School Contact Information:

Principal: Michael Murphy Superintendent: Bruce MacPherson School Council Co-Chairpersons: to be

determined at our first meeting in Octo-

ber. Secretary: Norma Jeanne King Trustee: William Goetz

Our next newsletter will be sent home the week of September 18, 2006

Immaculate Conception School

FAMILY UPDATE

Formosa, Ontario N0G 1W0

Phone: (519)367-2900 Fax / Voice Mail : (519)367-5283

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Vol. MMVII, Issue 1

Immaculate Conception School

FAMILY UPDATE

Formosa, Ontario N0G 1W0 Safe Arrival Voice Mail / Ligne d’assiduité: (519)367-5283

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School Council—Conseil de l’école

Co-Chairpersons/Co-Présidents:

Amber Metcalfe and Susan Dietz

Board Administration—Administration du conseil

Director of Education/Directeur d’éducation:

Catherine Montreuil

Superintendent/Surintendante: Francine Pilon

Trustee/Commissionaire: Bev Eckensweiler

Principal/Directrice: Christine Pfeffer

Secretary/Sécrétaire: Lynn Hahn

Our next newsletter will be sent home

the last week of June.

Notre prochain bulletin sera

la derniere semaine de juin.

Bulletin de l’École

Immaculate Conception

School Newsletter

Formosa, Ontario N0G 1W0

Phone/Téléphone:(519)367-2900

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

Lundi 2 mai, 2014

BRUCE GREY CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD – VISION STATEMENT

Committed to a vibrant Catholic education, we ensure quality learning experiences through community partnerships that nurture each student in mind, body and spirit and

embrace the teachings of Christ, giving witness to Gospel values.

End of the School Year Prayer

Dear Lord, our education was

possible because of many important

people. We thank you for our parents,

who brought us to you in baptism,

were our first teachers, and brought

us to this school. We thank our school

staff, who help us pray and guide us

to be the best we can be. Thank you

for their patience, their guidance,

their creativity, their compassion,

their wisdom, and their love of

learning. May we always use what

we’ve learned to the best of our

ability.

Amen

Volunteers are the heart and soul of any

community. As we venture into the last month

of school we celebrate our volunteers. Let us

remember that their hands are the hands of

power that strengthen, rescue, teach, love and

represent Christ on Earth. Dear God, bless the

volunteers at ICS. Send your blessings and

graces to each one of them filling their hearts,

minds and souls with the Holy Spirit.

This year, in honour of our volunteers, we have

purchased new books for the library. In each

book there will be a dedication to one of our

volunteers. We will also be having a special

Mass in their honour with cake and social time

back at the school on June 26th. Mass will

begin at 11:00AM. More details will come

home in a formal invitation.

The ICS Parent Council wishes to thank everyone who supported the Pitt’s Produce fundraiser. Our apologies for the mix up with the delivery and pick up of the fruit and vegetables.

School Council has graciously offered to provide lunch for the entire school on Tuesday, June 3rd. Lunch will be Tacos. Thank you for your generosity.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Grace Beninger Madison Bester Rain Bester Macy Biesenthal Emma Cenitagoya Daria Charron Nathan Diemert Madison Field Jace Fischer Abby Folmer

Paige Haight Madison Herchmer Addison Huber Atley Lamont Riley Martin Cooper McGilveary Hayden Oberle Alexei Reid Ethan Rogers Evalynn Seely Abby Wideman Anne Zettel

CONGRATULATIONS To our Grade 2 students!

Immaculate Conception School— Formosa

Thank you Thank you The students raised $1318.02 at the

Mission Bazaar on May 9th! Well done! Money raised will go towards Canadian Food Grains and The Holy Childhood

Association.

Let us remember in our prayers

Robert O’Neil Great Grandfather to Jose

McGlynn.

“Gracious God, loving Creator, welcome Robert into paradise. In Your love, lead him into the

unending joys of Your presence where every tear will be wiped

away, and there will be no more sorrow. Amen.”

Happy Birthday to the following

students who are celebrating their birthday in June:

Karlee Weiler Zachary Valad

Colton Dietrich Kaylee Rich

Landon Wideman Jace Fischer

Ethan Smith Hannah McArthur

Aidan Monk Janelle Gies

Taylor Rush Mya Lamont

Brady Rich Parker Elphick

Lauren Rush Abby Hahn

Kali Fischer Emma Cenitagoya

Bradley Steffen Cooper McGilveary

Tyler Nichols Joel Montag

Zeiven Oberle Lauren Schneider

Jack Fleischauer Miles Biesenthal

Mya Doucet

End of Year Mass Please join us at Immaculate

Conception Church on June 26th

for our end-of-year Mass/Honouring Volunteers. 11:00AM

May Virtue Assembly June 5th 2:25 pm

JUNE VIRTUE ASSEMBLY

TBD-Gym will be officially closed due to construction June 23rd after

Grade 8 Graduation.

