Research Has Shown That a Positive Learning and Teaching Environment Is Essential If Grade 6 – 2:55Pm School Council – 7Pm Students Are to Succeed in School

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Grade 8 – 12:30pm NEWSLETTER NO. 6 FEBRUARY 2011 Grade 7 – 2:05pm Research has shown that a positive learning and teaching environment is essential if Grade 6 – 2:55pm School Council – 7pm students are to succeed in school. Students are more motivated to do well and to realize their full potential in schools that have a positive school climate, where they feel safe February 9th and supported ( Shaping a Culture of Respect in Our Schools: Promoting Safe and French Public Speaking Healthy Relationships, 2008, p.1, Ontario Ministry of Education). School Finals

February 14th There are many aspects of school life at Cedarview that support positive school climate. Transfer Period Begins Term two began this week and many new learning projects are underway in the classrooms. Our Science Fair is coming up on February 24 th , volleyball and basketball February 15 th teams are competing in regional and invitational tournaments throughout the month, our Math League Contest hockey teams are practicing, French Public Speaking competitors are hard at work, our Twoonie Tuesday bands are preparing for Musicfest and Student Council is organizing a Winter Spirit th February 17 th Week. This month we will also be participating in Twoonie Tuesday (Feb 15 ) to raise ROTATION DAY 2 money for the Education Foundation, a registered charity, which works with teachers, National Sweater Day principals and social workers to help remove economic barriers to successful learning for students in our Board. Cedarview is a ‘happening’ place where students have a February 18th PD DAY – NO SCHOOL multitude of ways to be involved in learning, extra-curricular activities and student leadership. February 21 st FAMILY DAY Everyone has a role to play in building a welcoming, positive and inclusive school NO SCHOOL climate. Success depends on the active involvement of school staff, students,

parents/guardians and community members. We invite you to join in the conversation February 24th with your ideas and feedback, perhaps by joining us at our next School Council meeting. Science Fair The next School Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 8 th at 7 pm in the Board Finals – French Public library. This month we will be looking at how the consultation process works for special Speaking education classes, programs and services, as well as the topic “what is a rubric anyway?”

February 25th Hope to see you there! Transfer Period Ends

Integrity: I behave ethically and honourably. I am honest, loyal and trustworthy. I am rd th March 3 & 4 truthful and courageous. I stand up for what is right even when it is hard. I am a Grad Photos person of my word and people who know me understand that.

March14th – 18th Sincerely, March Break

Catherine Donnelly Chris Noxon Principal Vice Principal

Cedarview Middle School, 2760 Cedarview Road, Nepean, ON, K2J 4J2 Phone: 613-825-2185 ∞ fax: 613-825-4882 http://www.cedarviewms.ocdsb.ca Superintendent: Peter Gamwell ( [email protected] ) ~ Trustee: Donna Blackburn ([email protected] )

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC NOTES SPELLING BEE The Junior, Senior, and Jazz Bands will all be Cedarview's own Bee was held on January 21st. We had participating in the Capital Region Music Festival at a great turnout with over 25 students participating! We Earl of March Secondary School this month. The Junior went eight rounds to get our winner. To add to the Band will be performing excitement this year, the last few rounds were captured on February 26 at 10:00 on video. (Thanks to the talented Mr. Zubrycki.) Listen a.m. The Senior Band will to CHAT to find out when you'll get a chance to watch be performing on February the top spellers in action. 26 at 1:00 p.m. and the Congratulations to Amirthan Sothivannan who Jazz Band will be performing on March 4 at 7:00 p.m. defended his title this year by correctly spelling word # Band members will be working hard all month to 262, philologist (n): a scholar concerned with human prepare for this important festival. Just this week, the speech as the vehicle of literature and as a field of study Senior Band visited John McCrae S.S. on Wednesday to that sheds light on cultural history. Whew! And I take part in performance and clinics with the secondary thought word #69 (indomitable) was hard. A big thanks students and their music teacher Mr. Szabo. to all those who helped out, including Ted Gan and Eric Dates to Remember: Han, who helped judge, and Sam Molloy and Harry Musicfest: Junior & Senior Saturday Feb. 26 Clements who ran the video cameras. Thanks also to Musicfest: Jazz Band Friday, March 4 Ms. Bell, who organized the judging, and Mr. Z. for his Jazz Café April 27 theatrics. Junior Band feeder school visit April 8 Ms. McDowall Senior Band Trip May 4 - 6 Spring Concert May 11 YEARBOOK UPDATE L. Laframboise Thanks to all those who pre-ordered yearbooks! Now to put it together! You can help by submitting photos you SCIENCE FAIR have of students at school, school trips or school events Many Cedarview students are busy (especially sports tournaments etc.) to Mr. Yu. Send investigating, building, observing, or along a CD, or see Mr. Yu about transferring files you testing something as part of their science may have from a USB memory stick. A ttach a short fair project. Please join them Thursday note as to the subject (i.e. Grade 7 Girls Volleyball February 24th, 2011 , in the CMS gym tournament, History Projects F8A, etc.) Please do not where the projects will be showcased at send pictures as email attachments - our system is the annual CMS Science Fair. The fair not equipped to handle a large volume of pictures. will run from about 12:30pm until 6:00pm. The Yearbook Team Ms. McDowall, Ms. Pelletier and Mr. Yu.

