From my office window, I had a front row seat to some amazing fun today. Some of our Junior and Senior Kindergarten students had gathered at the tables in our front foyer. On the tables were small pumpkins of various shapes. Alongside the pumpkins and our young learners, were some wonderful older students who were there to assist in the cleaning and carving of the pumpkins. I got to witness, first hand, the collaboration, the laughter, the teamwork, and the sharing of ideas as these two groups worked together. The results were really cool - I hope that they'll let us use some of the pumpkins as decorations for our Hallowe'en Dance on Friday.
Now, I'll cross my fingers that tomorrow they will decide to cook up all of those tasty seeds and let me have some samples.
Monday 26 October 2015
Friday 23 October 2015
Volunteers
As I reflect on the past few days at Tay Shores, one thing keeps on appearing on my radar - our volunteers.
I have seen so many wonderful volunteers in our school over the past few days and weeks.
In order to run our Pizza Days, we require a number of parents to come in and collect money, take orders, count money, deliver pizza and clean up pizza messes. We have a number of amazing parents who have stepped up to help us with this program each Wednesday. There is NO way that this program would run without their support.
This is also true with our Breakfast Program. We have just started this program and we will be sending out more information in Wednesday's newsletter. In order to provide tasty, fresh and healthy breakfasts to our students we require a ton of volunteer support. From preparing the food, to setting up tables, serving students, cleaning up messes and washing dishes, our volunteers provide wonderful support to our students each morning.
In our office each day, Mrs. Morphett is helped by generous volunteers who help run our Safe Arrival Program. Following up on our daily attendance is a HUGE job and we thank our parents for assisting us with this task.
Our first School Council Fundraiser (Little Caesar's Kits) just wrapped up. This was entirely run by our parent volunteers.
As the week winds down and I see how great Tay Shores PS is, I just can't help but thank our Parent Volunteers for their support and generosity. It truly takes a lot of collaboration with various stakeholders to successfully run a school - thanks, parents, for helping us make Tay Shores the best school in Simcoe County.
I have seen so many wonderful volunteers in our school over the past few days and weeks.
In order to run our Pizza Days, we require a number of parents to come in and collect money, take orders, count money, deliver pizza and clean up pizza messes. We have a number of amazing parents who have stepped up to help us with this program each Wednesday. There is NO way that this program would run without their support.
This is also true with our Breakfast Program. We have just started this program and we will be sending out more information in Wednesday's newsletter. In order to provide tasty, fresh and healthy breakfasts to our students we require a ton of volunteer support. From preparing the food, to setting up tables, serving students, cleaning up messes and washing dishes, our volunteers provide wonderful support to our students each morning.
In our office each day, Mrs. Morphett is helped by generous volunteers who help run our Safe Arrival Program. Following up on our daily attendance is a HUGE job and we thank our parents for assisting us with this task.
Our first School Council Fundraiser (Little Caesar's Kits) just wrapped up. This was entirely run by our parent volunteers.
As the week winds down and I see how great Tay Shores PS is, I just can't help but thank our Parent Volunteers for their support and generosity. It truly takes a lot of collaboration with various stakeholders to successfully run a school - thanks, parents, for helping us make Tay Shores the best school in Simcoe County.
Friday 16 October 2015
Character Building
Every morning we start our day off with O'Canada, followed by our Tay Shores Pledge. The pledge goes like this:
I pledge to do my part to make Tay Shores a better place.
I pledge that I will not tease, exlude or harm any member of our school community
and that I will treat all members with respect and compassion.
I pledge that if I see anyone at my school being teased, excluded or harmed,
I will stand up for them and let them know that they are not alone.
I am the change.
This is my favourite part of the day. The pledge is read by a different student, each day, over the announcements and I really love hearing the different voices repeating these important words. I also enjoy hearing students solving problems around the school using these phrases.
