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B U T T O N V I L L E B A N N E R N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 5

PRINCIPAL

Lori Higgins

VICE-PRINCIPAL

Shelley Anand

SUPERINTENDENT

Peter Tse

TRUSTEE

Billy Pang

SCHOOL DAY TIMES

8:25am

Entry Bell

8::35-10:15am

Learning Block

10:15-10:45am

Recess

10:45am-12:25pm

Learning Block

12:25-1:25pm

Lunch

1:25-3:05pm

Learning Block

3:05pm

Dismissal

A Message from the Administrative Team

Our students have been working hard at Buttonville during the last few months. Our school continues set goals in order to meet the needs of our students. We strive to pre-pare our students to live in a diverse world, where they will need to have the ability to solve real life problems, think critically and collaborate with others. In our School Im-provement Plan we have identified Critical Thinking Skills as an area we would like to continue to develop a more in depth understanding of in order to prepare our students for our ever changing world. Critical Thinking is the process of thinking about ideas/situations more fully in order to identify implications and make sensible judgments. Critical thinking involves skills such as predicting, examining different perspectives, questioning ideas, detecting bias, synthesizing and identifying implied as well as ex-plicit meanings. As a staff we encourage our students to experiment with various meth-ods before deciding on how to best approach a problem whether it is in math, science, literacy, music and so on. Our School Improvement Plan can be found on our school website: http://buttonville.ps.yrdsb.ca.

Last week we had our Intermediate Halloween Dance and Halloween Parade. It was a pleasure seeing our students enjoying themselves during the parade, dance and pie throwing contest. There were so many creative costumes! Thank you to our teachers for supporting these activities. We also began our We Scare for Hunger kickoff for our annual food drive. We have already collected a large amount of food and we thank you for all your support. We are so proud of our students for giving back to our local com-munity. By working together we can make the world a better place for everyone! This month we also look forward to having the Bus Evacuation program, as we do annually to ensure bus safety.

This year's Remembrance Day marks the date and time when fighting stopped on No-vember 11th at 11am in 1918 (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) which makes this the 97th anniversary for the end of the First World War. It is also the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II. Thank you to our teachers who have been working with our students in order to prepare for our Remembrance Day Service. On November 11th, we will honour our veterans and those who continue to serve and protect our country. This is a time for our teachers to make connections be-tween global events and our student’s lives by promoting peace within our school community.

Thank you to our School Council for continuing to organize and run lunches and pop-corn and cookie sales! We could not have this available for students without the School Council’s support.

We are committed to preparing our students to become engaged and active citizens. This month the character trait we will be learning about will be Honesty. Our students will learn that “We behave in a sincere, trustworthy, and truthful manner.”

Lori Higgins Shelley Anand

Principal Vice Principal

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A Message from School Council

Hard to believe the students have been back in school for 2 months already! We been very busy as a School Council. We have lunch from Mr. Sub scheduled for Tuesday November 10. Our newest lunch from Extreme Pita is scheduled for Tuesday November 17

th and we have pasta lunch from Mother’s Deli on Tuesday No-

vember 24th. All 3 lunches have been very popular with the students, approximately half of the student body

taking part. Our popcorn & cookie sales are continuing during lunch on Thursday November 12th and 26

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$1 each. They will be for sale up and down stairs. Many of our grade 8 students have volunteered to help sell them. If anyone plans on doing some holiday shopping, Miko’s Annual Warehouse Sale (located at 60 East Beaver Creek in Richmond Hill) is currently going on. If you buy anything from them between the dates of November 23 and December 5, please ask to have your bill stamped by the cashier. Please bring your stamped receipt back into the school, as Miko will donate a portion of these sales back to Buttonville Public School. Another important date mark on your calendar is Thursday December 3rd. On Dec. 3rd, Buttonville Public School in conjunction with Panera Bread on 3987 Highway 7 (at Birchmount Road, by the Whole Foods Plaza) will be hosting a Community Get Together. We would like to invite your family & friends to visit this restaurant between the hours of 4 pm – 8 pm in order to bring our community together. Panera Bread will donate a portion of their sales back to us!! (Take out is available!!) This is a great opportunity not only to help raise funds for the school but to also meet other Buttonville families!! More details will be sent home with your child. We are really looking forward to seeing you there!!

