Dear JS Parents,
A warm welcome back to all of our community! We hope you had the opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends over the break.
For prayers today, Reverend Douglas, along with Grade 2L, spoke to the importance of developing a growth mindset. She and the students helped our community explore the idea of what it feels like to not be able to do something...YET.
Please CLICK HERE to see images from this morning's message.
2018 is off to a fabulous start! Students are already deep into their studies, and we are looking forward to what the rest of the year will bring.
Warmly,
Kate White
A warm welcome back to all of our community! We hope you had the opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends over the break.
For prayers today, Reverend Douglas, along with Grade 2L, spoke to the importance of developing a growth mindset. She and the students helped our community explore the idea of what it feels like to not be able to do something...YET.
Please CLICK HERE to see images from this morning's message.
2018 is off to a fabulous start! Students are already deep into their studies, and we are looking forward to what the rest of the year will bring.
Warmly,
Kate White
Please Note:
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REMINDER - JS DRIVEWAY at PICK-UP and DROP-OFF
- Families are reminded that cars are NOT to be left unattended along the driveway, as it is a fire lane and impedes the flow of traffic especially at pick-up and drop-off times. Should you need to park, you are invited to do so on Rosewell or in the lower section of the Upper Schol Parking Lot, which has been reserved for JS families.
REMINDER - OUTDOOR PLAY
- With the changes in weather, the playground and field can be quite wet at recess. We strongly recommend students bring an extra pair of tights (or socks) to keep in their lockers.
REMINDER - VERACROSS
- Please remember to check Veracross for program scheduling as changes do occur. Veracross will have the most up to date information.
MODIFICATIONS TO THE UPPER SCHOOL UNIFORM
We wanted to share with you an update about our Upper School uniform, which will impact your daughter once she enters Grade 7 at the Upper School. Our school uniform has evolved many times over the years, and as such, we are planning to make the following slight modifications to the current Upper School uniform in order modernize and provide additional options for students:
- The green blazer, first introduced in 1930, will see an update in style, along with the white blazer. The enhancements will include a tailored jacket, with a more modern cut, smaller should pads and a lower button.
- The golf shirt will be refreshed, featuring a tailored cut and new fabric designed to keep its shape over time.
- The white turtleneck will be re-introduced as an alternate option to the long and short sleeved golf shirt.
- Pants will be introduced to the school uniform, based on feedback received from the Upper School’s Gender Task Force. Pants will provide students with a new and versatile option and will be available in black.
- As always, we will continue to offer the tunic in a variety of sizes, ranging from 4 to 20.
- Going forward, our #1 Dress at the Upper School will remain the same – white dress shirt, blazer and tie and kilt – with the option of black pants instead of a kilt.
We are aiming to have these new items available for students at the start of the 2018/19
school year. The current uniform will be permitted for wear in the two years following, until
the start of the 2020/2021 school year.
school year. The current uniform will be permitted for wear in the two years following, until
the start of the 2020/2021 school year.
We are also exploring options to make black pants available to Junior School students as well and look forward to sharing an update with you at a later date.
JUNIOR SCHOOL STRING ENSEMBLE
MONDAYS 3:45-4:45 pm
Music Room
Music Room
- Does your daughter play violin, cello, viola or double bass? Our Junior School String Ensemble will run on Monday's after school in the Junior School Music Room with Mrs. Adrianna Lee. Rehearsals start at 3:45 p.m. and finish at 4:45 p.m. If you are interested please email Ms. Read at rread@havergal.on.ca Thank you and we look forward to another great year of music making, Ms. Read and Mrs. Lee
- Primary Choir Rehearsals - Wednesdays 3:45 to 4:30 pm in the music room.
- Jan 10, 17, 24, 31
- Feb 14, 21, 28,
- March 7, 28,
- April 4, 11, 18, 25
- May 2, 9
- **Note : No rehearsal on Feb 7th
- Junior Choir Rehearsals - Tuesdays 3:30 to 4:15pm in the music room.
