Brightwater Volunteers & Behavior Letter

Brightwater Volunteers

This year, Mr. Johnston’s grade 6/7 class and Mr. Catton’s grade 8 class will be going to Brightwater Outdoor Camp from Wednesday, February 9^th to Friday, February 11^th, 2011.  The cost of the camp will be between $40 and $45 and there will be more information to follow about the camp after the Christmas break.  What’s most important now is finding enough parent-volunteers since the success of the camp is dependent on sufficient volunteers. Below, is a list of volunteer roles that need to be filled.  If you are able to fill one or more of these roles, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher via email (cattonc@spsd.sk.ca or  johnstontre@spsd.sk.ca ).  It would be great if we could have the majority of the roles filled prior to Christmas break.  Thanks in advance.

Roles:

·        Buy groceries-list will be provided

·        Haul equipment out to Brightwater Camp-need to have a truck; 15km on highway 219

·        Camp cook-need to be there all 3 days; best if 2 people can do it

·        Day Supervisors-need to be there all 3 day or part of 3 days (shared duties with someone else); help supervise camp activities

·        Night Supervisors- supervise students in cabins

If you are able to commit to the entire 3 days, you roles might be as follows:

·        Haul equipment

·        Day supervisor

·        Night supervisor

If you are able to only commit to evenings, your roles might be as follows:

·        Night supervisors

If you are unable to commit to the camp, but would still like to help out, your role might be as follows.

·        Buy groceries

*Any help you can offer is great appreciated!

Mr. Johnston & Mr. Catton

Dear parent/guardians,

Over the last couple weeks, Mr. Catton’s and Mr. Johnston’s class have walked to Tommy Douglas Collegiate to watch a basketball game at the Bowlt Classic and to watch a dance performance put on the grade 10-12 classes.  The students’ behavior at the events was great; they really made Fairhaven School proud.  Their behavior on the walks to and from Tommy Douglas Collegiate was a different story.  Behaviors such as throwing snowballs, wrestling in the snow, pushing each other onto the road, walking on people’s property and a general disrespect for each other and their surroundings were observed.  This type of behavior cannot be tolerated especially when many of them are dangerous.  This is especially true since the grade 5 and grade 6 classes did the same walk with no problems at all.

Please have a conversation with your child to see if they made any poor decisions on the walks to and from Tommy Douglas Collegiate and  about the importance of being a good role model to the younger grades.  It is very important that this behavior does not happen again since we have planned on walking to Fairhaven Bowl next Wednesday to go bowling and plan on walking to Tommy Douglas Collegiate in the Spring for various activities and if behaviors do not drastically change, the trips will have to cancelled. 

Thanks for your help,

Mr. Catton & Mr. Johnston