December 2012

Volume 2, Issue 4

MPVPS News

Message from the Principal:

FROM PARENT COUNCIL . . .

The food orders for October through

December have now been processed. If

you returned a completed form by the

due date, your child’s Monday Munchies

for December and January are on:

December 3—Pizza Day

December 10—Pizza Day

December 17—Pizza Day

January 7—Pizza Day

January 14—Pizza Day

January 28- Pizza Day

**Unfortunately, we are unable to

process any late orders. If you missed

the deadline, please ensure that your

child brings a lunch on food days.**

Parent Council is looking for help

with lunch days. They need help with

order forms, collection and counting

of money and dividing up the food

and delivering it to classrooms. It

involves one hour or less a week.

Please leave a message with your

name and contact number if you

would be able to help out at:

905-495-8778

Dear Mount Pleasant Village Public School Community:

Who can believe that we are heading into 2013! This school year is

passing so very quickly. We have had the opportunity to witness

some amazing talent at our school. Our student artists keep the

hallways cheerful with their wonderful artwork, and happy smiles!

Wishing all of you a safe and happy holiday season...

Denise Ingoldsby

Principal

Appreciation

The character trait that Mount Pleasant Village students have been learning about in November is appreciation. The students have learned that in a Tribes community appreciation means more than just saying thank-you to people. It involves appreciating ourselves and our own accomplishments as well. We are allowed to brag sometimes and make an “I’m proud” statement when we have been successful at something. Another important part of appreciation is “No put-downs”. Putting somebody down has the opposite effect of making some-one feel appreciated. The students have been encouraged to reflect on this value and then send their ideas to the office where Mr. Gibson has been using them for the “Character Education Thought of the Day”. Many of our students have provided keen insight on how important it is to make sure that the people around us feel appreciated, as well as the damaging effects that put downs can have. Please take a moment to ask your child what they have learned

about appreciation this month.

Steve Gibson

Vice Principal

December 5—Grade 7/8 trip to Fort York

December 20—To the Movies Grades 1-8 (a separate information sheet will be sent home)

December 21—Winter Concert

(for details see page 9 of this newsletter)

Winter Break—No school for students

December 24—January 4 (inclusive)

Parent Council Meetings: Please keep these dates for

reference and plan to attend, as everyone’s feedback

and suggestions are valued.

January 10/13 6:30pm– 7:30pm

Thursday, April 4/13 6:30pm—7:30pm

We Scare Hunger- Food Drive We just wanted to say a special thank you from the "Me to We" committee for all the students and families who donated food to the "We Scare Hunger" Food Drive at Halloween. We collected two shopping carts full of food and Longo’s Grocery Store will be matching our donation. All food is going to the Salvation Army Food Bank. Thanks for supporting student community involvement.

Mr. Kiernander and Mrs. Burgoyne

Dates to remember:

ATTENDANCE INFORMATION! 905-495-8778, (press 1 for the attendance line, available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week)

Parents/Guardians PLEASE CALL IN to let us know if your child is going to be absent or late. It lets us know

immediately that your child is safe with you, and that we do not need to follow up with a call home. When leaving a

message please say and spell your child’s first and last name, the teacher’s name or classroom number and the

reason for absence (sick, appointment, etc. ) Please remember to keep your contact numbers updated so that if we

need to reach you about your child, we can! We believe in “SAFETY FIRST”!

VACATIONS: If your child will be on vacation please provide the office with a written note. If you are booking a

vacation that will be longer than 10 days, please come to the office and ask for an extended vacation form prior to your

vacation. We have an important letter to share outlining details on how your child can keep up to date on their grade

level work.

Library News for December 2012

Exciting Upcoming Events at Brampton Public Library!

Go to: http://www.bramlib.on.ca/ for more details.

Breakfast with Santa, December 8 and 15, 9:00-11:00 am Lego Mania - December 27

Reading Buddies - Wednesday and Saturdays Family Story Time - Tuesdays, 7:00 pm

Pre-school Programs begin in January.

