Announcements

Shaw Street Transportation Meeting

Shaw Street Transportation Meeting You are invited to join Mike Layton for a meeting to discuss traffic concerns on Shaw Street, between Bloor Street West and Dupont Street. In recent months, resident have expressed a variety of concerns related to the movement of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles on this segment

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

The Wizard of Oz is coming to Essex and Hawthorne!!

The students of Essex and Hawthorne have been working hard to put together a fantastic production of the Wizard of Oz. The play will be on for three nights, June 5th, 6th and 7th at 6pm. Every class in the building is performing for one of those nights (see below).

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Main Entrance Closure

The work on Essex’s main entrance will begin this Thursday, April 26th. The entrance will be closed until Tuesday, May 1st .   During the construction work, please use Hawthorne’s main entrance to for entry and exit. Please see the “buzzer” so that Tracey can let you in.   Thank you,

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Bag2School Clothing Drive

Bag2School is a textile recycling company that collects unwanted, wearable and unwearable textiles to be reused or refurbished into new textiles and materials. If you are spring cleaning, we are accepting clean adults’ and children’s clothes, shoes (tied together please), outerwear, hats, belts, handbags, drapes, linens and soft toys. It

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

School Community Garden Clean-Up Day

On Sunday April 29th from 10:00 am -12:00 pm we are hosting a school garden clean up day.  This coincides with the City of Toronto’s free compost delivery.  We invite all families to bring their wheelbarrows, wagons, bins, shovels and hoes and help us distribute compost to all of our school gardens. 

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Wellness Day

On Friday May 4th, Essex and Hawthorne will have its first annual Wellness Day!  This is in celebration of Children’s Mental Health Week in Ontario, which runs from May 7th to 13th, 2018.  The theme of this morning is: What makes you happy?  Staff and parents have volunteered to run workshops in things

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Connecting to Community Resources: Ward 10 meeting

TRUSTEE AUSMA MALIK & TDSB WARD 10 COUNCIL with THE WATERFRONT SCHOOL COUNCIL INVITE YOU TO A SPECIAL WARD COUNCIL MEETING CONNECTING TO COMMUNITY RESOURCES THURS APRIL 26 2018 6:00PM TO 8:00PM THE WATERFRONT SCHOOL, 635 QUEENS QUAY W.

Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Spirit Wear – Viewing Times and Order Form

Get your Essex gear. The new spirit wear products are now available! Samples of the products and sizes can be viewed this week, times are 8:30 -9:15 and 3:15-3:45 in front of office in the a.m. and after school under the overhang if it’s nice weather. Please submit order forms

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Reminder: Mindfulness Workshop for Parents April 19

Mindfulness workshop is coming up on April 19. On April 19, the Hawthorne School Council meeting will begin as usual at 6:30 pm. The business of Council will be covered from 6:30 – 7:00. At 7:00, Sue Hutton will lead a workshop on mindful parenting!!!! Parents from Hawthorne and Essex

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)

Math Night – Tonight!

This is a friendly reminder that FAMILY MATH NIGHT is on Tuesday April 17th! Come join us for a fun evening– learn strategies to teach math at home, enjoy some free pizza and participate in math games with your child. 5:00pm- Introduction by TDSB Learning Coaches in the school gym. 5:15-6:00pm – breakout sessions in designated classrooms (Kindergarten,

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Posted in Announcements, Intermediate (Grades 7-8), Junior (Grades 4-6), Kindergarten, Primary (Grades 1-3)