ÉCOLE SPERLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2200 Sperling Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. V5B 4K7

(604) 296-9030 http://sperling.sd41.bc.ca/

Principal: Mme K. Floyd Head Teacher: Mme Alex Spence Secretary: Mrs. S. Bonvino

Days to Remember:

June

Sports Day Hot Lunch (McDonald’s) Early dismissal @ 1:00pm

PRO-D Day (students do not attend school)

Gr. 7 Band Concert @ 9:15am

Intermediate Spring Con-cert @ 1:30pm Gr. 7 Burnaby North Viking for a Day

Welcome to Kindergarten Orientation 1-3pm

Hot Lunch (pizza) PAC Movie Night in gym

Gr. 7’s to Cultus Lake

Gr. 4-7 Loonie Swim (pm)

Hot Lunch (Hot Dog Day) Gr. 7 Grad Event in gym 4:30—9:00pm

Gr. 4-7 Loonie Swim (pm)

Intermediate Awards As-sembly @ 9:30am (Gr. 4-7)

Gr. 7 Grad Ceremony @ 8:55am Early dismissal @ 10:30am

May 2017 Bulletin #10

On Thursday, June 1st we hope to see you at our annual Sports Day event – Canada 150 is the theme of the day! Every child has been placed on a school wide team and will be par-ticipating in a fun-filled morning of sport activities centered around Canada 150. Stu-dents are encouraged to wear their House colour (Yellow, Green, Blue, Red). After the morning attendance, classes will meet in the gym and the fun will begin.

8:55-9:15 Attendance Meet team in the gym Team cheers 9:40 - 9:50 Pre-schoolers’ race 9:50-11:35 Field events begin rain or shine 11:35 - 11:55 Tug O War finals 12:00-12:20 Pre-ordered lunch in classroom. Children may go outside for a brief period if they finish their lunch early. 12:20-12:20 Attendance in classroom Meet back in gym for announcement of final points, final

cheer of winning team and distribution of participation ribbons.

STUDENT DISMISSAL AT APPROXIMATELY 1:00pm

Burnaby Festival of Dance 2017 Burnaby District hosts a dance festival every year at Burnaby Mountain Secondary School. On Tuesday, May 2 Sperling dazzled the Burnaby audience with two primary performances. Mrs. Schiffo’s class danced to “Try Everything” by Shakira and Mme Therrien & Mme Alisha’s class danced to the song “Salut soleil”. All three classes danced with lots of Sperling Spirit and made it a night to remember. A big thank you goes out to the classroom teachers, Mrs. Lucia Faccone for choreographing and Marina Faccone, Anabelle Yee and Vienna Banh for spending so much time practising and perfecting the dances with our primary students. We are already looking forward to next year!

PAC is looking for volunteers to help with the Beverage Service. Email secretary@sperlingpac.com If you are able to help between 8:30—11:30am (1/2 hour time slots). Please provide your child’s name, division , your name and contact email address or phone

number.

MOVING?  

If your child will not be returning to Sperling next year, please notify us as soon as possible by calling our school secretary, Mrs. Bonvino, at 604.296.9030. This information helps us plan for next year and prepare student records to be transferred to the new school in a timely manner. We appreciate your assistance.

Ecole Sperling Kindergarten Orientation

Thursday, June 8, 2017 1:00-3:00 pm in the gym.

Invitations were sent home in the mail.

2nd Annual Family Movie Night Friday, June 9, 2017

Featured movie: “Sing”

Doors open @ 6:30pm Movie starts at 7:00pm

Sperling Students and Parents are invited to the École Sperling Gym to enjoy a mov-ie with their classmates accompanied with a minimum of one parent per family.

A concession of snack items will be offered. (Water, pop-corn, chips, and candy bags). Cash only.

SPERLING SPRINT UPDATE

May 12th marked the 18th anniversary of the Sperling Sprint and it turned out to be another successful fundraiser for the school. We were able to raise $6046.30. this year! The sun made an appearance on the day of the Sprint and students, parents and teachers were able to complete many laps around the course with smiles on their faces. The division with the highest total of money raised was Division 20. A pizza lunch will be coming your way soon! The stu-dent who raised the most money in the school was Janelle Mendez. Her hard work won her a $50 gift certificate. Kayla Au and Nathan Luk were the winners of a random draw and will both be receiving a $20 gift certificate. The Sperling Sprint organizing committee would like to thank and recognize the efforts of the many people who made this possible. A big thank you goes out to the Sperling families for being so generous and working so hard on fundraising. We would also like to thank the parent volunteers who helped on the day of the event. We would not have been able to run the Sperling Sprint without their time and effort. Thank you to PAC for donating freezies to all our Sperling Sprinters! 

