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| Immaculate Heart of Mary School Home of The Lions Celebrating 15 Years! _________________________________________________ |
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By: Ryan Bennett, Kori-Lee Noel, Emily Murley, and Aaron White
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Students from Mme. O'Dell's French Immersion class with their Christmas wreath. (L-R): Noah Evans, Emily Hindy, Mariam Ahmad, Katherine Noel, Summer Gale, and Charlotte Mercier.
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Nathan Anderson, silver winner in the graphic design category at the Intermediate Skills Challenge, with coach Mr. Drew Nadon.
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Jayden Lempriere and Anna MacKenzie, silver winners in the wind turbine category at the Intermediate Skills Challenge, with coach Mr. Ron Hancock.
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Father
Terry celebrated mass last Thursday with the grade two students in our chapel.
This
Monday we celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception with Mrs. Coleman
and the prayer group with an hour of prayer and song at All Hallows Parish.
The
grade three to six boys’ basketball team played a game at Templeton collegiate
on Tuesday afterschool. The team is being coached by Danielle Wamboldt with Mr.
Ryley Nadon. The boys had a great game! They will play in the Tiny Titans
tournament afterschool today at 5 pm and 7 pm and again on Saturday at Corner
Brook Regional High school.
Our
skills challenge team had an excellent trip to St. John’s last week and really
enjoyed the skills challenge. Our
students took part in First Lego League robotics, wind turbine design, graphic
design and TV video production. The team
would like to thank all their sponsors and individuals who helped with their
projects and fundraising. They would like to send special thank you to Mr.
Scott Reynolds and Mrs. Janet Joyce. As well as the members of the community
who supported their fundraisers.
On
Thursday evening we held our annual Christmas concert. We would like to thank
Mr. Graham, Ms. Joffred and all the teachers and students for a great concert.
Also thank you to Mr. McCarthy for filming the concert. Thursday was also a Christmas theme day.
Students wore red, white and green clothing.
This
week the Student Leadership Council is collecting items for stockings for
seniors, the firefighter’s toy drive and food for the food bank. Donation boxes
are located in each classroom.
We
are happy to report that we were able to collect another 5,000 bread tags for
the campaign to purchase a wheelchair for an elderly person in South Africa. We
will continue to collect bread tags throughout the year.
We
would like to thank Mr. Todd Doman for donating a water cooler to our school
cafeteria.
Last
week the Rotary Clubs of Corner Brook announced a donation of $3,000 for the
kids Eat Smart Program. This money will given out to school breakfast programs
in the Corner Brook area. Thank you for your support!
The
chamber choir will sing this afternoon at the Senior’s Complex.
The
grade 6 girls’ basketball team will play an exhibition game at Templeton
afterschool.
We
would like to send our condolences to Father Leonard on the passing of his
father.
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations to the skills challenge robotics team consisting of Makenzy Bishop, Max Chrappa, Emma Doman, Douglas MacKenzie, Samuel Michael, Jordan Park, Maria Reynolds, Paige Walsh, and Telicia Young who received an award for the research on the topic of learning solutions. Congratulations to Nathan Anderson who received a silver medal in graphic design and the wind turbine team consisting of Jayden Lempriere and Anna MacKenzie received silver medals. Great work, everyone!
The
junior kindergarten classes are busy this week making their wish lists for
Santa Claus. They are decorating gingerbread men. All the students became
little angel’s this week.  |
| CLASS NEWS |
Mme.
Brett’s Kindergarten French Immersion class has been busy practicing their
French song for the concert this week. They have been doing some special
Christmas activities and working on their Christmas vocabulary.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is busy practicing for the Christmas
concert this week. They are learning the letter “m” and are studying more and
fewer in math.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class had a wonderful time at the Christmas concert
last night. They are doing a special craft for their parents for Christmas
today. The star of the week is Lily Smallwood.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class have finished their Christmas carolers
art work. The students were very excited to sing in both English and French in
the Christmas concert. They hope everyone enjoyed the show.
Ms.
Park’s grade two English class has been working very hard to prepare for the
Christmas concert this week. They were very excited to welcome everyone to the
concert and be part of the play with the grade one students. They are also busy
doing many Christmas writings and crafts.
Mme.
O’Dells’ grade two French Immersion class is finishing up their research on
reindeer (renne). They have learned that
the caribou is Canada’s first reindeer.
The Eskimo would use caribou for pulling sleds, food, clothing, and milk
for their babies. Caribou raise their
tails when they recognize danger. They are very good swimmers and can travel up
to 2,600 km a year.
Ms.
Rumbolt’s grade three and four class enjoyed the Christmas concert this week.
The students are looking forward to the Christmas break next week. This week
the students completed their project for the energy challenge and their
paintings on warm and cool colours.
Mme.
Lachance’s grade three and four French Immersion class worked very hard on a
creative idea for the Kids in Charge Contest. To promote energy conservation
they created a Lego book. They built scenes showing energy conservation. They
took photos of the scenes they built to illustrate their tips. One of the
examples was to heat food up in the microwave rather than the oven to save
energy.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class are making hand printed Christmas cards
this week. Each student made six copies of their design for their families. The
students are looking forward to the Christmas vacation.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class had
a great time on their trip last week. The students were especially excited to
visit Signal Hill and Fort Amherst. The exchange students performed a song in
Portuguese and English on Thursday evening at our school Christmas
Concert. The students are also busy
finishing their novel studies and assignments before the Christmas break. |
| COMING UP... |
Our
school will be skating on Tuesday from 9:30 am to 10:30 am.
On
Wednesday we will have a school pancake breakfast.School will close on Friday, December 19 at noon. There will be a school variety show after recess on Friday.
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