Workshop for Parents - Learning Disabilities Association of York Region

LDA-YR, in partnership with YRDSB is offering an informative workshop for educators and parents.  Education Centre North is located just north and west of the Mulock Drive off-ramp from the 404 N. Driving time from our school, approx. 20-25 minutes.  This should be a most worthwhile evening!

Positive Parenting Seminars

French Immersion Information Night

French Immersion Information Sessions and Registrations

Information sessions for the French Immersion (FI) program will take place at French Immersion schools on January 14, 2016 at 7 p.m. Please visit YRDSB’s website in January 2016 (http://www.yrdsb.ca/Programs/fi/Pages/Program-Locations.aspx ) to find the FI program location for your elementary school location. FI registration will begin January 15, 2016. Parents or guardians of Senior Kindergarten students entering Grade 1 in 2016, and wishing to enrol in the FI Program, can visit or call the school office and request an Office Index Card - short version. The Office Index Card must be signed by the principal of the home school. Parents or guardians then take this form, along with one piece of identification showing their address to the designated FI program location to register between January 15 and February 12, 2016. This eliminates the need to provide duplicate enrollment information or to pre-register.

YRDSB’s FI Accommodation Plan provides long-term consistency and equity of access to all students in York Region and will enable YRDSB to continue to offer the FI program to all who wish to enrol. The FI program will be offered in Dual Track or Single Track settings, in a variety of configurations. In order to meet community needs and optimize available space in our schools, a community's Grade 1-8 FI program may be provided over more than one school during the course of a student's FI education. This will allow flexibility in addressing community needs and the opportunity to use existing space in schools. More information is available on the Board’s website:  www.yrdsb.ca. Please note: Some of the FI accommodation plans will require facility modifications or the development of new schools and will require short-term transition plans that might include overflow while we work toward the long-term vision. Overflow refers to situations in which the Board directs students to attend a school other than their community school or optional program for a specific period of time, as defined in Policy #108.

Baythorn Arts Program

Here is the flyer regarding the regional elementary arts program at Baythorn PS.

The information night is for parents of interested students currently in Grade 4 and Grade 5 and will be held on:  

Wednesday, January 13^th, 2016, at Baythorn PS at 7:00 pm

Food Drive Math!

The food drive provided our students with the opportunity to explore some authentic problems!

Food Drive Math

1. How much food did grade 4 and grade 8 students donate                         altogether?

2. How much more food did the grade 1's donate than the                             kindergartens?

3. What is the difference between the amount of food donated by the       grade 4's and grade 7's?

4. How much more food did grade 4's donate than grade 6?

5. How many food items did grade 2 and grade 4 students donate,             combined?

Swan Lake Outdoor Education Centre

On Monday December 7, Ms. Krackovitch's Grade 4 class had the opportunity to visit Swan Lake Outdoor Education Centre. Swan Lake is an exciting place where we learned about Mother Nature and how to be environmental stewards. In the morning, we were given cameras to take photographs of the beautiful scenery. After lunch, we played a great game that helped us understand why certain animal and plant species are at risk and how we can help. We cannot wait to visit again in Grade 7! 

These are some of the photos we took - enjoy!

MOvember!

It's clear...the staff and students of Thornhill Woods P.S. want MOre MOvember! All month long, school spirit was evident - Plaid Day and Mo Day. Staff and students rocked their favourite plaid pattern and then got creative when it was time to make their moustaches. We raised just over $550 and our male staff raised over $1000 online! Wow! Amazing job, everyone. Ms. Rapp's Gr. 3 and Mr. Carra's Gr. 6 raised  the most money. 

These two classes had the very exciting job of dyeing the male teacher's moustaches funky colours (Stiletto, Electric Lava and Electric Lizard). Thank you to our 8 gentlemen who were good sports and bravely sported their coloured MO's all day long.

 Thank you to all those who donated toward this good cause. Way to go, T-Wolves!