Making Progress

We are currently preparing for our Student Involved Conferences for this year.  As in the past, your child will present samples of their work and talk about their strengths and areas for improvement during the conference.  There will also be an opportunity for your child’s teacher to comment and answer any questions you may have.

This year the Ministry of Education is replacing the first term report card with a fall Elementary Progress Report.  The Elementary Progress Report will facilitate better communication among parents, teachers and students by assessing students early in the school year in a new format.  It will assess key learning skills and work habits and instead of assigning a grade or mark, it will indicate how a student is progressing.  The indicators for progress in learning skills and work habits are excellent, good, satisfactory, or needs improvement.  Subject areas will be reported on using the indicators progressing very well, progressing well and progressing with difficulty. 

It is essential in making the Student Involved conference more meaningful and relevant.  The Elementary Progress Report goes home with students on November 12^th.

Parents of Junior Kindergarten students can look forward to discussing their child’s progress at our November conferences and receiving their child’s first report card in February.

Please look for the Student Involved Conferences 2010 form coming home soon.  We ask you to read it, complete it and return it to school.  Thank you very much and have a great weekend.

Michael Mitchell Comes to Cameron

Canadian entertainer Michael Mitchell performed at our school today.  Staff and students enjoyed the show very much.  Michael shared stories and songs important to him that are truly Canadian.  The gym was decorated with pictures and posters created by students.  Thank you to Madame Colbourne for inviting Michael to our school and for planning this special event.

Walking to New Heights with 95.1 The PEAK FM

Congratulations to our families who are taking our iWALK challenge.  We are pleased with the results so far.  The challenge continues next week and we will continue to track and graph results on our SMART board in the main hall.  On Wednesday October 27, we will share our challenge, our goal and the most up to date results with our community.  Listen for us on CHATS next week on 95.1 The PEAK FM after the 9 o'clock news.  Also, next Thursday afternoon, members of our school Media Club are going to visit the radio station, meet the staff and tour the studio.

Have a great weekend.

Cameron Cares about Halloween for Hunger

In recognition of the Free the Children initiative, we are collecting canned goods and other non perishable food items this week and next week to donate to our local food bank to help fight hunger in our community.  Food baskets are available at our harvest display in the main hall.  Our collection will continue until the Halloween Howler next Friday October 29 (6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.).  Your community thanks you.

Cameron Cares about Your Health and Nutrition

Each morning between 8:40 and 8:50, the Cameron Street Fruit and Juice Shack offers breakfast to students.  Thank you to the staff members who are ready to serve students with a smile, a good morning and healthy options before class.  Also, I am happy to provide my apple basket in the main hall.  Apples are available to staff, students and guests who would like one for a snack.  Our School Council is pleased to offer our Cameron Street Lunch Program.  Students and staff can enjoy Mr. Subs on Mondays, pitas from the Pita Pit on Tuesdays and pizza from Topper's on Thursday...also on the menu, JD's Scrumptuous Lunches available to order.  See me for more information.  Bon apetit!

Cameron Cares about Healthy, Active Living...October is Walk to School Month

Our classroom competition starts Monday October 18.

Everyday between October 18 and 29 classes will log their walking travel time to school.  The total minutes walked by each class will be displayed in the front hall for everyone to celebrate.  The classroom that has walked the most number of minutes to school will win a pita lunch sponsored by School Council. The second place class will win pedometers for each student sponsored by the Environment Network.

Park it and Walk it

To conclude the two week campaign, on October 29 Cameron Street School is hosting a “Park It and Walk It” celebration! Support our initiative and celebrate our students walking to school.  On this morning, all Cameron Street families are encouraged to leave the car at home and walk to school, drop into the school to view classroom graphs on display, grab an apple as a healthy snack and hear more about the health and environmental benefits of walking to school on a regular basis.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Run Away Hit

Congratulations to our Comet cross country runners.  I am proud of our students and their ability to run and represent our school at cross country meets this fall.  Good luck to runners who will compete at the county level next week!  Go Comets Go!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.  Take the time with family and friends and give thanks for that!