This month we would like to continue with building resiliency in children. There is much research to

support the idea of raising resilient children, teaching them the tools they need to respond to the chal-

lenges of childhood and to develop these skills into adulthood. Resiliency is much more than simply

dealing with conflict, it focuses on the skills necessary to deal with many situations, in which we all en-

counter.

Today’s families are under tremendous stress with the potential to damage both physical and psycho-

logical well-being.

Dr. Ginsburg (M.D., MS Ed., FAAP) is a pediatrician who works out of The Children’s Hospital of Phila-

delphia. He has identified the 7 C’s of resilience that teachers, staff and parents can use to help their

children recognize their abilities and inner resources. So far we have examined Competence, Confi-

dence, Connection and Character. This month we will examine the fifth C – Contribution.

CONTRIBUTION

Children need to realize that the world is a better place because they are in it. Understanding the im-

portance of personal contribution can serve as a source of purpose and motivation. Teach your chil-

dren how to contribute by:

Communicating to children that many people in the world do not have what they need;

Stressing the importance of serving others by modeling generosity;

Creating opportunities for each child to contribute in some specific way.

Follow along next month as we examine the sixth C – Coping.

END OF YEAR AWARDS

End of year awards at Namao School have been a way to celebrate the successes of students during

the year and as such has been a celebration of our “tradition of excellence.” In the past, we have had

our awards day for Primary on the last day of school with our awards for Elementary and Junior High on

the evening the night before. However, this year, the last Gr. 9 PAT is on the last day of school, June

26. As such, in order to facilitate awards this year we are planning on having awards as follows:

Primary Awards – June 26 at 10:30 am.

Elementary Awards – June 26 at 1:00 pm.

Junior High Awards – June 29 at 1:00 pm.

June 29 is not a scheduled day for students, as such busses will not be running. Parents attending

awards at 1 pm on June 29 would be required to bring their students for the awards. This change is not

intended on being a permanent method of delivering Awards to our students, however, due to the

timing of this year’s PAT we feel this is the best alternative.

1C 1K 2B 2W 3B 3T

Tanner B Shaye A Ava L Hudson M Maya VK Alysse M

Cameron M Rhys P Hayden S Tristan E Zofia D Seth D

Cohen M Erin R

WINNER OF NEON BOWLING: TANNER B. 1C CONGRATULATIONS!

ADVANCE BAND FESTIVAL

ON MARCH 9/15

PLAYING IN THE FORT

SASKATCHEWAN FESTIVAL

Located at the Shell Theatre at the Dow

Centennial Centre 8700 84 St Fort

Saskatchewan AB

PERFORMING IN THE MORNING APPROX.

10:45 AM . PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS

WELCOMED.

UPDATE! GROCERY CARD PERSONAL FUNDRAISER

If you are purchasing ‘grocery gift cards’ from NAMPA, or if you would like to start, then please be aware of the following information:

Grocery “Personal Fundraiser” Gift Cards that have/ or

will be purchased in the month of March 2015 can still

be put towards the Advanced Band trip this year.

If you purchase Gift Cards after March 31st, then

your account will continue to grow and you can use your

funds for future costs in the 2015-2016 School Year.

Grocery Cards will continue to be sold into the Spring.

If you would like to ask how this program works, please email Mr. Swen-son at kyle.swenson@sturgeon.ab.ca or phone Namao School at 780-973-9191 to inquire.

To access the purchase form, you can visit www.namaoschool.ca click ‘Files’, then select the file titled “NAMPA Grocery Card Order Form”.

Here’s the direct URL link:

http://www.namaoschool.ca/Schools/Namao/Documents/NAMPA_Grocery_Card_Order_Form_3577.pdf

Jr HIGH MARMOT SKI TRIP

MARCH 19/15

Departing Namao School @ 4:00

am for Marmot Basin. Be at the

school no later than 3:45 am

Arriving back to Namao School

@ 9:45 pm to pick up your child.

Public Board Meeting (PB) & Committee of the Whole (CoW)

Meetings are always on the 2nd Wednesday of the month @6:00 pm. Board Meetings are always on the 4th Wednesday of every month @4:30 pm

March 11 CoW March 25 PB

April 8 CoW April 22 PB

4-H News - "Congratulations to all of our Namao students who participated in the Sturgeon County District 4H Speeches and Presentations competitions. We would like to recognize Claire McGregor and Shauna-Lise Aumais who received second place in the junior presentations category, and also congratulations to Kohl Pretzlaff and Kianna McGregor who both won first place in the junior and intermediate speech categories. We wish Kianna and Kohl good luck as they move on to represent Namao at the regional competitions on March 21st."

Both Grade 1 classes will be starting

swimming lessons in April. Lessons are for 5 weeks

starting April 14, 21, 28 and May 5 & 12. All lessons

are at Fountain Park Pool from 12:30—1:20.

Book Fair during

Teacher/Parent

Conference the

evening of March 11 &

12 th in the Library.

MUSIC NEWS!

The Grade 3-6 Sturgeon Night of Music Choir is in full swing and choir members are excited to be learning 2 songs to perform at the Sturgeon Night of Music on Thursday, May 7, 2015 @SCHS.

Interested Grade 5 students from Mrs. Eisenkrein’s class will accompany the choir on the handchimes.

