PD Day, Friday, November 28: NO SCHOOL for students
Donation Drive for Covenant House: Covenant House Vancouver provides food, shelter, clothing and counseling to an estimated 700 street youth living in Vancouver at any given time, young people for whom there is often no one else. Join us in collecting items to donate to Covenant House, to help bring warmth and joy to homeless youth over the holiday season. We will be collecting gently used clothing, toiletries, housewares and other items to be delivered to Covenant House by the Anchor Point Upper Elementary and Adolescent students. Due to space limitations, only certain items can be accepted as donations. Please see the attachment with the Weekly Memo for a complete list of items accepted. If you would like to contribute, kindly drop off your donations at your child’s school until Friday, December 12th. For more information, please visit www.covenanthousebc.org .
Lions Gate Winter Party – Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 from 1:00pm to 3:30pm: Our Holiday Market will take place in the Exhibition Hall. We will be sending more details on the event in the upcoming weeks. Due to limited space within the Performance Hall, we are requesting families to fill out the attached Reservation Form sent out with our Weekly Memo and return it to the school by Friday, December 5th.
Accepting Donations for the Holiday Market: Our holiday market this year will include arts and crafts, in addition to baked goods and other delicious treats. If you would like to contribute to the market, please drop off donations at your child’s school between December 2nd and December 9th, or directly at the Holiday Market on the morning of December 10th. Please note that all proceeds from the holiday market will go toward enrichment programs and activities.
Supporting our school through amazon.ca purchases: The bookstore page of this website has a direct link to Amazon.ca. Any purchases that are made on the Amazon.ca site through this link will generate revenue towards scholarships and our students’ enrichment funds. This is true for any purchase (not just books!) so long as the entry is from that page. Please let your friends and family know that they can help support our schools through their Amazon.ca purchases through the link on our site. You can access the bookstore without needing to login to the site with a password.
Hot Lunch Program: November Hot Lunches are now available for ordering. Kindly note that orders must be placed at least 24 hours in advance. Just a reminder that hot lunches can be ordered anytime during the month. Please make payments as soon as you have a confirmed order. To order online, please visit https://lionsgate.hotlunch.com/plogin.php. If your child has recently transferred from Mole Hill/North Creek to Anchor Point, please remember to update your profile to ensure that lunch is delivered to the right location. If you have any questions, please contact the Hot Lunch Committee.
ANCHOR POINT
Parent-Only Night “Silent Journey” – 6pm-8pm, Thursday, November 27th: The Anchor Point staff will be hosting a parents-only event the night of November 27th. The event will be an opportunity for parent’s to have a hands-on experience with how your children work with our Montessori materials during the three-hour work cycle. Sign up sheets will be posted at the door next week.
Performers for Winter Play: Kindly inform teachers if your child will not be attending the Winter Party. We have begun rehearsals and would like to ensure that all of our performers with key roles will be attending!
Thank You! Many thanks to Tibor (father of AP student, Neo) for generously donating a printer to the school this week!
MOLE HILL
Parent/Child Workshop, Thursday, November 27: Parents – Join us for this special event as students take on the role of presenting their favourite activities to you. Invitations will be sent home in the next couple of weeks.
Sick Children: We kindly ask that you keep your child at home. This helps us ensure that the other children stay well. Thank you so much!
Outerwear: As winter is here, please dress your child warmly to school and label all pieces of clothing, including hats, gloves and scarves. Thank you!
Arrival and Dismissal Reminder: This is a friendly reminder that it is not only important to be prompt to pick up your child at dismissal, but also very important that your child arrives at school on time everyday. The disruption is not only to the classroom, but also on the child’s holistic development.
NORTH CREEK
Parent/Child Workshop, Thursday, November 27: Parents – Join us for this special event as students take on the role of presenting their favourite activities to you. Invitations will be sent home in the next couple of weeks.
Outerwear: With rain season here, we kindly ask to please be sure that your children have hooded jackets or an article of clothing to cover their heads for our power walks and outdoor time. Thank you!
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Wondering what to do on weekends with your children? Here are some ideas below:
The 18th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl – November 20th to 23rd, 11 am to 6 pm: The 18th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl is Vancouver’s 4-day visual arts, design and crafts festival. This event involves more than 20,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the area bound by Main Street and Victoria Drive, north of First Avenue in Vancouver. It is a wonderful opportunity for families to walk around and see artists in their studios. Collaborating with her mother, the work of our very own Tallulah will be on display at 829 Union Street. Be sure to stop by to check out their new line of pillows For more details on the Culture Crawl, please click here.
28th Annual Festival of Trees -Thursday, November 20th, 2014 to Sunday, January 4th, 2015: Four Seasons Hotel and Pacific Centre Mall presents “Festival of Trees”, transforming the lobby of the hotel and and the upper level of the Pacific Center Mall into lush forests of brilliantly decorated trees. Raising funds for BC Children’s Hospital, the event sponsors include local business organizations and individuals. They have the honor of decorating these trees in a unique and exciting fashion.Come and vote for your favorite tree. For more details, please click here.
The Forbidden City, Inside the Court of China’s Emperors: Until January 11th, the Vancouver Art Gallery will be transformed into the court of China’s Emperors for the landmark exhibition. Selected from the vast collections of Beijing’s Palace Museum, the exhibition showcases nearly 200 precious works from the Forbidden City that have rarely been seen outside of China. Organized in nine key sections, the exhibition leads visitors through the realms of the Imperial Palace. For more details, please visit VAG.
Dwellings – From Seabeds to Cityscapes: This exhibition of young people’s art explores where we live and how we inhabit space shapes our experiences, our culture, and even who we are. Investigate how creatures in different habitats interact with the spaces they inhabit, envision the human body as a dwelling space, imagine habitations for people in the future, and delve into many other creative contemplation on where we dwell. The exhibition will take place at 808 Richards Street until March 25th, 2015. For more information visit ArtStarts in Schools.