Hallowe'en

It was a veeeerrrrryyyy  sccaaaarrrryyyy day today at Charlton Public School with students and staff in full costume for Hallowe'en.
We had our annual parade which was attended by many parents, and our monthly assembly followed.

Thank you for sending your children to school dressed and ready to have fun today. It seems the biggest kids (i.e. teachers) had just as much fun as our Kindergartens !!

Take a look...

Charlton Healthy Snack Program

Our Healthy Snack Program is back!

Since mid-September, students have AGAIN been enjoying a daily healthy snack thanks to some committed and energetic parents here at Charlton. Different parents come in to the school weekly to cut up fruits and veggies, and to prepare the snack to be served to our students.
Our super-shopper-wonder-woman, Ms. Tsenebis, shops weekly for fresh food for our kids, and not only that, she finds the most amazing shopping deals I've ever heard of to supply our kids with LOTS of nutritious food.
To top it off, Ms. Tsenebis recruits her 3 boys to deliver the weeks supply of snacks to Charlton. They are pictured here below delivering this week's food...

Ask your son/daughter what he/she had for a healthy snack today...you may be surprised to find that your daughter/son has eaten food in the healthy snack program they have not yet eaten at home!!

Important Resources

The Provincial and Federal governments, in concert with the Public and Catholic School Boards in York Region, have a website that assists newcomers to Canada to learn about some specifics of our school system.  Much of the information is beneficial to ALL parents, covering such topics as Full Day Kindergarten, Homework, Solving Problems at School, and High School courses and choices. Many pages of the information is translated into numerous languages, including Hebrew, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish and many more!

Visit the site by clicking here.  

Message to the Charlton Community from our School Trustee

MESSAGE FROM OUR TRUSTEE

Welcome back to another school year.

I am happy to extend a warm welcome to our returning students and families and those who are new to our Board. I am the trustee for your child’s school and your representative on the York Region District School Board of Trustees.

I am looking forward to continuing my work to ensure that all YRDSB students receive a high-quality education within safe, caring and inclusive learning environments.

In the coming year, trustees will continue to focus on the priorities that we set out in our Multi-Year Plan: student achievement and well-being, the delivery of effective and sustainable educational programs and the responsible stewardship of Board resources.  

We know that partnerships with families are essential to achieving this goal. Good schools become better schools when they are connected to parents and families.

I hope that you will find positive and meaningful ways to engage with your child’s school over the course of the year. There will be many events and activities to look forward to throughout the year and many opportunities across the Region that support parent engagement.

2015-16 promises to be an exciting year. All the best for the upcoming school year.

Susan Geller

School Trustee

Charlton School Council-we want your participation!

Hello parents:

Charlton School Council meets for the first time this Thursday September 17th in the Library of the school at 7 pm.

School Council is an important way for parents to have input into the decisions made at the school, and to help Charlton reach one of it's goals - to create a community that will support and educate young people to be responsible and contributing members of society.

Studies have shown that when parents involve themselves in their children's school, those children feel more connected to the school and, as a result, are more successful in their studies.

Our School Council typically meets about 6-7 times a year from 7 pm to 8.30 pm.  We organize events for the community, some with a fundraising purpose, others to simply build a better community in which to raise your children. We share information about the events occurring in the school, and discuss issues that are important to the Council members and the larger school community.

Please join us this Thursday.

If you would like to help with some events but are unable to attend the meetings, please let me know at ritchie.mcnaughton@yrdsb.ca.

We look forward to making this year at Charlton the best year yet!

Our first Fire Drill of the year

We are back to our regular procedures here at CPS, and conducted our first of six Fire Drills of the year this morning.

Here is a photo of ALL of our students organized into classes in the yard after they have evacuated the building.  It took us less than 4 minutes to evacuate.  Usually we decrease this time over the year to closer to 3 minutes.

Luckily, we enjoyed the beautiful weather we are experiencing this week. Recesses have been particularly fantastic!

Celebrating Student Birthdays

At Charlton we celebrate student birthdays with a morning announcement and a ribbon students wear on their birthday (or the day after if it is a weekend). If parents would like to celebrate further, we recommend a small token (eg. special pencil or eraser) to be given to other students.

Due to the increase in student allergies and anaphylactic (life threatening) reactions, no food of any sort will be distributed to other students for birthday celebrations.