Next council meeting scheduled for Tuesday December 1st at 6:30 pm in the staff room. All are wel-

come.

Kerry Mallett & Peri Sygounas

Buttonville School Council Co-chairs

Curriculum Corner

As the year continues, you may hear your children speaking about Learning Goals and Success Criteria. Learning Goals are brief statements based on the Ontario Curriculum that clearly identify what students are expected to know and do. Success Criteria allow students to understand what success ‘looks like’ and how to achieve it. Success Criteria allow students to monitor progress and assess their own work. Success criteria are used by teachers to provide students with descriptive feedback. It is important that our children are ac-tively engaged in the learning process. You can support your child at home by talking about his/her learning. Some questions that you can ask your child are:

What did you learn more about today?

How did your new learning connect with what you already knew?

What do you think you need to learn more about? Why?

What did you do well?

What success criteria did you use to improve your work?

What are some next steps or goals that you need to set?

~Adapted from: Ontario Ministry Of Education~

Some examples occurring in classrooms around Buttonville are:

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What is GOOS paper? GOOS paper stands for Good On One Side paper. Instead of putting all of your paper in the recycling bin start a container for your GOOS paper. It is great for drawing on or writing quick notes. Doing this one small

thing you will be saving hundreds of trees.

This year, our school has been working hard towards bringing the Me to We initiative to Buttonville PS. Several of the Buttonville students from K - 8 participated in the We Scare Hunger project. This is a short video giving some information about the campaign - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TySrpYqNzFE.

This project involved having our Trick-or-Treaters’ collect non-perishable food items, as well as candy on Hal-loween! We were also learning a lot about hunger at school to support our understanding of this project.

We have been seeing a lot of food arriving in our front lobby that our students have collected over the week-end. This begins our kick off to our Holiday food drive. Thank you so much for your help and participation in

this initiative!

This year, our school has been working hard towards bringing the Me to We initiative to Buttonville PS. Sev-eral of the Buttonville students from K - 8 participated in the We Scare Hunger project. This is a short video

giving some information about the campaign - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TySrpYqNzFE.

This project involved having our Trick-or-Treaters’ collect non-perishable food items, as well as candy on Hal-loween! We were also learning a lot about hunger at school to support our understanding of this project.

Eco Corner

We scare for Hunger

Our students had a wonderful time celebrating Halloween at Buttonville. There were lots of events for stu-dents to participate in. Our Halloween Pumpkin Carving contest was put on by Intermediate Students and there were lots of creative pumpkins carved and on display. Our primary students put on a Halloween parade and our Student Council organized a dance. It was wonderful to see our students having so much fun! We enjoyed seeing all the costumes and smiles!

Terry Fox Fundraiser

Congratulations Buttonville Public School and community for your dedication and passion towards The Terry Fox fundraiser. As Terry Fox said, “ Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. Its got to keep going with out me”. Buttonville’s students raised $5,651.05,

Halloween

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Bully Preventation Week

The third week of November is designated as National Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week in order to promote safe and positive learning environments for our students. At Buttonville, we are committed to the well being and safety of all our students and this permeates our work throughout the year. We believe in using Restorative Discipline approaches in order to help encourage our students to become kind, respectful citi-zens who ‘stand up’ against Bullying. Bullying is defined as a form of repeated, persistent and aggressive behaviour directed at an individual or in-dividuals that is intended to cause (or should be known to cause) fear and distress and/or harm to another person's body, feelings, self-esteem or reputation. Bullying occurs in a context where there is a real or per-ceived power imbalance. Bullying can take various forms. These include:

– hitting, shoving, stealing or damaging property – name calling, mocking, or making sexist, racist or homophobic comments – excluding others from a group or spreading gossip or rumours about them

– spreading rumours and hurtful comments through the use of cellphones, e-mail, text messaging and social networking sites

We believe that we can all work together to raise awareness about bullying, its impact and the actions to take in order to stop or prevent bullying. For more information please visit: www.bullyingawarenessweek.org

~Adapted from: Ontario Ministry Of Education & Bullying Awareness Week~

Cold Weather is on its Way!

