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McKee McNews March 2016

McKee Public School

35 Church Avenue

Toronto, Ontario M2N 6X6

Telephone: 416-395-2680 Safe Arrival Program: 416-395-2688 Fax 416-395-4497

School Website: http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/mckee Twitter: @McKeeSchool

Linda Curtis

Superintendent

416-396-9172

It has been a very busy month of February, with report cards, interviews and Lunar

New Year Celebrations, we are reminded of how grateful we are to be in a wonderful,

nurturing school. Thank you to our community for persevering during our health

“outbreak” of suspected norovirus. Our student absences have returned to normal.

In March we are looking forward to our major fundraiser for the school year. March 4

is our Kick-off Assembly and March 10 will be our Beach Day (note this date is

changed from the original calendar). Read on to find out more details.

An assembly is planned to recognize Nowruz, the Persian New Year, at McKee Public

School on Wednesday March 23, from 1:00 to 1:30. As always, parents are welcome

to attend.

بدین وسیله از والدین محترم دانش آموزان دعوت به عمل می آید که در جشن نوروز در روز

در مدرسه مکی حضور به هم رسانند. 1:30الی 1:00مارچ از ساعت 23پنجشنبه مورخ

Again this year, we will be providing vision and hearing clinics at McKee. This is a won-

derful service to your children during the school day. You may know that the cost of an

annual eye exam with an optometrist in the community is free and covered by the

Ministry of Health with your health card. The Toronto Foundation for Student Success

will be running cost-recovery clinics at McKee again this year on Wednesday, March

23.

Photographers from Edge Imaging will be at the school on Tuesday, March 22 to take

graduation photos for our Senior Kindergarten students and our grade 5 students. An

order form will be coming home shortly.

Thank you to our School Council who continue to fund our Prologue Theatre school-

based productions. On Wednesday, February 4 students were treated to an engaging

production of The Three Musketeers.

We would like wish our families a happy and safe March Break as our school will be

closed from March 14 to 18.

Domenic Giorgi Katia Robles

Principal Vice-Principal

416-395-2680

Alexander Brown

Trustee

416-395-8411

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday, March 3

The Lunch Lady

Friday, March 4

Dance-a-thon Kickoff

Assembly 12:45pm

March 7-11 Spirit Week

(see theme days on p.3)

Thursday, March 10

Beach Day DANCE-A-THON

(see schedule on p.2)

Pizza Lunch

March 14—18

March Break (NO SCHOOL)

Tuesday, March 22

Gr. 5 and SK

Graduation Photos

Wednesday, March 23

Sight and Sound Clinic

Nowruz Celebration (1 pm)

Thursday, March 24

The Lunch Lady

Friday, March 25

Good Friday (NO SCHOOL)

Monday, March 28

Easter Monday (NO

SCHOOL)

Thursday, March 31

Pizza Lunch

Dance-a-thon prize and Bee

Assembly (1 pm)

Tuesday, April 5

SAC meeting (6:30 p.m.)

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

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Yes! McKee is still having

a Dance a thon! Keep your dance cards open for Thursday, March 10, 2016. Come join the fun in the

sun as we celebrate Beach Day at McKee.

McKee holds a fundraiser with our annual Dance a thon. This year, our goal is to have

students bring in pledges from friends and family to help us raise money to enhance

our school learning environment, i.e., technology, music, gym, etc. Our goal is to raise

$12 000!!!! The pledge forms will go home on Friday, March 4th.

Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

There will be many levels of prizes!

A minimum of $10.00 during SPIRIT WEEK (March 7 - 11) will get an Early Bird Prize.

For every $10.00 brought in, students will get a raffle for a chance to win a prize.

The More raffle tickets, the better the chances of winning prize!

The Grand Prize this year is an iPod docking speaker system.

1 prize per division: Kindergarten ~ Plasma Scooter ,

Primary ~ Philips Music Cube,

Junior ~ Philips Music Cube

A prize for a student in each class: Prizes are in the front showcase

A small prize for classes with 100% participation

There will be a Pizza Party for the class who brings in the most money. (Kindergartens/ Primary/

Junior)

There will be Prizes for adults too… e.g., $25 Metro gift card, iPod shuffles, Passes to: AGO,

ROM, Pioneer Village, Wonderland, Black Creek Pioneer Village, Zoo and more!

Remember, it is not all about the prizes. Let’s work together to make mckee the best pLace for our chiLdren!

Every donation will be helpful!

Time Classes

8:45 – 9:00 (15 min) Set up

9:00 – 9:50 (50 min) Grade 3+4 Paschalidis, Lott, Rosenberg, Hwang, Katz + Kemerer, Leung

9:50 – 10:10 Recess

10:10 – 10:40 (30 min) Kinder Kan, Secord-Swann, Hong, Ten-Pow

10:45 – 11:25 (40 min) Grade 2 Chung, Kandaharian, Jung, Lazarus, Ng, Shantz

11:30 – 12:25 Lunch

12:35 -1:15 (40 min) Grade 1 Coelho, Walker, Barbieri, Weir, Lee

1:20 – 1:50 (30 min) Kinder Li-Wong, Caira, Hung, Lowther

1:50 – 2:05 Recess

2:10 – 3:00 (50 min) Grade 5+4 Gagnon, Bitterhoff, Coles, Lee+ Bose, Morris

Dance-a-thon Schedule for Thursday, March 10

We are a Platinum ECO school… so Bring your own

water bottles!

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Come show your school Spirit!

