Mid June Newsletter - École Camille J. Lerouge School

End of Year Tid Bits for École Camille J. Lerouge School
One of our Six Tasks of Catechesis is CELEBRATING
Members of our school community have gained an understanding of
Sacramental Life. Big congratulations to all our students for receiving
the Sacrament of First Eucharist and the Sacrament of Confirmation!
First Eucharist
The following students received the
Sacrament of First Eucharist!
Gr 2C
Beau Bourgeois
Rhiain Oberoi
Aleah Tennant
Gr 2DA
Georgia Alvarez
Hudson Ashcroft
Preston Bizon
AJ Brosinsky
Megan Homan
Danika LaGrange
Kaidence Lamontagne
Gabriella Liddell
Avery Minty
Juan Nieto
Maksymilian Strzalecki
Nathian Sunga
Birk Templar
Riley Winters
First Eucharist
The following students received the
Sacrament of First Eucharist!
Gr 2G
Joaquin Caballero
Marek Corbiere
Jorja Dies
Rebecca Fraser
Makenzie Lesage
Gr 2LS
Mason Birch
Roman Goacher
Evangeline Hayes
Rayelle Major
Isaac Nakonechny
Miller Patton
Gr 3M - Valentina Sloan
Gr 4B - Lorelei LaRocque
Gr 5P - Santiago Nieto
Gr 7-2 - Carl Olarte
Gr 9-1 - Alexandra Gonzales
Confirmation
The following students received the
Sacrament of Confirmation!
Nadia Albert
Stephanie Blokland
Talbot Cooper
Joshua Dore
Ty Erickson
Isabella Evangelista
Jacob Foster
Olivia Fraser
Hugo Gomez
Celina Grieman
Frances Hansen
Adrianna Harty
Tanaya Harty
Lucas Henrion
Nicole Homan
Adam Hucal
Vincent Ibeas
Evan Joseph
Andrew Kim
Kayla Lamiel
Jonathan Landaverde
Tysen LaRose
Hannah Ly
Jaylene Major
Tai McClelland
Jackson McDonald
Caleb McMullen
Carl Olarte
Halle Pelletier
Mattise Rensburg
Ruben Rivera
Madyx Roberge
Tanika Samuels
Clayton Schmucki
Niamh Sunga
Jayden Tattrie
Parker Weinrauch
Eoin Wolfe
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FAREWELL!
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to staff that are not returning next school year, 2016-17.
Kara Bacho
Tessa Carter
Brad Diduch
Nathalie Djantouo
Maegan Giroux
Caroline Guilbault
Rachel Hollman (maternity leave)
Heidi Klassen
Shannon Krick
Sam Prodanuk
Chantel Raatz
Miranda Tonery
Kris Zackowski
Allison Young-Magyar
Best of luck in the next school year, 2017-18!!!
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Middle School Exams (Grs 6-9) are: June 22-28, 2016. The schedule/itinerary for exam days and Permission
Slips have been sent home electronically a few weeks ago. These are also available at the office and on our
school website (June Newsletter). Please note that there are MANDATORY review times scheduled on exam
days. On June 23-27, students in grades 6-9 have a mandatory day (9:00 am - 1:30 pm) and a half day on June
28 (8:50 am - 12:00 pm). This allows time for review sessions for upcoming exams. Students need to return the
Student Permission Slip which gives parental approval for early dismissal times following review sessions.
Without the slip, students are required to stay until regular dismissal time at 3:20 pm. If you have not filled in a
Student Permission Slip for your child, please be sure to do so ASAP. These slips are due back
IMMEDIATELY.
Please note: Cell phones are not allowed in the classroom when students are writing exams.
2016/17 SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Your child’s school supply list for 2016/17
will be sent to you electronically as well a
hard copy will be sent home next week. You
may also obtain a copy of your class supply
list by going to our website at camille.rdcrs.ca.
There is also the option of ordering supplies
through School Start and these forms have been sent home and
can be found on our website. School Start supplies will be
available for pickup at the school on Tuesday, August 30,
2016.
LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL
Tuesday, June 28 - Last day of classes.
Wednesday, June 29 - Teacher Admin Day - no school for
students.
