Thursday, May 24, 2012

Lion's Roar - Friday, May 25, 2012





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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, May 25, 2012.



By: Douglas MacKenzie, Vanessa Ford, Brooklynn Companion



Students from Immaculate Heart of Mary receive plaques and a monetary prize for placing second and third in the Western Geoscience and Engineering Building the Bridge Competition. In this first picture: (L-R): Anri Vermooten, Claire Reynolds, and Abby Companion won second place, and in the second picture (L-R): Jenna Yetman, Zubia Mahmood, Melissa Castillo, and Nicole Keeping won third place.


This week at Immaculate Heart of Mary, we are very excited to see our new playground being built, and students are eager to play on it when it is finished on Friday.
We are also excited to say that our school is the recipient of a $5,000 grant from W.W.F. Green Community School for our Model Greenhouse Project. We want to thank Mme. Perez-Diaz for the work that she did with the submission.
This past weekend, Brian MacKenzie participated in a Spring Forth Youth Group Camp in Musgrave Town. Brian really enjoyed his experience there.
We want to give a big I.H.M.S. welcome to Ms. Juanita Sheppard who will be working in our Junior Kindergarten Program. Ms. Sheppard joined our staff on Tuesday, and we are very pleased to have her with us.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class went skating. Her class had won this skating trip through a draw for the Top Your Total Campaign. We want to thank Mr. Gillard who accompanied the class.
We would like to thank Ms. Sheri Bombick from Youth Ventures who spoke to our Enrichment students (Grade 7 to Level I) on Wednesday about entrepreneurship and summer business plans. Congratulations to Bethany Whelan who won a t-shirt at the Youth Ventures session.
We also would like to thank Ms. Julia Canning who facilitated environmental sessions for students on Thursday. These sessions promoted environmental stewardship with a focus on waste reduction.
On Thursday and Friday, the Primary and Elementary Provincial assessment for Language Arts was written. This will continue next week with the Informational Reading Component on Monday morning and the Demand Writing 2 on Tuesday morning.

Stars of the Week
Congratulations to our second place winners at the Western Geoscience and Engineering Building the Bridges Competition, Anri Vermooten, Claire Reynolds, and Abby Companion.

Congratulations also to our third place winners in this competition, Jenna Yetman, Zubia Mahmood, Melissa Castillo, and Nicole Keeping. The students received beautiful plaques and a monetary prize.


From The Classrooms
The junior kindergartens enjoyed their Teddy Bear Picnic and making Father’s Day crafts this week.
Mlle. Wight’s kindergarten French Immersion class had a wonderful long weekend, and they hope everyone else did too. This week, they are learning French names for all different kinds of animals, like farm animals, forest animals, and exotic animals.
Ms. Dwyer’s kindergarten class is learning about graphs and subtraction. They are discussing how you can make your own home green by doing things like using solar panels and recycling. Ms. Dwyer’s class is really enjoying buddy reading with the grade five and six class.
Ms. Morrall’s kindergarten class had a very busy week! They planted flowers and vegetables on Wednesday. They are still learning how to add and are loving it! They can’t wait to play on our new playground this week!
Mme. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is finishing Math with shapes. They are starting structures in Science, and are researching about their favorite animal.
Mrs. George’s grade one English class is writing summer stories. In Science, they are learning about the similarities and differences in the needs of living things. They are having a Teddy Bear’s Picnic at lunchtime today!
Ms. Park’s grade two class is writing about ladybugs and they are completing a ladybug craft to go along with the writing. They are finishing learning their lower case letters in handwriting and are starting the upper case letters.
Congratulations to Anna Brake in Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class, who won the draw for the skating party during the Top Your Total Campaign. The whole grade three and four class went skating this week. They had so much fun! They also had fun doing research in Social Studies this week. They’ve learned so much about Earth’s physical features.
Ms. Williams’ grade five and six class is excited about the new playground. The grade sixes started writing their E.L.A. Provincial Assessment on Thursday, while the grade fives have been practicing reading comprehension and writing activities.
Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level one class has their exams in just two weeks. In Enrichment, they are doing Youth Ventures.
Coming Up
This Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at All Hallow’s Church, Beth Arseneault, Ryan Bennett, Darcy Brake, Ryan Murphy, Charlotte Sweetapple, Haley Vanderheide, and Megan Williams will be taking their first Holy Communion.