Immaculate Conception School— Formosa

“We are a Catholic Faith Community committed to developing and maintaining a love of life long learning, nurturing self-esteem and respect for all creation.”

Board Track and Field Meet

The Board Track and Field Event will take place again in Kincardine at the Davidson Centre on Tuesday, June 17th. More information about this event will be sent home with qualifying students. It is a very exciting day and the students love to have spectators cheer them on. We will have approximately 50-55 Grade 3 - 8 students attending this meet.

Tutors in the Classroom/Helpers in the Classroom

We are very fortunate to have a student help us in our classrooms during May and June. Many thanks to Adele Nussey, our tutor in the classroom. We wish her all the best in her future studies. We are also blessed to have volunteers who help out from time to time in our classrooms throughout the year. Thank you to those individuals for truly making a difference here at ICS.

School’s out for summer!

The last day for the students and for classes will be on Thursday, June 26th. Friday, June 27th is a Professional Activity Day.

Classes will resume Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014. Have a great summer!

Thank you to Jennifer Saunders and Suzanna Rogers for pre-

paring the snacks for our students during the 2 weeks of EQAO

testing. Thank you to all the volunteers who prepare snacks,

lunches, clean up the kitchen and for all the little things that

you do to make our school so great!

SUMMER LEARNING ADVANTAGE CAMPAIGN – REMINDER Summer is coming and so is Summer Learning Advantage.

Now is the time to plan activities that will keep your child’s mind busy and

actively involved during those long and lazy days of summer. One suggestion

is the Learning Advantage Workbook in English or French. Each Activity

book offers 192 fully coloured pages designed to reinforce and maintain

students' academic learning skills over the summer . There is a different activity for each grade - from Junior Kinder-garten to Grade 7. Each grade level book features units aligned with the Ontario curriculum; parent information pages,

evaluation forms; follow up activities and a family focus. The cost of each book is $20.00. Visit www.learningadvantage.ca to

download a free unit of the book you would like to order. Order forms have been sent home. Please have your orders back to

the school by June 10th.

French as a second language survey: Please take a moment to enter the following link

and complete the FSL survey for parents of Core and French Immersion students.

Thank you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FSLParent-GuardianSurvey2014LHG5T3Y

“Let the same character

be in you that was in

Christ Jesus”

June Virtue

Honesty Honesty is being sincere, open, trustworthy in all we say and do. Honesty is a mark of a disciple of Jesus, who is the way, the TRUTH and the life.

“Conscience is God’s built-in warning system. Be very

happy when it hurts you. Be very worried when it

doesn’t.”

You can reinforce the virtue of honesty by using your Catholic Culture of Deep Caring calendar

at home.

Our Catholic Culture of Deep Caring Calendar

Week One •I understand and accept myself as I

am, as a child of God.

Week Two •I admit my mistakes.

Week Three

•I tell the truth kindly and tactfully to help others.

Week Four

•I am sincere and trustworthy in my relationships.

Happy Birthday to the following

students who are celebrating their birthday in JULY

Justin Rogers Taylor Martin

Chloe Lamont Isaac Montag

Cameron Ernewein Maggie Bujold

Ben Fleischauer Alexa Schlosser

Shannon Wagner Colleen Mulvey

Luke Robertson Brody Grubb

Madison Herchmer Taya Haase

Maria Charron Adelyn Haase

Ameera Haase Grace Beninger

Ainsley Martin Amelia Beninger

Daniel Peskov

Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating their

birthday in AUGUST:

Sophie Borho Michael Keyzer

Claudia Weppler Isabel Dietrich

Lachlan Alexander Kirsten Chamberlain

Dashiel Slosser-McLean Ethan Mulkern

Jacob Mattingly Averi Haygood

Gracie Metcalfe Aryssa Fischer

José McGlynn Kingston Watt

Sophia Herchmer Anne Zettel

Emma Metcalfe Talan Hope

Gavin Bester Daria Charron

Elliott Haan Tyler McPhee

GRADE 8 GRADUATION Our Graduation Ceremony will take

place on Monday, June 23rd. The celebration will start with a

prayer service and then a social in the gym.

School Council Our next meeting will be Thursday, June 19th at

6:00 p.m. This is our wrap up meeting.

Location Frankies in Hanover.

Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board “Proclaiming the Work of Your Love” -

“We are a Catholic Faith Community committed to developing and maintaining a love of life long learning, nurturing self-esteem and respect for all creation.”

Kindergarten End of

Year Celebration

A day SK students

On Friday June 20th in the PM our

Kindergartens will have a celebration to mark their

moving on to Grade 1!

B day SK students On Tuesday, June 24th PM our Kindergartens will

have a celebration to mark their moving on to Grade 1!