Thursday, June 30 Report Card pick up - All Grades between 9 am-1 pm
9-10:30 am - Teachers in their classrooms
No busses on this day!
IMPORTANT:
Please be sure to provide the school office with your current
mailing address if you have moved recently. Report cards
that are not picked up by the end of the day on June 30th will
be mailed and we would like to ensure that report cards are
mailed to the proper address.
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Camille’s School Dress Code (REVISED)
All students at Camille J. Lerouge, both elementary and middle school, are expected
to dress appropriately and in a manner that reflects we are a Catholic School. Failure
to comply with dress code regulations will result in the following actions:
1. The students will be asked to cover up with an appropriate sweater, jeans, etc., or
2. The student will be asked to change into his or her gym strip, or
3. The student’s parents will be contacted and the said student must go home and
change into clothes that adhere to the school dress code.
Dress Code:
a) Clothing is to be appropriate and respectful. Exposing cleavage and underwear
are not acceptable. As well, clothing should not contain images or slogans that are
offensive, related to gangs, inappropriate, or vulgar. This may include profanities,
violent images, beer/tobacco promotion, etc.
b) Head gear is not permitted inside the school. This includes toques, baseball caps,
and bandanas.
c) Tank tops must have a shoulder width of at least 5 cm wide. Shirts or muscle
shirts with open sides, beachwear, halter tops, spaghetti straps, or cropped shirts are
not permitted.
d) Length of shorts must be 10 cm below your bottom.
e) Length of skirts and dress hems must be no less than 15 cm below your bottom.
f) Undergarments are to be covered at all times. This includes see-through clothing
articles.
June, 2016
A BIG thank you to the Rutherford
family for their donations to the art
program as well as learning tools
for our elementary students.
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2016/17 LUNCH, RECESS AND LOCKER BREAK TIME CHANGES
New Monday Times:
Elementary
Recess:
Lunch:
10:04-1014 am.
11:40-12:40 am.
Middle School
Locker Break:
Lunch:
10:11-10:14 am.
11:40-12:40 pm.
New Tuesday-Friday Times:
Elementary
Recess:
Lunch:
Middle School
Locker Break:
Lunch:
10:30-10:40 am
12:28-1:28 pm
10:36-10:40 am
12:28-1:28 pm
Elementary students will eat for the first half hour of their lunch times and then proceed outdoors.
Middle school students will be outdoors for the first half hour and then come into the cafeteria.
Kindergarten and Gr 1 students will be eating in their classrooms. Gr 2-4 students will eat in the
cafeteria. Grade 5 students will eat in the front foyer. We are presently brainstorming ideas so that
we can also accommodate families who would like to enjoy lunch with their children.
Bell times will be included in our September Newsletter!
PLEASE NOTE:
Our Welcome Bell for the next school year, 2016-17 school year, will be at 8:33 am.
Our AM Start Time will be 8:41 am.
STUDENT AGENDAS
Next school year, school agendas will be given to students in Kindergarten to
Grade 6 the first week of classes. The cost is included in your school fees.
Gr 7-9 agendas will be available at the office on a request basis only beginning
in September.
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School Fees
For the 2016/17 school year, all fees are presently under
review and may see a slight increase for the upcoming
school year. More info to follow in our first newsletter in
September!
REGISTRATION FOR TRANSPORTATION
In an effort to streamline the registration process for
transportation, an online application form has been
developed. All parents will be required to register their
children for transportation for the upcoming school year.
Registration deadline for the 2016-17 school year is June 15,
2016! Late registration may result in your child not having a
seat on the bus. See our school website for online
registration.
Grade 9 Farewell
Thank you to Stacey Davey and the parent organizing committee of this year’s Farewell dinner! Thank you
to our parent volunteers: Lisa Anderson, Bonnie Simenson, Joyce Purdy, Selma Danielson, Louise
Rautenbach, Linda Zazula, Margaret Poteet, Shannon Kearney, Lynn Greene, Kelly MacDonald,
Dreschalda Nieuwoudt, Michelle Simoneau, Pat Perich, Heidi Vida, and LeeAnn Pelletier.
