Bulletin de l’École

Immaculée

Conception School Newsletter

BRUCE GREY CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD – VISION STATEMENT

Committed to a vibrant Catholic education, we ensure quality learning experiences through community partner-

ships that nurture each student in mind, body and spirit and embrace the teachings of Christ, giving witness to

Gospel values.

Monday, June 1st, 2015

Volunteers are the heart and soul of any

community. As we venture into the last month of

school we celebrate our volunteers. Let us remember

that their hands are the hands of power that strength-

en, rescue, teach, love and represent Christ on Earth.

Dear God, bless the volunteers at ICS. Send your bless-

ings and graces to each one of them filling their hearts,

minds and souls with the Holy Spirit.

This year, in honour of our volunteers, we will be having

mass beginning at 11:00AM on Wednesday June 24th.

Immediately following mass we invite our volunteers to

come to the school for a sit down lunch. Following

lunch will be the virtue assembly. If you have volun-

teered in any way please plan to attend. Please RSVP to

519 367 2900 if you are able to attend.

Principal/Directrice: Christine Pfeffer Board Administration—-Administration du conseil Office Administrator/Administratice du bureau: Lynn Hahn Director of Education/Directrice d’éducation: Priest/Prêtre: Father Stephen Lacroix Catherine Montreuil School Council———Conseil de l’école Superintendent/Surintendante: Francine Pilon Co-Chairpersons/Co-Présidents: Trustee/Commissionaire: Bev Eckensweiler Amber Metcalfe and Susan Dietz

201 Conc 12 Box 73 Formosa, ON

Class Lists/Teaching

Assignments for next year. Planning continues to be underway for the 2015-2016 school year. We are very excited to have our Kindergarten program in French as well. Staffing is not complete for our school and teach-ers have not been assigned their grades for next year. With this in mind, class lists are often not complete until late summer due to a variety of changes that can take place (new registrations, changes in staffing...). Although parents make requests for their children to be in a specific class, often times those requests can-not be granted due to changes that occur over the summer in staffing and new student registrations. Please keep this in mind and I ask that you are patient as we await final staffing to be com-pleted. Class lists will be available on September 8th, 2015 which is the first day of school. This timeline enables me to ensure all registrations that occur late August / early September are ac-counted for. Sometimes due to later registrations, class lists need to be switched around because of numbers. Students will begin the year with a prayer service in the gym and teachers will call their names as we did this year. Beginning the year with a prayer service is a wonderful way to begin the school year and celebrate our faith as a school community.

Thank you Thank you The students raised $1802.45 at the

Mission Bazaar on May 8th! Well done!

Money raised will go towards building our school in Haiti and the Walkerton

Foodbank.

Let us remember in our prayers

Steve Trapp, Maria Travass, Sean Parks and Gord Rody

Uncle to Mrs. Schefter, Grandmother to Mlle Masca-renhas, dear friend to many staff and Grandfather to

Meredith, Baxter, Xavier and Briar Legace.

“Gracious God, loving Creator,

welcome Steve, Maria, Sean and Gord into

paradise. In Your love, lead them into the

unending joys of Your presence

where every tear will be wiped away, and

there will be no more sorrow.

Amen.”

Happy Birthday to the following

students who are celebrating their

birthday in June:

Karlee Weiler Zachary Valad Kaylee Rich Melia Coville Landon Wideman Jace Fischer Ethan Smith Hannah McArthur Aidan Monk Janelle Gies Taylor Rush Mya Lamont Brady Rich Parker Elphick Lauren Rush Samantha Henhoeffer Kali Fischer Emma Cenitagoya Bradley Steffen Cooper McGilveary Tyler Nichols Joel Montag Zeiven Oberle Lauren Schneider Jack Fleischauer Miles Biesenthal Mya Doucet Del Freiburger Phoenix Chamberlain

End of Year Mass/Volunteer Lunch

Please join us at Immaculate

Conception Church on

June 24th for our end-of-year Mass and

Volunteer lunch to follow at the school

beginning at 11:00AM

JUNE VIRTUE

ASSEMBLY

June 24th at approx.1:00PM

after the volunteer lunch.

Everyone is welcome!

Immaculate Conception School— Formosa

“We are a Catholic Faith Community committed to developing and maintaining a love of life long learning, nurturing self-esteem and respect for all creation.”

Board Track and Field

Meet

The Board Track and Field Event will take

place again in

Kincardine at the Davidson

Centre on Tuesday, June 16th. More

information about this event will be sent

home with qualifying students.

It is a very exciting day and the students

love to have spectators cheer them on.

We will have approximately

50-55 Grade 3 - 8 students attending this

meet.

Good Luck ICS!

Enfant Soleil-French Camp-Aug. 17th to Aug. 21st at the P & H, 9:00AM-4:00PM. 5-8 years. Please call Hanover Parks and Recrea-

tion at 519 364 2310 to Register.

Outdoor Roller skating, Friday nights at the Formosa Rec Complex 7-9PM. There will be BBQ’s and roller skating on the following

Friday’s, June 26th, July 31st and August 21st. Burgers, sausage and fries will be available for sale.

Tutors in the Classroom/Helpers in the Classroom

We are very fortunate to have students help us in our classrooms during May and June. Many thanks to Dominique Pilon and Sam Eckert, our tutors in the classroom. We wish them all the best in their future studies. We have also had Hayley Martin, a former ICS student, helping out in Kindergarten as her co-op placement. We have had Jessica Schmalz, a former student volunteering in our classrooms. We are truly blessed to have volunteers and student helpers who help out from time to time in our classrooms throughout the year. Thank you to those individuals for truly making a difference here at ICS.

