For a third year YRDSB has partnered with Spoken Word Artist, Dwayne Morgan, to promote the development of Poetry Teams in our schools! A team of Grade 8 students were selected by their peers to represent Silver Stream PS at the Poetry Slam competition today. Their topics included "Inadequacies", "Relationships", "Abandonment" and "How to be Human". Our team came in first place! Congrats to the students! They will now move forward to the quarter finals. Thanks to Ms. Din-Lovinescu and Ms. Daryanani for providing the opportunity and supporting the team.
Monday, 29 February 2016
Fit Spirit for Girls grades 6 to 8
On Friday, we had an assembly to kick off our Fit Spirit program for girls in grades 6 to 8. The Fit Spirit's mission is to help teenage girls discover the advantages and enjoyment of taking part in physical activity in an environment that is positive, promotes a healthy self-image and is open to everyone.
Fit Spirit is a running training program for 8-10 weeks which includes multidisciplinary educational and motivational workshops for the students.
Girls who participate in the program, run during two lunchtimes a week (30 min) and are expected to also run once on the weekend. The girls are supervised by Ms. Andrade, Ms. Draper, Ms. Heath and Ms. Taebpour. Thanks to Ms. Andrade for her leadership in bringing this opportunity to Silver Stream PS.
Fit Spirit is a running training program for 8-10 weeks which includes multidisciplinary educational and motivational workshops for the students.
Girls who participate in the program, run during two lunchtimes a week (30 min) and are expected to also run once on the weekend. The girls are supervised by Ms. Andrade, Ms. Draper, Ms. Heath and Ms. Taebpour. Thanks to Ms. Andrade for her leadership in bringing this opportunity to Silver Stream PS.
Winter Storm Watch and School Attendance
Just a reminder to our parents of students who take the bus to school. Please listen to the radio, watch TV broadcasts or check the Board's website for any bus cancellations. These are generally available as early as 6am.
IF buses are cancelled in the morning, they will be cancelled ALL DAY.
IF buses are cancelled in the morning, they will be cancelled ALL DAY.
- As parents, you are responsible for using your best judgment to decide whether or not to send your child(ren) to school on days when buses are cancelled and schools remain open;
- In accordance with the Safe Arrivals and Departures policy and procedure; the school will not be following up on absences of students who are bussed on Board declared inclement weather days, and
- the school will be following up on unreported absences of students who walk to school on Board declared inclement weather days;
- Students will not be recorded absent on Board declared inclement weather days if they were unable to attend school as a result of school bus cancellations;
- Please make arrangements to have your child(ren) picked up at the end of the school day on days when school buses are cancelled
- We encourage parents to make a standing arrangement with a neighbour or other trusted person so that every child in JK to Grade 6 will know where they are to go if they arrive home early and cannot enter his/her home.
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Friday, 26 February 2016
What's Happening at Silver Stream Monday Feb 29 to Friday Mar 4 2016
Day 4 MONDAY Feb 29
Welcome back Jessica Scheer to Grade 2/3 class !
Yugioh Club @lunchtime Rm 215
Mad Science (Library @ lunchtime)
Poetry Slam (5 INT students compete)
Day 5 TUESDAY March 1
Grade 5 ROM trip
Mad Science (Library @ lunchtime)
Knitting
7pm School Council Mtg Special Presentation: Community Safety by York Region Police
Day 1 WEDNESDAY March 2
Intermediate Band at lunchtime
French Tutors @10:05am
Chess @lunchtime
Day 2 THURSDAY March 3
Day 3 FRIDAY March 4
LOCKDOWN
drill
Cartooning (@lunchtime)
Chess @ lunchtime
Hip Hop @lunchtime (GYM)
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Thursday, 25 February 2016
Good luck to our Chess Players on Friday
We have 24 students participating in a chess tournament tomorrow at Richmond Green Sports Centre. Thank you to Ms. Gnoinski for organizing the opportunity for our students to compete and thanks to Ms. Esho and Ms. Harikrishin for supervising the Chess Club at recess time. Good luck players!
