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TVOParents website
TVOParents has a lot of resources for parents including homwork help and articles on school and learning. The following link will take you to the very useful website:
A Parent Symposium was held on October 22, 2011
The RCDSB Parent Involvement Committee hosted its 5th Annual “Achieving As One” Symposium on Saturday, October 22nd at Fellowes High School. The Keynote Speaker was Dyan Eybergen. Dyan is a renowned clinical psychologist and motivational speaker and her keynote address was on the adolescent journey in today’s fast-paced world. The symposium offered parents a variety of workshops including: restorative justice practices for students, Homework Help Program for secondary students, and Healthy Eating: A Public Health Perspective.
Thank-you to all who made this day possible.
12 Virtuous Gifts for Children
Love: A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
Fortitude: Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
Curiosity: A desire to find out and know things
Flexibility: Adaptable, able to be changed to suit circumstances
Compassion: A feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering
Creativity: The ability to create. A quality involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts
Integrity: Moral soundness; integrity is consistency of values and actions. Unspoken completeness with nothing lacking
Reverence: Profound awe and respect
Accountability: An obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions
Resourcefulness: The ability to act effectively or imaginatively, especially in regard to difficult situations~
Purposefulness: Having a definite goal
Silence: Inner peace, comfortable being with oneself
Parents Receive Financial Support for Parent Engagement
The Ministry of Education recognizes the importance of parent engagement. It reflects a growing body of research that demonstrates strong and direct links between parent engagement and student achievement. Strong parent engagement means improved student achievement. Good schools become better with engaged and involved parents. The RCDSB recently received $13,930 for the Parents Reaching Out Grants for School Councils. A total of 15 school councils received up to $1,000 to support their local initiatives for engaging parents in their children’s schools. Projects that were funded by the Ministry included ADHS’s “Teen Mental Health Resource Bank” to Walter Zadow’s “Relationship Matters – Harnessing the Power of Attachment”’. This funding is in addition to the $10,000 the RCDSB received to support the Parent
Involvement Committee’s application for its Achieving As One Symposium.
Newsworthy...from the Ministry and the Board
RCDSB Launches Logo / Motto Contest
The Renfrew County District School Board has launched a logo and motto contest to its students effective September 26, 2011. Superintendent Debra Rantz - a key facilitator in the development of the new vision and mission statements for the board - stated,“We believe in the talents of our students and look for their inspirations in creating a new image for the board”. Recent changes to the geographical boundaries of the Board as a result of the amalgamation of the former school authorities (Whitney Public School and Madawaska Public School) as well as a new strategic plan for the Board has resulted in the need for a new corporate image for the RCDSB. The competition is open to students of all ages and entries must be submitted to the director’s office by December 23, 2011. The winner will receive a new 16GB iPad 2. Students can receive
more information about the contest at their respective schools and on the board website.
Board Hires New Communication Officer
Board Hires New Communication officer named Jake Davies who will start his employment with the board on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. This is a new position for the RCDSB and is a part of its strategic plan to help with communication between staff, students and parents.
Deep River K-12 School named! - The Renfrew County District School Board has confirmed the name of the kindergarten to twelve facility in Deep River as Mackenzie Community School. Staff, students and community members submitted 572 surveys by January 14. Sixty-seven of the 123 suggested names contained a variation of the name Mackenzie. "It was very obvious from the input," said Trustee Barbara Basso, "that retaining the "Mackenzie" name in the school title was important to many in the North Renfrew School Family Community." For the full story read the RCDSB Media release here.
Homework Help - The Renfrew County District School Board has been taking part in the "Homework Help" pilot project which provides free, anonymous, online Math help to all students in Grades 7 to 10 for the 2010-11 school year. This pilot has received great reviews from the parents, teachers and students involved. The website allows students to get one-on-one tutoring
from Ontario teachers from Sunday to Thursday between 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., after school hours, when teachers or parents are unavailable to help. Interactive Tutorials are available to help them work through common areas of difficulty, and Best Sessions and Listen & Learns which allow them to watch recordings of lessons and tutoring sessions on a wide variety of Math topics. A Glossary of Math terms, which includes steps on how to solve specific types of problems, is also available. For the full story read the RCDSB media release regarding Homework Help. Students may register for Homework help through the For Students tab on the RCDSB website.
PPM 150 and Healthy Schools - Ontario has introduced its School Food and Beverage Policy that includes nutrition standards for food and beverages sold in schools. The policy will apply to food and beverages sold:
- in all venues on school property such as cafeterias, vending machines and tuck shops;
- through all programs, including catered lunch programs; and
- at all events on school property, including bake sales and sport events.
The nutrition standards do not apply to lunches or snacks that are brought from home.
The policy was announced in January 2010 and takes effect on September 1, 2011. However, schools are encouraged to consider implementing the policy as soon as possible.
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