Welcome to Principal’s Corner. Thank you to all our families who donated to the Beaumont Nisku Christmas Elves. Your kindness and generosity is appreciated. Students have been working hard on their Christmas Concert performances. Friday, classes will be dressing up like a Christmas song. Watch for an email from your student’s classroom teacher. Students continue to have valuable learning opportunities in their classrooms. Wishing you all a fabulous weekend!

– Susanne Stroud, Principal

Reminders

Exciting News

Congratulations to Emma Grayson in Grade 6 who won the 2022 Black Gold School Division Christmas card competition.

Congratulations to all our staff who received Long Service Awards from our School Trustee, Mrs. Robyn Steed. (Missing: Mrs. Goudreau – 15 years)

This Week in Pictures

Grade 9 students have been learning about space. Last week students built a space lander for an egg. This week they tested their landers by dropping them down into the flex space. This was followed by placing the landers in hot water (simulating re-entry). The eggs needed to survive the drop landing as well as the heat re-entry. Some students’ eggs survived!

Grade 3 French Immersion students had so much fun at the Oiler’s game on Monday. Thank you to the many parents that joined us. Thank you also to the Edmonton Oilers and the Give Reading a Shot Program for this great opportunity.

Grade 6 French Immersion students celebrating their reading.

Grade 5 students are learning about electricity and simple circuits. Students created a hypothesis and then tested their simple circuit by changing one variable (adding more wires, batteries or lightbulbs).

In Science, Grade Four French Immersion students learned how to make a machine that moves. They tested their creations using the ramp in the hallway.

Last week, Grade Two students had fun being creative during indoor recess time.

Christmas Concerts

The KImm class will not be performing at the dress rehearsal.

The K English AM class will not be performing at the dress rehearsal.

Upcoming Events

We are hosting a Family Math night with the theme of Dominoes Pizza and Dominos Math Games that will be facilitated by John Felling of Box Cars and One Eyed Jacks (www.boxcarsandoneeyedjacks.com) on evening of Monday, January 23rd. 

This night is geared towards Grades K-5+, all ages and grades that will teach you games you can play with your kids to help with building of their numeracy and Math skills. The presenter with Box Cars and One Eyed Jacks will facilitate games with you and your kids that you can play all around the tool of Dominoes.

All families that RSVP to attend will be fed 1 slice of Pizza/person, and will leave with a mesh bag of 2 sets of dominoes and a take-home booklet with the games that John Felling taught you throughout the evening. Please bring your own water bottle.  Students must attend with a parent or caregiver. It is a family-supervised event.

Thank you to our School Council and Parent Association for sponoring this event.

French Immersion

Extracurricular Activities

Community Services

Thank you to Stephanie Bailey and our School Council for advocating on behalf of our school to bring this program to our school. Many thanks to the City of Beaumont for supporting this.

The City of Beaumont has provided each school with two family passes for the BSRC.  Families can sign out the pass for one week and use the BSRC for free.  If the pass is not returned on the due date or if it is lost or damaged, a $20 fee will be added to your PowerSchool account.  The pass will be signed out to your child through our library Destiny program.  Once you fill out this form (click on image above), the librarian will sign the pass out and email you when the pass is coming home with your child.  The goal is to have as many families as possible use the pass so we will not reissue a pass to a family that has already signed it out.  Please return the family pass to the school office.

AMH Education Services, Edmonton Zone, is proud to offer free addiction and mental health virtual programming for parents and caregivers of children and youth, as well as sessions for all adults. Click on the image above to go to the website.

• Caregiver Education Sessions

These online sessions are intended to provide parents, caregivers, teachers, and community members with introductory information regarding mental health challenges that can affect children and youth. This month, we are offering a two-part lunch & learn webinar series that focuses on supporting executive functioning in children, and a lunch & learn webinaron non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents.  We are also offering an evening webinar for parents and their teens to attend together on technology and the teenage brain.

• Adult Education Sessions (New!)

This month, we are offering an evening session on addressing substance use with a harm-reduction approach. We are also running a lunch & learn session on understanding depression.  These sessions are for any adult wanting to support their own wellness, or the wellness of a youth they live or work with.

See the list of sessions below.