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Attention Grade 8 Parents/Guardians
Reminder for parents/guardians of Grade 8 students:
Monday, 22 February 2016
Autism Ontario - York Region
Children’s Friendship
Training is a 10-week, evidence-based social skills intervention for motivated
children who are interested in learning ways to help them make and keep
friends. During each group session children are taught crucial social
skills and are given the opportunity to practice these skills in session during
role-play and ply activities (e.g. active games, board games, etc.)
Date: Thursday, April 7th,
2016
Time: 5:45 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Loyal True Blue & Orange (11181 Yonge St., Richmond Hill)
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Friday, 12 February 2016
What's Happening at SS Feb 15 to Feb 19 2016
It looks like it might be the coldest weekend so far this winter, enjoy time with your families on Monday!
Day 0 MONDAY Feb 15
·
Family Day (No School)
Day 5 TUESDAY Feb 16
· Mad Science (Library @ lunchtime)
·
Knitting
·
Basketball
Day 1 WEDNESDAY Feb 17
·
Intermediate Band at lunchtime
·
Intermediate Girls Basketball (AREA)
·
Bake sale at recess
·
French Tutors @10:05am
·
Chess @lunchtime
Day 2 THURSDAY Feb 1
Basketball
Intermediate
Boys Basketball (AREA)
8:00 am
– 5:00pm Gr 7 & 8 Science Fair (GYM)
2:35pm REPORT CARDS GO HOME
Day 3 FRIDAY Feb 19
· Grade 3s Swim program
· Cartooning (@lunchtime)
· Chess @ lunchtime
· Hip Hop @lunchtime (GYM)
Contest Winner!
Congratulations to one of our grade 3 students, Fiona, who won the colouring contest in the grade 3 category of the Richmond Hill Winter Carnival contest.
Thursday, 11 February 2016
Gr 7 & 8 Science Fair
Silver Stream P.S. is excited to announce
our Annual Science Fair for Grade 7
& 8 students on Thursday, February,
18, 2016 taking place in our gym.
The fair will be open to family and friends
from 8am Thursday morning until 5pm.
Why is a Science Fair so important?
Providing a meaningful and engaging
intermediate science and technology program is a challenging task.
Project-based science and technology is the natural culmination of a program
that involves students in developing inquiry and design skills. These skills
help students to connect science and technology to each other and the outside
world. Students selected from one of three different inquiries; 1) Research
based 2) Innovation or
3) Experimental; for their projects.
What Happens to Our School Fair Project
Winners?
Through authentic investigations, students
constructed an understanding of how science works, and developed critical
thinking skills that will serve them well in their future endeavours. Award
winners from our school-based fair will be competing in the Regional Science
Fair taking place in April. This science
fair includes all schools in the York Region area competing to receive an award
and continue on to the Canada Wide Science Fair.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
REMINDER for Parents of Grade 4 and 5 Students
All students in grade 4 and 5 will be attending the ROC during the morning of Friday February 12 for tubing, tobogganing and skating. If your child doesn't have skates, he/she can participate in just tubing and tobogganing. It will be cold, so please ensure your child is dressed for the weather. It is a good idea to send extra mittens and socks to keep dry and warm. Students need to take a nutritious snack with them. They will eat lunch at school when they return.
The ROC was awesome!
Today, our Grade 5/6, 6 & 7 students enjoyed the outdoors and had lots of exercise climbing hills.
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
ROC on Wednesday! REMINDER for all Grade 6, 7 and 5/6 (Rajakariar) students:
Students in grade 6 and 7, as well as students in the grade 5/6 class will be attending the ROC on Wednesday morning for outdoor activity (tubing and tobogganing). Unfortunately, the skating rink is not open due to ice conditions. Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather and brings a nutritious snack with them. Students will eat lunch when they arrive back at school.
