Huron Happenings – May 28, 2018

BIKE TO SCHOOL WEEK

From May 28 to June 1, 2018 Huron and other schools, public health offices, municipalities, regions and non-government organizations across the province will be celebrating Bike to School Week. We are encouraging students to walk and roll to school, and the Eco Team is sharing news about the benefits of active transportation. We hope your family will talk about ways to be active and eco-friendly in moving about. If a student bikes or rolls to school (even part of the way) next week, we would love to celebrate it! Please send any photographs of your child(ren)/family cycling to school to diana.willstork@tdsb.on.ca (one of our Eco teachers) with the subject line “Bike” and the student’s/family’s name. We are planning to post pictures on our “Bike of Fame” wall. A photograph of this wall will be part of our “evidence” in an application for more bike racks that we are submitting to T.D.S.B. EcoSchools this June. Thank you for your support of this Eco initiative!

SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING

Our next School Council Meeting will be happening on Tuesday May 29th, 2018 at 6:00pm. Babysitting and pizza will be available for children – all parents/caregivers are welcome to attend the meeting and be a part of the discussions.

PICNIC FOR THE ARTS – WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!

We can’t run the Picnic without our stellar volunteers. We need 150 and only have 50 so far…Please help! VOLUNTEER ONE HOUR AT THE EVENT! If each family takes a one-hour shift, we won’t have to ask anymore. Sign up NOW! Click this online sign-up link – we’ve made it really easy for you to make the Picnic a success: http://www.volunteersignup. org/BY7XF
*Older siblings/Huron alumni/high schoolers are welcome to volunteer – we can sign for community hours*
Questions? Send an email to: huron.volunteer@gmail.com

PICNIC FOR THE ARTS – ONLINE AUCTION ITEMS NEEDED

This year, our Auction is going ONLINE! We want to give everyone the chance to enjoy all the fun activities at the Picnic without worrying about making that last bid in the Gym. But since lots of money raised comes from the Auction, we really need everyone’s help to get donated items. Huron’s “Ask Letter” is attached below — print it out and bring it to your local business. Where you shop, dine out, have coffee, pamper yourself, take the kids…anywhere! If we each got one item donated, it would be our best Auction ever! Questions? Contact our Auction Leader, Heidi McDonald: heidimcdee@yahoo.ca Donations are due by JUNE 4.

PARKING

As we all know, our parking lot is very small and often does not have enough space for staff and visitors to the school. We are asking for the community’s support in NOT using the parking lot as a drop-off/pick-up spot for your vehicles. On several occasions recently staff have had to wait, drive around the block and in some cases pay for parking for the day, only to come back to the lot and find spaces that were only temporarily occupied while someone was being dropped off. Please leave our limited parking spaces open and available for staff. For everyone to think about – rather than just increase the congestion of vehicles on the street (which we also recognize as being problematic) perhaps as a community, especially being a Platinum Level Eco-School, we could think about solutions such as dropping off a couple of blocks away and allowing for a little walk to school, or is it really necessary to drive in the first place? Alternative methods of coming to school are something we can all think about as we try and reduce our carbon footprint.

LOST AND FOUND

Our collection of Lost and Found items has reached epic quantities…please remember to check our Lost and Found structure in the front foyer frequently and take home items that belong to you. A reminder also that ALL ITEMS in Lost and Found will be donated to a charity at the end of the school year so please make sure that all items are claimed.