Please make sure your children dress appropriately for the upcoming cold weather. Warm boots, socks, pants, sweaters, coats, hats, mittens and scarves tucked inside the coat are very important for children of all ages to wear. Children will be expected to be outside during recess and lunch so please make sure they are dressed for the weather. As well, since we have almost 500 students here at Buttonville, and many children wear the same brands, colours and sizes of clothing, it would be very helpful if your child’s name could be printed in ink in boots and on labels of clothing. If your child has lost any items, please check our Lost and Found box located near the front foyer of the school. It is a good idea to send extra clothing with younger stu-dents as accidents do happen or they get wet on the way to school with rain and snow.

Regional Cross Country participants

10 Things Parents Can Do to Prevent and Address Bullying

1. Consider your own behaviour; be a role model.

2. Establish a code of conduct with your child.

3. Promote diversity and acceptance.

4. Encourage your child to report.

5. Create friendship opportunities.

6. Talk, talk, talk.

7. Problem solve with your child.

8. Build on strengths.

9. Be ready to listen

10. Be your child’s advocate.

Twenty one students participated from Buttonville at our Regional Cross Country meet at Bruce’s Mill. We are so proud of all of them, they represented us so well!

Congratulations to all participants.

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School Bus Cancellation

To ensure the safety of students, school bus service may be cancelled from time to

time due to inclement weather, extreme temperatures and/or poor road conditions. In

these cases, parents and students should develop alternate care/transportation ar-

rangements.

Since some busing schedules begin by 7:00 a.m., cancellation decisions must be

made by 6:00 a.m. to allow time to communicate.

Cancellation decisions will only be made after thorough consultation with the Safety

Officers of school bus companies servicing York Region and are based on several factors including precipita-

tion, air temperature, road conditions and weather forecast.

Please note the following;

A decision to cancel school bus service will be region-wide meaning all school buses, vans and taxis will

not operate.

School bus routes may be cancelled when severe weather is not affecting all municipalities in

York Region. Both the YRDSB and YCDSB operate many regional educational programs. Students at-

tending these programs are transported over large attendance areas encompassing several municipal

boundaries. This limits the ability to cancel bus service using a municipality or zone methodology.

Unless otherwise stated, schools will remain open and parents can make arrangements to transport their chil-

dren to and from school even if school bus service is cancelled. If buses are cancelled in the morning,

they will not operate in the afternoon. Therefore students transported to school by parents will require

the same transportation home, picked up by parents/guardians at 3:05 pm..

Parents, students and school staff are asked to access the following radio and television stations after 6:00

a.m. to receive bus cancellation information:

RADIO

590 AM 640 AM 680 AM 860 AM 1010 AM 1050 AM

1540 AM 1580 AM

88.5 FM 89.9 FM 92.5 FM 93.1 FM 94.9 FM

95.9 FM 97.3 FM 98.1 FM 99.1 FM 99.9 FM

101.1 FM 102.1 FM 104.5 FM 100.7 FM 107.1 FM

TELEVISION

CITY TV CTV Barrie CFTO TV CP24 GLOBAL NEWS

A bus cancellation message will also be available at www.schoolbuscity.com and by calling 1-877-330-3001,

or by following the YRDSB on twitter.

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Upcoming Dates/Events (Please check our school website for regular Calendar updates)

November 4, 11, 18, 25 Pizza Lunch

November 10 Sub Lunch

November 17 Extreme Pita Lunch

November 12 and 26 Popcorn/Cookie Sales for a $1.00 each

November 24 Pasta Lunch

November 24 Picture re-take day

November 27 P.A Day - NO SCHOOL

City of Markham Recreation

Update from Kids Kitchen

With Winter approaching we would like to take this opportunity to clarify our policy on lunch service during inclement weather. During inclement weather, even when school buses are cancelled - Kid's Kitchen will be open for business and we WILL be delivering lunches. The standard same day cancellation policy for JK to Grade 8's will apply - by 7am by PHONE ONLY. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. Sincerely,

Ruchi Vij, Pragna Khanna & Jess Jagpal

and the Kids Kitchen Team

(905) 944-0210 www.kidskitchen.ca