December 2023

Hello everyone!

December has arrived and we are definitely in for the last push before a well deserved break! There is lots of information in this month’s newsletter around our Christmas concerts, theme days, and days off for collaboration day and a staff meeting day.

We want to thank everyone for their attendance at parent teacher interviews and also thank you for supporting our book fair! Finally, we want to thank our wonderful parent council for organizing two days of art therapy activities!

On behalf of the team here at École Sifton School, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season!

Take care everyone,

École Sifton Admin Team

We use our ROAR every day.

We do our best in every way.

We make strong choices.

We respect all voices.

We strive for more.

Here we ROAR!

December 6 Report Cards go home with students.

December 7 Early dismissal at 12:25

December 11 Staff Collaboration Day. No school for students.

December 13 French grade 1-5 Winter Concerts (1:45 pm& 7:00pm)

December 14 English grade 1-5 Winter Concerts (1:45pm & 7:00pm)

December 14 Kindergarten/maternelle Winter Concert at 5:30pm

December 19 Parent Council Meeting- Cancelled will resume in January

Wednesday, December 20 Last Day of classes! Enjoy the break!

Thursday, January 4 School Resumes

January 11 Early Dismissal at 12:25

Tuesday December 12 Red and Green (wear red and/or green)

Wednesday December 13 - Grinchy Green

Thursday December 14 Sparkly and Shiny (wear something sparkly)

Friday December 15 Ugly Christmas Sweater Day #1

Monday December 18 House Colours

Tuesday December 19 - Ugly Christmas Sweater Day #2

Wednesday December 20 - Cozy Pajama Day

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE KINDERGARTEN AND MATERNELLE CLASSES DO NOT HAVE THE SAME SCHEDULES FOR FRIDAY'S IN JANUARY.

M/W Kindergarten (Mrs. Skoglund)

December 15

January 5

January 26

February 2

M/W Maternelle (Mme Urkow)

December 15

January 5

T/Th Maternelle (Mme Urkow)

December 8

January 12

January 26

Report cards will be sent home on December 6th. Report cards will be handed out at the end of the day and will be given to students. If you do not receive your child’s report card, please let the school know!

A reminder that teachers will only be commenting on literacy and numeracy this report card.

Our annual winter concerts are upon us.

The French grade 1-5 concerts will be on Wednesday, December 13 at 1:45pm and again at 7:00pm.

The English grade 1-5 concerts will be on Thursday, December 14 at 1:45pm and again at 7:00pm.

Students will need to be at the school at 6:30pm before the evening concerts. They will be directed to go to their homerooms. Doors will open for guests to start seating in the gym at 6:30.

For the afternoon concerts guests may start seating in the gym no earlier than 1:15pm.

We will be holding our "best seat in the house" draw during both the afternoon and evening concerts on Wednesday and Thursday. To enter please make a donation at the door and enter your name into the draw. One name will be picked just before the show starts to sit in the best seat in the house! All proceeds will go towards subsidizing the bussing cost for the skating field trips in February.

Kindergarten and Maternelle will be holding their joint concert on Wednesday, December 14 at 5:30pm. Guests may start seating at 5:15 for the kindergarten/maternelle concert.

We are getting a Chess club started here at Sifton, and in need of a few more chess boards. If you have a chess set/board that you would like to donate please contact the office. We greatly appreciate the support.

Thank you to all the families that helped make our annual Scholastic Book Fair a smashing success! The book fair enabled us to add over 120 new books to our school library and classroom libraries.

Thank you to all the students and families who are using their library bags consistently and keeping our books in good reading condition.

A great big THANK YOU to Parent Council for helping us pay for our Tumblebooks subscription. Last school year students read over 1500 books in Tumblebooks. So far this year students have read close to 1000 books on Tumblebooks!

All staff and students have access to our Tumblebooks subscription. It gives you access to over 1900 books in various languages. Please click on the Tumblebooks logo to get started at home. You may also access Tumblebooks through the app available on the apple store and google play store. Due to copyright laws we can not post the username and password in this newsletter. If you child has forgotten the login information you can check with their classroom teacher (many have posted it in their google classrooms).

Winter Fundraiser

Thank you to all the families that supported the winter fundraiser. Plant pick up will be December 7 12:15 - 1:15, and December 8 from 3:00 - 4:30. Please pick up your plants promptly in the gym.

A reminder that an account has been opened at the bottle depot where families can drop off bottles any time, and the funds can go towards the school. Ask to donate them to "Sifton School Parent Council" when you drop them off.

Hot Lunch is available to order for students in Grades 1 - 5.

If you have ordered hot lunch and you child is absent, their lunch will be donated unless you contact the school by 12:00pm to make other arrangements. Unfortunately we can not offer refunds for any reason. Thank you for your understanding.

Ordering for January hot lunch is open online from December 4 - 15.

January 12 Panago Pizza

January 19 Booster Juice

January 26 Subway

Please place your ordering using our online payment system : https://www.studentquickpay.com/brsd/

If you would like to help distribute hot lunch please sign up using this link: https://forms.gle/9bbr3YJ8G6bDUHGg7

Your help is greatly appreciated!

A big THANK YOU to parent council for organizing two successful art afternoons. Also thank you to all the Sifton families that came out and participated.