CMS COOKING CLUB • CMS Cooking Club NOTE FROM OUR PHYS. ED. DEPT. • 5 weeks Outdoor Phys. Ed . classes will be held • 12 eager students throughout the winter months. Please ensure that your child comes to school properly • 1 enthusiastic parent volunteer dressed. Visitors and students are reminded • Add a dash of healthy recipes and mix well. that outdoor footwear is not permitted in Grade 6 students will have the opportunity to join a the gym. We ask that footwear be left cooking club Wednesdays from 4 – 5 pm starting outside the gym doors. th th Feb. 9 and ending March 9 , at a cost of $5.00/student. The club will teach students simple food preparation techniques while discussing EARTHCARE NEWS healthy food options. Students will prepare and February is the month of love. Share this love with the share a recipe each week provided by Ottawa environment. You can do things like using the green Public Health’s “I Love to Cook” program. Watch bin, recycling properly, bringing in a for more information to be sent home if you’re Litterless Lunch and reducing the amount of energy you use at home. There are interested in signing up. many ways to show you care. An additional parent volunteer and/or high school A loving heart is the beginning of all volunteers would be welcome. Please contact the knowledge . – Thomas Carlyle school if you are interested. New -Green Bin Program at CMS your support for the planet. Cedarview will be By working with the City of Ottawa, we are celebrating together by wearing colourful and fun warm going to be implementing a green bin sweaters. program at the school. This is a pilot project Did You Know that the City of Ottawa has developed within Did you know that the City of Ottawa website, our school board. Cedarview is going to launch this http://www.ottawa.ca/online_services/recycling/index_e project in the Grade 6 Pod. n.html has a search tool which helps you decide which Our own principal, Ms. Donnelly, has provided training items should be recycled or disposed. For to the EarthCARE Team in how to make liners that are example, if you typed in juice boxes it used in the classroom composting bins. Hopefully, would tell you to place it in the blue bin. these positive environmental habits used at school will Thank you to Mrs. Wilson for pointing this be practiced at home as well. Giving to the Earth and handy dandy tool out to us. not our landfills…awesome! Litterless Lunch Competition Green Bin Winter Tips The winners for the Litterless Lunch Use liners in your green bin to prevent your organic Competition held this month were Ms. waste from freezing to the sides. You could use yard Hay’s class R8C, Mr. Peric’s class waste bags or organics origami to create a folded F7A(who was a repeat winner), and our newspaper liner. overall winner was the DD class. These classes were For more information and tips about your green bin excellent in bringing in Littlerless Lunches and please go to Ottawa.ca. recycling properly. The winners received some Collection Items delicious baked goods and the overall winner’s got to The Cedarview School community has been display our Ceady the Frog in their classroom window. great in collecting used ink and toner Congratulations! cartridges, batteries and used eye-glasses or Ceady’s Green Achievement Award Winners sunglasses. Milk bags (outside bag labeled 1%, 2% etc.) Our student winners this month include Samra, from Mr. for milk bag mats are being collected as well. Bagshaw’s class, for making sure her classroom Please bring any of these items into our school office. recycling bins weren’t contaminated. Sam, from Mr. Thank you! Zubrycki’s class, won for her an innovative prop she Winter Traction Product made for an EarthCARE video that our team is working A product called Eco Traction, which is an on. Stay tuned for our talented Ottawa based product, is used on your EarthCARE student’s recycling driveway and walkway to prevent any slips video. Our other student winner or falls. It’s a safe and effective product. is Nic from Mr. Costello’s class This product was used at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic for reorganizing the recycling Games. It is composed of a natural volcanic mineral bins. One of our staff winners this that is safe if accidentally ingested by children, pets or month was Ms. Donnelly for her wildlife. It contains no salts, chlorides, dyes or help and enthusiasm in showing chemicals and it is actually