Leisure Guide

City of Winnipeg Leisure Guide

The City of Winnipeg is proud to provide a wide variety of recreation and leisure opportunities that contribute to the overall well-being of our community.  The Leisure Guide is published three times per year and is filled with fun and exciting programs for everyone.  The Spring/Summer 2016 edition features spring skating lessons and a number of exciting camps to keep the kids busy this summer, including a new full-day format for our “L’il Critters” preschool camps!  

For more information on leisure, sport and fitness programs, please pick up a copy of the Leisure Guide, call 311 or visit Winnipeg.ca.  Guides are available for pick up at civic pools, libraries and leisure centres, and at a number of retail locations including Safeway, 7-Eleven and Mac’s.  

Watch for the Spring/Summer 2016 Leisure Guide at the beginning of March!  Registration for swimming lessons only will begin on March 15 at 8:00 am.  Registration for all other programs will begin on March 16 at 8:00 am.  

Register for any 2016 City of Winnipeg summer camp by April 22 and you could win your camp for FREE!

City of Winnipeg Priceless Fun 

Winnipeggers now have easy access to information about free recreation, leisure and library programs with the free programming guide, Priceless Fun.

The Spring/Summer edition of Priceless Fun, available in March, provides information about the free programs for children and youth being offered by the City of Winnipeg throughout the city, all in one convenient guide. 

Hard copies of Priceless Fun are available for pick up at all civic indoor pools, libraries and leisure centres. You can view the current edition of Priceless Fun online at: Winnipeg.ca/cms/recreation/leisure/leisureguide.stm.Information about programs is also available by calling 311.

Kindergarten Registration

For families who have children born in 2011, registration for Kindergarten for the fall is on:
Monday, February 22, 8:00am - 6:00pm at the school.

Open House

Our Kindergarten Open House Information Night is Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7:00pm at the school.
This is for families who have children born in the year 2011.
Free babysitting is available.

Phys. Ed. Program Goes to the Circus!

Our Phys. Ed. Teacher, Mr. McKinnon was chosen by our school division to study with the National Circus School! 

He has been studying all of the concepts online since January. This week, Mr. McKinnon, as well as the Phys. Ed. Teacher from Ecole Robert Browning - Mr. Vermeylen, and our school division's Phys. Ed./Health Coordinator - Mr. Ross, are in Montreal to study all of the practical skills necessary to implement some circus techniques into a Phys. Ed. program. Research has shown that using these 'circus skills' in a Phys. Ed. program more effectively improves students' overall fitness levels than with a regular program. We strongly believe in helping our students to be the healthiest people they can be. So, we are really excited to find out what Mr. McKinnon has learned!

Beliefs

On a recent Inservice Day, our teachers worked together on our literacy and numeracy programs. We are always reflecting on our teaching practices, looking at the latest research in education, and finding the most efficient and effective ways of delivering quality literacy and numeracy instruction to our students.

When we begin discussions around teaching practices, it is always important to look at our beliefs. As a teaching staff, we feel it is important for all of us to have the same beliefs so that the values we are teaching remain the same throughout our students' time at our school. We summarized all of our beliefs into 3 core statements. From these beliefs, we have made detailed teaching plans in order to help all learners achieve in reading, writing and math. It is our hope that you share the same beliefs and will celebrate all of your child(ren)'s accomplishments at home and at school along with us.

Here are our core beliefs around literacy and numeracy:

Thank You

Thank you to our families for all the treats this week! We feel very appreciated (and full)! 

The staff at Stevenson feel very fortunate to get to work with such great kids and families. 

Gr. 5 Families

For those of you who missed the George Waters Open House last night, please go to their blogsite for more infomation: George Waters Blog

Registration packages will be sent home for all Middle Schools on Friday.