An evening workshop for parents.
Bring your electronics to school (it’s not an April fools joke)!
Learn about Apps/online resources that help your child/children learn French.
CPF is offering a workshop for learning French (core, bilingual, extended, immersion).
Wednesday April 1st, 6:30-7:15 for K-3 & 7:30-8:15 for Grades 4-8 @ Palmerston.
See information in flyer link below, reserve a spot online, come out and learn how to support your child.
 CPF Workshop |
Let’s have some fun after the cold winter we’ve had. Bring your beach gear to school. We look forward to seeing your best Hawaiian shirt, straw hat, giant sunglasses, etc!!
Monday, March 02, 2015
Categories: Great Things, Happenings @ TDSB, School Web Stories
In recognition of Inclusive Education Month, Essex Public School teamed up with Sue Hutton and her advocacy team from Community Living Toronto to facilitate a workshop on bullying on February 26. Advocates with a variety of physical and intellectual disabilities developed an engaging workshop geared to help primary students understand how to recognize bullying and develop strategies to deal with issues when they arise.
Through a heartwarming story called Isayah’s Day, written by the advocates who experienced bullying throughout their lives, students became active participants in determining how to recognize both kind and hurtful behaviour. Students brought handmade rainbow and thundercloud props to the workshop and were asked to raise them and say “YAY” or “BOO” depending on the positive and negative interactions depicted between the characters in the story. The students were enthralled with the narrative and the room erupted in good cheer when the main character of the story, Isayah, was able to overcome his challenges with the help of his friends.
Afterwards, Essex and Hawthorne II Bilingual Alternative School students dubbed the Playground Buddies—a group that supports their peers on the playground—facilitated an activity that explored the concept and perspectives of the Target, Bully, and Bystander. Through this exercise, Essex students learned about the physical and cognitive effects that bullying can have on all individuals involved. Students left the workshop feeling empowered to take a stand against bullying in order to create a kinder and safer community for everyone at their school.
Zoe Pinsky, one of the teachers involved in the session, said that “…it was very powerful for the children to listen to people who have gone through tremendous bullying experiences, worked through it, reflected on those times and used those sad memories to help others; to shed a bright light on the damage of bullying behaviours.”
Essex PS plans on expanding this powerful partnership with Community Living to Junior students in the school.
There are great resources for research and fun at the TDSB Virtual Library. Attached are the 2014-2015 usernames and passwords for the various periodicals, e-books and websites. Enjoy!
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/findyour/schools/librarycat.aspx
| 2014-2015 Login Information |
Just a reminder that Grade 8 Graduation Photos are on Friday March 6th at 9:00 AM.
Thank you.
Pizza lunch forms are being sent home this week. If you need, you can download the attached form. Please note that we will be accepting cash or cheques made out to Essex PS Parent Council.
Thank you!
| Spring Pizza Lunch Form |
Come and join other Essex parents as we meet to discuss issues important to our school community.
Thursday March 5, 2015
6:30PM-8:00PM
Essex Library, 2nd Floor
Everyone is welcome! Our agenda is below.
Snacks will be served and childcare is provided.
AGENDA
Welcome and introductions – All
Review/Approval of Minutes – All
Principal’s Report – Jim Stathopoulos
Treasurer’s Report – Samarra Khaja and Nicole Belcourt
Fundraising Report – Garage Sale and Spring Fling Planning – Samarra Khaja
Communication Committee Report – Sue Hutton
Health and Wellbeing Committee Update – Milisa Burns
School Statement of Need Approval of Draft – Jean Hammond
Ward Rep Update
Other Business – All
Confirm and Set Next Meeting Date – All
Kindness week is next week, beginning March second. The student council has created a campaign to celebrate acts of kindness. This is called “PAWS for KINDNESS.”
When a student or a teacher observes an act of kindness it will be recorded on a “PAW.” The student and their kind act will be recorded on the PAW. PAWs will be handed to classroom teachers. At the end of the day student council members will collect PAWS and post them on a wall in the main foyer. This will be called the “WALL OF PAWS!”
It is a non-competitive group initiative to see if we can cover an entire wall of a examples of kindness.
Essex and Hawthorn are participating in the TDSB PINK T-SHIRT DAY initiative February 25. This initiative is about taking a stand against bullying. Wearing PINK communicates that Bullying in any form will not be tolerated and that at Essex and Hawthorn we include everyone!
Grade 8 girls who have signed up for the HPV vaccination, the immunization date has been moved to February 23.
Thank you.
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