The Staff Appreciation Lunch is coming up on Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

Please contact Lauri Blakely-Gill at

chair@sperlingpac.com if you are able to volunteer time, food or both.

Thank you!

BC Children`s Hospital annual Jean`s Day was on Thursday, May 4, 2017. We were able to

raise and donate over $744 dollars to this worthy cause. Thank you to our Sperling com-munity and to Student Council for all your hard work!

Gauss & Abel Mathematics Test EveryyearintermediatestudentswhoexcelinMathhavetheopportunitytochallengetheGaussandAbelMathematicstest.Therewere85stu-dentswhowrotetheonehourexams.Congratula-tionstoallofyouforagreateffort!Specialrecog-nitiongoesouttoourhighestscoringparticipantswhoreceivedCertificatesforOutstandingAchievementandCertificatesforDistinctioninMathematics.

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OutstandingAchievement OutstandingAchievementQuintonShum Div.5 ClaireGuo Div.7CertificateofDistinction CertificateofDistinctionRickyYou Div.1 DavidDorland Div.7EnochHsu Div.2 SarahFoltz Div.5HannahZhou Div.1 IsabelleTrenton Div.5JasmineCheng Div.3 TianaLee Div.6AdamSun Div.2 AmandaYoung Div.8IsaacTrenton Div.2 WilburRuckman-Utting Div.9AndrewYan Div.1 RowanMilligan Div.5JoshThorpe-Dorward Div.3 ArasTran Div.7BridgetLi Div.3VijayTupper Div.3

All library books and Home Reading Club forms are now due

It’s getting close to the end of the year and we would like all students to return their school library books by June 7th so that we can start our inventory process. Please remind your child to bring these items to Ms. Hunger in the library, as

well as any Home Reading Club forms that they have completed. Your child will receive a free gift book from Ms. Hunger at the end of June if he or she has read for 200 nights. If your child is unable to find a library book that he or she has borrowed, please send a pay-ment (for the cost of the replacement) to the school library by June 15th. If you find the book at a later date, Ms. Hunger will be happy to give you a refund for the payment. Thank you very much for helping to keep our wonderful library collection intact

Congratulations to our Sperling Track Team Participants! On May 4th enthusiastic Sperling track team members arrived at Swangard Stadium at 9:00 in the morning and com-peted in 100m relay, 200m, 400m & 800m events throughout the day.

Students prepared for the Awards Meet at Swangard by practising two mornings a week and learning how to sprint and how to pass a baton for the relay team. A big huge thank you goes out to the Sperling PAC for helping to pay for a bus to take all our track members to Swangard.

Thank you also to the Sperling Track coaches, Mr. Kelsey, Mme Therrien, Mrs. Fogliato, Mrs. Yee and Mme Spence.

Our participants were:

DIVISION 1 DIVISION 2 DIVISION 3 DIVISION 4 Elise Chen Drake Malli Lillian Brichon Claire McConnell Mattias Bello Luca Aiello Nadia Izadi Leighton Ng Eric Cao Julien Munro-MacIntosh Cory Kwan Isabella Bruno Kobe Kong Brian Wu Aiden Domino Zayana Samji Kaitlyn Lee Ellysia Chisholm Jason Lee Andrew Yan Jadyn Friio Triton Smith Claire Roe Marina Faccone Braden Leong Rachel Zheng Inaara Khimani Pia Sung Josh Thorpe-Dorward Ava Goad Anya Liu Andrew Mak Elliott Mann Tahil Singh Gabriel Thow James Wong Anabelle Yee Olivia Zecca DIVISION 5 DIVISION 6 DIVISION 7 DIVISION 8 DIVISION 9 DIVISION 10 Sarah Foltz Rolan Amin Stefano Bousquet Kael Bello Selom Peter Daniel Dorland Robert Gilhespy Ciana Belac David Dorland Tomaso Biron Wilbur Ruckman-Utting Misha Sayani Allyssa Kwan Marko Medeiros Jacob Duong Tamiko Kong Lincoln Tan Kael Tran Jude Painter Kaemon Heyde Ryan McGowan Tejas Raniga Aras Tran Angelo Zecca Yaara Singh Katrina Warren Brian Xu Joanna Zhu Arthur Zheng

French Camp Opportunity Camp Virgule is a fantastic opportunity for children from 6 to 12 years of age to learn and practice their French while having fun this summer. Every week, there is a theme that inspires the camp's activities and children will participate in many entertaining activi-ties including: games, sports, outdoor excursions, visits to the beach and museums. It will be a summer full of adventures in French! For more information or to register online go to http://www.lecentreculturel.com/en/camp-virgule

Fifth Annual Hats Off Day Family Fun Dash The most fun you will have running after your kids!