Special thank you to Mme Froehler, Mme Mantle and Mme Swensrude for providing ongoing support to
the Organizing Committee. Thank you also to M. Peterman and Mrs. Giroux for acting as emcees for the
evening.
And a big thank you to our caterers, The Red Deer Coop! What a wonderful dinner!
On behalf of the staff, we would like to extend our
sincere thanks for the contributions of our School
Council!!
MIDDLE SCHOOL AWARDS
& TALENT SHOW
Wednesday, June 22
At 12:45 PM
School Gym
Parents are welcome to attend. See you there!
LOST & FOUND
Please be sure to check the Lost & Found, located at the elementary foyer
and outside the gym, by June 30th. All unclaimed items will be packed into
Mr. Menendez’ bus destined for an orphanage in Guatemala!
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ELEMENTARY TRACK AND FIELD
VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED!
Please fill out the volunteer form included in our June Newsletter if you are available to help out on Friday, June 24. Forms
are also available at the office.
YEAR END RETURN OF LIBRARY BOOKS AND TEXTBOOKS
Last day for signing out LIBRARY BOOKS was Thursday, June 9th. All library books are due back by
Friday, June 17. Any libr ar y books not r etur ned by J une 21st will need to be r eplaced or paid for .
French Immersion Middle School students will pick books for the summer the week of June 10-17. Gr 2
students will pick books for the summer the week of June 20-24.
Middle School TEXTBOOKS need to be returned to the library on the morning of the
exam. All students with outstanding textbooks prior to their exam day will then receive a
phone call from the librarian during exam week. They will be required to return or pay for
their textbook by Tuesday, June 21st in order to receive their report card. We accept cash
or cheques made payable to Red Deer Catholic Regional Division. Any students who still
have outstanding textbooks by September, 2016, will not be allowed to sign out new
textbooks until the account is clear. In the event that the textbook is returned to the library
by the end of December, 2016, we will refund the money.
School Council News
YEAR END EVENT
The Year End Celebration held on May 25th was a huge success
with over 375 people in attendance! There was great entertainment
with Big Bounce Inflatables, Mia’s Face Painting, Main Artery
Designs, and Candy Faces. Thank you to the following food trucks
for providing tasty treats: The Stache, Dawg’n It, Simple Spice,
Peppermint Andy’s Ice Cream, Dinger Ring Donuts.
A great big thank you to all of the volunteers, including: Maria
Cicman, Rob Karol, Maribella Thompson, Mailan Campbell, Gladys
Kong, Jacklyn Blades, Kim Templar, Mary Toupin, Monica & Mike
Lawes, Alicia McClelland, Candida Brosinsky, Jill Bryar, Laura
Erickson, Don & Rania Page. Thank you to all of the middle school
students who volunteered!
Thank you to all the other wonderful volunteers who helped
throughout the event as well! We couldn’t have done it without you!
If anyone is interested in helping with ideas for future events, please
contact rania_page@yahoo.ca. We’d love to hear from you.
HEALTHY SNACKS FOR STAFF
APPRECIATION DAY!
Friday, June 3rd, the parents of Camille treated our
amazing staff to fresh, cool smoothies!
Thank you to our volunteers who made the morning
run so well: Jill Bryar, Janelle Langevin, Holly
Maddex, Gerritt Patton, Julie Patton, Christie
Zapisocky and Nicole Thomas. Thank you to all the
families who brought in treats for the staff to enjoy
with their drinks!
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It has been another great and busy year for the Industrial Arts Dept. Our students had opportunities to learn, explore and develop
their skills in a hands on fashion with many projects.
A BIG THANK YOU to:
All the parents who donated tiles and latex paint
Red Deer Coop Home Center for their continued gr eat ser vice.
Mr. Stryker for all the tiles.
Mr. Battensby for sponsor ing the Industr ial Ar t Student of the Year Awar d again this year .
Mr. Rutherford for the pur chase of 8x10 shed with siding.
Miss St. Martin for the pur chase of a 4x10 half gable.
Because of you, our students learned and improved their construction skills for a lifetime ...
Our students were also involved with the beautification of the kindergarten courtyard, did some landscaping and built a 6x9 half
gable shed.
