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Fundraising/Activities
Ottawa Carleton Assembly of School Councils Rep
Volunteer Coordinator
Community Liaison Officer
Environment Coordinator
VACANT
Website Coordinator
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| www.cves.mabel.ca |
Lost and Found - Our lost and found bin is overflowing again. Following March Break, items will be donated or sold at a consignment store. Please consider labeling your child's items with Mabels Labels, one of our school fundraisers - Mabel's Labels are fun, durable labels for the stuff kids lose...hats, mittens, coats, boots, shoes, bags, to name a few. Sticky and clothing labels are dishwasher, microwave and laundry safe. Labels are designed to be very special to each child, customized with your child's name, favourite mix of colours and an icon, and are perfect for school, day care, camp and sports teams. Go to www.castorvalley.ca to order and support CVES at the same time! |
| Campbell's Labels for Education Program |
| Please send in labels from Campbell's soup and other products for this program. A collection box is in the school foyer. See www.labelsforeducation.ca or contact Kim Sheldrick for more information. |
| Business Directory |
| Our CVES business directory has been launched!
If you are a CVES parent and have a business you would like to advertise through our website, please contact Susanna Penning |
| Applause |
| A big round of applause for:
Bilingual parents Linda Castonguay, Claudia Bilodeau, Lori Blinn and Micheline Brooking who gave their time and used their French language skills to judge the junior and intermediate French public speaking competition held in February.
Nicole MacLaurin, Fiona Bremner, Janice Dagenais, Rhonda Roberts and grandparent Joanne Wilson who acted as judges at the Spelling Bee held in January. |
| Library News by Coreen Atkins-Sheldrick, Lib. Tech. |
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Corinne has started a "Wish List" whereby students and teachers can indicate a special title or subject that they would like to see as part of the library's collection. It has been embraced by the students and there have been numerous requests.
coreen.atkins@ocdsb.ca |
| Scholastic Book Fair |
| Scholastic Book Fair in the CVES Library Wed. to Fri. March 24, 25 (till 5 pm), 26, during school hours. The Theme is "Destination Book Fair".
Last Spring, CVES had a net sale of $ 2455.00. If we have a net sale of 5% over that amount, then our school's name will be entered into a drawing for a free book package for each teacher and student in our school.
Looking for an idea for an end of year teacher gift, Scholastic has Gift Certificates (can be purchased, in CASH ONLY) at the book fair in the school or by credit card by calling Scholastic directly at 1-866-234-7319.
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| CastART |
| You're invited to CastART Wed. May 5 from 5 to 7 pm to see artwork created by CVES students as well as special projects completed by students in grades 4 to 8 who participated in the Arts Club. |
| Castor Connections |
| Parents of Grade 6 students, please mark you calendar now for the next Castor Connections Parent Information Night:
"Welcome to the Intermediate Grades"
Wed. May 26 from 6:15 - 8:30 pm |
| Meeting Minutes |
| Read the minutes from the last CVES council meeting. | |
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| Castor Valley Cares |
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What a fantastic response from the Castor Valley community to the relief effort in Haiti. $3000 was raised and sent to the Red Cross in time for the matching funds from the Government of Canada from the following student led/teacher, staff and parent supported fundraisers:
Pie a Teacher/Principal/City of Ottawa Counselor Doug Thompson in the Face; Bake, Juice and Bracelet Sale; Hats for Haiti; Homemade Hats, Mitts and Scarf Sale, Change for Change Collection Bin; and Kitchen Green Bin Liners Sale.
Free the Children Brick by Brick Campaign
Thank you to our CVES teachers who recently donated funds for a brick for the school we are building in Kenya Africa through our partnership with Free the Children! |
Thank you to our amazing CVES teachers and staff who helped make the Olympic dream come alive during our 'Olympic Opening Ceremonies' complete with parade of countries and flag bearers, a real torch, actual torch bearers from our school community, lighting of the flame, singing of Oh Canada, bilingual audio visual accompaniment and musical performance from the band. What a fantastic display of spirit and teamwork and what a great learning opportunity for our students!
Our Olympic Celebration and Danceathon Day was a huge success on Wed. Feb. 17. Special thanks to M. Lalonde and Mrs. Wiebe for the hours they spent preparing the Olympic event schedule for our 24 home room classes and to Mme. Tanya and Mr. Mitchell for their help coordinating the Ambassadors and the events.
Many thanks to all our parents who sent in donations for the Danceathon random draw prizes and for the top fundraiser prizes! What an overwhelming response we had from the parent community to this request!
Together with the 10 different Olympic events, our fantastic DJ and the hot chocolate stop, a great day was had by all! Many thanks to our parent volunteers who helped serve hot chocolate and ran the Danceathon prize table and to our teachers and grade 7 & 8 Ambassadors who ran the Olympic events that day. The indoor luge course was a real hit!
Together we raised almost $7000 toward covering the costs of our teacher requests for funds in October (see Ad Hoc Finance Committee under the Minutes tab at www.castorvalley.ca for more information).
