: Robyn Elliott Niles Mangin Julia Bradshaw Kodi Allen Lora Liubkin Linda Prudnikov

Pink Day 2018 Students from all over Canada are wearing pink shirts in solidarity to show they are taking a stand against bullying and standing up for respect. The Canadian Red Cross Pink Day is

an initiative that provides students, staff and the community with the opportunity to discuss the im-pact of bullying behavior and how we can all use our power to help create a safe and respectful school environment. R. J. Waugh will be celebrat-ing Pink Day on April 11, 2018. If you ordered a shirt it will be sent home after Spring Break. If you did not, please feel free to wear anything pink. Watch your child’s backpack for more information after the break.

Special Thank You A special thank you to parent volunteer, Lani Parker, for or-

ganizing hot dog, taco in a bag and pizza lunch-es for our students.

Parent Council Our family movie night on March 9th was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who attended

Reminders: Please call the school if your child is absent. Please let the school know if your contact

information changes. Please jot a note in the planner if after

school plans are different than normal.