Churchill News

 FULL DAY KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION 

It begins Monday, January 30th.

If you have a child to register, please come into the school next week with a valid birth certificate and an up to date immunization record.

The Churchill Alternative School Council in partnership with Dovercourt Recreation Centre cordially invites you to a very special fundraising event:

An Evening with Dr. Gordon Neufeld
Author of "Hold On To Your Kids"

Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Nepean High School Auditorium

Dr. Neufeld is a Vancouver-based psychologist known for groundbreaking work on peer orientation - peers replacing parents in the lives of our children, and how we can restore parenting to its natural intuitive basis and the parent-child relationship to its rightful preeminence.

Tickets in advance: $20 per person
Tickets at the door: $25 per person

Churchill parents you can purchase tickets using the following Paypal links: 

You can now pay for Spring 2012 Pizza lunches with Paypal. Fill in the regular form and in the payment section select PayPal.

CHURCHILL ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL COUNCIL

Email Blast for Friday, December 9^th

1.  Food Drive:  We have extended our Annual Churchill Christmas Food Drive until Friday, December 17^th.  Please drop off any non-perishable items in the lobby. 

2.  Holiday Movie Night: Come see the Polar Express on Thursday, December 15th at 6:15pm. Pizza will be available starting at 5:45 pm.  As it is a school night, the movie will be starting promptly at 6:15pm and will finish just before 8pm. Please email churchillschoolnews@gmail.com if you’re interested in purchasing pizza.

 HURCHILL ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL COUNCIL

Email Blast for Thursday, December 1^st

A big “thank you” to all the Churchill families that helped out or contributed to our Holiday Craft Fair last weekend! We couldn’t do it without you!

1.  CASC Meeting:  Our first meeting of 2012 will be held on Tuesday, January 10 at 6:30 pm in the 2^nd floor staff room.  Mark your new calendars!

The next CASC meeting will be Tuesday, January 10th.

There will NOT be a meeting on December 13th.

See you in the New Year!

Churchill AlternativeSchool Council

Email Blast for Friday,November 18th

1.     Holiday Craft Fair:  Make sure you mark yourcalendar!  Our Holiday Craft Fairfeaturing 30 local artisans is next Saturday, November 26th.  If you want to donate to the book table orchildren’s shopping area, please drop off your items in the school lobby.  We’re still looking yummy homebaked items forthe bake table.  If you want tocontribute to our café, we’re always looking for tasty contributions. Pleasecontact Pam Dilworth Christie at dilchrist@rogers.com or Maureen Clarke at kmclarke@primus.ca.

·       CandleMaking and Kids Crafts:  We needvolunteers for the two Areas of Candle Making and Kids Crafts.  As in past years during the Craft Fair therewill be the popular Beeswax Candle Making and the Children's Craft Area.  Projects have been organized but we arelooking for Parents to help the kids within either of these two areas.  We only request an hour of time per volunteer(of course more time would be great).  Noexperience is necessary in either area. These are projects that children can make, so an adult can learn ittoo.  If you can help please contact Ulanaat leduc1812@hotmail.com, or Donnaat dwelden@istar.ca.

2.    School Newsletter:  Pleasefind the November school newsletter attached. The school calendar of events isalso attached.  Put it on your fridge!

3.    School Directory:  Pleasefind the Churchill School Family Directory attached.  A big thank you to those parents,particularly Michael Richardson, who helped pull it together this year.

CHURCHILL ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL COUNCIL

Email Blast for Thursday, November 10th

1.  ProgressReports:  Progressreports came home today! Look for them in your child's backpack.  Makesure you sign up for your child's student led conference.  A form willhave been sent home with your child. 

2.  StudentLed Conferences:  Student Led Conferences arecontinuing into next week due to schedules and popular demand.  We reallyappreciate you taking the time to come in and conference with your child aboutall the wonderful things they are doing and learning about.  You will begetting information from your child's teacher around parent interview times andrequests.

3.  November11th:  Theschool sharing begins at 10:30 am in the gym and will run for approximately30-40 minutes.  Come and remember with the Churchill Community. Grade4/5/6's will be walking down to theWestboro Cenotaph to attend the Remembrance Day Ceremony.  The ceremony starts with our Junior Choir(School Of Rock) performing a song just before 2:00pm at the Cenotaph. Childrenwill depart from the school at 1:15pm. The Cenotaph is located between RichmondRd. and Byron on the pedestrian pathway, approximately a 10 min. walk from theschool.  The ceremony at the Cenotaph runs until approximately 2:20pm,which means that our return to school will be later than the regular dismissaltime. Please keep that in mind.

Thanks to Ray and Dana fororganizing our Remembrance Day ceremony.  It is a very special event atour school that brings us together as a community and school.  It will beparticularly special to have School of Rock performing with the WestboroLegion.  It is particularly important to several of our families,including my own, that have active service members or our families withveterans. Megan

 Kids Shopping at Churchill's Christmas Craft Fair and a Call for Volunteers

As some of you may know one of the many fun aspects of Churchill's annual Christmas Craft Fair is the
Kids Shopping area, set up on the stage. This is where gently used household goods and toys are put out for sale,
an especially fun area for children as we do strive to have a good variety of used toys, puzzles and games they can buy
with their own money. You won't find a price attached to the items; rather, a child or adult can make an offer on a piece or a collection
of goods, making it a wonderful way for your kids to do their Christmas shopping affordably, or just to treat themselves.

                                           CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

We would be most grateful for help in getting the stage area set up with the donated goods as we near the date of the Craft Fair.
We will also need cashiers on hand that day, as well as people to help clean up the stage after the Craft Fair is over. If you can donate any time
to help out at the Kids Shopping area in any of these ways please let us know-we would be most happy to have you!

IF YOU ARE DONATING GOODS

As a reminder:

-Goods that you would like to donate should be clean and in
good working order.

- Puzzles, jewelry, and pieces of toy sets should be put in a
ziplock bag or a suitable container. This makes it much easier for our volunteers
in the setting up process as well.

-On the day of the Fair, although we will have bags on hand to contain new treasures that are going home,
it would be helpful to remember to give your child a bag or a box of your own in case we run out!

CHURCHILL ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL COUNCIL

Email Blast for Friday, November 4th

1.  Art Elective Day:  Yesterday’s elective daywas a huge hit!  Thank you to everyonewho participated and a big thank you to the Arts Committee, teachers, andvolunteers.  Look for our math electiveday on Thursday, January 19th!

2.  Progress Reports:  Progress reports will besent home on November 10th.  Therewill be student led conferences between November 7 -10 and parent teacherinterviews will be held on November 18th.  Each classroomteacher will be sending out information specific to their class.

3.  Movie Night: Riois our feature movie this Thursday. Movie starts at 6:30 pm and doors open at 6:15 pm.  Come in your pyjamas and bring your favouritestuffy!

4.  November 11thSharing:  This ceremonywill feature performances by the Nepean High School band, as well as the ChurchillSchool of Rock.  It begins at 10:30 am inthe gym and will run for approximately 30-40 minutes.  This is a very special way to mark theday.  Come and remember with theChurchill Community.