The Eagles' Nest

 

The annual EARL HAIG STAFF APPRECIATION LUNCHEON is on June 16th. We still need potluck donations and volunteers for this event. Break out your favourite dish, or crack out your old waiting skills, and help us celebrate the fabulous Earl Haig Staff and all they do for our community. If you can volunteer or donate a potluck dish, please email earlhaigschoolcouncil@gmail.com  Luncheon items can be dropped off in the office on the day of. Be sure to label your containers with both the contents and your initials.

Speaker Dona Matthews, PhD, June 9 at 6:30: Whether you were someone who “just can’t do math” or a math superstar, come learn how to support a mindset that frees your child to approach math positively, enjoy it more and do better in math and related subjects.  Free!  Childcare is available. Thank you to the Ministry of Education for the Parents Reaching Out Grant.

Lost and Found: Please drop by the school or encourage your older student to really sort through the bins for those “missing” boots, hoodies, thermoses and other items which have left your home. Items will be bagged and donated before the school closes for the summer.

Spring Festival 2016: Another Wonderful Evening
What an Amazing Spring Festival!  What a night!  Ice cream, hotdogs and pulled pork, cotton candy and jars, retro games and crafts, cake walks and bake sales, samosas, chicken biryani, tattoos and face painting, of course the always entertaining highlight of the Talent Show!  Another fabulous evening at Earl Haig PS.
Thanks to everyone who helped pull another successful Spring Festival together, particularly the dynamic duo, Hilary Gray, the festival coordinator and Jenn Haines the crew chief for the BBQ pit.  As well Anne Marie and Christian at the Talent Show, and all of the volunteers who ran a table at the event.  And finally the teachers and staff who did so much, including running the sales, helping collect donations, and the custodial staff who helped with the set up and the clean up.
Thanks to all … it is a huge amount of work and it could only take place with the support of a huge amount of people.  As they say it takes a village to run a fun fair …
And thanks to the weather for holding off on rain.
While the final numbers aren’t in yet, it looks like we raised thousands of dollars, which will go a long way to fund school activities such as science in the school. We are looking forward to next year’s event. Save your jars and think about volunteering!

 Dates to Remember:

Friday, June 10th – PA Day
Tuesday, June 14 5:00-6:00PM – FDK (Full Day Kindergarten) Orientation Night
Wednesday, June 15 The final School Council Meeting of the year will be held at 7:00PM.  We hope to see you there!
Thursday, June 16 – Playday
Wednesday, June 29 – Last Day of School (Can you believe it?)

Stay in touch – You can get all sorts of updates via our Twitter account @EarlHaigCouncil and Facebook page http://on.fb.me/20yB1TH

 

 

The school year might be wrapping up but there is still a lot to get done this month.

Spring Festival Thursday June 2 3:30 – 7:00.  Favourite returning events include the Festival Stage, The ever popular JARS, Bag-a-Bottle, Bake Sale & Cake Walk, Plant-a-Flower, Face Painting & Nail Polish, Arts & Crafts, Button Making, Retro Games
Popcorn & Cotton Candy. The festival can’t run without volunteers, if you can donate an hour of  your time please click here to sign up.

Speaker for Parents:  On Thursday, June 9 we are excited to announce Dona Matthews, author of Beyond Intelligence and Being Smart about Gifted Intelligence will be at the school on to discuss “Growth mindset, ways parents can support a growth mindset in their kids, helping them approach math more positively, enjoy it more and do it better; blowing up myths that some kids are just good at math, and some just aren’t”.  Thanks to the Ministry of Education’s Parents Reaching Out grant for enabling the School Council t0 arrange this evening.  For more information on Dona Matthews check out her website.  The talk will be in the evening (time still to be determined.)  Free childcare will be provided.

Bike to School Week (May 30 –  June 1)   Ms. Dew and Mr. Bush have organized this healthy event to celebrate cycling and active transportation.  Please check your child’s backpack for a handout with details about our school event.  To learn more about the initiative around the GTA visit: biketoschoolweek.ca

Grades will be participating at various times throughout the three days:

Kindergarten – Monday, May 30th 9:00-11:30 am
Grade 1 – Tuesday, May 31st 9:00-10:10 am
Grade 2 – Tuesday, May 31st 10:25-11:40 am
Grade 3 – Tuesday, May 31st 12:40-2:00 pm
Grade 4 – Tuesday, May 31st 2:10-3:10 pm
Grade 5 – Wednesday, June 1st 9:00-10:10 am
Grade 6 – Wednesday, June 1st 10:25-11:40 am

Volunteers are needed, please email courtenay.dew@tdsb.ca  Helmets are mandatory and keep your hands on your handlebars!

The Bottle Drive scheduled for May 28 has been postponed until the 2016-17 academic year. Seems a national cancer support agency has the same idea we did about collecting empties after the May long weekend and will be holding their bottle drive that weekend,  as they have for the past 10 years. Thank you to those who had volunteered to staff the table or had been saving their empties.

Also ahead in June:
FDK Open House – June 14
Staff appreciation luncheon, June 16, potluck donations and volunteer servers sought, email earlhaigschoolcouncil@gmail.com
Grade 8 graduation – June 27

Next School Council meeting: June 15 (last meeting of the year!)

Stay in touch – You can get all sorts of updates via our Twitter account @EarlHaigCouncil and Facebook page http://on.fb.me/20yB1TH

The Earl Haig Spring Festival will be held on Thursday June 2 from 3:30 – 7:00 in the schoolyard. Volunteers are needed to run various events, such as staffing the barbecue, selling food, set up and take down, and running the games and tables. We also need bakers for the Cake Walk and bake sale. To volunteer for any role at the Festival, sign up here.

Jars are a favourite of the festival, and one event which depends on the contributions of all Earl Haig families. We have over 450 students at Earl Haig – that’s a lot of jars!  We rely on jar donations from everyone to ensure no child leaves the jar line disappointed!

If you are new to the Festival, we are here to explain the Jars phenomenon.

1. Find an empty clean jar. (Empty jars (with lids) can be donated to, or picked up for filling from, the Office.)
2. Fill the jar with fun items.
3. Bring the jar to the school office prior to the Spring Festival (by June 1st).
4. The Festival Elves will number every single jar, and remove the jars which are not safe (broken items, old playdough).
5. On the day of the Festival buy tickets for the activities, stand in the Jars line**, when it is your turn hand in ONE ticket and you will pick a number. The jar with the corresponding number will be located by the volunteers and given to you.
6. Voila! Jars.

** Jars have THREE release times, 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. JARS timeline

Ideas for jars: wrapped candies, crayons, lip balm, hair chalk, sidewalk chalk, small plastic toys, coins, new in the container playdough, seed packets, beads, magnetic letters, post it notes, unfrozen freezies, craft supplies, toy cars, small rubber balls, band aids, erasers…anything child friendly that will fit in a jar.

Bad jar: Clothes pins and string in water.  Oh Pinterest, what have you wrought?

Salad in a jar is a lunchtime mainstay of many, but not a good donation to the Festival.

Confusing Jar: So. Many. Questions.

For the adults we have Bag a Bottle. Please donate a Gift Bag with adult oriented bottles. Examples include olive oil, hand lotion, bath soaps, wine, dish soap. The premise is the exact same, buy a ticket and discover what is in your bag.

We thank you for your donated jars and look forward to seeing you on June 2!