Greenfield Elementary School

Apologies for the  wrong date!

The Public Schools Branch is closing schools today three hours early.  For Greenfield students, this means that the bell to dismiss students to the buses will ring at 11:40.

At 11:50, students who are being picked up or who are walking will be dismissed. We ask that parents who are coming to pick up students do not come into the school until the buses have left.  This ensures a manageable dismissal.

Parents should know that teachers will be sending students to the location that was provided on the “Early Dismissal” form that was sent home earlier in the year.  We ask that parents not call the school unless there is a change in this information for today.  As we have only two phone lines, it is very difficult to manage all incoming calls, so please don’t call unless it is necessary.

Our lunches from Greco will be arriving early today so that students who did order them will have them before they leave today. We will not do our milk orders today so parents will see a credit for that in HotLunches.

Tomorrow is our Crazy Hat/Hair Day for Gator Giving. Bring a toonie or a loonie if you can and wear your crazy hair or your hat!

Here are some notes for this week and next:

1. There is a Home and School Meeting tomorrow night – Wednesday, November 14th at 6:30 in the library. All are welcome!
2. A notice has gone home regarding the Bake Sale that will be held during Parent Teacher Interviews.  If you missed the notice, here it is:       BAKE SALE 2018
3. Parent-Teacher Interviews will be held on Thursday, November 22 (after school and evening) and Friday, November 23 (during the day so – no school!).  Teachers will be sending appointment times home this week with students.  Parent-Teacher Interviews are a valuable opportunity for teachers and parents to discuss and share successes and concerns regarding student learning.  We hope to see as many of our parents that can attend.
4. Free Milk Day is on Thursday, November 15th.
5. Feedback on our new food vendor, Farmed Market and Craft Butchery is welcome.  Please contact (call or email) Mrs. Jay if you have any suggestions.
6. Picture Retakes will take place on Tuesday, November 20th.  Please let your child’s teacher know if you would like retakes done and send in their proofs if possible.

A service dog named Zito will begin at Greenfield School on Wednesday, November 14th.  He will be here to support one of our students with special needs.  Zito is an Autism Assistance Dog.

On Wednesday, November 17th, there will be an assembly for all students and staff to give information on service dogs.  A trainer from Lions Foundation of Canada will be here to instruct students on how they should conduct themselves when a service dog is present. There will be signs posted on our doors to let everyone know that there is a service dog in our building.

We are anticipating that the service dog will quickly blend into our school community.  We are looking forward to learning from this experience and to seeing the benefits he may bring to our student.

A letter was send home with our students today.

Today is the start of our Gator Giving Days and it was “Jersey Day.”

We had special guests in our Breakfast Program today, helping out with the buttering of toast and the clean-up.  They were Austin Taylor, Daniel Thompson and Dominik Tmej of the Summerside Western Capitals.  The Caps are having a great year and they took the time to take tickets to all our students in their classrooms so they can go to one of their exciting games.

Here is a picture of our Caps visitors and their many Greenfield fans:

Go, Caps, Go!

Ordering for November HotLunches ends at midnight tonight!

A reminder that the November HotLunches orders are due on Sunday, November 4th at midnight.

A couple of community notes:

1. Sensory-friendly shopping hours will be held at all Sobey’s locations every Tuesday starting November 6th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Stores are open to the general public at this time, but there will be reduced lighting and background noise.  Everyone is welcome!
2. There will be a Summerside Junior Badminton Club at Athena School on Tuesdays, starting October 30th to January 29th from 7:00 to 8:45 PM.  The cost is $40.00 which includes a Badminton PEI Regional Membership. Players aged 10 – 15 years are welcome.  Shuttles are provided. For further information contact Trevor Heffel at trevor.heffel@gmail.com

Every year our Home and School Association joins with the St. Eleanor’s Lions Club to adopt a number of families for Christmas giving.  Our Halloween Dance, which was very successful, was the start of our fundraising for this very special effort by our Greenfield School Community.

Throughout November we have our Gator Giving Days on Wednesdays.  Students can participate in any of these days and, if they wish, they can bring a loonie or a toonie to  contribute our Christmas Hampers.

Here are the dates and the activities for November Wednesdays which will also be on our Google calendar:

Wednesday, November 7th – Favorite Jersey/Favorite Shirt Day
Wednesday, November 14th – Crazy Hair/Hat Day
Wednesday, November 21st – PJ Day
Wednesday, November 28th – Red and Green/Christmas Spirit Day

A notice will be going home on Monday with all the activities that will be taking place.  It is provided below. We know our parents will contribute and help out if they can. We are very proud of this fundraising effort and have always had a wonderful response from our community.

GatorGiving

Happy Halloween from the Halloween crew at Greenfield!

We are wishing safe and happy travels tonight for all our ghouls, gobins, Ironmen,
princesses, Einsteins, Power Rangers, vampires, Mounted Police, taxi drivers…