Neighbourhood Party at Playland and Events in the Neighbourhood

Link to Info on Neighbourhood Events

• Empire Field - Plateau Park Opening July 
• Neighbourhood Playland Fun
• Franklin Community BBQ

Salmon Feast School Dinner

Friday June 19th is a celebration of all things great at A.R. Lord.  This will be the year end celebration that tops them all!  Fun, games, food and a chance for everyone to celebrate!

We will share and host a free community dinner for A.R. Lord students, their families, staff and specially invited guests.  The menu includes salmon, potatoes and vegetables from the learning garden, bannock and dessert (go green and bring your own plates, water bottles and cutlery).

This will be a big picnic style party so bring your lawn chairs and blankets.

If you can assist and volunteer in the preparations to make this a spectacular event sign up at:  http://vols.pt/RWDYJY or email:  arlordpac@gmail.colm

Play Ball In the Schoolyard!

The BALL! The simplest of toys, the most iconic item of sport, and the science of physics in motion! The humble ball sparks play, instinct, competition, movement and recreation! Kick it, throw it, catch it, roll it, hit it, and bounce it.                                                                          A ball and A.R. Lord Students..... So many possibilities.........So much Fun! 

Science of Fun at Playland

Div 2 Students went to Playland Amusement Park for a recent field trip to learn about Science and Physics.  Since 1988, over 100,000 students from BC have participated.  Students were provided with a Playland Education Guide and learned about acceleration, friction, G-Force, estimation, Newton's Law of Motion and so much more! This field trip was also partially funded by the Parent Advisory Council.

Information on EY Special Advisors Report on the Vancouver Board of Education

VSB Media Release: 
http://go.vsb.bc.ca/schools/blogs/lord/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

And for more information:  See the EY Executive Report Summary: EY report_june_2015_exec_summary.pdf

Year End Celebration BBQ

Bring your picnic blanket and lawn chairs.  Let's go litterless - Bring your own plate and cutlery!

We also need lots of helping hands and volunteers for this event.  Signup at: 
Link to online volunteer register

A.R. Lord Families at Maker Faire

Many students were inspired by science, creativity, technology, textiles and crafts at the recent Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Three A.R. Lord families won passes to the event courtesy of the Parent Advisory Council and the Mini Maker Foundation!
Students from nearby Templeton Secondary STEM Program also showcased their talents at the Faire.
If you are feeling curious or inspired: The Vancouver Public Library has also just created a new free Inspiration Lab at the downtown central library. It is dedicated to digital creativity, collaboration and storytelling and features high performance computers, sound studios, video editing and self publishing software. Check it out: http://www.vpl.ca/programs/cat/C1051

Dr. A.R. Lord Elementary School Book Exchange

Dr. A. R. Lord staff and PAC would like to present our school’s first annual book exchange!

We would like to invite students to bring in any old books (good condition) they have outgrown to exchange for one ‘new’ book to enjoy over the summer. Books should be for children in Kindergarten to Grade 7. Collection boxes will be available outside of each classroom each morning from June 8th until June 16th where students can drop off their books before the start of the school day.

On June 18th all students (regardless of whether they were able to donate a book or not) will be invited to the gymnasium where they will be allowed to choose two ‘new’ books for free.

At the year-end BBQ on June 19th, all ‘leftover’ books will be available for sale at 50 cents each, with all proceeds going towards next year’s book exchange.  We hope to see you all there!

Thriller!

Dr. A.R. Lord Students learned the moves to Michael Jackson's Thriller Dance in music class with Teacher, Ms. Newcombe.

   Dance education provides students with opportunities to experience & understand the language & art of dance. An education in dance provides students with opportunities to:

• appreciate the aesthetic inherent in dance
  
• appreciate the role of dance in society
  
• communicate information, ideas, understanding, & emotions
  
• develop self-motivation & enhance self-esteem through participation
  
• develop critical-thinking skills through the creative process of dance
  
• strive for physical well-being by developing their bodies
  
• develop qualities of co-operation & respect for diversity through a knowledge & understanding of dance in various cultures and time periods
  
• acquire skills & attitudes for lifelong pursuits in dance
  

Update on A.R. Lord Literacy - By Ms. Burke

"The Staff at Dr. A. R. Lord have been working hard on our school goal of improving literacy for our students. Over the past three years we have committed to becoming an Early Intervention school with the Reading Recovery program as part of that commitment. With a supportive administrator to facilitate times for us to meet, the EI team has been having regular  "power hour" meetings for the past two years. At these meetings we:

• watched each other teach in the classroom and discussed what we saw
• we talked about the progress of individual students and how we could best support them
• we participated in a professional book club lead by the Peer-to-Peer mentor, Mary, (Catching Readers Before They Fall)
• we looked at school-wide Early Intervention data and its implications for our teaching
• we looked at the Observation Survey and learned about the types of information that it can give us about our students

This year we applied for and got collaborative funds to further our inquiry. The intermediate teachers joined our literacy team and our staff is closer and more dedicated  than ever. Our collaborative inquiry was able to:

• release teachers to visit and observe teachers in other schools
• send two teachers to the Literacy Summit in Seattle to hear world renowned educators
• meet as a school staff to share our learning with each other
• spend time exploring the new LLI and BAS kits our school has purchased/received
• discuss best practice strategies for classroom teaching as well as how best to support our struggling students

We have seen our staff developing a shared vision and growing in our expertise by having the opportunities to participate in this kind of professional development. We feel it has been extremely valuable and look forward to further opportunities to learn from both experts and each other to keep improving our professional practice."

Purple Monkeys!

Sports Day was a blast for all students who were supported by teachers, staff, parents and student volunteers from neighbouring high schools!  Potato Sack Races, Dress-up relay, Kick Ball, and Egg in Spoon were some of the classic outdoor games that were played!

The Parent Advisory Council hosted a free pizza lunch.  The concession and bake sale were overseen by Shannon VH, Linda D, and Sher R!  We are also grateful to the many parent volunteers helped bake treats, setup, run concession and clean up.  

We can't wait till next year to do it all over again!

Sports Day: Alligators and Gaea Team Green

             

Welcome to K at A.R. Lord Elementary!

New kindergarten students who will join our school in September later this year came for an informative and entertaining visit to our school.  The children and their parents had a chance to meet our wonderful teachers and staff, hear from the Parent Advisory Council, and were treated to a dance by some of the Grade 6 girls.  

Salmon Fry Release Field Trip

Division 3 and 6 visited Beaver Creek at Stanley Park for a recent field trip.  The older students from Ms. Watson's class assisted Ms. Young's class for the final step of the Salomonids in the Classroom Program.
http://www.salmonidsintheclassroom.ca

They have been raising coho salmon eggs in a special school aquarium since January and have seen them grow into the alevin stage and into larger fry.  Equipment was purchased with a grant from the Environmental Managers Association of BC http://www.emaofbc.com.  As young aquatic stewards, the Kindergarten/ Grade 1 students have learned all about the salmon lifecycle and have now released the coho salmon fry into the wild.  These little fish will continue their journey and grow into smolts and then adults as they head out to the ocean and eventually return to spawn to lay more eggs.