Ventura Park PS BLOG

Information Sessions

Information session for Grade 1 entry into the French Immersion (FI) program will take place at Ventura Park P.S. this Thursday January 16, 2020 at 7 p.m. 

Registration

FI registration will begin on January 17, 2020. Parents or guardians of Senior Kindergarten students entering Grade 1 in 2020, and wishing to enrol in the FI Program, who are living in the Forest Run, Carrville Mills, Thornhill Woods, Bakersfield, and Wilshire school areas, can visit or call their home school office and request an Office Index Card – short version. This Office Index Card must be signed by the principal of the home school. Parents or guardians then take this form, along with one piece of identification showing their address to the designated FI program location to register, between January 17 and February 7, 2020.  Registration during this period is not first come, first served.

Late Registrations

Late registrations are those submitted after February 7, 2020.  Late registrations will be treated on a first- come, first-served basis and will be considered subsequent to registrations received during the registration period should overflow be necessary.

Today our Grade 4,5,6 students were able to hear the very dynamic Kevin Sylvester speak about bravery, courage and perseverance. He spoke about many of his well known books and shared pointers about illustrating. The students thoroughly enjoyed it, we want to thank Bathurst Clark Library for hosting us and our students for representing our school so well.

See flyer below for information on how to register your child for this lunch program starting in January.

Since September, the Knitting Club has been working to create book marks, bracelets and hair bows. The goal in creating these items is to raise money to donate to the Sick Kids Hospital. All the things that they created are hand knit and they are all different. They will be selling their creations on one day only, on Wednesday January 15 at both first and second recess. The items cost $2 and $4. Any donations for our cause will be greatly appreciated! We thank you in advance for supporting the effort of the Knitting club participants to donate all the money raised to Sick Kids Hospital. 

A reminder that this Wednesday, January 8th at 6:30 pm, Ms. Sheri Epstein, the Principal of Westmount Collegiate Institute, will be at Wilshire Elementary School to speak to Grade 8 parents and answer any questions you may have about preparation for secondary school, course selection, student activities, transition from elementary to secondary, etc.  All students living in the Westmount C.I. catchment/boundary area or interested in applying to the Arts Westmount Program are welcome to attend.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER MILK FOR TERM 2

For those families interested in ordering milk to be served at lunch time for Term 2 (February- June), the last day to order is January 27th, 2020 at noon.