Next Wednesday, the grade 7 Math League exam will be written. The grade 7’s and 8’s wrote the Gauss exam this past week.

This week is Clean Up Week for the city of Corner Brook and our students will be participating in the Clean Up on Friday.

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Lion's Roar - Friday May 18, 2012





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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, May 18, 2012.




By: Hannah Sparkes, Maria Reynolds, Kiya Morrissey, Bruce Patey

Students in the After School Sewing Program at made aprons for their mother for Mother's Day. In this photo, students showing their final product are (L-R): Heather Cooper, Jayden Lempriere, Summer Ingram, Jenna Cammie and Gina Spencer.



The Ford Drive 4UR School Event hosted by our school on Saturday, May 12 was a huge success with a total of 310 test drives, raising the maximum amount possible of $6,000! We want to thank Humber Motors Ford for providing us this opportunity to raise this money for our Playground Project. We also want to thank everyone who test drove vehicles as well as those parents and students who volunteered on Saturday.
Last weekend, our girls’ soccer team participated in the Sacred Heart Elementary Tournament. The girls would like to thank Miss Rozel and Mr. Gillard for coaching them.
We hope all our mothers had a wonderful Mother’s Day and enjoyed the surprises that our students made for them.
On Wednesday and Thursday, our school performed “The Wizard of Oz”. Thank you to Mr. Graham for directing this musical. Many thanks also to Dulux Paints, Kent Building Supplies, Stan Dawe Ltd. and H & M Audio for their donations to our production. Thank you to Mr. Glen Simms, Mr. David Gillard, Mr. Al MacWhirter, Mr. Bruce Gillard, and Mr. Greg Taaffe for the work they did on the set, and thanks to Candace Pike who helped with the choreography. See a few of our pictures below.
Dorothy, Gina Spencer
Toto, Charlotte Sweetapple
 
Scarecrow, Alex Williams

Tin Woodsman, MacKenzie Brothers
Cowardly Lion, Jenna Yetman
Glinda The Good Witch, Katerina Hamann
Wicked Witch, Kennedi Boland
Oz, Abigail Companion with Guardians of the Gate, Vanessa Ford and Hannah Sparkes
Full Cast & Crew

Our school was chosen by MMSB as a Waste Reduction Hero School, and on Thursday, videographers from NTV news in St. John’s were at our school. They featured Ms. Bennett, Teacher Sponsor for our Green Team, and student representatives about environmental initiatives. Also on Thursday, we celebrated World Catholic Day.
Stars of the Week

At the YBC’s Annual Awards Banquet, Beth Arsenault received the High Single Award, High Double Award, Most Improved Bowler of the Year Award, and the Bowler of the Year Award! Congratulations Beth!

Congratulations to Abigail Tiller who won a gold medal for bowling!

At the City of Corner Brook’s Excellence Community Achievement Awards, our school was the recipient of the Green Learning Award.

Congratulations to all the performers in “The Wizard of Oz” for their excellent performance!


From The Classrooms



The junior kindergartens are busy planting seeds and doing spring activities.

Mlle. Wight’s kindergarten French Immersion class have been busy practicing for “The Wizard of Oz” play. They are looking forward to the long weekend, hoping that they will have nice weather. They are excited to find out that because of all the test drivers for the Ford Drive 4UR School event last Saturday, they will be getting a pizza party!

Emily and Kelsey, students from Ms. Dwyer’s kindergarten class, saw a whale on their way to school Monday. Their class went across the street to the church to look out the bay for the whale, but they didn’t see it. Ms. Dwyer’s class is excited to perform in our musical. They have practiced their subtraction and are becoming fabulous subtracters!

Ms. Morrall’s kindergarten class had a very busy week practicing and performing our school play. They learned about the blend “st” in Language class, and are adding with Math manipulatives. They hope everyone has a safe and happy long weekend.

Mme. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is learning the names of animals in French and is drawing and describing them. They went for a walk to find shapes in their environment and found many circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. They’ve been busy rehearsing for our play.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class started their last unit in Math. They just finished their last spelling test for the year. They celebrated World Catholic Day by writing an acrostic poem and making cards for Bishop Hundt and Monsignor Gale.

Ms. Park’s grade two class is learning the letters “V” and “X” in handwriting.

Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class really enjoyed performing “The Wizard of Oz” this week. They are getting ready to do some research in social studies on rivers, oceans, mountains, and islands!

Ms. Williams’ grade five and six class really enjoyed painting rainbows as decorations for our play. In Language Arts, they are studying author, Roald Dahl.

Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level one class worked hard rehearsing for our play and had fun performing and helping to set up the stage.

Coming Up


On Monday, May 21, Victoria Day, there will be no school. We want to wish everyone a wonderful long weekend!

The Provincial Language Arts Assessment for Primary and Elementary students will be on Thursday, May 24.


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Friday, May 11, 2012

Lion's Roar - Friday, May 11, 2012





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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, May 11, 2012.




By: Katerina Hamann, Olivia Park, Hailey Colbourne, Keagan Sheppard

Immaculate Heart of Mary School will host a Drive one 4UR School Event sponsored by Humber Motors Ford on Saturday. From left to right: Chris Barnes, Douglas MacKenzie, and Hannah Sparkes.


We have a lot of stars to congratulate and a lot of people to thank this week at Immaculate Heart of Mary!

This week is International Composting Week and our Green Team is doing great work this week, and every week, with our composting program.

The grade 6 to 9 band students would like to thank Sarah Marshall, a flute student from the University of Prince Edward Island, and former private student of Mrs. McHugh, who came in to do a workshop with the flute players. The students enjoyed it, and learned a lot. Ms. Marshall said she enjoyed it too! We are hoping she will be back soon to help us with our "Selections from Glee". 


On Tuesday at lunch time, Mr. Gillard had his head shaved for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. He challenged our students to raise $2,5000 for the Jump Rope for Heart Fundraiser, and they raised more than $3,300.! Maria Reynolds brought in $299.50 and earned the right to shave Mr. Gillard’s head. Assisting Maria was Mr. Greg Taaffe.

Also on Tuesday, our staff members had another meeting regarding our Model Greenhouse Project. We would like to thank Mr. Sean Dolter of Model Greenhouse and Mr. Blaine Hussey of the Department of Agriculture who met again with us regarding this project.

On Thursday students participated in The Jump Rope for Heart.

There will be no mass today, Friday, due to a funeral.

Stars of the Week

Congratulations to the ten medalists from the Science Fair: Abby Companion, Brooklyn Companion, Max Chrappa, Hailey Colbourne, Clara Ryan, Liam Dawe, Nicole Keeping, Maria Reynolds, Gina Spencer, and Alex Williams. We also want to congratulate and thank all of our participants. The projects were awesome and our judges had a very difficult time making a decision. We want to thank our judges, Mr. Cecil Lake, Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Chris Wellman. We also want to give thanks to our families for their wonderful response to our Science Fair!
Congratulations to Kennedi Boland, Abby Companion, Nicole Keeping, Maria Reynolds, Gina Spencer and Alex Williams on their advancement to the Western Regional Heritage Fair on Saturday, May 5th. Congratulations to Olivia Park who was also chosen to advance to the Western Regional Heritage Fair, but was unable to attend as she was on vacation. Congratulations to Gina Spencer whose project was chosen for a Citizenship Award. Gina was the recipient of a video camera that she will now use to videotape her project that has to be submitted for a national contest. All the best to you, Gina in the national contest! Congratulations to Kennedi Boland, who was a winner of a Scavenger Hunt at the Heritage Fair. We would like to extend our congratulations to all the participants of the fair.
The grade six students participated in the Mayor for a Day Contest as part of Municipal Awareness week. All participants had very good essays, and we want to thank you all for your great effort and excellent writing! Congratulations to Hannah Sparkes, one of the participants in this contest, who was chosen as a Councillor for the Mock Council Meeting at City Hall on Monday evening. Hannah was a very strong representative of our school at the meeting, and she did a terrific job! We would like to thank Ms. Williams for the work that she did in preparing the grade six students for this contest. We also want to thank Mayor Neville Greeley and his Councillors for allowing our students to have this opportunity.
This past weekend, Caylie Blake, Brooklyn Companion, Kennedi Boland, Anna Brake, Abby Companion and Bethany Whelan were involved in a Figure Skating Test Event. The girls skated really well and passed all of their tests. Congratulations to Bethany Whelan who did her gold free skate test which earned her a gold pin. Congratulations to all the skaters!
This past weekend, Lauren Davis participated in a gymnastics competition in Gander. We give our congratulations to Lauren who won a medal at the competition.
Congratulations to Carter Bromley, Sam Antle, Adam Lamswood, Ryan Lombard, Caleb Rashleigh, Wesley Torraville, and Coen Mackey who each received a medal at the Annual Corner Brook Minor Hockey Year End Banquet.
At the Silver Blades Annual Year End Banquet, Abigail Woodford was the recipient of the Spirit of Can Skating Award; Caylie Blake was the recipient of the Most Improved Competitive Skater Award; and Bethany Whelan was the recipient of the Maude Fraser Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations to all!