Saturday, June 3rd

Presented by the Heights Merchants Association and sponsored by Chevron and CIBC, this 550m dash kicks off the Hats Off Day event and celebrates how Burnaby Heights embraces health, wellness, families and fun. With Hastings

Street closed, children will 'dash' down the wide-open street to collect their finisher ribbons. Participation in this event counts towards school physical education requirements.

Registration is open to all children over the age of 2. Each participant is required to have a team captain (over the age of 13), to accompany them in the run. Each team captain can accompany up to four children, and is responsible for ensur-

ing all their team participants cross the finish line.

$5 entry fee per person (no fee for team captain): Proceeds go to the Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society

Don't delay - sign up today! Registration is limited. No day-of registration. For REGISTRATION and more information, visit: www.hatsoffday.com/family-fun-dash

Balloholics Youth Basketball - Summer Camps There will be 2 full-week summer camps open to grades 4-9 boys and girls. Camps are Monday to Fri-day, from 10 am-3 pm at Burnaby Central. Camp #1 -July 10-14th Camp #2 -July 17-21st Please check the website for further details on camps and to register online: http://www.balloholic.com/programs/summer-camps or email info@halloholic.com

Balloholics provides classes year-round for students from age 5 to grade 9 in a fun environment. Students learn the FUNdamentals of basketball in a modified games format from trained coaches. The program is designed to follow the LTAD model for sport in Cana-

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CELEBRATE BURNABY 125 | CANADA 150

Join us as we celebrate Canada’s 150th and Burnaby’s 125th birthday! 2017 rings in two historic occasions. This momentous year will be filled with fun events for the whole family. From special arts and cultural experiences to making our City events – such as Cana-da Day – even more special with a range of activities and performances. After all, it’s not just every day that Burnaby turns 125 years old – or that Canada cel-ebrates its sesquicentennial. Together – as a city and a country – let’s make 2017 a year to remember! Visit www.burnaby.ca/celebrateburnaby

BCIT Broadcast & Media Summer Camp Know someone that is looking for a unique summer camp? Look no further! This July, BCIT will be offering a Broadcast & Media Summer Camp for children aged 8-12 at the Burnaby campus. The day camps will be 5 days long where kids will be able to get hands on experience in the Broadcast Centre with activities such as interviewing, reporting and learning how to produce a news show. The camp promises to be a fun filled week where kids get a sense of what it’s like both behind and in front of the camera! 2017 summer camps take place from 8:30am to 3:30pm. After camp care is available. • Camp A: July 10 - 14 • Camp B: July 17 - 21 • Camp C: July 24 - 28 Early Bird Registration is on until May 31. Register now and save $100! Visit get.bcit.ca/camps for more information and to register. If you have any questions, please email camps@bcit.ca or call 604-456-8103.

本校中文班(廣東話,国语)

Sperling Chinese Class (After school program, Cantonese & Mandarin)

時間: 3:15 pm- 4:15pm, Tuesdays

地點: Sperling Elementary School, 2200 Sperling Ave, Burnaby

日期: September 19, 2017- June 2018

For registration & inquiries, please feel free to contact

Ms. Chan, 陳老師 (Summer Holiday) via email: al-ice002@gmail.com, whatsapp 1 604 773 6173, Tailor made teaching martial for local student. (Creative with the art therapy approach with English translation, so students learn easily.) Language is a criti-cal foundation for children to expose to the rich and di-verse culture and to embrace multiculturalism. As Chi-nese language and culture are seen to be getting more important to the world, we are equipping the students with skills and knowledge which they will find im-portant to their lives in the future. Also, it is fun that the kids learn with their friends at their own school. The most important aspect is to learn to be a positive person. Alice Chan, Specialist of Children development for 30 years; teaching in Vancouver for 19 years.