Principal's Message
We have had a successful, covid restriction free year at Greater Gatineau, but sadly it has come to an end.
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 and peaceful summer and you’re able to enjoy the outdoors!
REMIND APP
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Important Dates and Information
JULY 3
Holiday for Canada Day
JULY 24-AUGUST 4
School Board summer shut-down.
AUGUST 25-29
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 4
Holiday for Labour Day
SEPTEMBER 5
(DAY 4) All students are in school full time from now on.
SEPTEMBER 21
Greater Gatineau Open House at 6:00 PM.
Governing Board General Assembly at 7:30 PM.
TBD LATER IN SEPTEMBER
School Picture Day at Greater Gatineau
REGISTRATION
If you need to register your children for our school, please contact our registration secretary Amanda Wells by email at awells@wqsb.qc.ca or phone (819) 663-4842 x1.
Reminder that the school board is closed from July 24th to August 4th.
Home & School
Message from the President, Heather Phillips
I want to wish all Greater Gatineau families a very happy (and safe) summer. This year were able to host many in person activities. We look forward to the 2023/2024 school with hopes that we can host more activities and events. We were very excited with the return of the annual Carnival, it was a huge success.
On behalf of all the H&S members, I want to thank everyone who supported the Home and School throughout the year.
This year we held many fundraisers and activities such as the cookie dough and auction fundraisers along with many movie nights just to name a few. This year we raised approximately $4,800 that will be funneled back into the school.
Throughout the year we supported the school with the purchase of new document cameras and the Greater Gatineau Grizzlies t-shirts.
Reminder that we are still looking for new members to join the Greater Gatineau Home and School, please contact us via email at gghomeandschool@gmail.com or through our Facebook page. Our first meeting will most likely be the first week of September.
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. Some of you will be moving on next year and we wish you well. Some of you will be returning and we are excited to see what next year brings. We hope you all have a wonderful summer.
All students have been registered with the same attendance for next year. If your needs have changed please let us know.
New Rate for 2023-2024 has been set at $9.20/day for regular students.
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) 663-4842 x3 or e-mail jplaxton@wqsb.qc.ca Emails and messages will be replied to in late August before the start of the school year.
New Daycare Families remember to join @ggdaycare2 on the Remind app to get notices about daycare events. If you are already on the current remind, you will continue to receive the daycare messages.
Special Notes
End of Year Awards
LANGUAGE ARTS AWARD
Madisson Verreault-Lavoie
Taijah Simpson
Milagro Guzman
MATH AWARD
Dayan Cortes Quevedo
Madisson Verreault-Lavoie
Emma Vanasse Vien
FRENCH AWARD
Rosemary Brulé
Martha Guerrero
Emilie Schoeni
OVERALL ACADEMIC AWARD
Joey Veldhuizen
Liliane Thompson
WQSB CITIZENSHIP AWARD
Joel McKean
PERSEVERANCE AND DETERMINATION AWARD
Mohsen Al-Dabagh
Mohamed Bulla
Arsh Buttar
ART AWARD
Ava Mussgnug
Gianna Bergeron
Dustin Mbarushimana
GYM AWARD
Mia-Rose Bedard
Sadie Brousseau Brazeau
Andrei Tofan
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.
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.
Your child’s IXL math accounts and electronic reading platforms (Raz-Kids etc.) will be available to them during the summer.
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
Write the letters A to Z on a piece of paper. Keep an eye on the licence plates around you. As you find a licence plate with each letter you can circle it or cross it off the list. You can only use each plate for one letter, so choose wisely. Harder version of the game could be that the letter has to be at the start of the plate number.
3) Alphabet Sign 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.
5) 20 Questions
One player is chosen to be the answerer. That person chooses their object but does not reveal it to the others. All other players are questioners. They each take turns asking a question which can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no”. The answerer answers each question in turn. Sample questions could be: “Is it bigger than a breadbox?” or “Is it alive?” Lying is not allowed in the game. If a questioner guesses the correct answer, that questioner wins and becomes the answerer for the next round. If 20 questions are asked without a correct guess, then the answerer has stumped the questioners and gets to be the answerer for another round.