From The Classrooms
The junior kindergarten class would like to welcome Ms. Brittany Randell who is doing her work term in the junior kindergarten program with the College of the North Atlantic. They are happy to have Ms. Randell with them! They would like to thank Ben Guy, Deanne O’Reilly, and Janet Barry for making the flower head dresses for the JK classroom for The Wizard of Oz play. They would also like to thank the O’Reilly family for donating the cost of the head dresses to the Wizard of Oz productions. The junior kindergartens are finishing up their Mother’s Day activities. They are learning the importance of their mothers.

Ms. Wight’s kindergarten French Immersion class is doing Mother’s Day activities and crafts. They are learning new words that begin with the letter “U”.

Ms. Dwyer’s kindergarten class had two special visitors this week, Captain Gavin and Pirate Gordon. Ms. Dwyer’s class has just finished learning addition, and they are also starting to learn how to subtract. They are looking forward to being sunflowers in our The Wizard of Oz play. They have been talking about different types of soil and are learning to read. They love to learn!

Ms. Morrall’s kindergarten class worked very hard on their Mother’s Day crafts this week! They had fun at their first Teddy Bear Picnic on Wednesday. They would like to wish “Happy Mother’s Day!” to all of our wonderful moms!

Ms. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is having fun exploring Robert Munsch’s books in their author study. They really enjoyed making modelling clay boats for their Science Fair experiment. Also, they are comparing the growth of plants, animals, and people in Science. They are learning about healthy beverage choices in Health.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class is learning about signs and symbols on maps and globes in Social Studies. In Science, they are identifying common characteristics of humans, animals, and plants, and what makes each unique. They want to wish all our moms a super-fantastic Mother’s Day!

In Ms. Park’s grade two class, each of the students has picked a dinosaur of interest to them and is now doing research. They are also learning about how water is absorbed into the air in Science. The grade two’s are very excited to be practicing for the musical, The Wizard of Oz.

Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class is looking forward to The Wizard of Oz performances next Wednesday and Thursday. This week in Math, they learned to tell time. They also learned that there aren’t enough hours in a day! They are so busy!

Ms. Williams’ grade five and six class has just begun an author study on Roald Dahl. On Tuesday afternoon, they had a lot of fun participating in a Summer Safety Scavenger Hunt on the school grounds. The grade five and six students would like to thank Mr. Josh Penney and public health nurse, Ms. April Dakins, for organizing and leading them in the scavenger hunt, and for teaching them important facts about summer safety.

Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level one class is preparing for The Wizard of Oz play. They are making slideshows in computer class, and they have a Science test this week.


Coming Up
This weekend our girls’ elementary soccer team is involved in an indoor elementary soccer tournament at Sacred Heart. Their first game is at 4:00 p.m. today!

This Saturday (tomorrow), from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., our school will host a Drive One 4UR School Event sponsored by Humber Motors Ford. This event will be held right on our school parking lot. For every person who test drives one of ten Ford vehicles, Ford will donate $20 to our school in aid of our Playground. Only one person per household is able to participate. There is no fee, and it will only require as little as ten minutes of your time. This is a great chance for our school to raise $6,000 in one day! Please come and support this fundraiser in aid of our Community School Playground Project. So many children in our community will be able to use this playground. All you need to bring is your driver’s license.
Tuesday, May 15th is International Day of Families.
Our students and Mr. Graham are busy preparing for the musical, The Wizard of Oz, which will take place in our gymnasium on Wednesday, May 16th and Thursday, May 17th. The performances are at 7:00 p.m. each evening. The cost is $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for students. Tickets are available at the door.
We wish all our mothers a “Happy Mother’s Day!” on Sunday, May 13th.

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