For the Brampton Library Homework Help: http://www.bramlib.on.ca/index.php/home-work-help

For Children, check out: http://www.bramlib.on.ca/index.php/children

Peel District School Board

In addition to the great website the Brampton Library has access to, we at the Peel Board and

Mount Pleasant Village Public School also have great e-Library Resources:

http://www.peelschools.org/students/library/Pages/default.aspx

Internally, you can access these as soon as you launch the Internet Explorer. Look at the middle of your screen at the Digital Library and click on Accessing eResources from school.

JUICE AND COOKIES FUNDRAISER

Juice and cookies are available for students

to purchase every day at

first nutrition break only.

Juice box $1.00 each

Cookies $1.00 each

The juice is 100% pure unsweetened and comes in three flavours —

apple, wildberry, and seven fruit tropical.

The cookies are peanut and nut free and are 100% compliant with the

Ministry’s nutrition requirements.

The juice and cookies will be sold by Mrs. Odd in the Office.

We are raising money to fund Dragon Murals for our front foyer.

Grade 3: Grade 6:

Naina B. Esther M.

Dylan B. Allana L.R.

Kindergarten: Aditya K.

(Junior and Senior) Celina S. Grade 1:

Ashank C. Shaista S.

Nidhi P. Grade 4: Grade 7: Avreet P.

Matthew T. Sophia K. Anthony M. Ansh S.

Danushan U. Joshveer B. Raza Z.

Aadi R.M. Rishi B. Pallav G.

Daniella P. Tanya G. Grade 2:

Danial Z. Harleen M. Ahmed K.

Shreya S. Lucho S.

Aarash A. Grade 5:

Felix K. Matthew Z. Grade 8:

Dorothy S. Shuba T.

Vikram S.C. Farzaan A.

Nicole D. Steve G.

Spirit Days and Assemblies

Mount Pleasant Village will hold assemblies the last Friday of every month, which coincides with our Spirit Days.

We will send home information every month for our Spirit Days.

At each assembly, Recognition Certificates will be given out to students that have demonstrated a

particular skill taught and practiced by all in the learning community (TRIBES). The focus of

November’s was Appreciation. As December is a short month, we will resume our Recognition Certificates in January.

January’s will be Responsibility.

November’s Recognition Certificate recipients are:

The students and staff of

Mount Pleasant Village Public School held a variety

of fundraisers including Change for Change and Hat

Day to support the United Way of Peel Region.

Thank you to the following community businesses for sponsoring this

charity initiative:

Reinvent and Restore Day Spa (289) 752-9132

70 Commuter Drive, Brampton www.reinventandrestore.com

R & R Cafe (289) 752-9132

70 Commuter Drive, Brampton www.rrcafe.ca

On The Go Bistro (905) 497-2525

72 Commuter Drive, Brampton www.onthegobistro.ca

Baskin Robbins (905) 495-5091

20 Brisdale Drive, Unit B5, Brampton www.baskinrobbins.ca

First Choice HairCutters (905) 495-4516

20 Brisdale Drive, Unit B2, Brampton www.firstchoice.com

Make the most of the winter break

Be active

If there's snow, go tobogganing, build a snow fort, cross-country ski or snow shoe.

Go skating at a local arena or outdoor rink.

Take a walk around your neighbourhood to enjoy the holiday decorations.

Go swimming or play basketball at a local community centre.

Get organized

As holiday greeting cards arrive, ask your child to record the names and addresses of the senders.

String cards together to display above doors, windows in your home.

Ask your child to organize photographs in an album by date or activity. Save newspaper or magazine photographs of favourite athletes or

role models to create a scrapbook.

Suggest your child swap paperbacks, comics or magazines with family and friends.

Develop a sense of responsibility

Involve your child with holiday decorating and clean-up.

Ask your child to take charge of family recycling (get containers, wash the jars, stack the papers, etc.)

