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516A Stanley Ave.
Selkirk, MB
R1A 0S1
Telephone 785-8284
FAX 482-8370
MISSION STATEMENT
E-mail: bonaventure-sch@lssd.ca
École Bonaventure is a safe and respectful learning community in
which every member has the opportunity to develop his or her
academic, social, physical and creative abilities within a French
Immersion setting.
www.lssd.ca/bonaventure/home.htm
Principal’s Message
April 2015
I had hoped that the new gymnasium would have been open for a tour during the Student-Led conferences, but alas it wasn’t meant to be. We’re still hoping for a spring ribbon-cutting ceremony though!
The exterior brick has been completed and the interior has been painted. Soon they will be bringing in
the hardwood for the flooring.
In the meantime, we will be busy introducing new families to the benefits of French Immersion April 8th
from 7:00 to 7:45 p.m. in our library. This session is geared to parents who would like to enroll their
child in Kindergarten or Grade 1 for the 2015-2016 school-year. Since the Bonaventure doors will not
yet be accessible, visitors are asked to come in through the doors on Sophia.
April 9th we will have our school-wide Spell-a-thon. Pledge sheets will be returned home by Friday,
April 10th. Funds will go towards a new projector and screen for the gymnasium.
April 17th there will be no school for students, however our teachers will be learning how to assess and
help students improve their French Oral Communication skills.
April is Music Month in Manitoba, and certainly here at Bonaventure. Students will be rehearsing two special school songs which will be featured during the grand opening of the gymnasium. They will also begin to prepare for our spring concert to be held May 14th.
Since making the decision to retire at the end of this school year, I have been organizing school photos
and making sure our history is accessible for years to come. I ran across very interesting pictures and
noticed that two current staff members have been at Bonaventure longer than I! I would like to
acknowledge the following staff and their milestones:
5+
Linda Andres
Josee Belanger
Josee Buisse
Suzanne Corner
Guy Dube
Shannon Dube
Ginette Goulet
Janet Herbachuk
Robin Kendall
Sherry Michaluk
Christiane Pare
Vanessa Stamm
10+
Heather Kelly
Carmen Pedersen
15+
Meg Cullen
Rachelle Tougas
20+
Lindy Beveridge … actually 23 years! Félicitations Mme Beveridge!!
On behalf of the Bonaventure Team, I wish you a well-deserved Spring Break! We`ll see
you back at school Monday, April 6 (Day 5). The April school calendar is also attached.
Mme Rachelle Tougas, Principal
Bonaventure Bulletin
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FROM THE LIBRARY …
I would like to thank all the parents, students and staff who attended our Spring Scholastics
Book Fair. We raised $4,000.00 in sales! This means we received 60% in profit for our library!
This allows us to purchase more books for the library from Scholastic.
Congratulations to Avery B. who won the Family event door prize! She and M. Dubé each
received $25 towards the purchase of books.
I also had a “guess how many fish crackers in the jar” contest. The closest was Ella C. in
Grade 5 with a guess of 387 (there were 382 in the jar) who won $10 at the book fair.
I am always proud of how well our book fair does and that is because of our wonderful students and their families who support it every year. Merci!!
Josée Bélanger-Galay, Library Clerk
Parent Advisory Council
The 5th annual SPRING FLING will be held on
Friday, April 24th from 6:30-9:00 pm. There is a
limited number of tickets (and we have sold-out
in the past), so please purchase your tickets by
April 7th. Besides our regular venue with a
snack bar and door prizes, we will be raffling
off an IPAD MINI with an I-Tunes card and other goodies available. The funds will go towards
the purchase of a large projection system to be
used for special events and assemblies for the
students at EB. Hope to see you there! Have a
great spring break!!
Our next PAC meeting will be held in the school
library on April 14 at 6:45 pm. All parents are
welcome and child care is provided. Please
come in through the doors on Sophia.
Thank-you! Leslie Whitney, PAC Chair
Low Cost Bicycle
Helmet Initiative
We have been informed by
Manitoba Education that the
helmets purchased through the Low Cost
Bicycle Helmet Initiative will be delivered
to us during the week of May 12-20,
2015, instead of the previously communicated date of March. This is due to a
delay in the helmets being shipped from
overseas, which unfortunately has
caused a delay in shipping them out to
schools across Manitoba.
Gaynor Family Regional Library Resources
The Gaynor Family Regional library has added 100’s of
ebooks that only require an internet connected device and a
public library card to use. If you are a resident of Selkirk, St.
Andrews or St. Clements it is free to get a library card and
access these materials. This collection is in addition to the
eLibraries of over 10,000 ebooks for adults and children.
Please note this is not the same materials as World Book encyclopedia but specialized publications like: animals of the
world, building blocks of math, early peoples, etc.
The system is very easy to use and provides access to excellent and respected reference information for K-12 students. It
can be accessed at the library website GFRL.ORG under our
services and homework help. Standard Browser software and
applicable plug-ins (Flash) do need to be up to date to view
the publications. So if you are working on a school project
and need access to resources this is a quality option to access
reviewed materials.
Child Care Nursery School
Open House and Registration
Tuesday April 14, 2015, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Our program provides a variety of open-ended activities in a co-operative, creative and sharing environment two days per week for children aged 3 and 4
years. We invite you come and see our facilities,
learn more about our program and register for September 2015.
Lord Selkirk Regional Comp. Secondary School
221 Mercy Street, Selkirk
For more information, please call Elaine Dehn at
204-482-6926