- Jan 9, 16, 23, 30
- Feb 13, 20, 27
- March 6, 27
- April 3, 10, 17
- **Note: No rehearsal on Feb 6th
ATHLETICS
Schedule - Week of Jan 15-19
ATHLETICS - JS HOCKEY
Tuesday, February 6, 2017
Grade 3 - 6 Parents,
- On Tuesday, February 6, at 1:00 pm Havergal College U20 and U12 Hockey Teams will play against Bishop Strachan in the highly spirited annual HEWITT CUP! Your daughter will travel to and from Mattamy Athletic Centre to this event with their teachers. Please remember to complete this registration so your daughter has permission to get on the bus with her class.
- Registration Link: https://events.veracross.com/hc/74-hd2018
- Parents of girls who are playing on the Hockey Team are invited to join to cheer on our Gators!
- All questions can be directed to Ms. Szolopiak - sszolopiak@havergal.on.ca
JS MOTHER DAUGHTER PAJAMA JAMS 2018
GRADE 4: Tuesday, January 16 @ 7:30am
- In the Junior School, the Havergal College Parent Association (HCPA), is hosting a "pajama jam" themed breakfast where moms (or another special woman) and daughters will arrive in pajamas! Mother-Daughter breakfast events to facilitate community building with new families and new girls in these entry years
- A delicious breakfast will be served and guests will also enjoy a slide show and interactive dance -along. The girls will receive photos and stuffies as keep sakes.
- Grade 4 moms, if you haven’t yet, please rsvp to the Evite invitation sent out last week or please contact JS Mother Daughter Co-Chairs:
- Alnar dr.meghji@gmail.com or Ply ply999@gmail.com for more information
- As a special bonus, all Junior School girls will have a pajama day on January 16th, 2018!
MATH DISCUSSION CLUB - UPDATE 2018
Winter Term Begins - Week of Monday, January 22, 2018
Winter Term Begins - Week of Monday, January 22, 2018
- Math Discussions Club resumes the week of January 22, 2018 in the Learning Hub from 12:10 pm to 12:50 pm.
- Day 1 and 2 - Grades 3 and 4
- Day 6 and 7 - Grades 5 and 6
ENRICHING GIRLS' MATH
- This weekly math blog offers descriptions and examples of key mathematics concepts and principles of mathematics learning used at the Junior School (Havergal College).
- New blog posts about the meanings of “Number Structure” with examples are posted in a 4 part series in Issues 4(4) 121817, 4(4) 122617; Issues 5(1) 010217, 5(2) 010817 and its application to addition and Subtraction of whole numbers (1 digit to 6 digit) and decimal numbers (1 to 3 digit).
- Read and/or download blogs from October 2017 in the “Blog Archives” tab.
- Search through the “Math Learning Links” to access mathematics websites for your daughter to practice and learn mathematics.
- Ask questions and make comments about each blog post at “post a comment.”
- Request additional information, new website links at “post a comment."
- Ask questions and make comments about each blog post at “comments.”
- Sign up to automatically follow the blog, Enriching Girls’ Math
- Let’s leverage this blog to learn about mathematics content that your girls are learning and ideas to develop their precision, efficiency, reasoning/proving and communication in mathematics.
- BOOKMARK this URL … http://hc-girls-math.blogspot.ca
PARENT INFORMATION SESSION- GR. 5 EXCURSION
Monday, January 22, 2018
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
JS Learning Hub
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
JS Learning Hub
- Join us for our Grade 5 Excursion Parent Information Session.
- The overnight trip will take place: Wednesday, February 7 to Friday, February 9 to Ranger Camp at Spirit Point, Algonquin Park
HC SUMMER CAMP (GRADES 4 - 6)
Summer 2018
Summer 2018
- Junior School students in grades 4-6 are invited to register for an exciting summer camp program at Havergal College. Each year, Athletes in Motion (AIM) sports camp and Band at Camp Havergal (BACH) music camp invite students from our partner public schools Grenoble and Gateway Public School for a week of FUNdamental sport and movement skills and/or musical instruction in clarinet, trumpet, percussion, saxophone, trombone, and baritone. AIM and BACH Camps run in August and are supported by Havergal Senior School volunteers, the Forum for Change and the Director of Performing Arts. The registration fee is $400 per child per week and a portion of these fees will go towards ensuring our summer camp programming remains accessible to Havergal's Community Partners.
- For more information please see the link to registration brochures below, or pick up a copy at the front desk.