beneficial to your lawn. You the EarthCARE Team how to can purchase it at Home Depot but you can also create newspaper liners for the purchase it at Staples Business Depot, Pharma Plus, and classroom composters. Mr. Ricketts won for his Petsmart. Check it out online. creative cover he made for his classroom Blue Bin. This Winterlude Wonderland great designed cover helps staff and students to place Winterlude runs from the weekends of only plastic, cans, milk and juice containers in the blue February 4-20th. Having the largest skating bin. Our other staff winner was Mr. Campbell for rink in the world means excitement and getting liners placed in our pizza boxes. These liners great outdoor fun for the whole family. So mean less pizza box food contamination and therefore lace up those skates and enjoy 7.8 kilometers of the pizza boxes can be placed in the paper recycling bin. skateway in the heart of Ottawa. Use energy that This is huge! All those boxes are now being recycled. doesn’t pollute. Thank you Mr. Campbell for making this happen. You want to learn more about this year’s Winterlude go Congratulations winners! to: http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/winterlude National Sweater Day - WWF EarthCARE would like you to remember LOCO- Keep warm while keeping the planet cool. Lights Out, Computers Off On February 17 th join Canadians in Give a hoot and don’t pollute! turning down your thermostat by 3 degrees and put on a fun sweater to show SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSULTATION A-Channel – The A Channel Morning show begins at The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) 6:00am and carries frequent cancellation reports. held two public information and consultation meetings As well visit this new web site for current school bus concerning report 10-191 Special Education Classes, cancellations: http://www.schoolbusmonitor.com . Programs and Services for 2011-2012. Stakeholders Parents are reminded that should student bus also had the opportunity to provide written input through transportation be cancelled in the morning, the the board’s website allowing Learning Support Services afternoon buses will not operate. Students who are to collect additional input from all stakeholders driven to school in the morning on inclement weather regarding these proposals. For reference the report is days will need to be picked up again at 3:45pm. posted on the board web site at www.ocdsb.ca in the If it is announced that schools are open but buses are not Special Education Advisory Committee agenda on 28 running we will attempt to offer a regular program. October 2010, the Education Committee agenda on 15 Parents are also reminded that in the event of a bus November 2010 and Consultations. cancellation, absenteeism must be called in for all As a result of these consultation meetings, the decision “walking” students. (There is no need to call if your to close one elementary developmental disabilities student travels by school bus). program class at D. A. Moodie Intermediate School has been revised and the OCDSB will close one elementary KINDERGARTEN/TRANSFER REGISTRATION developmental disabilities program class at Cedarview Each year, there is a Kindergarten registration period, a Middle School. Therefore the developmental disabilities student transfer period for the elementary and secondary program class at D.A. Moodie Intermediate School panels, and a French Immersion Program registration would remain open. period. At the Cedarview Middle School Council meeting The following timelines will apply for the 2011-2012 scheduled for February 8 th , a member of Learning school year: Support Services will join us for the purpose of Kindergarten Registration Period consulting with our school community regarding the Monday, January 31 to Friday February 4, 2011 changes to specialized programs. The OCDSB would Student Transfer Application Period invite you to submit any comments related to this Tuesday, February 14 to Friday, February 25, 2011 decision to Dawn Paxton, Superintendent of Learning Middle French Immersion Registration Period Support Services at [email protected] or to Linda Monday, February 22 to Friday, February 28, 2011 Yan, System Principal of Learning Support Services at [email protected] . If you have any questions This information can also be found on the Board’s regarding this matter, please call 613-596-8254. website: www.ocdsb.ca