Thanks for being PARTNERS IN EDUCATION …
You have made a difference for our students!!
M. Cormier
Construction Teacher
SR. GIRLS
VOLLEYBALL TRYOUTS
Sr. girls and boys volleyball tryouts begin the first week back in
September!
MIDDLE SCHOOL TRACK RESULTS 2016
BIG congratulations to our students at this year’s Grade 6, 7 and 8 track days! Our teams all won overall in the Division!!!
Grade 6
Grade 6s from Camille were the overall winners! Our top aggregate athletes were Hannah Ly and Wani Wande!
Grade 7
There were 8 girls in the top 25! And 5 boys in the top 25!
First Place Female in the Distr ict: Caydince Kabatoff
Second Place Male in the Distr ict: J ayden Tattr ie
Fourth Place in the Distr ict - Mattise Rensburg
Seventh Place in the Distr ict - Tanaya Harty
Grade 8
Both our girls and boys relay teams won FIRST place!
First Place Female in the Distr ict: Katelynn Hatto
Second Place Male in the Distr ict: Limuel Lazar o
Students from Camille placing in the top ten in the District:
Girls: Katelynn Hatto - First
Ariann Rosentreter-Doel - Second
Aislin Borle - Fourth
Kyra Gamelin - Ninth
Boys: Limuel Lazar o - Second
John Marchuk - Sixth
Mika Eggink - Seventh
Joshua Gagnon - Ninth
Christopher MacQuarrie - Tenth
Community News
Family Matters
July 18th to 22nd
1pm – 3pm
Are you 13 to 15 years old?
Are you concerned about a family member struggling with
alcohol, other drugs, or gambling?
Please call 403.340.5274 for more information or to register.
Dental Outreach of Red Deer (DOoR)
Free urgent dental treatment for children 5-18 years
of age having difficulty accessing dental care.
Services are provided at the Red Deer Johnstone
Crossing Community Health Centre
For more information, please call 403-356-6302 and
ask for the DOoR program.
SUMMER TUTORIAL PROGRAMS
Grades 1-8
Monday-Friday
August 2-12, 2016
Summer review and improvement classes are offered to assist
students who experience difficulty with language arts or math
during the regular school year.
Register at https://rdpsd.augusoft.net/ or by calling Community
Programs at 403-342-1059.
THE ADVOCATE
In the 2015-16 school year, Camille School participated in The Advocates “Newspapers in Education Program”.
One of our parents’ businesses supplied newspapers to our school to be used in the classroom daily. As The
Advocate looks to the fall, our school will once again participate in this program.
The Advocate is seeking a sponsor for our school! Sponsoring businesses will be included in a monthly Advocate
ad from September - June, recognizing all sponsors during the school year. Sponsors will also be provided a 5”x5”
ad booked in each quarter recognizing the business only.
If interested, please contact
cstickel@reddeeradvocate.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR 2016-17
September 2016
September 1
September 5
September 13
September 14 & 15
First Day of School
Labor Day – No School
Meet the Staff
Picture Day
October 2016
October 10
October 28
Thanksgiving Day – No School
PD Day – No School
November 2016
November 2 am
November 8 & 9
November 10
November 11
November 25
Picture Retake Day
Parent/Teacher Interviews (evenings)
No School
(in lieu of Parent/Teacher interviews)
Remembrance Day Break – No School
PD Day – No School
December 2016
December 26-30
Christmas Holidays – No School
January 2017
January 2-6
January 31
Christmas Holidays – No School
PD Day – No School
February 2017
February 20
February 23 & 24
Family Day – No School
Teachers' Convention – No School
March 2017
March 9
March 10
March 22 & 23
March 24
March 27-31
Faith PD Day – No School
PD Day – No School
Parent/Teacher Interviews (evening)
No School
(in lieu of Parent/Teacher interviews)
Spring Break
April 2017
April 14
April 17
Good Friday – No School
Easter Monday – No School
May 2017
May 5
May 19 & 22
PD Day – No School
Victoria Day - No School
June 2017
June 29
June 30
Last day of school for students
Teacher Administration Day
– No School
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