Have your child plan all aspects of a party. Your child can help decide on the guests, phone or send invitations, plan the food, get the house

ready, greet and introduce the guests and clean up.

Bolster core learning skills

Recommend that your child keep a diary or journal of the family's activities.

Make time every day to read as a family or on your own—even 10 or 15 minutes is fine.

Take your child to the local library.

Have your child follow a favourite newspaper comic strip all week.

Encourage your child to write holiday greetings or thank-you cards to cousins, grandparents and friends.

Review cash register receipts. Ask your child to check them for accuracy when you’re unloading groceries.

Have a family discussion about goals for 2012. Talk to your child about ways he or she can achieve them.

Teach citizenship

Check the newspaper for volunteer opportunities. For example, you and your child could help at a food bank, visit an elderly person living

alone or volunteer at a community event.

Visit the animal shelter, the fire station or a hospital to show your child what happens at these places.

Understand history & explore different cultures

If possible, collect photographs of grandparents and great-grandparents. Have your child write their names and birth dates on the back of

the photos. Discuss the family's history.

Talk about the meaning of holidays. Ask your child to research the holidays celebrated by different cultures in your community. If friends

are celebrating these holidays, ask them to tell you about their traditions.

Get close to nature

Give your child the responsibility of watering the plants.

Read the daily newspaper’s weather map. Let your child figure out what the weather is where friends and relatives live.

Take a walk in the snow and watch for animal tracks. Identify what animal made the tracks.

Find more Parent Tip Sheets at www.peelschools.org.

Computer Safety

Internet Safety

“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”

“I am one of those parents that was under the mistaken

impression that I had this issue well under control at my

house – until I found a file of a conversation my youngest

daughter was having with someone she met on the internet.”

Surfing the net has become a common and routine activity,

providing opportunity for communication and fun. Good

parenting practices are essential and no different on the

internet than supervising children in any other activity. In

order to protect children from harm on the internet, follow

these simple rules:

• Get involved and communicate with your child.

• Become more computer literate and internet savvy

yourself.

• Check out parental controls available on your online

service.

• Keep the computer in a “public” area in your home.

• Monitor the amount of time your child spends on the

internet, and at what times of day.

• Tell your children to never give out personal information,

including name, address, school they attend or teachers’

names, parents’ names, etc.

• Do not allow your child to use a web cam, digital camera,

or video camera without your very close supervision.

• Regularly search the internet “history” on every computer

with internet access in your home, and don’t be hesitant

to question the parents of other children your child may

visit.

• Very closely monitor chat rooms your child may visit.

• Letting children use the internet unattended, particularly

talking in chat rooms, is the equivalent of dropping them

off downtown at 10:00 p.m. and saying, “go make some

new friends.”

For more information on

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT,

PLEASE CONTACT:

Peel Regional Police

Crime Prevention Services

7750 Hurontario Street

Brampton, Ontario

L6V 3W6

Tel. 905-453-2121 ext. 4021

Fax 905-456-6106

You may also want to examine our

Internet site at:

www.peelpolice.ca

Register for French immersion, extended French by Jan. 25 Are you thinking of registering your child for French immersion (FI) or extended French (EF)? Attend an information

session to learn more about the programs.

If you were not able to attend the parent night in the fall about the programs, you are invited to an information session at

the HJA Brown Education Centre, 5650 Hurontario St. (at Matheson Blvd.) in Mississauga:

French immersion - 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013

Extended French - 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013

Registration

If your child will start grade 1 or grade 7 in September 2013, the registration deadline for FI and EF is 4 p.m. on

Friday, Jan. 25, 2013.

Effective September 2013, a grade 1 FI enrolment cap will be in place. This means that a specific number of spots are

available for students entering grade 1 FI. There is no enrolment cap for EF. All students who register for EF before the

registration deadline will be guaranteed a spot.

Lottery system – grade 1 FI only

A lottery system will be used to identify students gaining entrance into the grade 1 FI program. Spots are not assigned

on a first come, first served basis.

