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School Report Dear Students, Staff, Parents, Caregivers and Community Members,
We are now into the first week of May and despite the lingering coolness in the weather, there is anticipation in the air as we work toward a safe and strong finish to the 2016-2017 school year. Joining us on staff for the last part of this year is Mr. Byron Thiessen who is working with Team Truth in our Special Education Center. We are also taking the time to thank our teacher candidates for the completion of their learning and teaching assignment with us at the end of April. All the best to all our teacher candidates as they continue in their learning, and pre-pare for their teaching service. U of M: Derek Barnet, Dexter Frank, and Claire Rodger, and from the U of W: Ali-son Jonk, Alexander Braun, Anna Currie, Katie DeRoo, Laura Carroll, Catherine Nguyen, Sean Fitzmaurice, Mo-na Friesen and Nikeesha Williams.
January to March was our longest time of sustained learning and teaching and the spring break gave us a little time for reflection before we resumed for our final term. On the literacy front, our ELA teachers implemented the use of the developmental spelling assessment (Words Their Way) as well as the writing continuum. You may be familiar with both as they are part of the assessments in elementary and we have been able to extend it to the middle years to further assist us in supporting our students learning through ongoing assessment of student pro-gress.
Our boys and girls basketball teams at both junior and grade nine level competed with very good effort at the di-visional level and we are currently transitioning to outdoor soccer and softball. May and June will be busy months filled with learning activities and many deadlines, so please review and make note of those that relate to your children in the attached May and June calendar.
Please note in particular the exam schedules in June, followed by opportunities for students to enjoy experiential learning across our school with mini courses and a diversity of teams and school wide activities
Please also keep in mind that our Awards Ceremony for our Grade 7, 8 and 9 students will be on Tuesday, June 27th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at our school. Details will be included in our invitation letters to parents/caregivers in June to join our students in celebrating their achievements. We can also expect strong representa-tion from our community leaders and government representatives to join us in marking our students’ milestones of achievement. In the evening of June 27th, our Grade 9 students will enjoy their farewell dinner and dance at the Viscount Gort and in preparation for this undertaking, students are raising funds to offset the cost of their tick-ets. Please do consider supporting them.
567 Bannatyne Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3A 0G8
Mr. Vinh Huynh, Principal
Ainslie Loria, Vice-Principal
Telephone: 204-786-5631 Fax: 204-783-6473 Website: www.winnipegsd.ca/schools/HughJohnMacdonald
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At a community level, we will be hosting a pop up event that is being organized on behalf of the City of Winnipeg to obtain feedback from residents regarding the West Alexander to East Exchange to provide the important east-west connections between Waterfront Drive and Sherbrook Street. This project will look at options for improving the exist-ing painted bike lanes to protected lanes so that they are comfortable for people of all ages and abilities. Please note that this event will take place on Tuesday, June 20th and details will come out soon as to the time and content for the consultation.
Finally, all current 7 and 8 students are preregistered this year and an option sheet has been sent home for students to work with their parents on the selection of option courses. This new pre-registration is designed, as much as pos-sible, to be a seamless transition for your child to be registered in advance for homerooms, and course selections for next year.
Thank you.
Vinh Huynh Ainslie Loria
Principal Vice-Principal
PINK DAY— April 12, 2017
Team Leader - Mr. Kousonsavath
Mr. Villegas Ms. Martim Ms. Mackenzie Ms. Donachuk
Spring is here with it’s up and down weather of
snow, rain, cold or wind, but team humility has
embraced it all with gratitude. Learning continues
both inside and outside the classroom. Student
Teachers finalizing their practicum have been busy
winding up their units with reviews, tests and cel-
ebrations. It has been such a busy time for our
staff and students. Some students in our team
have also participated in the Science fair as well as
the Science challenge at the University of Manito-
ba with great enthusiasm and success. Thanks to
our parents who helped with transportation and
attending with their sons and daughters to offer
moral support.