JUNIOR HIGH OTTAWA & MONTREAL

Enjoy beautiful Montreal, and explore the capital city of Canada.

FALL 2015

NOVEMBER 5 TO NOVEMBER 9 Please see shute.weebly.com for more information and

registration procedures. Trip meeting March 2, 2015 @ 5:00 pm in Ms. Shute’s Room

Jr High BADMINTON

TRYOUTS WEEK OF

MARCH 16-20, 2015.

STUDENTS, LISTEN TO

DAILY ACCOUNCEMENTS

AT SCHOOL FOR THE

DATES AND TIMES FOR

TRYOUTS.

In mid-January, one of our Grade 1 students shared that she had become an Earth Ranger and had joined

the effort to protect the habitat of the Western Screech Owl which lives on the western side of the

Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. Our students were very interested in learning more about this

fascinating animal and decided that they too would like to raise awareness and work together to contribute

to the protection of the screech owl habitat. The students have worked very hard to learn about these

owls and demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways. They also took their efforts a step further and

raised funds to support habitat protection through Earth Rangers and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

On February 19th and 23rd the students held a school-wide bake sale and raised $380.00 for this

cause. Mrs. Cronshaw, Ms. Kleespies and the Grade 1 students would like to say a huge THANK YOU

to the parents and staff who donated baking, and to the students of Namao School for their support!

We are very grateful to the Grade 5 and 6 volunteers who ran the sale.

World Book Day is on March 5

To celebrate books and reading, we have embarked on a num-ber of school-wide activities. Please take some time to look at our Readers are Leaders wall which is east of the office across from the PEP classroom. You will see pictures of all of our staff and many of our students with books they are currently read-ing. We want our students to see that the staff at Namao School are readers too! All of the classroom doors will be covered with titles of favorite books, authors or book recommendations. On March 5, all staff and students are encouraged to dress up as a favorite book character. We will have the opportunity to see everyone’s costumes during our World Book Day parade at 9:00 a.m. on March 5, please drop by if you can.

As Harry Truman said “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”

Grade 6

students work-

ing with Grade

3 students

On February 25, the Gr 6

class helped the Gr 3 in

learning how to do simple

French conversations.

We made conversation flip

charts with our Gr 3

partners.

NAMAO SCHOOL WAS IN

PINK TODAY

CELEBRATING

PINK T-SHIRT DAY

ANTI BULLYING DAY

02/25/15

On February 20th Kindergarten went to St. Albert and visited the Art Gallery and Multimedia Studio. The children explored

art with their 5 senses and learned to appreciate all different kinds of art including video and still pictures of real life things. They created two different pieces of art using paper/stencils/crayons and clay to portray characteristics of them-

selves. It was an art terrific field trip!! Thank you to all our parent volunteers that made this trip happen!

Disconnect to Connect

On Family Day, students were asked to participate in our “unplugged hours” challenge by

participating in various activities that did not include electronic devices and submitted a

ballot of how many hours were spent “unplugged:”.

A draw was made and the winner was…

Tyler Woodburn 1C

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

OTTAWA/

MONTREAL-

PARENT

MEETING @

5:00 PM

3

BASKET-

BALL LEGAL

@ NAMAO

4

P.A.R.T.Y

Program

Gr. 9

5

Gr 6 Band & Begin-

ner Band trip to

Camp Nakamun

(over night for Be-

ginner Band)

6 Beginner Band

Camp Nakamun

BASKETBALL

FINALS @SCHS

7

BASKET-

BALL

FINALS

@SCHS

8 Daylight Saving

Time Begins

9

Advance

Band Festival

@ Fort Sask.

10:45 am

10

NSFA

Meeting 6:00

pm

11 Parent/Teacher/

Student Conferences

5-8 pm

Basketball All Star

@ SCHS

12 Parent/Teacher/

Student Conferences

3:30-6:30 pm

NAMPA Meeting 6:30

pm

13 PD/STAFF

MEETING

NO STUDENTS

14

15 16

Term 3

Begins

17

St Patrick’s Day

LAC Meeting 5:15

pm

NSC Meeting 6:00

pm

18 19 Author Sigmund

Brouwer 11 am in

the Gym

JR HIGH SKI TRIP

MARMOT

20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27

Day-in-lieu of

P/T

Conference

NO Students

28

29 30 31

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

3

Good Friday

No School

4

5

EASTER

SUNDAY

6

EASTER

SUNDAY NO

SCHOOL

7

8

GR 9 CITADEL

FIELD TRIP

10:30-3:00 PM

9

Badminton @

Namao

School

10

Gr 6’s Field

Trip to City

Hall

11

12

13

14

Gr. 1 Swimming

Lessons

12:30-1:20 pm

NSFA Meeting

6:00 PM

15

16

NAMPA

MEETING

6:30 PM

17

PD DAY/

STAFF

MEETING

NO

STUDENTS

18

19 20

21

Gr. 1 Swimming

Lessons

12:30-1:20 pm Choir Field Trip

9:00-11:00 am

LAC Meeting 5:15

pm

NSC Meeting

6:00 pm

22

23

Gr 2 Inut

Field Trip

Badminton @

Camilla

24

25

26

27

28

Gr. 1 Swimming

Lessons

12:30-1:20 pm

29

Sturgeon Night

of Music

Rehearsal in

gym

30