Sept. 26, 2018
Neilburg Composite School Newsletter
IMPORTANT DATES
Sept. 28 Meet and greet and muffin morning 8:00-8:55 am
Sept. 28 Orange shirt day
Sept. 28 Terry Fox Run – 2:20 pm
Sept. 28-29 Jr. Mega Volley
Oct. 8 Thanksgiving day – no classes
Oct. 19 Picture day
Oct. 22 PD day – no classes
Nov. 5 Picture retake day & any preschool pictures that want them
Nov. 12 No classes in lieu of Remembrance Day
Nov. 26 PD Day – no classes
Dec. 21 Last day of classes before Christmas break
PARENT & STAFF MEET & GREET
Sept. 28 from 8:00-8:55 am
Staff Introductions at 8:30 am
Come for a coffee and muffin!
Caution! Caution!
Due to severe allergies among the students at NCS, the school requires that everyone avoid bringing any items with nut products, eggs that are not baked into an item or animals to the school. Our students' health depends on your cooperation. Thank you.
IMPORTANT!!!
If your child has a medical condition that requires prescription medication be administered by school staff (such as an
epi pen, etc) please fill out the form that will be sent home to parents of flagged students. If you should have received a form for your child and didn't receive one, please contact the school office. Thank you!
International Walk To School Day is October 10, 2018.
Inspire your entire community to come together to promote safer routes for walking and biking to school.
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STUDENT ABSENCES Parents please notify the school if your child is going to be absent. Parents will receive an automated phone call for any unexcused absences.
STUDENT REGISTRATION FORMS Please review and return the student registration forms that were sent home last week. It is very important that information is checked for accuracy and any new information regarding emergency contacts, phone numbers health issues be noted. Please get your forms in as soon as possible. There are many forms not yet returned!
Jr. Girl's Volleyball - Ms. Chammartin
Tripleball Games:
Oct. 2 - Mini-Mega has been moved to Oct. 3rd
PRACTICE will be on Oct. 2nd
Oct. 3rd - Mini-Mega (Maidstone)
Oct. 9 - Neilburg
Oct. 16 - Hillmond (Barry Peters Driving)
Oct. 23 - Neilburg
Junior Games:
Sept 27 - Neilburg (2nd)
Sept. 28/29 - Mega Volley (Sara Goodfellow Driving)
Oct. 2 - PRACTICE (NO PRACTICE on Oct. 3rd)
Oct. 4 - Neilburg
Oct. 11 - Neilburg (2nd)
Oct. 12/13 - Marshall Tournament (Sara Goodfellow Driving)
Oct. 18 - Lashburn (2nd)
Oct. 25 - Lashburn (Playoffs)
Oct. 27 - District Playoffs (TBD)
Junior Girl's Volleyball - Ms. Chammartin
Junior Mega Volleyball Tournament Schedule for Sept. 28/29 {ALL grade 8 and 9 volleyball team players are asked to come}.
Friday on Rink 1
4:45 and 7:45 we lines and score keep the game at 7 pm
Saturday on Rink 1
9:30, 11:00, and 2:00 and then depends how we do - if and when we play again.
We lines and score keep at 10:15
HOME EC. SUPPLIES NEEDED
The school is looking for thread and new cotton or polyester cotton fabric for the Home Ec room. If you have any of these things that you no longer need you can drop them off at the school. Thank you !
Orange Shirt Day
On September 28, our school plans on participating in orange shirt day. The day is to raise awareness about residential schools, the impact they had on generations of children and families, and work toward reconciliation. Orange shirt day started in 2013 as a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake. A former residential school survivor, Phyllis Webstad, shared her story of her first day of residential school as a child. She wore the brand new orange shirt that her grandma bought for her for school, and it was taken away from her and never returned. Residential schools had a detrimental effect on thousands of children during the time they were in operation. Wearing orange is one small way to show every child matters and support moving toward reconciliation.
S.R.C. New: Mrs. Kerr-Goodfellow
NO MAGAZINES being sold by NCS
The S.R.C. has decided to not participate in this year's QSP magazines. We'd like to thank everyone that has supported this initiative over the past years.
In lieu of magazine sales the SRC will be having several fund raising initiatives. Some of the ideas are more hat days, hot lunch sales plus a bottle drive.
Hat Day is every Friday
All hat day profits go to our foster child Hao Hao in China. The annual fee is $504. Two dollars is the fee to wear a hat on Friday. There are also $20 Hat day punch cards that are available on School cash on-line as well from the S.R.C. member who is collect the Friday hat funds. Any extra funds from Hat Day will be put to our other charitable activities for the year.
Career Education Updates: Mrs. Kerr-Goodfellow
N.C.S. Students at a grade 10-11-12 level may participate in several of these post-secondary initiatives. Every year the school organizes events but other events are available for students & parents to go on their own. If it is a N.C.S. organized event, there will be an informational letter plus a travel permission paper that will need to be returned for your teen to attend.
Post –Secondary Open Houses
Friday, September 28 University of Saskatchewan
Friday, October 19 Lakeland College Lloydminster campus attended by grade 10, 11's by bus
Friday, October 19 Lakeland College Vermilion Campus attended by 10, 11 & 12's
Drivers needed as busses no longer allowed out of province.
Saturday, October 20 University of Regina
Saturday, October 20 University of Alberta
Monday, November 5 See Your Future Saskatoon attended by grade some grade 11 & 12's by bus. This will be an early morning a because of time change.
Caps, Copes, Cops Career Testing
Grade 11's will be doing career testing in mid-October & test results will be available by appoint in late November.
Grade 10's will be doing career testing in the second semester.
TERRY FOX WALK/RUN
The students will be taking part in our annual Terry Fox Walk on Friday, Sept. 28.
We have been running this event since 1983 and have raised around $40,000 in total over these years! K-5 students will be sent home a pledge form to collect pledges. If you do not wish to collect pledges or make a donation, please return the blank form to the classroom teacher. Any student bring in a pledge will have their name put in for a draw for a Terry fox t-shirt! As well refreshments will be provided to the participants by the Synergy Credit Union.
STUDENT FEES
Student fee notices are automatically sent to each parent when they sign up for SchoolCash online. We encourage you to pay for them online but if you do not want to do that, please sign up anyway as that way you will get the notifications of student fees, hot lunches, new yearbook arrival, etc. etc.
Notices for unpaid fees will be sent out with the first report cards or at a parent's request.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
FRAUD AWARENESS
The Synergy Credit Union – Neilburg Branch is holding a Fraud Awareness Session on Wednesday, October 3 from 2:00-4:00 pm. Special Guests: Patty Wang, Manager of Risk at Synergy Credit Union; CutKnife RCMP.. Everyone welcome to attend. Refreshments provided.
Neilburg Travel Club is at it again. During Easter of 2020 the students will be going to Costa Rica! We would like to invite all interested parties to our initial meeting on the 10th of October. The meeting will be at 7 pm, in Mr. Walso's classroom. If you have any questions please contact Mr. Worman at the school.
YOUTH GROUP
Friday Night Youth - Sept 28 - Outdoor fun, games and campfire at Myron and Ruth Wiebe's 7pm-10pm....rides from the church leaving at 6:45pm!
BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS – PAID ADVERTISEMENTS
If your business would be interested in putting a paid advertisement in the school newsletter, please contact Cathy at the school (306-823-4313). The newsletters go out weekly (usually Wednesday). Any ads would have to be into the school by 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The school email is ncs@nwsd.ca, the fax is 306-823-4403 or you can drop them off. The cost is $10 per advertisement per week. *As usual our community announcements will be published free of charge.
