Wednesday, June 19, 2013
School’s
email address: immanuel@amtelecom.net
Principal’s
email address: icsprincipal@amtelecom.net
ICS
Website: www.immanuelchristianschool.net 519-773-8476
Check us out on Facebook: facebook.com/ICSAylmer
Twitter: twitter.com/ICSAylmer
LDCSS
Website: www.ldcss.on.ca 519-455-4360
Christian
Education Foundation (endowment fund): www.ldcef.org
Upcoming
Events
June 20 ICS
Graduation
21 Last day of school – students dismissed @
12:50
24-26 Teacher Work days
26 LDCSS Graduation
Aug 19
office re-opens
Sept 3
classes resume
From the
Principal's Desk:
The
last Journal of the year! We do celebrate our graduating class of 2013, and we
wish God's blessing to: Lance ,
Jordan
The
school year would not be as successful as it is without volunteer help, and at
this time, I want to convey a sincere thank-you on behalf of all the Immanuel
staff for your support in so many ways: service on the board or committees,
helping with hot lunches, in the library, as a regular reading buddy,
chaperoning field trips, acting as a handyman... and many more! For parents, you will note encouragement
elsewhere in the Journal to declare your involvement on your GIFTS form so we
can return parental cheques. Our school
offers a unique opportunity for parents, grandparents and other supporters of
Christian education to be actively involved in your child's education - truly,
as educators we act alongside family and the church, not in our own right. We cherish your continued support into next
year too.
Reflecting back on our school theme, may we all continue to be encouraged to follow our call to love one another, knowing that our love indeed comes from God (1 John 4:7)!
Reflecting back on our school theme, may we all continue to be encouraged to follow our call to love one another, knowing that our love indeed comes from God (1 John 4:7)!
in
Christian education,
Keith
Cameron, Principal
Praying
for our Students: Tomorrow
at staff devotions we will be praying for the grade 5/6 and 7/8 class.
Reminders: GIFTS forms are due by June 30, if not submitted we
will cash your deposit cheque. Even if
you
were on a committee and
received your 25 hours automatically we still need to have your paperwork sent
in to
the office asap.
Band sign-up
applications forms? Please hand in before
Friday.
Urgent: someone to take on our pop can collection
(pick-up, store and bring in to scrap dealer).
Please call the office.
Transportation: On Thursday, 20th & Friday, 21st Mrs.
Tesselaar will leave 20 minutes later in the morning since there is no more
high school. Reminder: students are dismissed at 12:50 on Friday. Buses will be here to take the students home.
Graduation: Thursday,
20 beginning at 8:00 p.m. in the Aylmer C.R.C.
Ø
Babysitting will
be available in the church nursery.
Ø
Refreshments will
be served behind the school after the ceremony.
Please have only 1 serving of goodies to ensure there is enough for
everyone. Parents are asked to supervise
their children in this matter. Graduates,
your refreshments will be set aside for you.
Ø
Grads and parents
– reminder – grad photos start at 5:15; class picture at 5:50 and dinner at
6:00.
Ø
Graduation prelude
begins at 7:45. Those students who are
involved should be ready to begin.
Ø
All students are
involved in our mass choir and are expected to attend. Students in grades 1-7 will sit with their
parents during the program.
Ø Band:
Please meet at the church by 7:30 to tune instruments. Sunday attire is fine.
- Please have your parents keep a spot for
you as you will be sitting with them after we play at the beginning of the
evening.
- At
the end of the evening, please make sure that you return your instrument,
binder and stand back to the school before
getting your dessert. (The church will be locked up after the
receiving line is finished for the graduates.)
Ø
Kindergarten
students are asked to meet in classroom 1 of the church by 7:45 p.m. They will sit with their families after their
graduation, so please keep a seat for them.
Parents if you want to come earlier to have an ideal seating location
then please keep your child with you and bring him/her to the room at 7:45.
Thanks
Ø
Reserved
seating will be available for parents and siblings of the grade 8 graduates in
the centre section of the church. We
cannot include grandparents, so please encourage them to come early to get a
good seat. Ushers will be on hand to
oversee the seating arrangements.