HOT WEATHER DAYS With the onset of the warm and humid summer days please make sure that your children are prepared for the weather. Kindly apply sunscreen before your child leaves for school in the morning and ensure that they have a hat with them, particularly for the noon hour recess. Families are also encouraged to send a water bottle with their child that can be filled periodically throughout the day. On days when the air quality is poor and the humidity high we will have a shortened outdoor recess period. Open back, tube/tank tops, spaghetti straps and muscle shirts are not permitted by themselves or under other clothing. Sleeveless tops with a shoulder band of at least the width of three fingers are acceptable. Shorts, skirts, skorts and dresses are expected to be of a modest length (width of wearer’s hand at knee).

The School Library will

be closed as of

Wednesday, June 18th.

Please return all books to

Mrs. Batte by this date.

Merci beaucoup!

Thank you for supporting Gary and Joan Fischer ICS Student Council’s Harley’s Pub and Perk Spaghetti Supper Fundraiser Holsts Office Supplies All Proceeds Go Towards Stewart’s Market Building a School in Haiti. Grey Bruce Interiors WE WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A HUGE Ralph Pitt’s Produce THANK YOU Richardson’s Foods to all volunteers and those who Batte’s Meats donated to our effort! Hahn’s Painting Thank you to the following Hoity Toity Cellars Businesses/Families Grant’s Independent Grocer that made contributions: The McLean Family The Borho Family

The Serra Club of Kitchener Waterloo

had their 30th annual Alter Serving

Award Evening at Sacred Heart Parish in

Teeswater.

Three students from ICS were awarded,

Sophie Borho, Cara Zettler and Darren

Rich. CONGRATULATIONS!

Community News: Formosa 3rd Annual Lions Ribfest: Saturday, June 14th at the

Formosa Lions/Lioness Park. Cost is $18.00. Children 12 and under $9.00. Entertain-

ment and licensed bar. Tickets available at Formosa Post Office, Simply Delicious,

Stewart’s Pharmacy and Early Bird Video Mart in Teeswater, Joan Borho 519 367

5894 or Murray Wales 519 392 6046.

Father’s Day Breakfast:Sunday, June 15th 2013 from 9:am—1:00pm,

Formosa Community Centre. $8.00 per person(ages 10yrs and up) $4.00 per person

(ages 4 yrs to 9yrs), children under 3 free.

"Free Roller skating each Friday evening at Formosa Recreation Complex from

7 - 9 pm. Bring your in-line skates or roller skates, but if you have none, roller skates provided free. Snack

booth is also open. A service sponsored by the Formosa Lions" Take a book, bring a book library open at the

roller skating park on Friday’s from 7-9 and also after mass on Sundays.

Are you on the list of voters for the upcoming municipal and school board elections?

Residents can now find out whether their information is confirmed and updated for the upcoming municipal and

school board

elections at voterlookup.ca

Voterlookup.ca is an online service used to build and maintain information that will be used in the preparation of the final Voters’

Lists across Ontario. You can also change/update your school support for electoral purposes and add names to your property

address.

Accessing voterlookup.ca is easy! To confirm your information is accurately recorded for the upcoming elections, you need to

supply:

Your name and date of birth and,

Your town/city, property address or assessment roll number, included on your latest Property Assessment Notice.

Using voterlookup.ca, you can confirm your elector eligibility or update your electoral information. For more information,

call 1-866-296-6722 Have your say. Log on today.

(PLEASE NOTE: changing your support for electoral purposes will not affect your property tax bill.

To change your tax support to the Catholic District School Board contact Paula Fahrer at the Catholic Education Centre,

519-364-5820 X239

Canada Wide Science Fair: Due to extremely hard work and dedication, one of our students

had the privilege of attending the Canada Wide Science Fair in Windsor from May 12th –17th.

Katie Myatt won a silver medal. Katies's project, "iScan"

This project devised a new and innovative method for detecting fingerprints on low contrast

surfaces. It investigated and tested unique ways to effectively utilize optics to optimize the

contrast between the dusting powder and the surface. An iPhone camera with black and white live feed

video was used. The results clearly demonstrated that this method dramatically

increased the contrast and the visibility of the fingerprints.

We are very proud of Katie. She has been a great

ambassadorsfor ICS and the Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board and wish her all the best in

her future plans.

JUNE 2014

HONESTY is being sincere, open, and trustworthy in all we say and do. Honesty is a mark of a disciple of Jesus, who is the way, the TRUTH and the life.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 Quebec 7/8 EQAO

3 Taco day for whole school Quebec 7/8 EQAO

4 Quebec 7/8 EQAO

5 Quebec 7/8 EQAO

6 PD Day

7

8 Honesty

9 Gr 6 Camp Brebeuf JK orientation

10 Mac and Cheese Gr 6 Camp Brebeuf Jk Orientation

11 12 Bus monitor day

13 KDGN B JK orienta-tion

14

15 16 17 Pita Day Track and Field

18 19 Last Pizza day Parent Council 6:00PM

20 KDGN A KDGN A Graduation

21

22 Honour

23 Gr 8 grad Gr 3 swim

24 KDGN B Graduation Gr 3 swim

25 Reports go home Gr 3 swim

26 Last Day of School Mass 11:00

27 PD Day

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