Congratulation to all the students at South Nelson for their participation with Jump Rope for Heart. Our students spent the morning of June 2 trying a variety of jump rope games. I suspect they all slept well that night! They raised $1220 with will be donated to the Heart and Stroke foundations.

Another Congratulations goes to Ms. DeSousa’s Gr. 4/5 class that raised $335.35 to donate to Team Seas and Team Trees.

Upcoming Events

June 15 – Family Fun Night – 5:30-7:30 – See Poster for details

June 16^th – ALL school technology to the Library – tech department will inventory

June 20 – Trafalgar Family of Schools Event – see attached flier

June 20-  PAC – 6:30 – See attached flier

June 21 – First Peoples Day

June 22 – Gr. 5 celebration at Kokanee Park or Trail Pool

June 22 – Evening Time TBD – District offering – Parent Engagement #8: Physical Activity and its Role in Student Health

June 26^th – Crazy Sports Day – with Gr. 8s from Trafalgar

June 28^th – Final assembly with good byes to Gr. 5s

June 29 – Last Day of school for students – Students are dismissed at 11:33

June 30 – last day of school for staff

Reminders

• With all the end of year field trips, please remember to send a lunch with your child. As explained in an earlier email, hot lunches will not be delivered to students at their field trip. They can pick them up in their class at the end of the day.
• 2023/24 School Bus Registration Deadline Extended to June 16 – for students that qualify – see attached information

The deadline for your families to register for bussing has been extended from May 31^st to June 16, 2023.  We are short approximately 800 registrations from last year.  Any late registrations may result in students waiting for processing in September before they can ride and/or may have a stop eliminated due to bus route design based on registrations at the time of the deadline.  Applications received after June 16, 2023, will be considered only if space is available on routes as scheduled. We have waiting lists on a few routes annually, please get this message out to your families to ensure they have a spot on a bus!

Summer Opportunity

I hope you are doing well! My name is David Le and I'm the manager of outreach programs at Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Faculty of Applied Sciences. We run free online and in-person programs to encourage grades K-12 students’ interest in science and technology. We have developed a variety of online programs this year and we wanted to reach out to share them with students across BC to inspire interest in STEM. I’ve attached information about our programs and resources here and a text version below. We would love it if you could share it with your students and community. The more the merrier! If you would like to hear more about our free student programs throughout the year, we have a monthly newsletter that lists current and upcoming programs. Thank you so much!

SFU APPLIED SCIENCES OUTREACH & SCIENCE AL!VE FREE VIRTUAL YOUTH PROGRAMS

 APP DEV SUMMER CAMP - ONLINE

Summer 2023 | Grade 4-7

The App Dev Summer Camp is a week-long series of virtual workshops that runs daily from 10:00-11:30 am. In this online summer camp, students will attend four workshops in which they will plan their app design and learn about coding concepts that will help them build a random food picker mobile app using Thunkable. In the fifth and final workshop, students will be given the opportunity to present their projects and celebrate their accomplishments! All sessions will be offered virtually via Zoom and at no cost.

REGISTER HERE: https://sciencealive.ca/online-academy

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

To achieve diversity and inclusion in the field of science, technology, engineering, art and design and mathematics (STEAM), we strive to empower traditionally under-represented groups in STEAM by offering programs specifically to under-represented groups.

BLACK YOUTH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVENT - VIRTUAL

May 13, 2023 | 1:00 pm -2:30 pm | Grade 4-7

Join us for a FREE virtual workshop where we teach a general introduction to computer science and digital safety. Specifically, we will explore Artificial Intelligence (e.g, ChatGPT) and the importance of diversifying data and the field of STEAM to include more perspectives. This session is intended for Black youth in grades 4-7, and the session will be scaled to be aged appropriate.

REGISTER HERE: https://coursys.sfu.ca/outreach/apsc-black-youth-artificial-intelligence-virtual-e/register

INDIGENOUS ‘CRACK THE CODE’ EVENT - VIRTUAL

June 12, 2023 | 4:00pm - 5:30 pm | Grade 4-7

Join us for a FREE virtual workshop that explores the world of encryption and cybersecurity, specifically designed for Indigenous youth in grades 4-7! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the basics of encryption and decryption by learning about polybius square and morse code. We’ll also discuss the importance of privacy and protecting your personal information online. So don’t miss out, sign up for this exciting and educational event!

REGISTER HERE: https://coursys.sfu.ca/outreach/apsc-indigenous-crack-the-code-event-virtual-eleme/register

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR OUTREACH PROGRAMS NEWSLETTER: https://www.sfu.ca/fas/news-and-outreach/community-outreach.html

Interested in hearing more about Science AL!VE programs throughout the year? Sign-up for our monthly newsletter which lists our current free youth programs as well as teacher professional development opportunities and resources.

Sincerely,

Jann Schmidt

she/her/hers

Principal South Nelson Elementary School

Kootenay Lake School District #8

Email:  jann.schmidt@sd8.bc.ca

(250) 354-4139

We cannot always build our future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
F.D. Roosevelt