Ø
Grade
8 students will be dismissed on Thursday at 12 noon.
The
Cheese order
attached to this journal is for September. Orders can be dropped of at
the school till Wednesday, June 26th with delivery on Wednesday,
Sept. 4th. If you had a
standing order this year and would like it to continue, please fill out a form
to indicate that. You can still place
your order up until Aug. 280th but you need to call or e-mail Keli-lyn Lockyer
at 519-617-0779 or keli.lockyer@hotmail.com.
Thanks for supporting this fundraiser all year!
Awards Assembly: This morning at our Awards Chapel, we were pleased
to be able to recognize many of our students for their contributions towards
sports teams, student service jobs, public speaking, the World Renew poster
contest, as well as our grade 8 awards. The following grade 8s were given
awards, and will be mentioned again at the Graduation ceremony:
- Valedictorians: Kassidy Saarloos and Charlotte Rollins
- Valedictorians: Kassidy Saarloos and Charlotte Rollins
- Lioness
Most Improved Student: Austin VandenBrink
- Marcia
Booy Memorial Math Award: Aaron VanGurp
- Jim
Dieleman Discipleship Award: Kristy Korevaar
Congratulations
all as you demonstrate your God-given gifts!
Playground and Summer
Maintenance:
We are thankful for all our donors who
were financially blessed to be able to contribute to our Spring Drive. The
total amount was substantial at $64,400, but was below our target by about $12,600.
The Board has decided to fully fund the allocations towards our operating
deficit and our education program improvements. Tonight the Board will consider
options for a reduced playground and roof replacement option for this summer. Both projects will be phased over 2 years as
we seek other grant options as well. As
a step in addressing our liability issues, we envision removing and replacing
the current 20 year old play structure with a slightly smaller one that fits a
2 - 12 year age range, and is fully compliant with CSA codes. We will need
volunteers in late July or early August for both projects to come alongside our
maintenance committee - please contact Marcel Broer (outgoing chair) regarding helping
for the playground or Jim Vording (incoming chair) for the roof or for joining
the committee in general. These are exciting projects, and we seek your
enthusiastic help!
Yearbook: We would like to thank our yearbook
committee, Mrs. Amanda Cameron, Mrs. Angie Bergen, Mrs. Annette Dykxhoorn and Mrs
Irene Versteegen-Buis for putting together another wonderful yearbook for each
student to have and enjoy. We are
pleased to have such a special book of memories.
Private Music Lessons:
Not every school is blessed with 5 experienced musicians interested in
providing music lessons during the school day! These teachers are
not part of the ICS staff; we simply make a room available to them. These
teachers take students from their classrooms to have private lessons right
at school. If you would like to make arrangements for private lessons at
school, contact the teacher at the following information. Book now to guarantee a spot!
Mrs. Paula
Richardson (piano) – 226-270-9960 or kendallpaula@rogers.com
Mrs. Emily Schuurman (piano) –
510-877-2320 or schuur7@execulink.com
Mrs. June Elley (violin, voice,
guitar and piano) - 519765-3316 or jb_elley@yahoo.com
Mr. Derrick Drover (piano,
guitar, basic vocal) - 519-765-4990 www.derrickdrover.com
Mrs. Amanda Cameron (piano) –
519-550-7312 or keith_amanda_cameron@yahoo.ca
Miss
Jacquie Harms (Piano) to start mid-October – jacquieharms@gmail.com or leave a message at 519-773-7399
Staffing: As we close out one school
year, many plans are in place for the 2013-2014 school year.
Teachers and home rooms are as follows: Mrs Groeneweg - SK on Mon, Wed, Fri (8 students)
- JK on Tue, Thu (9 students, 5 full-time SK)
Ms Pieters - Gr. 1/2 (15
students)
Mrs. Drop - Gr. 3/4 (15 students); Gr. 5-8 French and
Music (15 students)
Ms Buma - Gr. 5/6 (13
students); Gr. 3/4 Social Science and
French
Mr. TenBruggencate - Gr.
