Principal's Message
We have had another successful year at Greater Gatineau, and are now ready to begin summer vacation!
I would like to wish all of our grade 6 students all the best as they move onto the next stage of their life.
I hope that everyone enjoys a relaxing, peaceful, and active summer outdoors.
REMIND APP
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Important Dates and Information
JULY 1
Holiday for Canada Day
JULY 19-30
School Board summer shut-down.
AUGUST 25-27
Teachers back in the school for Professional Development Days.
AUGUST 30
(DAY 1) First day back for all students in grade 1-6. Kindergarten students will have 15 minute appointments to “Meet the Teacher”. Parents can bring school supplies to this appointment.
AUGUST 31
(DAY 2) The first half of the kindergarten students will come to school for their first full day. The second half will stay home.
SEPTEMBER 1
(DAY 3) The second half of the kindergarten students will come to school for their first full day. The first half will stay home.
SEPTEMBER 2
(DAY 4) All students are in school full time from now on.
SEPTEMBER 6
Holiday for Labour Day
SEPTEMBER 10
School Picture Day at Greater Gatineau
SEPTEMBER 16
Greater Gatineau Open House at 6:00 PM.
Governing Board General Assembly at 7:30 PM.
REGISTRATION
If you need to register your children for our school please contact Sabrina Crawford by email at scrawford@wqsb.qc.ca or phone (819) 684-2336 extension 540008.
Reminder that the school board is closed from July 19th to July 30th.
Home & School
Message from the President,
I want to wish all Greater Gatineau families a very happy (and safe) summer. This year has been challenging in many ways, but I want to thank everyone who supported the Home and School throughout the year. We look forward to the 2021/2022 school with hopes that we can have more activities.
Please contact us via email gghomeandschool@gmail.com or through our Facebook page.
We will continue to post on our Facebook page, if you haven’t done so already, please follow us to stay up to date on upcoming events facebook.com/GreaterGatineau.
Daycare
Thanks to our parents, children and educators for a fantastic year! We really came together as a team to make it through. We hope you all have a wonderful summer.
New Rate for 2021-2022 school year has been announced. Regular students who attend three or more days per week will pay $8.55/day.
All students have been registered with the same attendance for next year. If your needs have changed please let us know.
Should you have any questions about our program you can see our information page or to register for daycare next year please do not hesitate to contact Jennifer by phone at (819) 643-6365 or e-mail jplaxton@wqsb.qc.ca
Emails and messages will be replied to in late August.
Special Notes
End of Year Awards
FULLERTON AWARD
Damen Le Geyt
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Language Arts
Rose Marie Quesnel
Sarichesse Landu
Math
Zoe Martel
Ereah Vah
SPORTSMANSHIP
Damen Le Geyt
FRENCH AWARD
Nahla Mfinanga
Bradley Burke
DRAMA AWARD
Zoe Martel
PERSEVERANCE AWARD
Chloe Walker
ART AWARD
Tara Szcozei
Logan Rouleau
WQSB’S LEADERSHIP AND CITIZENSHIP AWARD
Abigail Chenier
VALEDICTORIAN
Nahla Mfinanga
MONTHLY ASSEMBLIES
We are so proud of all the students at Greater Gatineau School for all their work this year.
Each month it was difficult for the teachers to choose only a few students to honour with the awards. Please continue to strive for excellence during the summer and try to follow our school virtues while at camp or visiting with friends and family.
Kindness, responsibility, inclusion, perseverance, co-operation, caring, trustworthiness, respect, fairness and citizenship are the virtues we look for.
Treat people how you want to be treated and you are off to a great start.
KINDERGARTEN 2021-2022
Welcome to our new kindergarten students who will be starting next year. See our virtual Open House video for an introduction to our school.
We are so excited to meet you soon!
There is more information on the Transition to Kindergarten provided by the Western Quebec School Board.
OUR TEAM IS AWESOME!
If you missed it, here is the staff from Greater Gatineau performing to Dynamite by BTS.
READING OVER THE SUMMER
Research has shown that the average student will lose some of their reading skills over the summer months.
It is important that you encourage your child to continue to read while on summer holidays.
TRAVEL GAMES
If you have a chance to drive somewhere with your children this summer, here are a few suggestions of games to play;
1) Road Trip Scavenger Hunt
Print out free online hunt sheets or make your own list and look for the objects while on your trip.
2) Bumper Stumpers
Try to make words from the licence plate in front of you.
3) Alphabet Game
Look for signs that have words that start with each letter of the alphabet in order from A to Z
4) Alphabet start to finish
Pick a topic, like animals. Each person takes a turn to say the name of an animal, the next person has to say an animal that starts with the last letter of the animal before. (Alligator – Rabbit – Turtle – Eagle – etc.) The round ends when someone gets stumped and can’t think of an animal. Pick a new topic and start again.