Message From the Head of Junior School: November 19, 2016

Dear Junior School Parents,

 

Happy reading and best wishes for a wonderful weekend.

 

Warmly,

Leslie Anne

FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT

In 1989 Valerie Rixon joined the Havergal Community teaching Grade 1, and since then she has forever enriched the lives of countless young girls on their journey through the Junior School. It is with a heavy heart that I announce she is leaving in January, 2017 to spend time with her family in England in her retirement.

Valerie is a consummate and professional educator with a resume too long, too dynamic and too full to list in detail here. Beyond her dedication to her students in the classroom, she has led numerous popular co-curricular activities focusing on the arts, academics and she even bravely tackled coaching Track and Field last year! One of the biggest legacies that she will leave behind is Philosophy For Children (P4C). This approach to learning encourages students to create philosophical questions to promote inquiry, dialogue and reflection. As the students have grasped this approach and expanded the depth of their learning, so have we all - her colleagues and dear friends.

We are so very grateful for her many contributions to Havergal College and thankful for the impact she will leave on all of us, most importantly - her students. We look forward to celebrating her distinguished career and accomplishments at a later date to be advised.

Please join me in congratulating her and wishing her well.


MUSIC - AN INVITATION TO ATTEND A PERFORMANCE

Our JS Music Educators invite parents to join us on Friday, December 9 from 8:25-9:00 am in the gym for a performance by Craig Cardiff, an Ontario-based folk singer/songwriter as he performs for our entire school community. He has worked with producers Ben Leggett (Faraway Neighbours, Ben Hermann) and Andre Wahl (Hawksley Workman, Luke Doucet). This is the team that produced Floods and Fires, the album that earned Cardiff a nomination for a 2012 Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Solo and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination as 2012 Contemporary Singer of the Year.

Craig Cardiff makes it a point to keep the relationship with his fans personal, inviting and accepting any opportunity to make his audience as much a part of the performance as he is. Over the years, he has played with, and opened for artists such as Glen Phillips, Lucy Kaplansky, Dan Bern, Natalia Zukerman, Andy Stochansky, Sarah Harmer, Kathleen Edwards, Blue Rodeo, Gordon Downie (Tragically Hip), Hawksley Workman, Sarah Slean, Skydiggers, 54-40 and many more. Parents are encouraged to join us for this exciting performance!


ATHLETICS - AUTUMN TEAM ATHLETIC BREAKFAST
The following autumn team athletes in grades 4-6 are invited to the JS Athletic Breakfast on Friday, November 25 at 7:00-8:00 am in the Upper School Hawkin's Dining Hall.
Basketball - U11, U12, U12-2
Cross Country - U11, U12
Soccer - U11, U12
Swim - U12


DATES YOU NEED TO KNOW:
Monday, December 5: JS Pizza Lunch @ 11:50 am
Wednesday, December 7: JS Grade Rep Meeting @ 8:30-9:30 am
Monday, December 19: JK/SK Christmas Concert @ 2:00-3:00 pm in the JS Gym
Tuesday, December 20: Grades 1-6 Christmas Concert @ 6:30-8:00 pm in the Brenda Robson Hall (Upper School), students to arrive @ 6:15 pm
Wednesday, December 21: Early Closing @ 2:40 pm, school closes for Christmas break
Thursday, December 22 - Friday, January 6: NO SCHOOL, Christmas break
Monday, January 9: Back to school!
Monday, January 9: JS Pizza Lunch @ 11:50 am