Whenever we 'catch' students in our building trying to make our school a better place, we give them a yellow ticket (which earns them House Points and gets them into our weekly prize draw). Over the past two weeks, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of yellow tickets being brought down to our office. Both weeks there were over 100 tickets in the draw, which means that over 20% of our students are being 'caught' doing amazing things around our school to make it fun and safe. And this is just the students that are being caught - I'm quite sure that there are even more students doing equally wonderful things and have just gone under the radar.
What a great school we've got here at Tay Shores PS. It definitely makes me love coming to school when it is filled with such exceptional children!!
I pledge to do my part to make Tay Shores a better place.
I pledge that I will not tease, exlude or harm any member of our school community
and that I will treat all members with respect and compassion.
I pledge that if I see anyone at my school being teased, excluded or harmed,
I will stand up for them and let them know that they are not alone.
I am the change.
This is my favourite part of the day. The pledge is read by a different student, each day, over the announcements and I really love hearing the different voices repeating these important words. I also enjoy hearing students solving problems around the school using these phrases.
Whenever we 'catch' students in our building trying to make our school a better place, we give them a yellow ticket (which earns them House Points and gets them into our weekly prize draw). Over the past two weeks, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of yellow tickets being brought down to our office. Both weeks there were over 100 tickets in the draw, which means that over 20% of our students are being 'caught' doing amazing things around our school to make it fun and safe. And this is just the students that are being caught - I'm quite sure that there are even more students doing equally wonderful things and have just gone under the radar.
What a great school we've got here at Tay Shores PS. It definitely makes me love coming to school when it is filled with such exceptional children!!
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Titan Athletics
I just finished watching our Intermediate Girl's Basketball Team as they had a shoot-around in preparation for tonight's game against St. Ann's.
Thanks to our staff members who have decided to give up their time to support the athletic program at Tay Shores.
Last week, our Titans had their first ever victory as a school. Our Intermediate Girl's Cross Country Team won their division at the Area Meet.
Tonight our Girl's Basketball Team will compete and later this week our Intermediate Boy's Volleyball Team will be in action at home against Bayview PS.
It's so exciting to see our athletes gearing up for their various seasons. Now, all we need are some cool uniforms!!
Good Luck Titans!!!!
Thanks to our staff members who have decided to give up their time to support the athletic program at Tay Shores.
Last week, our Titans had their first ever victory as a school. Our Intermediate Girl's Cross Country Team won their division at the Area Meet.
Tonight our Girl's Basketball Team will compete and later this week our Intermediate Boy's Volleyball Team will be in action at home against Bayview PS.
It's so exciting to see our athletes gearing up for their various seasons. Now, all we need are some cool uniforms!!
Good Luck Titans!!!!
Friday 9 October 2015
Happy Thanksgiving
I'd like to wish all of our Titan families a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I hope that everyone enjoys the time off with friends and family and that you stay safe.
We had a great Spirit Assembly this morning with our young Titans. It was great to hear the various cheers that the houses created at yesterday's House Rally. We also had our TSLT Spirit Team dancers take the stage to energize the students at each of our assemblies. They did a great job!
Both Mrs. Losch and I found ourselves overwhelmed this afternoon as the front hallway suddenly became filled with a bunch of 'turkeys' on the loose. Thanks to Mrs. Miron and Mrs. Robitaille's class for visiting us with their cute Thanksgiving outfits.
There were more students on the loose today, as Mr. Dubbin's Grade 7 class ran their math class as a fun version of "The Amazing Race". Solving problems, racing around the school and working collaboratively, his students seemed to enjoy this energized version of mathematics. Students from St. T's joined in on the fun as they volunteered to help out this afternoon. Thanks to those students for deciding to spend their PD day at Tay Shores!!
Once again, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Titans.
We had a great Spirit Assembly this morning with our young Titans. It was great to hear the various cheers that the houses created at yesterday's House Rally. We also had our TSLT Spirit Team dancers take the stage to energize the students at each of our assemblies. They did a great job!
