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june 2010 creighton community school newsletter p.o box 158 creighton sk s0p 0ao ph 306-688-5138 fax 306-688-5740 www.creightonschool.com principal jane dupre jane.dupre@hotmail.com vice principal sharon trubiak strubiak@creightonschool.com vice principal stacy lair slair@creightonschool.com september 3 2009 principal s message it is very hard to believe that the end of the school year is only a few weeks away my first year as principal has been very rewarding i am very proud of our students and staff at creighton community school i would also like to thank our parents for supporting and attending all of our school events as many of you may know we are losing some of our valuable teaching staff as they are retiring we are certainly going to miss mrs berkner mrs dixon mr ritch and mr hall in total these 4 staff members have a total of 100 years of teaching behind them and they will leave big shoes to fill we hope that they can find the time to visit us next year please take the time to look at the calendar on the back of the newsletter to keep you abreast of the upcoming events there are many activities in the next three weeks and we would hate to have you miss them in may our students were very busy taking part in a variety of learning opportunities the school hosted a drama workshop the bike rodeo and the enrichment program classes have also been visiting scotty the dinosaur at the sportex we have our fingers and toes crossed for nice weather for this friday as that is our rescheduled track and field day the staff and students enjoy the event and i hope to see many family and friends at the school rooting on the children the afternoon will also feature the annual grade 9 students playing softball against the staff i would like to wish you and your family a wonderful summer holiday if you have any questions or concerns or suggestions please do not hesitate to call the school and we will do our best to help you out jane dupre in may we celebrated the completion of the grade 111 writing tests with a feast over the course of two days all students put in their best efforts and gave teachers an important snapshot of our students writing abilities our grade 12 s participated by serving and our community school staff coordinated the other classes to help out vision each student who enters our doors shall leave with abundant respect for self and others and the capability to meet the challenges of tomorrow mission to work together to create a student centered environment that fosters healthy living lifelong learning and responsible citizenship.

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page 2 of 8 the virtues corner building happier children through bucket filing the kindergarten to grade 4 students have been practicing being good bucket fillers the concept of bucketfilling stems from the belief that we all have invisible buckets that can be filled or emptied depending on how we treat others when we express kindness helpfulness and concern for others we put drops in their buckets when we are intolerant and hurtful we take away from peoples buckets students have been diligent in trying to fill their class-mates buckets by doing good deeds paying compliments and lending support when someone needs it we re very proud of our students for being such good bucket fillers our virtue for june at ccs is unity the definition of unity is -the state of being one or undivided united in mind and purpose it is time to pre-order all for one and one for all your child s milk for the -the three musketeersnext month remember so powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth to put their full name -baha u llahclass and what size and a few of our students and staff have given their comments on unity unity is spending time with your family type of milk they want it -william chilliakis $1.00 for a large and team stands for $0.75 for a small have together everyone achieves more them return it to the -megan nivonnutrition room as soon as we practice we play we compete we work and we aim to win possible together unified -zach garrett/krystal kawa/jesse manns united we stand together divided we fall apart and fall really hard june 07 -mrs elliottjune 08 june 09 may students of the month june 10 -demonstrating most improved june 11 june 14 kam 3h 5/6r june 15 anna marie brooks justin nivon darnell custer june 16 xander morin olivia watkins destiny pockett june 17 kpm 3w jackson kolenosky taylor debler 6w june 18 kevan bowman leanne dubinak randy nowlin june 21 stephen sewap june 22 1b 4h june 23 sharise mccallum dryden smith 7g madison linklater sheldon michel robert walker 1c 4r 7t madeline claveau rhett wheeler brett hart-cook child s taylor normanzach chrisp name 2fe hydamaka class congratulations cameron linklater milk choice everyone rose morin 5c we are very proud of 2fo danielle grenier you eden dickens