Friday, 5 February 2016
What's Happening at SS Feb 8 to Feb 12
Day 5 MONDAY Feb 8
- Lunar New Year
- Yugioh Club @lunch
- Mad Science @lunch
Day 1 TUESDAY Feb 9
- · Mad Science (Library @ lunchtime)
- · Knitting
- · Basketball
·
Day 2 WEDNESDAY Feb 10
- · Grade 6 & 7 & 5/6 students @ROC
- · Intermediate Band at lunchtime
- · Knitting
- · Bake sale at recess
- · French Tutors @10:05am
- · Chess
·
Day 3 THURSDAY Feb 11
- Basketball @lunchtime
Day 4 FRIDAY Feb 12
- · Gr 4 & 5 students @ROC
- · Grade 3s Swim program
- · Cartooning @lunchtime
- · Chess @ lunchtime
- · Hip Hop @lunchtime (GYM)
- 1:00pm Int. Valentine’s Day Dance (GYM)
Bake Sale on Wednesdays
Dear Parent/Guardian,
The High Five Club at Silver Stream will be
fundraising to support people less fortunate than us. Last year the Me to We club raised enough
money to build a school in Ecuador. This
year the club is hoping to raise money to provide mosquito nets for people
living in areas with mosquito borne diseases like Malaria and the Zika
virus. We will also be putting aside
some money to invest in the KIVA program that lends money to people that need
help starting a farm or business in developing countries. This money will be paid back by the recipient
when they start generating income. In
this way the Helping Hands club can continue to help others.
Starting on February 10 and continuing every
Wednesday till the Wednesday before March break, March 9, the Helping Hands
club will be running a bake sale to raise money for this project. Thank you for your support of our efforts.
Lunar New Year Feb 8
To all of our families who celebrate Lunar New Year, on behalf of Silver Stream PS, we would like to
wish you a very happy celebration.
The lunar new year is the day after the new moon, marking the beginning of the new lunar year. This is the beginning of year 4714 in the Chinese calendar. It is a time for renewal and personal relationships, and pledges of prosperity.
Roots of Empathy in Grade 5
ROOTS OF EMPATHY
RACINES DE L’EMPATHIE
ROOTS OF EMPATHY is a program made for classrooms where Mrs. Lucas, Mother Ashleigh and Baby Bennett come to the classroom and teach the students about empathy. Baby Bennett shows us how to care for him which is showing empathy.
During roots of empathy the students learn about and study the baby for one lesson,during Baby visits. We sing songs,make the baby do exercises, let the baby play with toys,and just watch
the baby so we can examine the baby’s reactions. Babies might cry because they are hungry,need to change .etc, if that doesn’t work try rocking the baby,singing a song. Baby Bennett shows his emotions by his facial expressions and making sounds and this shows us how he is feeling. We learn we must read facial expressions on others to know how their feelings so that we can help them.
By: Evan T.
Ms. Mikelsteins - Grade 5
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Cyber Safety
Websites for information about keeping children safe when online:
Kids in the Know is the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s national safety education program. The program engages students with interactive activities to help build skills that increase their personal safety and reduce their risk of victimization online and in the real world.
Internet Safety: Cybertip.ca
https://www.cybertip.ca/app/en/internet_safety
Primary Performance today
Today, our primary students attended a performance by Xiden Lin, in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Ms. Lin has a background in opera and is a parent in our school. She graciously, on very short notice, sang some traditional songs from her Chinese culture for our students and our students shared some traditions about the Lunar New Year. Thank you Ms. Lin!
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Winter Walk on Wednesdays!
Our Eco team here at Silver Stream would like to continue to encourage our students who do not take the bus, to walk to school. Winter is no stranger to Canadians and this winter so far, has made it easy to get on our feet and walk to school. It keeps us healthy and reduces the traffic around the school, making it a safer place. So don't forget, to WALK on Wednesday and every day if you can.
Monday, 1 February 2016
PIZZA LUNCH REMINDER
Pizza lunch order forms for the remainder of the school year are due to your child's teacher on Tuesday February 2.
Message from our Trustee Carol Chan
Although winter still feels far from over some days, we are
now halfway through the school year. With report cards coming home, this
is a good time to review progress and celebrate what your children have learned
both inside and outside of the classroom. This is also a good time to set goals
for the months ahead.
One of our goals set out in the Board of Trustees’ Multi-Year
Plan is to “continuously increase student achievement and well-being
through a culture of caring and learning.” Developing this supportive
culture includes engaging parents/guardians and other members of the school
community in public education and working together to create safe and
supportive school environments that enable students to thrive.
As parents/guardians, there are many ways you can get
engaged in your child’s education and support their learning, including talking
with them about school, communicating with teachers, attending school events or
school council meetings, and volunteering in the school. However you get
involved, know that you are making a difference.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I wish you all the best
an enjoyable and successful second term.
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