Dear Midnapore Families, we would like to thank our Grade 1, teachers, students and families who supported our Wisdom assembly today. We heard powerful messages from staff and students around how we can gain new forms of wisdom over the month of April. Thank you to all for your hard work today.
Movie Night
We are excited to share that on May 1 we will be hosting a school wide Movie night here at Midnapore
School. This event will support our Grade 6 students who are attending camp at the end of May. The event will start at 5:30pm with doors opening at 5pm. We are requesting a $2 admission fee that will go directly to our Grade 6 camp fundraising. In addition, students will have the opportunity to purchase Kernels popcorn, which can be had during our movie. To purchase a bag of popcorn, please visit our healthy hunger website and make your order.
Yoga Residency
We are so fortunate to have Ms. Amber coming to teach our students yoga and ways calm our bodies and minds once a week until May 17. This yoga is child-friendly and purely exercise-based. Students are having a great time practicing their balance, flexibility, and stamina with a yoga expert! Students are not required to but if they would like to they may bring their own yoga mat.
Literacy Month at Midnapore School
It was a great second week of our Literacy Month! Congratulations to the grade 1s, grade 3s, and grade 4s for winning our rhyming and word scramble contests! We were really impressed with some clever thinking when students were asked to rhyme words with vest, they included homophones like guest and guessed! Don’t forget to read at home this weekend to keep earning points towards a class pizza party!
This week, we have more fun activities planned:
April 15 – Read a book with a buddy! Students are encouraged to bring a favourite book to share with a buddy in an older or younger grade classroom.
April 16 – Bookmark creation contest – Students will design a bookmark in class and practice their art skills and creativity. The winner will get their bookmark creation copied, laminated and distributed to all the students in their classrooms.
April 17– Bring a blanket to school to make a reading fort with! Any blanket, towel, or cheap tablecloth will do!
April 18 – Cozy Cafe reading – Students will be given hot cocoa to sip on while they read cafe style.
Are your children attending Midnapore School next year?
As we are beginning to plan for the next school year, we would like to know if you are planning to remain at Midnapore School. Accurate enrolment data helps us to plan effectively.
We want to remind parents that our current grade 6 students will automatically be enrolled for grade 7 at their designated school for August 2024. Our Students in Grade 4 for the Mandarin Program will also
automatically be enrolled in our partner Panabaker school program. You do not need to do anything to register.
Please inform us as soon as possible if your child(ren) will NOT be attending Midnapore School in August 2024 by emailing Mrs. Stewart at chstewart@cbe.ab.ca
Please confirm the following information in your email:
- Student Name(s)
- Current Classroom(s)
- New School
If you are transferring to a different CBE school, please complete the attached Student Transfer form and email Mrs. Stewart ASAP. If you are leaving the CBE school division, you do not need to complete the Student Transfer form.
If your child(ren) is/are remaining at Midnapore School next year, you do not need to email Mrs. Stewart, Thank you.
Kindergarten Registrations – Please check you School Engage Account:
Thank you to our kindergarten families who have already registered for the 2024-25 school year. Early registration allows us to thoughtfully plan forward for staffing. If you have registered for kindergarten, please check your School Engage account to see if additional information is required for registration purposes. We will process registrations when we have received all required information and documents.
Literacy Fact of the week
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) found that children who were read to frequently are also more likely to: count to 20, or higher than those who were not (60% vs. 44%), write their own names (54% vs. 40%), read or pretend to read (77% vs. 57%)
Key Dates
April 19 - Professional Learning Day- No School
April 25 - Fun lunch Empanada Queen
May 1 - Movie night at Midnapore School - 5:30 pm
May 6 - School Council
May 17 - Welcome to Kindergarten (New Kindergarten Families)
May 24 - Volunteer Tea- 10am-11am
June 14 - Tentative Sports Day
Thank you,
Greg & Meagan