Peace River North

What appears to be Canada’s largest scale model of the solar system and a partnership between the City of Fort St John and School District 60 needs one more sign sponsor has all the solar body signs sponsored!  We hope to have the signs built in the next months and installed this summer. Thank you to our sponsors as listed below.

Sun - Home Hardware
Mercury – Northern Metallic Group of Companies
Venus - North Peace Savings and Credit Union
Earth - Northern Environmental Action Team
Mars – RE/MAX Action Realty
Ceres and the Asteroid Belt - Booster Juice
Jupiter – Northern Valve Services
Saturn – PriceSmart Foods
Uranus - Urban Systems
Neptune - Spectra Energy
Pluto and the Kuiper Belt - McElhanney Geomatics

There will be an opportunity for one or more companies to sponsor project description signs in the future. For more information please see http://www.prn.bc.ca/projects/solar/?page_id=10

School District 60 Physiotherapist Lisa Boda hosted School District 60’s 7th annual BIKE DAY on April 30 & May 1, 2012

BIKE DAY was created by Lisa and maintenance foreman, Greg Large, who on a regular basis, work together to support children with special needs in SD 60. Lisa uses her skills and expertise as a physio to assess kids and liaises with Greg for his technical expertise to adapt equipment to meet their unique needs. Together, they began making adaptations to typical bikes to further work on the development of a child’s motor skills. “What better way to work on range of motion, strengthening, limb co-ordination, attention skills, and socialization than with a bike,” says Lisa. The demand for bikes quickly soared, and in 2007, Lisa approached the City requesting the donation of found bikes for the cause. A partnership with the City of Fort St. John quickly ensued. During this past year, bylaw officer Bonnie Isenberg played a key role in ensuring the district had the bikes required to make this year’s BIKE DAY a success. Lisa and Greg are already planning for next year’s event, and look forward to celebrating the students’ successes and the continued support of everyone involved, especially the City.

Our Early Learning website has some information on upcoming free family art activities. Please check their post for more information.

The 2012/2013 Adopted “Local” School Calendar as approved by the Board of School Trustees at the regularly scheduled public board meeting of April 16, 2012 is available in the link below. Please note that copies of the Rural School Calendars will be distributed at a later time.

Adopted Local 2012-13 calendar

 Adopted Local 2012-13 Calendar

Technology Services has one mobile device (an ASUS EEE Pad Transformer Android tablet) to lend to a staff member who

• Doesn’t have a laptop assigned to them as part of their job
• Doesn’t have a personal laptop
• Is interested in learning and connecting with other educations professionals through twitter
• Has access to high speed internet outside of work
• Would be willing to share their experiences with others

Interested staff can email jbell@prn.bc.ca from their work account with answers to the following (up to 140 characters for each)

1. What are your most important sources of Professional Development currently?
2. What are areas of your Professional Development you would you like to expand upon?

The 5th annual parent conference is fast approaching. Please see the latest post on the Early Learning blog for registration and more information at http://www.earlylearning.prn.bc.ca/?p=2172

The School Board office will be closed until Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 8am for the spring vacation.

Our Facilities department remains open through the break and can be reached at 250-785-1577.

Bert Bowes Middle SChool will be hosting a workshop by Daniel Vecchio called “Saving our Boys: Our Duty of care” on Wednesday, May 2nd at 7:00pm.

In this workshop/lecture, teachers and parents will learn how fundamentally important it is to engage and nurture the boys in our schools to find their emotional voice (emotional literacy.)

For more information please see the attached/embedded poster below

Saving Our Boys: Our duty of care Poster – PDF

Saving Our Boys

There is a regularly scheduled Board Meeting at the District Development Centre in the School District board office on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 7:00pm. At this meeting parents and staff will have an opportunity to provide input to Trustees on proposed changes to the Local School Calendar for the 2012/2013 year. Please see the attached letter and calendar below.

2012/2013 Proposed School Calendar Letter

2012 2013 School Calendar Letter