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school happenings the drama wind-up is thursday june 4th at 12:15 in ms hovlands classroom travel to italy germany and the czech republic grade 10 11 and 12 students from ccs will have the opportunity to travel to europe in march of 2011 during spring break presently there are 15 students registered to spend 11 days seeing the sites of rome florence munich and prague if any students are still interested there is still time to register please stop by and see mrs gogol or miss becker to get a registration form if there are any questions about the trip we would be more than happy to talk to parents please feel free to call the school or stop in a see us 2 nd page 3 of 8 the student leadership council has had a busy may we started off the month with our annual battle of the sexes students from grade 7 to grade 12 participated in a week long battle filled with activities and spirit days the week began with ribbon day where boys were not allowed to talk to girls and vice versa if they talked to a member of the opposite sex they lost their ribbon the week continued with students dressing as the opposite sex wearing pink or blue to the school dance and culminated in a school wide assembly where boys and girls competed in a variety of challenges including a baby food eating contest in the end the girls lost their reign as champions for the last 3 consecutive years to the boys the boys celebrated their long awaited victory with a bbq put on by the student leadership council library news annual rnwmp post museum season opening royal north west mounted police post museum wednesday june 30th 2010 9am ­ 6pm 216 creighton avenue creighton sk events include joe brain petting zoo 11am ­ 1pm hoop dancers 1:30pm bouncy castle face painting 2pm ­ 3:30pm kids games and prizes free cake and refreshments loonie parade and door prizes rebecca pike manager creighton regional development corp may 31 to june 4 is trade-a-book week in the library for each book brought in up to 5 a new book may be chosen from the trading collection we know summer is a great time for reading and we also know that students practicing reading skills keep them sharp to begin a new school year in the fall our summer reading program is very exciting ­ kindergarten to grade 7 students will be given postcards to mail to the school the back of the postcards will be filled out as books are read and more postcards as well as stamps will be available at the creighton and denare beach post offices see more on pg 4

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page 4 of 8 a taste of outer space right here in creighton know which package contained the seeds from the space station until after their results were sent to tomatosphere tomatoes were chosen for this experiment for several reasons first and foremost they are an excellent source of nourishment by studying the page 5 of 8 effect of outer space on plants several questions may be answered these being 1 how to supply personel with necessities of life 2 ways of consuming carbon dioxide produce by staff through photosynthesis 3 what grows fast in limited space the students planted and recorded the time it took to germinate and how many of the seeds actually grew the results were then electronically sent to tomatoshpere mr gray then received a certificate documenting the type of seeds given and a report of findings for the whole program each participating student will receive a copy of this certificate the students can also take their research home and eat tomatoes that have been in outer space so our residents can brag they have grown tomatoes underground as well as grown them from seeds that spent time in outer space have you ever imagined being apart of the space program it is safe to say that just about every child and probably many adults have dreamt about outer space it could be dreaming of being an astronaut or being apart of the research team well the grade 3 h and 3 w and the grade 9 students under the supervision of mr gray were able to do just that they had the opportunity this year to actually take part in an award winning research program ­ tomatosphere tomatosphere is an educational outreach project approximately eight years old and has been introduced as part of the science curriculum in more than 11,000 classrooms in canada and in the united states this project has a dual purpose 1 educate and inspire students 2 expand space research especially in long term travel mr gray applied to be a part of this program and they was accepted the grade 3 students planted seed provided by tomatosphere under the watchful eye of the grade 9 students these tomato seeds are unique in the fact they were taken to the international space station by canadian astronaut julie payette they remained on board the space station for two months and then made the long trip back home the potential seeds were exposed to elements that normal seeds would not be exposed to such as 1 pressure of launch and re-entry to earth s atmosphere 2 changes in gravity aboard the space station 3 length of time in outer space mr gray received two packages of heinz tomato seeds and each package contained 30 seeds as this was a blind study mr gray and the students did not library news continued grade 8 to 12 students and staff may go to a blog linked to the creighton school website to record their reading and chat with other readers we are going to keep the reading fires burning all summer long in september each postcard and blog entry will equal one ballot in a draw for awesome prizes 6 readers will win $50 worth of books of their choice to keep plus they will choose 3 titles they would really like to have in the library collection during the 2009-2010 school year 1,040 new books have been added to our collection of almost 14,000 books and out-dated or unused material has been weeded out we are happy to report that 10,800 or so books were signed out during the year our library is a well-used much loved part of our school have a wonderful summer of reading!