Team Humility has participated in a number of ex-
citing field trips which have included; Bowling at Po-
lo Park and an afternoon at Youth For Christ (YFC).
The field trips aside from being part of our out door
learning, have also contributed to our team building
activities and connections. Our upcoming field trips
will be to the Millennium Library on May 18th for
book reading in the morning and track and field on
May 11th. Other school activities for the month of
May and June are posted in the attached school cal-
endar. Thank you for your support
TJ's Gift Foundation visited for an incredible as-
sembly. TJ's Gift is an organization dedicated to
supporting youth in making positive choic-
es. Karen Wiebe who founded the organization
with her late husband Floyd, lost her son TJ due
to his addiction and drug use. She has dedicated
her life to making sure other youth don't make
the same mistakes that resulted in her son's
death. Coupled with an amazing musical perfor-
mance by "Bold As Lions", TJ's Gift was a power-
ful presentation with an important message for
the students, "You all matter." Karen's dedica-
tion was further demonstrated as she provided
all the students with her personal cell phone
number, encouraging them to contact her if they
ever needed anything. For more information on
TJ's Gift please check out www.tjsgift.com
Team Leader - Mr. V. Tran
Ms. Rondeau Mr. G. Henson Ms. Fallorin Ms. Flamand Ms. Muswagon
Students in team Courage are busy with school work for the last 2 months of the school year.
We are also planning for more activities in May and June including an overnight trip to Camp
Manitou. Please watch for more details in the future notes. Good luck to all students on the final
exams and have a safe and restful summer.
Team Courage would like to thank the teacher candidates on our team: Ms. Claire Rodger, Ms.
Nikeesha Williams, Ms. Catherine Nguyen and Mr. Sean Fitzmaurice from the University of
Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba for their outstanding contribution to the team. Special
congratulations to Ms. Claire Rodger for already being hired as a term teacher in River East
school division in fall. Wishing you all the best in the future!
Term 2 HONOR ROLL Congratulations to the following students who had more than 80% av-
erage in 4 core subject areas –Math, Science, Social Studies and English Language Arts. We are
proud of you. Keep up the good work!
Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9
Lexy Sapnu AJ Salazar Devon Hugh Aujero
Gabby Corbillon Mayumi Martin Yogesh Chhetri
Ralph Flores Daisy Rose-Domingo Ron Del Moral
Mariele Fajardo Skylor Ha
Daniel Tesfaye Krystal Khate Malig
Najma Abdirahman
Mia Laqui Ortiz
Nicole Ingrid Acojido
Building Math through Our Classroom Circle
I learned from my grandmother that when we are part of a storytelling circle, we
have to listen and speak from our hearts. This is an Indigenous perspective of
valuing and respecting our roots as human beings. At the beginning of each math
class, the students and I sit in a circle. This allows me to welcome my students.
For the following five minutes, we use a “white board” on the floor in the middle
of the circle where students are able to listen and see the introduction or explana-
tion of the topic. My goal is to continue using a math circle to build a better un-
derstanding of math skills and ourselves. In other words, it is to build skills with
humanity.
Mr. Vodniza
Team Leader - Mr. W. du Plooy
Ms. H. Schellenberg Mr. R. Helbig Ms. J. Forzley Ms. C. Buoncore
Trip to Assiniboine Park
On April 28th, the Wisdom Team teachers, educational
assistants, students teachers and our students had a
field trip to the Assiniboine Park. Some students rode
their bikes to the park. The weather was perfect!! We
played frisbee, soccer and walked across to the park. It
was beautiful to see our students arriving at Assini-
boine Park on their bikes.