School’s out for summer!

The last day for the students and for classes will be on

Thursday, June 25th. Friday, June 26th is a Professional Activity Day.

Classes will resume Tuesday, September 8th, 2015.

Thank you to Jennifer Saunders and Suzanna Rogers for preparing

the snacks for our students during the 2 weeks of EQAO testing.

Thank you to all the volunteers who prepare snacks, lunches,

clean up the kitchen and for all the little things that you do to

make our school so great! Thank you to Julie Biesenthal and

Jennifer Saunders for preparing breakfast each week. Thank you to Esther

Dietrich for doing all the shopping for our Tuesday Lunch Days all year long!

Merci beaucoup!

SUMMER LEARNING ADVANTAGE CAMPAIGN –

REMINDER Summer is coming and so is Summer Learning Advantage.

Now is the time to plan activities that will keep your child’s mind busy and

actively involved during those long and lazy days of summer. One suggestion

is the Learning Advantage Workbook in English or French. Each Activity book offers 192 fully coloured pages designed to

reinforce and maintain students' academic learning skills over the summer . There is a different activity for each grade -

from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 7. Each grade level book features units aligned with the Ontario curriculum; parent

information pages, evaluation forms; follow up activities and a family focus. The cost of each book is $20.00. Visit

www.learningadvantage.ca to download a free unit of the book you would like to order. Order forms have been sent home.

This year, orders can be done on line or through the mail. Please do not send order forms back to the school.

Congratulations to the following

students who were recognized for their effort in demonstrating the following

virtues:

Integrity The following students

Taya Haase Talan Hope Participated in Drama Club

Sidney Reinhart Keanna Waller Valadares this Spring!

Marianna Labriola Gracie Metcalfe Sage Martin Averi Haygood

Cydney Stanislow Claire Dietz Mischa Weppler Tori Saunders

Xavier Legace Colleen Mulvey Taylor Rush Samiah Haase

Madison Herchmer Cooper McGilveary Karina Hahn Gracie Metcalfe

Rain Bester Abby Mitchell Triena Dietz Kali Fischer

Nickolas Holman Mercedes Weber Landon Wideman Kaylee Rich

Ellie Bisenthal Jayda Widmeyer

Idealism Anika Weppler Sophia Herchmer

Abby Wideman Addison Huber Annette Hinsperger

Quentin Hergert Melia Coville Rebecca Bailey Victoria Fahrer

Graham Montag Brady Rich Jaxon Hergert Sara Fortney

Harley Martin Makayla Walter Larissa Grubb Abby Mitchell

Ellie Grubb Sarah Nichols Emma Bezeau

Triena Dietz Hope Elphick

Isaac Montag Brooke Lorentz

Landen Oberle Daniel Peskov

Mason Stroeder

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Happy Birthday to the following

students who are celebrating their

birthday in JULY

Justin Rogers Taylor Martin Chloe Lamont Isaac Montag Cameron Ernewein Maggie Bujold Ben Fleischauer Alexa Schlosser Shannon Wagner Colleen Mulvey Luke Robertson Brody Grubb Madison Herchmer Taya Haase Meggie Grubb Adelyn Haase Ameera Haase Grace Beninger Ainsley Martin Amelia Beninger Daniel Peskov Evan Grubb Josh Bezeau Andrea Dupuis Zack Grubb

Happy Birthday to the following

students who are celebrating their

birthday in AUGUST:

Nathan Van Straten Michael Keyzer Isabel Dietrich Dashiel Slosser-McLean Averi Haygood Austin Weber Gracie Metcalfe Aryssa Fischer José McGlynn Kingston Watt Sophia Herchmer Anne Zettel Emma Metcalfe Talan Hope Gavin Bester Mercedes Weber Elliott Haan Tyler McPhee Ethan Mulkern

GRADE 8 GRADUATION

Our Graduation Ceremony will take place

on Tuesday, June 23rd.

The celebration will start with a

prayer service at 6:30PM at Immaculate

Conception Church. Graduation Pictures

will be taken immediately following the

prayer service by Doug Lonsdale.

Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board “Proclaiming the Work of Your Love” -

“We are a Catholic Faith Community committed to developing and maintaining a love of life long learning, nurturing self-esteem and respect for all creation.”

St. Joseph’s CWL

Community Bazaar

Saturday July 11th at the

Cargill Community Center,

12-4PM

Thank you to the Formosa CWL for the beautiful blessed rosaries that were given to our grade 2’s for receiving their First Holy Communion. We are truly blessed to have our school in the beautiful community of Formo-sa. 90% of our students do not live in the community of Formosa. We are grateful of how generous our CWL is to our students who are coming from communities all over the area. God continues to work in many ways. Merci Beaucoup!

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

Taco Day

Gr 4 Trip

3 4

Freezie Thurs-

day $1.00

5

PD Day

6

7

8 9

Pita Day

Jiggi Jump

10

Grade 6/7/8

Trip

11 12

Freezie Friday

$1.00

13

14 15

Celebrate Me

Day

16

Track and

Field

17 18

Last Pizza Day

19

Freezie Friday

$1.00

Gr 5 + 4/5/6

Trip

Gr 2/3 Trip

20

21

22

Library Closed

Please send

library books

back to school

23

Graduation

24

Reports Go Home

Mass and Volun-

teer Lunch

11:00AM

Virtue Assembly

25

Last Day of

Classes

26

PD Day

27

28 29 30

Honesty is being sincere, open and

trustworthy in all we say and do.