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kodiak track on may 26 and 27th the members of the creighton kodiak track and field team traveled to melfort for the nessac championships to compete against 22 different schools for the right to got to provincials despite the rain frost and freezing cold temperatures the kodiaks performed admirably in order to qualify for provincials an athlete had to finish in the top 2 in their event at the end of the day eight kodiaks qualified for provincials in 14 events danny suchoplas senior boys gold in discus shot put jessie manns senior girls silver in high jump hurdles britt holland senior girls gold in javelin silver in discus david anaka senior boys silver in 100m kristal kawa junior girls gold in high jump trent malchuk junior boys silver in hurdles morgan grant junior girls silver in javelin lia nasselquist midget girls gold in high jump riley reynolds placed gold in hurdles shelly brown placed silver in the 3000m ian ferguson placed silver in the 1500m and 3000m however they are too young to attend provincials the provincial championships will be held in moose jaw this coming weekend it is the single largest high school athletic event in saskatchewan with over 1500 athletes competing over two days the kodiaks are coached by mr trumbley sprinters /hurdles mr ritch throwing mr strailelong distance running and mrs pawlachuk jumping page 5 of 8

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page 6 of 8 august 2010 ­ 2011 school year calendar administration day p.d day administration day students return to school labour day p.d early closure at 2:15 p.m p.d day ­ no school for students thanksgiving day p.d early closure at 2:15 .pm teacher convention no school for students school closed school closed for report card prep remembrance day school closed parent teacher evening 4-5 p.m 6-8 p.m school closed for everyone p.d early closure at 2:15 p.m christmas concert last day of classes before christmas break first day of classes after christmas break p.d early closure at 2:15 p.m semester one ends ­ no school gr 8-12 second semester starts p.d day-assessment for learning-no school for students family day february break school closed for report card prep parent teacher evening 4-5 p.m 6-8 p.m school closed for everyone spring break school resumes p.d early closure at 2:15pm good friday p.d early closure at 2:15 p.m victoria day p.d planning ­ no students p.d early closure at 2:15 pm grad admin day ­ no students admin day ­ no students report cards handed out summer holidays wednesday aug 25th thursday aug 26th friday aug 27th monday aug 30th monday sept 6th wednesday sept 22nd thursday oct 7th monday oct 11th wednesday oct 20th mon oct 25th tues oct 26th wednesday oct 27th thursday nov 5th thursday nov 11th friday nov 12th thursday nov 25th friday nov 26th pm only wednesday dec 15th thursday dec 16th wednesday dec 22nd wednesday jan 5th wednesday jan.19th friday jan 28th monday jan 31st wednesday feb.9th monday feb 21st tues feb 22nd ­ 25th friday mar 4th thurs mar.17th friday mar 18th p.m.only monday mar 28th ­ apr 1st monday apr 4th wednesday apr.13th friday april 22nd wednesday may 11th monday may 23rd tuesday may 24th wednesday june 8th friday june 24th tuesday june 28th wednesday june 29th thursday june 30th mbe september october november december january february march april may june

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suicide awareness gala bike rodeo page 7 of 8 the flin flon/creighton suicide prevention committee hosted a video contest for all students in grades 712 the contest was very well received and many creative thoughtprovoking and powerful videos were submitted on may 18 the committee hosted an expression evening of entertainment and awards creighton school is extremely proud that our very own hanne buettner and lia nasselquist were presented with a first place award for their powerful video depicting teen suicide special thanks to mrs gogol s and mrs pawlachuk s classes for submitting many fantastic videos as well great job creighton students see the website for a peek kid-netic energy science engineering science summer camp what this is a summer day camp specializing in science and engineering activities each day has a theme with activities and games this program emphasizes exploring experimenting designing and inventing special f/x and science in music indoor and outdoor hands on activities who open to students ages 9-12 by dec 31 2010 where registration fees $97.00 taking place at ruth betts school 9:00-4:00 p.m registration forms available at the office when august 16th-20th 2010 it s spring clean-up time do you know what to do if you come across a discarded needle it is important to remember that discarded needles can cause injury and spread disease here s what to do if you find a discarded needle in the creighton/denare beach area · tell an adult immediately children should not touch the needle · an adult should pick the needle up by the end that is not sharp and place it in a strong container with a lid · drop off needles at the flin flon general hospital or the primary health office shared with you by mcrrha creighton public health office 688-8620

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