All students who make the registration deadline will be assigned a rank using a computerized random selection proc-

ess. Students who currently (2012-13) have siblings in the elementary FI program (grades 1 to 7) will not be included in

the lottery. In order to be automatically accepted into the grade 1 FI program, however, these students must register by the

deadline.

It’s important to note that the grandparenting of siblings applies only to families who currently (2012-13) have children in

the elementary FI program (grades 1 to 7). This means that younger siblings of students who are accepted into grade 1 FI

for the 2013-14 school year and who don’t currently have siblings in the FI program (i.e. in grades 1 to 7 as of Sept. 2012)

will participate in the lottery system in future years.

Waitlist

Once students have been assigned to all available spots, remaining students will be placed, again in rank order, on the

school's waitlist.

Where to register

Register directly at the French immersion school your child will attend. Check the Peel board website at

www.peelschools.org/parents/programs/french or call the board’s Planning department at 905-890-1010/1-800-668-

1146 ext. 2212 to find out what FI school your child will attend.

If parents have not received written confirmation of their child's spot in the FI program or placement on the waitlist by the

end of February, they should contact the school.

How to get more information

Visit the Peel board website—www.peelschools.org/parents/programs/French.

Call the Peel board at 905-890-1010/1-800-668-1146.

Visit the Canadian Parents for French website—www.cpfont.on.ca.

WEATHER

The following information is provided to parents

regarding SCHOOL CANCELLATIONS/CLOSURES AND

BUS CANCELLATIONS DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER.

During the winter months inclement weather may cause disruption of bus transportation and regular school operations. A decision to cancel school transportation and/or to close schools is usually made by 6:00 a.m. and will be announced on the following radio and television stations:

VIRGIN RADIOFM99.9 CHUM AM1050 CFTR AM680

CFNY FM102.1/AM640 CJCL AM590 CHFI FM98.1

CFRB AM1010 EZ ROCK FM97.3 CJBC (FR) AM860

FM Z103.5 FM93.1 FM Q107

CHIN FM100.7/AM1540 CBC99.1 CITYPULSE

GLOBAL NEWS CTV

We will be communicating one of four standard messages to the radio stations. The four announcements and their effect on the transportation system are as follows: (Please note that the highlighted text only will be communicated by the radio

stations).

1. “DUFFERIN-PEEL CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD BUSES SERVING ST. ANDREW, ST. BENEDICT AND ST. PETER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND R.F. HALL SECONDARY SCHOOL ARE CANCELLED FOR TODAY.”

2. “THE DUFFERIN-PEEL CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD BUSES AND THE PEEL DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD BUSES IN THE TOWN OF CALEDON AND THE COUNTY OF DUFFERIN ARE CANCELLED”.

This means that all runs listed under announcement #l PLUS the following are cancelled. All schools in the Town of Caledon and

all school runs that begin in the Town of Caledon. Individual schools will be notified if this cancellation affects their school.

3. “THE DUFFERIN-PEEL CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD AND THE PEEL DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD BUSES ARE CANCELLED.”

This means that: ALL Transportation services provided by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board and The

Peel District School Board, including buses, vans and taxis have been cancelled for the entire day.

4. “THE SCHOOLS AND OFFICES OF BOTH THE DUFFERIN-PEEL CATHOLIC DISTRICT

SCHOOL BOARD AND THE PEEL DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ARE CLOSED.” This means that: ALL Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board ad Peel District School Board schools and offices

are closed to all students and staff.

Note: For Secondary School students riding Public Transit, cancellation of service will be communicated by the respective transit

property over the radio. Please be advised that Public Transit rarely cancels and that the level of service on days with inclement

weather is unpredictable.

Mount pleasant village p.s. invites you all to:

A winter concert Presented In the gymnasium On

Friday, December 21, 2012

@ 10:30 A.M. Come and enjoy Winter themed

Music, sing-a-longs And skits,

performed by students and staff,

celebrating the many holiday

traditions for this time of year.