- Click on the following link for: AIM SPORTS CAMP
- Click on the following link for: BACH MUSIC CAMP
UPCOMING !! SAVE THE DATE
- JS Grade Rep Meeting on January 24, 2018
- Whole School Bake Sale on February 22, 2018
- JS Father Daughter A Maze-ing Race! Sunday, April 29, 2018
This Week at Havergal Junior School
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Monday, January 15 (Day 3)
- 7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. U12 Volleyball - Gold (JS Gym)
- 8:25 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. JS Prayers
- 11:50 a.m. -12:50 p.m. Chess Club (Learning Hub)
- 3:30 p.m - 4:45 p.m. Volleyball Squad
- 3:45 p.m -4:30 p.m. Music and Movement Gr 1-3 (Kindergarten Classroom)
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. Junior String Ensemble (Music Room)
Tuesday, January 16 (Day 4)
- JS Pajama Day for all students
- 6:50 a.m. - 8:00 a.m U12 Swim
- 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Grade 4 PJ Mother Breakfast (JS Gym)
- 3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m. JS Hockey Game (Rinx Entertainment Centre)
- 1:30 pm class dismissal
- 1:45 pm bus departure
- 5:45 pm return time
- 3:30 p.m -4:15 p.m. Junior Choir Rehearsal
- 3:30 p.m -4:30 p.m. Creative Movement Squad Gr 3 - 4 FINAL SESSION (JS Gym)
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. Photography Club (4P Classroom)
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. Chem-Mystery Club (Grade 1 Classroom)
Wednesday, January 17 (Day 5)
- JS Caribou Math Contest
- Grades 4 & 5 @ 8am
- Grade 3 @ 11am
- Grade 6 during math class
- 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. U12 Volleyball (Green) Practice (JS Gym)
- 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. U12 Swim Meet @Markham Pan Am Centre
- Arrive at HC Junior School 7:00 am
- Bus departure 7:15 am
- Return to HC 4:00 pm
- 9:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Grade 4 Assessment
- 11:30 a.m. -12:50 p.m. JS Hockey (Otter Creek)
- 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 a.m. U11 Volleyball (Green) Practice (JS Gym)
- 3:45 p.m -4:30 p.m. Primary Choir Rehearsal
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. TinkerLab - Engineering Workshop (6M Classroom)
- 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Staff/Student Lane Swim
- #1 Dress
- 6:50 a.m. - 8:00 a.m U12 Swim
- 8:25 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. JS Prayers - Goal Setting (Sarah Szolopiak & Students)
- 3:30 p.m -4:45 p.m. Multi Sport Squad Gr 1-2 FINAL SESSION (JS Gym)
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. Cooking Club (2L Classroom)
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. 3D Art Lab Gr 1-3 (3L Classroom)
- 3:45 p.m -4:45 p.m. SIT Club (3P Classroom)
- 4:00 p.m -5:00 p.m. U11 Volleyball Game (Green) @ The York School
- 4:00 p.m -5:00 p.m. U12 Volleyball Game (Green) @ The York School
- Class dismissal: 2:45 pm
- Bus departure: 3:00 pm
- Return to HC: 5:30 pm
- 4:00 p.m -5:00 p.m. U12 Volleyball Game (Gold) vs. BH @ Upper School Single Gym
- Class dismissal: 3:20 pm
- Walk to US with Coach: 3:30 pm
Friday, January 19 (Day 7)
- 7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. U12 Volleyball (Green) Practice (JS Gym) Cancelled
- 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Math Club (6C Classroom)
- 8:25 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. JS Prayers - House Captains
LOOK AHEAD
Monday, January 22
Grade 5 Excursion Parent Information Session (6:30-7:30 pm) Learning Hub
Monday, February 5 - Friday February 9
- Spirit Week
Wednesday, February 7 - Friday February 9
- Grade 5 Overnight Excursion
Thursday, February 15
- DAY 9
Friday, February 16
- Professional Development Day (no classes)
Monday, February 19
- Family Day (no classes)
Thursday, February 22
- JS Parent Teacher Conferences
Monday, February 26
- ATHL: JS/US Spring Athletic Online Registration Opens
Friday, March 9
- ATHL: JS/US Spring Athletic Online Registration Closes
Monday, March 12 - Friday, March 23
- March Break (no classes)
Monday, March 26
- Classes resume
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