TWOONIE TUESDAY – February 15 th NEWS FROM OTTAWA HEALTH The Education Foundation of Ottawa is pleased to announce the 2011 Twoonie Tuesday Campaign: "Students Helping Students" for February 15, 2011. All the funds the students raise will be forwarded to the Education Foundation. So please, if you can, send in a th How to Stay Safe when Skating $2.00 donation on February 15 and know that you are helping students within our own community. • Wear the right helmet for the right activity. Make INCLEMENT WEATHER sure it is a snug fit! Tighten the chin strap. In the event of a major snow or ice storm • Wrist guards protect wrists from fractures. Elbow the Ottawa-Carleton District School and knee pads protect knees and elbows from Board will have any cancellations of bus bruises. routes announced by 6:15am on the Get the right fit! following local radio stations: • Lace skates all the way up. This will give good CBC-FM 91.5 (CBC Radio), CFRA-AM ankle support. 5801, CHEZ - FM 106.1, CKBY-FM • 101.1, CJMJ FM 100.3, CFGO-AM Sharpen new skates before going on the ice and then 1200, CIHT-FM 89.9, CKKL-FM 93.9, sharpen at the start of each skating season. CJET-FM 92.3, CKQB-FM 106.9, Get trained! • CISS-FM 105.3, CHRI-FM 99.1,& CIWW-AM 1310. Learn the basics of skating; how to stop, how to fall CHOH TV – Newsline delivers local news at 7:25, 7:55 safely, and how to get up after a fall. and 8:25am, on CTV’s Canada AM. • Sign up for a lesson to learn the basics. Visit • Mail or drop off a copy of the immunization record Ottawa.ca for the Recreation Guide. to the Immunization Program at 100 Constellation If you would like to know more, go to ottawa.ca/health Drive, 7 th Floor West, Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8 or call Ottawa Public Health at 613-580-6744 to speak Please do not mail original documents – send a copy! with a public health nurse. For routine immunization please visit your family physician or a walk-in clinic and update the student’s Teens and the Dangers of Drinking immunization information with Ottawa Public Health. Alcohol is harmful to a teen’s growing brain. Teens can If you do not have a family physician you can call be tempted by drinking which can lead to other drug use. Health Care Connect at 1-800-445-1822. For It can lead to brain injury or death. Parents can help stop information on walk-in clinics in your neighbourhood, problems before they start: call Ottawa Public Health Information at 613-580-6744 Involve the whole family in setting rules. (TTY: 613-580-9656). Be a good role model. Change your own behaviour if you have to. From time to time, the school is asked to distribute Know where your children are. information about activities in the community that may Know who your children are with. be of interest to some parents/students, for example, Set a curfew and stick to it. summer camps, gymnastic clubs, sports groups, etc. When driving with a friend, give a clear “no This information is provided for your consideration only drinking and driving message” every time. and should be not be viewed as an endorsement by the Stay involved with your children. school or its staff of any particular organization or Talk to your School Council. Plan a meeting. Call activity. Ottawa Public Health at (613) 580-6744. Ask for a free resource, the “Organizer’s Toolkit”. OSU SOCCER…. In your neighbourhood this Immunization for Teens A booster for tetanus and diphtheria is needed ten summer! Registration for Ottawa South United Soccer begins years after the preschool booster , usually between February 2011. OSU offers Programs for all ages and ages 14 and 16. The recommended vaccine is called Adacel®. This vaccine is publicly funded for all abilities. Programs fill up quickly, so don’t be disappointed – check out our website at www.osu.ca for adolescents. It has added protection against whooping a list of programs and registration information. cough, or pertussis. OSU Office – 1128 Clapp Lane, Manotick Whooping cough still frequently occurs in Ontario. The Extended Office Hours every Monday (2:00- 7:00pm) Canadian Paediatric Society reports that more and more beginning January 31 st , 2011. teenagers are getting whooping cough. In teenagers, whooping cough can be mild (a bad cough) or can be a severe cough that causes shortness of breath, weight loss GIANT FUNDRAISER FOR KAYLA MADUK due to difficulty eating, and vomiting. These symptoms Be a Part of Team Canada can cause sleep disruptions, fatigue, and missed days at EVENT: Help Kayla Maduk get to New Zealand to school. 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