Both Mrs. Losch and I found ourselves overwhelmed this afternoon as the front hallway suddenly became filled with a bunch of 'turkeys' on the loose. Thanks to Mrs. Miron and Mrs. Robitaille's class for visiting us with their cute Thanksgiving outfits.
There were more students on the loose today, as Mr. Dubbin's Grade 7 class ran their math class as a fun version of "The Amazing Race". Solving problems, racing around the school and working collaboratively, his students seemed to enjoy this energized version of mathematics. Students from St. T's joined in on the fun as they volunteered to help out this afternoon. Thanks to those students for deciding to spend their PD day at Tay Shores!!
Once again, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Titans.
Thursday 8 October 2015
House Rally
Today, all houses met for the first time.
Newly named for the elements that their colours represent, our four houses (Air, Fire, Earth and Water) gathered to come up with a house cheer and to choose their captains.
Our teachers and students were spread out all over our school grounds and the rumblings of various chants started to echo around Tay Shores PS. It was great for me to have the chance to see our school community coming together and celebrating their new Titan Spirit.
Tomorrow, during our Spirit Assembly, each house will present its new cheer and will introduce their new house captains. I can't wait to see what they've come up with.
On another note, please be aware that we have started our Little Caesar's Pizza Kit Fundraiser. Make sure you take this fundraiser with you when you visit relatives this Thanksgiving Weekend.
And, on yet another note, I'd like to congratulate our first Titan victors, the Intermediate Girl's Cross Country Team who captured first place at the Area 1 Meet. Good luck at the County Championships later this month, girls!!
Go Titans!!!!!
Newly named for the elements that their colours represent, our four houses (Air, Fire, Earth and Water) gathered to come up with a house cheer and to choose their captains.
Our teachers and students were spread out all over our school grounds and the rumblings of various chants started to echo around Tay Shores PS. It was great for me to have the chance to see our school community coming together and celebrating their new Titan Spirit.
Tomorrow, during our Spirit Assembly, each house will present its new cheer and will introduce their new house captains. I can't wait to see what they've come up with.
On another note, please be aware that we have started our Little Caesar's Pizza Kit Fundraiser. Make sure you take this fundraiser with you when you visit relatives this Thanksgiving Weekend.
And, on yet another note, I'd like to congratulate our first Titan victors, the Intermediate Girl's Cross Country Team who captured first place at the Area 1 Meet. Good luck at the County Championships later this month, girls!!
Go Titans!!!!!
Monday 5 October 2015
The Tay Shores Titans!!
After many, many submissions from students, parents and community members, our TSLT has finally settled on our new school nickname...
From this point on, we will be known as the Tay Shores Titans!!
Our school colours will reflect the colours found in the First Nations medicine wheel (white, yellow, red, black).
In choosing our colours and nickname, our students were inspired by the local native legend of Kitchikiwana, who was huge in size, strength and importance (the definition of a titan).
Our first sports event was held today. We had close to 100 students attend the Area 1 Cross Country Run at Little Lake Park in Midland, ON. This was our first opportunity to cheer on our Titans.
Hopefully, soon, we will be able to come up with some athletic wear for our sports teams that has our nickname and colours. Once that happens, we will really feel like a brand new team!!
From this point on, we will be known as the Tay Shores Titans!!
Our school colours will reflect the colours found in the First Nations medicine wheel (white, yellow, red, black).
In choosing our colours and nickname, our students were inspired by the local native legend of Kitchikiwana, who was huge in size, strength and importance (the definition of a titan).
Our first sports event was held today. We had close to 100 students attend the Area 1 Cross Country Run at Little Lake Park in Midland, ON. This was our first opportunity to cheer on our Titans.
Hopefully, soon, we will be able to come up with some athletic wear for our sports teams that has our nickname and colours. Once that happens, we will really feel like a brand new team!!
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