Huron Park Public School

Composer Andrew Staniland and members of the Gryphon Trio will be at Huron Park today and tomorrow working with our Grade 8 students. Intermediate students have been writing poetry about the Four Seasons and some of those poems will be set to music composed by students under the guidance of Andrew Staniland. Mr. Staniland will take the words and musical phrases written by our students and will produce a piece to be performed by the Gryphon Trio and members of our school choir in June. We thank Mr. John French who connected us with the Listen Up! program and to all the sponsors throughout the community. Thanks as well to our School Council who are financially supporting this experience for all of our students. Thanks to Ms. Lundquist and Mrs. Skinner who are the teachers who are guiding our students at the school level. We are very pleased to be able to offer such a rich experience for our students.

Tonight at Huron Park, families are invited to attend Snuggle Up and Read. Our book fair will also be open if you wish to buy books for your children. All funds raised from the book fair are used to purchase items for our library.

Stop in at the library and shop to your heart’s content, the Huron Park Book Fair is back. The Book Fair runs this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday until 4:30 each day. It is also open Tuesday night during our Snuggle Up and Read Night. Hope to see everyone there.

If you have a child ready to start school in Junior Kindergarten in September 2012, now is the time to get him/her registered.

Just call the school and talk to Mrs. Barr (705-526-5300). She will set up a time for you to come in to do the paperwork. You will need to bring your child’s birth certificate, immunization record, health card, and proof of residence (e.g. driver’s license or utility bill addressed to you or a lease agreement). We look forward to meeting you and your child.

We hope that everyone had a great holiday. We are happy to see everyone back from their break. We have much work to do in the next 6 months. Please stay tuned to the website for exciting upcoming events.

This week on Wednesday, The Honorable Bruce Stanton, MP for Simcoe North will be our celebrity server at breakfast club. We encourage students to come to the kitchen beginning at 8:30 to meet Mr. Stanton and enjoy breakfast with him. We thank Mr. Stanton for taking time to come and help us out.

From January 24-27, our grade 8′s will be working with Composer Andrew Staniland who is Assistant Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Memorial University in Newfoundland. We are very pleased to have Mr. Staniland as Composer in Residence here at Huron Park Public School.

Midland Secondary School would like to invite all grade 8 students and their parents to visit MSS on Wednesday January 11th at 6 pm for their Grade 8 Open House. Please take advantage of this opportunity to learn about courses and programs at MSS. The evening will begin in the cafeteria with a presentation to answer questions about the secondary system and the grade 9 year. Tours of the school will be available as well as department chairs, teachers and guidance, special education and student success staff to answer questions. Hope to see you there!

There has been some serious training going on at the hive, but it might not be what you think. A number of students have been training diligently with Mr. Stocks in order to prepare for a serious competition.  On Friday, December 9th, four of these junior students had an opportunity to participate in the Simcoe Country District School Board’s Junior Math Road Rally in Midhurst.  Ariel, Sarah, and Thomas from Mr. Kilby’s class and Milan from Mrs. Downey’s class represented Huron Park with enthusiasm displaying exemplary behaviour during this full day activity. This event is designed to challenge the minds of our mathematicians who are in Grades 4-6.  While it’s not really a car race – in fact they don’t even get to drive, what they do get to do is travel to eight different stations over the duration of the day and solve various hands-on math problems.  The trick with this format is that each team of four students get one copy of the questions, so everyone has to work together to solve the answers.  Competing against teams of students from 27 other schools across the county, these four young mathematicians placed first overall!  Great effort Hornets!

One of the first place medals won our Hornets.

Here are two new challenges from the library, one for primary students and one for junior intermediate students. For primary students there are seven purple cards hidden around the library with words printed on them. Write down the words on a slip of paper and hand it in to Mrs. Perrault when you have located them all.  If you are one of the first there will be a small prize.  There are no cards hidden in between books on the shelves or between the pages of books so there is no need to remove the books in your quest for the words. The cards are only in the primary book area.

For junior and intermediate students the challenge gets a bit more difficult. These students must find out what the seven Grandfather Teachings are, and what animal and colour are associated with each. Once you know them write them on a slip of paper with your name on it and either send it to Mrs. Perrault as a comment to this post or give it to her in the library.

Good luck to everyone!

 There are very limited amounts of  Huron Park Spirit Wear still available in the office. We have a youth small long sleeve t-shirt for $ 11.00 and a youth large hooded sweatshirt for $19 available in the school office. If you are interested please contact Mrs. Barr in the office, but hurry it is on a first come first serve basis.

The Seven Grandfather Teachings and Character Trait Display in the Library.

You may have noticed that our character pillars have disappeared from the front hall. Don’t  worry they haven’t gone far, they are now on display in the library. Stop by and check them out next time you are in the school.

A very special thank you goes out to Mrs. Mayberry,  Mr. Shearer, Lexi and Grace who have all worked extremely hard on our most recent character display. The next time you are at an assembly or sports event check out the bulletin board in the gym with the Four Directions Wheel and the animals from the Seven Grandfather Teachings that align with our schools character traits.