SSES Spring Visitors

St. Stephen Milltown Rotary Club stock SSES

Breakfast Shelves

SSES Community Schools

The primary students at SSES were

treated to a visit from the farm.

Rhonda Johnson and her family set

up three pens at the entrance of

SSES for the classes to see chickens

and a bunny. This was a great way

for the students to welcome spring.

Rhonda provided each class with

some information about raising chick-

ens and life on the farm. We are very

thankful to Rhonda and her family for

bringing the farm to SSES.

The St. Stephen Elementary breakfast program received a generous donation of $500 from the St. Stephen Milltown Rotary Club for the 2012-2013 school year. This donation has filled our breakfast shelves with cereal. We thank the Ro-tary club and the many other community supporters that assist us with supplying a healthy breakfast.

Inside this issue:

Grade 2 Literacy Mentors 2

District Chess Tournament 2

Square Dancing at SSES 3

K-Kids Raise Funds for SPCA

3

SSES Clothing Closet 4

We Could use:

Volunteers: Big Brothers Big Sisters In-school Mentors

Chess Club volunteers

Volunteers: Numeracy mentors

Knitting needles

Bean Bag Chairs

Scrapbooking Supplies

Gently used sweat pants and t-shirts

S t . S t ephen E lemen ta ry S choo l

April 2013

Volume 1, Issue 3

Kiersten and Alexis check out a speckled chicken

with student teacher Alison Ladd.

District Chess Tournament—we have a winner!

initiative is providing the stu-

dents with roughly 2 hours of

literacy assistance a week.

The Grade 2 Literacy Mentors will

be working with their students

until the end of May

We wish to express our thanks to

the community members who

have become our Grade 2 Liter-

acy Mentors:

Front row: Betty Moulton, Kathi

Atkinson, Susan Cornish, June

Biddle

Back row: Patty Smith (Literacy

Lead Teacher), Lisa McAllen

(Literacy Lead Teacher), Greg

McAvoy, Ray Bernard and Linda

Bernard. Missing from the pic-

ture is Carol Mehan.

We are very pleased to announce

that in March at SSES a Grade 2

Literacy Mentoring program has

started. Community members

have received training from the

Literacy Lead teachers at SSES,

Patty Smith and Lisa McAllen.

The Literacy Mentors were then

matched with a grade 2 student

to work on grade 2 literacy ob-

jectives. They work one-on-one

with the students they are

matched with from 2-3pm on

Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This

The St. Stephen Elementary School Chess

Club is pleased to announce that Nathaniel,

the club president , has placed 2nd in his

grade at the District Chess Tournament in

St. George on Tuesday, March 26th. We

also want to congratulate the other 4 SSES

chess club members that competed at this

tournament. Nathanial participated in the

provincial tournament which was held in

Woodstock, NB on April 6th, 2013. Na-

thaniel didn’t place, but was very pleased

to have the opportunity to represent the St.

Stephen Education Centre.

Grade 2 Literacy Mentors at SSES

Nathaniel placed

2nd in the grade

4 competition at

the District Chess

tournament.

Page 2 SSES Community Schools

K-Kids Raise Funds for the SPCA

Deborah Northrup from Town and

County Squares dance club is provid-

ing Square Dancing instruction to

Grade 2 students at SSES. These

students will be practicing their new

moves once a week from early April

till the end of May. The students are

eager to learn these new skills and

are catching on very quickly.

K-Kids travelled by bus to the

SPCA to deliver their oversized

cheque. They were treated to a

tour of the shelter while they

were there and had the opportu-

nity to see how the money they

raised will be helping the shelter

animals.

The K-Kids winter fund-

raising project has come to

an end. They were very

pleased to present a cheque

for $319.10 to the Charlotte

County SPCA. The K-Kids

raised these funds from the

December sock hop, yard

sale, jewelry sale and bas-

ket raffle. On April 4th the

Square Dancing at SSES

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As we enter spring we will be in

need of a change of clothes for

many students who wander into

puddles on the playground. We

have established a clothing

closet in our resource room that

provides items for students. We

have arranged bins according to

size and gender to make it fast

and easy to select needed items.

The SSES Educational Assistants

have volunteered to monitor the

shelves and stock them with do-

nations as they are received. If

you have some gently used

items at home that you would

like to donate please drop them

off at the SSES office. We are in

need of sweat pants (elastic

wastes are great to fit many

shapes/sizes), t-shirts, and

sweatshirts. We would also wel-

come rubber boots, sneakers,

and splash pants.

We stock our shelves with sizes

4/5 to 14/16. We will be relying

on our SSES community to keep

these shelves supplied with

needed items.

SSES Clothing Closet

St. Stephen Elementary School

Mission Statement

Collaboratively, we will promote

academic excellence through authentic

experiences and foster personal growth

in a safe and happy community.

16 Kings Court

St. Stephen, NB E3L 3B2

Judey MacDonald

Community Schools Coordinator SSES

Phone: 506-466-7870

Fax: 506-466-7337

E-mail: judey.macdonald@gnb.ca

Please contact me if you are interested in

volunteering at SSES.

S t . S t eph en E l emen ta ry S choo l Co mmuni ty S choo l s

Be Safe Be Respectful

Be Prepared

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