Welcome Back from the Administration Team at Stoney Creek

From The Administrative Team….

Welcome back to the 2016/2017 school year! We hope everyone had a restful and fun filled summer holiday with family and friends. It is nice to see our students and staff returning refreshed and ready to begin the new school year, which promises to be a busy one. We are all very excited to begin this new chapter in education with you.  We hope to make this an engaging and successful school year for everyone. 

At Stoney Creek Public School, our School Goal is “To improve students’ ability to understand, explain and demonstrate their learning”. We will be focusing our Professional Development this year around our School Goal.  Stoney Creek has an exceptional teaching and support staff that works tirelessly for the benefit of each and every student.  We pride ourselves on being a place where our mission is to ensure that “we build each student’s tomorrow, every day”. We believe that our parent community is an equally important part of the success of our students and school.  We encourage parents to participate in the daily learning activities of their child by talking to him/her about their learning and by using planners to openly communicate with their child's teacher.  There are many opportunities for families to get involved in the Stoney Creek Community. Our Parent Council welcomes new members at any time and will meet monthly at 6:30 p.m. in our school library for approximately 1 hour. Our first School Council Meeting is on Wednesday, September 14^th at 6:30 p.m.

Each day, the parents, staff, and students of Stoney Creek Public School work together to create a supportive, cooperative, and positive environment that establishes a safe and caring place for teaching and learning. At Stoney Creek we encourage students to be responsible for their learning and behaviour and we teach that excellence only comes through hard work and determination. Our intention and hope is that our work and focus will enable students to develop the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and values that will allow them to participate and contribute positively in an ever-changing world.

Please welcome our new staff members!  Joining our teaching staff this fall are Ms. Dyana Squire, our new Vice-Principal working with the Administration team. Also, welcome, Ms. Leashan McCallum-VanPraet teaching grade 7, Ms. Kim Brown is teaching grade 4, Ms. Chelsey Reid, new to grade 1 this year, Kaleigh Chelmak is teaching our new 8^th FDK classroom and Ms. May Chechak is the ECE working within this FDK.  New to our Music Department is Ms. Seritha Rowsell and new to our ESL is Ms. Jan Jeffrey.  We would like to welcome back Mr. Jim Benincasa our ESL teacher. In the office we have a new administrative assistant, Ms. Chelsea Heene and we also welcome Tanis Breen and Amanda Gelinas, Educational Assistants joining our team this year.  We have a number of Occasional teachers filling in for staff who are off on a leave. Please welcome, Mr. Jason Burns our new Grade 8 teacher (Davis),  Ms. Dapne Lambrinos our new grade 2 teacher (Richer) and Ms. Jamie Cain (Lunick) our grade 3 teacher. We wish everyone a warm welcome to Stoney Creek. Wow! A huge number of new staff this year!

While most of us were enjoying the summer sunshine, a crew of hard workers were here at the school making everything look shiny and new for September. An enormous thank you goes out to our custodial team Mr. Goran Brkic, Mr. Justin Kemp, Mr. Jamie Lloyd, Ms. Nancy Krause and Mr. Dan Rovers. The school looks fantastic!

Construction is well underway at Stoney Creek.  The new extended parking lot has been paved making our lot now large enough to hold 100 cars, finally big enough for all the staff!  We now have a portapak of 6 portables with an addition of 8 individual portables in the back of our school, making this a total of 14 portables at Stoney Creek.  Yes, we are now at 1,000 students and counting!  The construction workers have been hard at work fixing up the front foyer, building an additional FDK classroom and adding 7 classrooms to the back of the school.  This construction has an expected completion date of March break 2017. You will notice that the back of our school has been fenced off to ensure student safety and a new ‘temporary’ staircase has been built for entry and exit to the school by our students using this back entrance. We will continue to keep you updated on safety precautions during the construction at Stoney Creek.

Teachers will be sending home a package that includes a number of items that require your attention.  Please read and review with your child where needed, then sign and return the following forms (please note some are double sided):

1.    Lunch Information, School Policies, Emergency Closure Procedures

2.    Elementary Interschool Athletic Form - grades 3 – 8 only

3.    Student Planner $5.00

4.    Internet agreement – for proper use of technology at the school.

5.    Spirit wear order form

6.    Insurance forms – These are optional.  Please send directly to the company.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our students, staff and supportive parent community for working so hard to make Stoney Creek a great place to work and learn. We encourage you to keep in touch with your child's teachers and to contact us if you have concerns or questions. By working together we will ensure that Stoney Creek is a safe, positive and productive learning environment for all of our students. Please visit us at the school, or on our website. We're happy to have you with us and we wish you all a terrific school year!

 

Cindy Kissau  Principal        Dyana Squire Vice-Principal       Peter Dawson Vice-Principal