Posted: April 17, 2017
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- While it may not even feel like Spring is here yet, the district is already hard at work setting up Summer Session learning for students. The official website is up and running, and has links to brochures for all programs and registration details. Online registration opens this Monday, and some of the high-demand programs actually fill up, so if you’re thinking about it, don’t hesitate for too long!
- In the next few days, parents of grade 4 and 7 students will receive access codes for the annual Satisfaction Survey with the Ministry of Education. While I hope that you would be willing to come to me with feedback on how things are going for your kids at WLE, this provides you with an anonymous avenue that sends feedback to the Ministry, and ultimately to us. Please consider completing the survey when your access code comes home. If you don’t have a child in one of those grades and would like to provide feedback, stop by the office at the end of the week, and we should have some access codes and instructions available.
- If you, or anyone you know, has a 3- or 4-year-old, Ready, Set, Learn is meant for you. On Tuesday, April 18, join Mrs. Rogers in the library at 6:00 pm for a session called Music,
Movement and Me. Please let us know if you would like to attend by calling the office. And if you can’t make that one, there’s another on May 9, called Naturally Curious. Please let us know if you’d like to attend that one, as well. And finally, these are open to all, so kindly let your neighhours, friends or in-laws know, too. They just need to RSVP to the office. It’s not too late! - The people who made the Air Bud movies are running a free family test screening of their newest, Pup Star 2 next Sunday, April 23 at 10:30 am at Colossus. There will be free popcorn and drinks. Space is limited, so RSVP to the email or phone listed on the poster. Why sit at home waiting for me to send out TWAWLE when you could be seeing a movie no one else in North America is getting to see yet?
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University is hosting a Family Science Rendezvous on May 13 from 11-3. It looks quite fantastic!
Red Cross Babysitting Course
So you want to be a babysitter? Or, your parents want you to take this course so they feel confident leaving you at home alone? Babysitting with First Aid Hero emphasizes learning through real life scenarios. information covered includes: Exploring the business of babysitting, creating safe environments, safely caring for ages 0-12, and first aid skills.
Red Cross Babysitting Course
West Langley, May 5th, 8:30-3:30
Grade 6+
$60 + GST online registration
http://www.firstaidhero.com/babysitting-vancouver.html
PAC Happenings
Don’t forget the PAC Meeting next week. Tuesday at 6 in the library. Be there!
Quote of the Week
Interesting Reading & Viewing
- This one is big. And it is an important thing to read, though it is not easy or fast. The Final Report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
- This is a neat article that summarizes a bunch of the thinking on MindShift, an education website. With the headline How Parents and Teachers Can Work Together for Powerful Learning Outcomes, how could I not share it, even if it’s a couple of years old?
- We try to teach empathy. I share articles that declare the importance of empathy. Then I read this, short as it is, about how empathy as a concept has some darker sides, too, and that something called rational compassion is what we really should strive for.
Calendar of Events
Monday
- Easter Monday – no school
Tuesday
- Ready-Set-Learn. 6pm in the library
Wednesday
Thursday
- Truth & Reconciliation Plaque Dedication Assembly – 9:15 start – families welcome
- Math Contest Club – meeting at lunch
Friday
- Langley Children’s Choir concert – 12:45 pm – families welcome
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