"Olympic Closing Ceremonies' were held on Fri. Feb. 26 with cheering for each Canadian athlete who had won a medal to date and an Olympic audiovisual presentation by M. Lalonde's grade 6/7 class. | |
| Arts Club |
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The arts club launched by CVES parents Tara Klager and Chantal LeBlanc Is wrapping up in March.
Special thank you to CVES parent Jeff Guinn for sharing his expertise with our Haida Drawing club and to Shelia King, president of the Manotick Art Association and its members for their tireless volunteerism and enthusiasm.
A huge thank you also to Mr. Eric Bawden, our photography mentor and provider of inspiration.
Finally, a heartfelt thank you to Jess Greene, blues wizard and ukulele technician from the Ottawa Folklore Center, for her masterful and enthusiastic instruction.
Thank you also to the teachers and administrators who shared their time and in some cases, their own supplies, so that the students could complete their projects.
A particular thank you to Mme. Brooks for her support and efforts to help and to our parent volunteer, Heather Wilson, who already has so much going on but made room for us on her schedule. |
| Our Community of Character by Jen Danby-McDonald |
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Keep those recognitions coming in! So far over 100 individual students and staff members have been recognized. The following are examples of the good deeds that are being done in our Castor Valley school community. Way to go everyone!
Ben J, Grade 4, demonstrated Integrity when he found a permission slip with money attached and handed it in to the duty teacher.
Morgan R, Grade 4, demonstrated Empathy when she helped another student who was crying.
Erin T, Grade 3, demonstrated Cooperation when she helped a friend on the computer.
Megan, Grade 4, demonstrated Cooperation when she put all the chairs down in Mme. Bell's classroom without being asked.
Jackson, Grade 3, demonstrated Perseverance when he looked for a word in 6 different dictionaries before asking for help!
Tanner, Grade 4, demonstrated Acceptance when he invited another student to join in playing when he was left out.
Zachary, Grade 4, demonstrated Responsibility when he helped clean up the gym after an indoor recess. |
| Teacher Awards |
Teacher Awards - CVES is full of outstanding teachers! Please consider nominating them for one of the following awards:
Golden Apple Award sponsored by Majic 100 and Alterna Savings. Enter a CVES teacher's name into the weekly random draw made from the entries and a $500 bursary is given to the teacher's favourite school activity group, club or initiative. See http://www.majic100.fm/contests/details.asp?id=1811
Easy to complete on-line nomination form can be done by students or parents. |
| Used Book Sale & Trade Show by Francine Hopley |
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Castor Valley Elementary School Council is having its 4th annual used book sale on Friday April 30th and Saturday May 1st.
Make some space in your attic, basement and bookshelves by donating your gently used books for the sale. We need:
CHILDREN FICTION, NON-FICTION & COMICS
ADULTS FICTION AND NON-FICTION
PUZZLES, DVDs & CDs
But please,
NO MAGAZINE
NO TEXT BOOKS
NO ENCYCLOPEDIA
NO DAMAGED BOOKS
NO USED ACTIVITY BOOKS
Books can be dropped off in the school foyer from April 19th until Thursday April 29th .
Volunteers:
We will also need volunteers for book sorting (April 26th ,27th & 28th ), set up (April 29), for the sale (April 30th & May 1st ) and for clean up on May 1st. We will be working both during the day and in the evening. To volunteer, please send me an email francine.hopley@gmail.com
If you are a small business owner and would like to book a table to sell your goods or services at the trade show, please contact Kim Sheldrick kim1bates@yahoo.ca |
| Stock Market Challenge - Grade 7 & 8 |
 If you have a contact in the financial services industry who might consider making a financial contribution to help sponsor this amazing 3 day event done every second year at CVES for our grade 7 and 8 students, please contact Heather Wilson wilsonheather@rogers.com
So far we have $800 pledged from BMO Financial, RBC and CIBC of the $2,800 required to run this event. We are also looking for 3 more parent volunteers to assist with running this event for half a day on Thurs. June 10 and a full day on Fri. June 11. Again, Heather Wilson is the contact to volunteer at this event. |
| Fun Night |
| Please mark you calendars now for our annual Fun Night to be held Tuesday, June 15th from 5:30 till 8 pm. This is a fun-filled evening of games, prizes, refreshments and NEW this year a Gift Basket Draw. Thanks to the efforts of Parent Lori Blinn, the Osgoode Branch of Scotiabank is our community partner for this event, which means they will send us up to 5 volunteers to help out that night. With each volunteer comes $1000 to match each $1000 we raise that evening. Thank you Scotiabank! More information to come in the spring. |
| Council Meeting |
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Next council meeting
Thurs. April 8th
7 to 9 pm
in the library. |
| CHEO |
On Monday, March 29, psychologists from CHEO will speak with parents about various issues regarding children. Topics include body image; cooperation and compliance; anxiety, autism; sleep; and stress management. |
| Website Coordinator for next year |
Francine Hopley will be "graduating" from CVES this June and we have not yet convinced her to come back as an alumni member of Council so we are looking for someone to liaise with Council and our volunteer webmaster Larry Hogan for next year. | |
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