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Character Education

On Thursday, February 11th, we enjoyed an excit-

ing Assembly to celebrate Lunar New Year, with

performances by our grade 1 students and grade

4 students as well as talented musicians and a

dancer from Earl Haig. Look for some neat pic-

tures on the next page of the newsletter. During

our afternoon assembly, we acknowledged our

McKee Bee recipients for the month of February

where we celebrated the character trait of Fair-

ness. The Kindergarten, grade 2, and grade 4 re-

cipients are in our photograph.

Throughout the month of March, we will be focus-

ing our attention on the character trait of Honesty.

Monday, March 7 Sports Day / Red and White

Tuesday, March 8 PJ / Stuffed Animal Day

Wednesday, March 9 Crazy Hair / Hat day

Thursday, March 10 Beach day… Dance a thon! Friday, March 11 Twin Day

The Changemakers at McKee worked

really hard to get gloves and hats do-

nated for the homeless. As we all

know, winters in Canada can be very

cold and now The Canadian Red

Cross has about 6 bags of donations

to share with people on the streets.

Thank you to all the families and the

community who helped us with our

winter project. Please see the thank

you letter from The Canadian Red

Cross on Page 6 of this newsletter.

Junior Choir will be cancelled on

Wednesday, March 9th due to the

Grade 5 field trip to the EOEC. McKee is on Twitter!

Follow us

@McKeeSchool Lost and Found items will be put out on tables in the hallway for the

next two weeks. We have a variety of items we would like returned

back to their owners. Please come and take a look. Unclaimed items

will be donated during March Break.

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~ February

Activities & Celebrations ~

In February we took part in a number of activities and cele-brations such as Lunar New

Year, Dragon Boat Races, 100s Day, Valentines Day, “The

Three Musketeers”, and Pink Shirt Day.

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code March

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March

24

1

Beef Meatball with home-

made mashed potato,

corn & Gravy

$5.75 $5.75

2 3 Chicken Nuggets, warm

bun, and fruit $5.50 $5.50

3 Veggie Burger with Car-

rots $5.50 $5.50

4 BBQ Chicken Drumstick

with Rice and Corn $6.00 $6.00

5 Mini Buttery Pasta Par-

mesan with fruit $5.50 $5.50

6

Cheese Tortellini with

Tomato Sauce with Car-

rots

$5.00 $5.00

7

Chicken Teriyaki Noodle

with steamed veggies

and orange slices

$6.00 $6.00

S10 1% Milk $1.25 $1.25

S24 Fresh Berry Smoothie $2.25 $2.25

S05 Peach Slices in Juice $1.50 $1.50

S07 Kettle Popcorn $1.75 $1.75

S13 100% Apple Juice $1.25 $1.25

F03 Ketchup [1 only] free free

F04 Mustard [1 only] free free

We are pleased to offer your School an ONLINE ONLY

ordering experience

To get started you will need a PASSWORD

Go to www.thelunchlady.ca >ORDER HERE and click

through to the login screen.

Select “REGISTER NOW” and fill in the required Account

Holder Information and Submit. You will receive a Wel-

come email indicating your set up was successful but

feel to start right away.

Go to “My Students” and select “Add a Student” func-

tion

You are now ready to go to “Schedule My Meals” and

order. Pay by Credit Card MasterCard or Visa, Visa Deb-

it Card via a secure 3rd party partner. No credit card

information is stored on our site.

You will receive a transaction report each time you are

on our site outlining any activity.

There are cut off times so try to get your order in 2

school days in advance of lunch day (by March 1

for March 3 and by March 22 for March 24)

A few tips

If you know what you wish to order, “Type and

Tab” your way through the order grid – no need to

scroll thru the drop downs each time

If you have more than one child, Enter and Save

after each child and pay once at the end

To avoid the 10 minute TIME OUT and lose your

order, SAVE every now and then if necessary.

Revisit the site anytime to review your order, your

order history or make changes by selecting new codes

or delete lunches by clicking on the red – [minus] icon

beside the lunch date.

If your child has allergies, please call me for further

information.

If your child is absent, contact your kitchen prior 8

AM BY PHONE to have the lunch credited to your

account

MARLYN Marlyn@thelunchlady.ca 905.470.2598

Cool Days

Hot Lunch

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Hike for Hunger is an initiative of children helping

children. Hike for Hunger aims to raise aware-ness of the ever-present problem of hunger and

food security for families and children within our community.

Food Drive:

The goal is to collect much needed, non-

perishable food items for the Lansing United Church Food Bank between March 25th and

April 20th. Look for the Hike for Hunger bin at our school entrance and/or send in items with

your child to their classrooms.

Event:

Please register and join us on Saturday, April 30th, 2016 at 4 Forest Laneway at 9am for the

community hike. Registration forms will be avail-

able on March 7th.

in support of the Lansing Food Bank

Saturday, April 30, 2016, Rain or Shine

sign in 9:00 a.m. start time: 9:30 a.m.

free water bottles for the first 100 to register

Toronto has the highest child poverty rate of any city in Canada. Through children,

parents, families and friends, we hope to ease hunger in our community of North

York. Please join us.

Bring your donations of non-perishable foods to the start/finish point at 4 Forest

Laneway (the Yonge/Sheppard Centre)

Food donation bins will also be at 2, 4 and 6 Forest Laneway and at participating

schools a week prior to the Hike For Hunger

Registration forms are available at: The Tandem Corporation offices, 4 Forest

Laneway; The Sheppard Centre Information Desk; Cummer Valley Middle School;

Earl Haig School; McKee Public School