We believe in the importance of building relation-
ships with students to support them better in
their educational journey, and this field trip al-
lowed us to build these connections. Human con-
nections shape our identity as human beings. We
hope that this will be the beginning of a conversa-
tion that stretches from the field trip, to the class-
room, into our community, and back into the
Team Leader - Ms. K. Elliott
Ms. M. Obradovic Mr. B. Mymin Ms. A. Babynchuck
Team Truth would like to thank Mr. Zywylo and Mr. Theissen for their
work with Ms. Elliot’s class while she has been away. Her students have
been very welcoming to them. Room 301 and 314 have been very busy wel-
coming new students to their ever expanding EAL classrooms. As part of
our team building initiatives, we will be going bowling as a team activity on
the morning of Tuesday May 9th at Polo Park Lanes. We will also be going
to the Cindy Klassen Recreation Centre on the morning of Friday May 19th.
Finally, a big thanks to the LAC students in room 215 for doing all the
shopping for the cafeteria this year. They’ve worked very hard to ensure
that the breakfast and lunch programs always have all of the ingredients
they need to provide students with nutritious meals.
EAL POT LUCK
LAC ART
FORKS FIELD TRIP
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MSSS Awarding Ceremony
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Congratulations to Hugh John Macdonald School for garnering the following awards in the just con-
cluded province-wide science fair - the MSSS (Manitoba Schools Science Symposium)
AJ Salazar-Silver
Phol Jin Beloy- Silver
Phol Jin Beloy -Special Award/$100 from Labels Unlimited
Upcoming: Five (5) Falcon Teams or 20 students will take part in the Let's Talk Science Design
Challenge at the University of Manitoba on May 1, 2017
Thank-you Hugh John family and
friends to all the support to Science!
Soar Falcons Soar!
Gigi Fallorin
May 2017
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1/Day 6 2/Day 1 3/Day 2 4/Day 3 5/Day 4 6
30 HR FAMINE 6:00 PM— 10:00 AM SAT. MAY 6
30 HR FAMINE 6:00 PM FRI. MAY 5 -10:00 AM
7 8/Day 5 9/Day 6 10/Day 1 11/Day 2 11/Day 3 13
Non
Instructional
NO CLASSES
Bear Witness Day—bring bears to school United Way-Conscious Kindness #KindMB School Vis—3 school leaders from Nelson Otter River Cross Lake MB. AM - tour of HJM PM - bike tour with General Wolfe & Gor-don Bell. HJM will be the launching site.
HJM TRACK &
FIELD @
Cindy Klassen
14 15/Day 4 16/Day 5 17/Day 6 18/Day 1 19/Day 2 20
HJM Track & Field rain date
Team Humility @ Millenium Library AM
21 22 23/Day 3 24/Day 4 25/Day 5 26/Day 6 27
Victoria Day
National
Patriots Day
Aboriginal Policy Community Session
5:00—7:00 PM
28 29/Day 1 30/Day 2 31/Day 3
June 2017
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1/Day 4 2/Day 5 3
4 5/Day 6 6/Day 1 7/Day 2 8/Day 3 9/Day 4 10
11 12/Day 5 13/Day 6 14/Day 1 15/Day 2 16/Day 3 17
GR 8 ELA EXAM
AM
GR 8 ELA EXAM
AM
GR 7 & 9 SCIENCE/ GR 8 SOC STUDIES
EXAM—AM
18 19/Day 4 20/Day 5 21/Day 6 22/Day 1 23/Day 2 24
GR 7 & 9 ELA/ GR 8 SCIENCE
EXAM—AM
GR 8 & 9 MATH
EXAM—AM
GR 7 MATH EXAM
PM
GR 7 & 9 SOC STUDIES EXAM—
AM
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY
MAKE UP
EXAMS Non
Instructional
PM ONLY
NO CLASSES
25 26/Day 3 27/Day 4 28/Day 5 29/Day 6 30/Day 1
MINI COURSES GR 7—9 AWARD
CEREMONY—AM
GR 9 FAREWELL
DINNER & DANCE
6:30—10:00 PM
HUMILITY—MENTOR
CAMP @ BIRDS HILL
WISDOM—BIKE TRIP
@ BIRDS HILL
SKILLS CANADA—
TRY A TRADE DAY
MINI COURSES LAST DAY OF
SCHOOL
11:30 AM
STUDENT
DISMISSAL