7/8, Gr. 3-8 PE, & Vice Principal (19 students)
Mrs. VanderHoek – Resource,
Gr. 7/8 Geography
Mr. Cameron – Principal,
Gr. 5/6 Social Science, Gr. 3 through 8 Information Literacy
Mrs. Robinson Library, Gr.
1 through 8 first term Information Literacy
In
the office we have Mrs. Smit (Administrative Assistant), Mrs. Janssen
(Financial Administrator), Mrs. Leinie Hartemink (Friday Secretary).
Summer
Shopping School Supplies:
JK
and SK
- Resting
towel or blanket – not bigger than 140 cm x 70 cm
- Indoor
“non-marking” footwear (no laces, please). This footwear will be
used in the gym so they should have non slipping shoes
- Paint shirt – can be one of Dad’s old t-shirt
or dress shirt with the sleeves cut shorter
For
all students for GRADES 1 – 8
- Indoor
“non-marking” athletic shoes. Parents please be reminded that
when you purchase new footwear please make sure that they are: - White soles or non-scuffing black
marking. Shoes that leave a black mark will be sent home.
- Pencil case (no
pencil boxes, please)
- Individual pencil
sharpeners that catch shavings (the plastic cylinder shape with metal sharpener
inside works very well)
- Markers
- Pencil crayons
(Laurentian seems to sharpen best without breaking)
- Pencils (HB works best)
- Glue stick
- PE
clothes: ICS Athletics t-shirt (on sale
through the office) will be required for PE.
Gr. 1-8: dark coloured shorts or track pants as well
Please
check your grade level below for additional items.
Reminder: for
all grades – no liquid paper (white-out)
Grades
1 – 4
- A
pack of 24 Crayola or Prang wax crayons
- Markers
(with fine tips for tracing and outlining), no ball point pens, please
- Crayon
erasers (white ones work well)
Grade
3/4
-
No binders please. We will use duo tangs instead that will be
provided by the school.
Grades
5-8
-
Only one 1” binder please. The larger sizes take up too much space
in the desks and so end up on the floor
-
Calculator and math set.
- 2 glue sticks
- blue or black ballpoint pens
The
LAST HOORAH - FRIDAY FAMILY FUN NIGHT was another success! Thank you to
those of you who came out to enjoy fresh cut fries, burgers and hotdogs - as
well as a game of road hockey and a visit with the goats, mama donkey and baby
donkey! $767.00 was raised which brings the FRIDAY FAMILY FUN NIGHT total
profits for this year to:
$5376.85!
Thank
you to June's road hockey convenors, the serving and clean up staff, and
to Family Flowers for providing the mini farm attraction.
A
big thank you to everyone who attended one or all of the seven FUN NIGHTS
- this last one showed some new faces and families too. It has been
a blessing to work with all the volunteers and especially to re-connect
with school families and the Heritage
Place
- ICS Fundraising Committee
(P.S.
- if you have any suggestions, comments or would like to participate in the
2013-2014 Friday Family Fun Nights, please email j.versnick@immanuelchristianschool.net Thanks!)
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg
We
have loved, played, laughed, studied, learned and enriched our lives together. Thank you for entrusting your precious
children to my care this year. God's
blessings and a wonderful summer holiday to all of you.
GRADES 1 and
2 - Ms. Pieters
Have a blessed summer!
GRADES 3 and 4 – Ms. Buma
Enjoy your summer girls and
boys, playing in God’s beautiful creation!
May you have many opportunities to have fun exploring God’s world. Read some good books, play some great games,
and enjoy your time with family and friends.
It has been a pleasure teaching you all this year! Ms. Buma
GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop
Wishing
you God’s blessing as you spend time with family and friends this summer! Enjoy God’s beautiful and wonderful
creation! It has been a joy to teach all
of you this year!
Happy Birthday to Correy Mantel who will celebrate
tomorrow!
Summer Birthdays:
Happy Birthday to Luke Schuurman (July 1), Amanda DeJong (July 6) and
Samantha Vannoord (July 15).
GRADE 7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate /
Ms. Jones
Graduation photograph order
forms were
sent home on Monday. Please return to
the school by Thursday if you wish to make a purchase.
May you all have a great summer!
