The last day of the 2013 Kilometre Club was definitely the best! An amazing amount of 330 runners (plus siblings, plus parents, and others) came out, many of them at 7:30 a.m. or otherwise well before the usual start time of 8 a.m. One student kept going the whole time and logged 60 laps (12 kilometers)! However, Km. Club is not all – not at all! - competitive. Whether you run, walk, or skip - the most important part is having fun!
All the runners together, encouraged by many dozens of supporters, ran a total of 5651 laps. That was more than enough to once again run all the (virtual) way from Halifax to Vancouver. In fact, we would even have made it there if we’d started further east!

Thank you Rob & Jessie: All people attending, adults and kids, were treated to beverages (water, juice, coffee) and snacks (healthy ones! fruit, nutri bars). The H&S Association thanks Rob and Jessie Trembletts from the Valu-Mart on Bayview for their generous contributions. We also highlighted the fabulous cooperation between Northlea and Trembletts through the Shop * Get * Give program: shop at the Valu-Mart with your Northlea card/fob, and get 5% off – with an additional 5% for Northlea!

Fabulous Class efforts:  Many, many classes came out with an amazing amount of students, not alone on Friday but for the entire 2.5 week duration of the Kilometre Club. Today, the class of Mr. Suokonautio, with 21 participants (indeed, almost everybody).
Measured over the full 2.5 weeks over the Kilometer Club, the top-5 classes with the most participants are …
1. Mme Woolner; 2. M. Lariviere; 3. Mme Lambert; 4. Mme McInnis PM; 5. Ms. Gulian (f. Cornish). And yes, those are indeed afternoon Kindergartners coming to school in the morning to participate!
Measured in kilometers, the top-5 of classes were M. Lariviere, Mme Woolner, Ms. Gulian, Mme Lambert and Mme Yoon.

This means that the Pizza lunches were awarded to the classes of Mme Woolner (for Primary), and Mme Shulman (for Junior/Intermediate) – Congratulations!

On behalf of all participants, parents, and the entire Northlea School Community, we thank organizer Claude Lukawesky, and her team (including Kennis Kim and Jeannie Sit) for once again organizing a fabulous Kilometre Club. We also thank the many, many volunteers (students and parents), and staff including Mr. Kennedy. Please read Claude’s message, about the great stories from the km. club: here!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

May 16 update: Almost 700 kilometers Thursday! Special Finale Celebration on Friday
Fabulous performance, runners! With a total of almost 700 kilometers, we broke the 2013 Kilometre Club record by a landslide. we also had more runners come out than any day before, and many of them came for the early start at 7:45 a.m.

We have lots of runners doing more than 30 laps (6 kilometers!) and one who broke the record by completing 40 laps. Special mention, again, to the classes of Mlle. Woolner and Mlle Yoon, who both logged more than 250 laps! Did you know that is more than 50 kilometres?!

On our virtual trip across Canada, we made a huge jump and are now well beyond Calgary and close to the B.C. border. It is a long stretch from to Vancouver, but on our Special Finale Celebration on Friday, we may just make it!

• Which class does best on Friday? Will any class do more laps than the classes of Mlle Woolner and Mlle Yoon? Surely our grade 5s, 6s, 7s, and 8s can?
• With another fifteen minutes of running (dozens of people were ready to go on Thursday 7:45), will anybody break the 40 lap record?

Friday: Special Kilometre Club Finale with food and drinks from Tremblett’s Valu-Mart!

If you have participated this year, make sure to join the Kilometre Club the rest of this week, and especially on Friday. We are delighted that our Rob and Jessi from Tremblett’s Valu-Mart will visit Northlea, and they are bringing treats! Think fresh fruit and something to drink for after the running/walking (!), plus coffee for the adults.

So please join us on Friday. We love to explain the fabulous Shop • Get • Give program with Tremblett’s Valu-Mart: Get 5% off your entire bill with your red Northlea card, plus an additional 5% is donated to Northlea Home and School. It is an easy and simple way to give back to your school and to save money. This year we have already raised over $1500 for Northlea! Have you lost your Valu-mart Shop•Get•Give card? No worries! Show up early on Friday to get a replacement card—quantities are limited, so first come, first served!

Please note: On Friday, all those who want to help us run extra laps/kilometers, or simply for fun, can start from 7:30 a.m.! (food&drinks served after 8 a.m.)

May 15 update: Km Club: early starts Thursday/Friday; special Finale Celebration!

Wednesday was a fabulous day for running. Some people were scared off by the earlier rain, but those turning out did a F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S job, running almost 2 kilometres per person! Running across Canada, We have reached Carenport, Sk (see below for overview)
Thursday: To make up some lost ground (kilometers), everybody is invited to come running from 7:45 a.m. on Thursday – and from 7:30 a.m. on Friday!

Friday: Special Kilometre Club Finale with food and drinks from Tremblett’s Valu-Mart!
If you have participated this year, make sure to join the Kilometre Club the rest of this week, and especially on Friday. We are delighted that our Rob and Jessi from Tremblett’s Valu-Mart will visit Northlea, and they are bringing treats! Think fresh fruit and something to drink for after the running/walking (!), plus coffee for the adults.

So please join us on Friday. We love to explain the fabulous Shop • Get • Give program with Tremblett’s Valu-Mart: Get 5% off your entire bill with your red Northlea card, plus an additional 5% is donated to Northlea Home and School. It is an easy and simple way to give back to your school and to save money. This year we have already raised over $1500 for Northlea! Have you lost your Valu-mart Shop•Get•Give card? No worries! Show up early on Friday to get a replacement card—quantities are limited, so first come, first served!

Please note: On Friday, all those who want to help us run extra laps/kilometers, or simply for fun, can start from 7:30 a.m.! (food&drinks served after 8 a.m.)

May 14 update: Km Club in Saskatchewan; early starts Thursday/Friday; special Finale Celebration!

Great job again runners! Even on a chilly morning you combined on Tuesday for more than 400 kilometers – our highest total in a week! Many classes combined for more than 100 laps today, which is fabulous! Don’t forget: there is a pizza lunch on offer for the class with the most runners, so get your class mates to come out!

Working our way across Canada, we moved from Manitoba into Saskatchewan. Running over 4,000 kilometers from Halifax (!), we have reached the Town if Indian Head – home, among other things, to many beautiful historic buildings (like Saskatchewan’s very first Round Barn, read here).

May 13 update: Kilometer Club runs past Winnipeg on Monday!

The last week of Kilometre Club! We have had nine fabulous days of running, walking, and riding (wheelchairs & strollers). It was good to see a number of people as well at the Spring Into Action event on Saturday with Barry and Olympic rower Chris Jarvis.

So far we have averaged over 400 kilometers per day, and have made our way into Manitoba. We are again trying to make it across Canada from Halifax to Vancouver. There are many miles kilometers to go though, so let’s all go out, and run as much as we can!

On Monday, Ms. Woolner’s class managed over 150 laps – Way to Go!

May 10 update: Kilometre Club about to head into Manitoba!

Great job, Northea Runners & Walkers!

On Friday, we added another 331 kilometers to the total. Following Terry Fox’ original route, we have now made it along the Trans-Canada Highway all the way from Halifax to Kenora, Ontario. We will enter Manitoba and head for Winnipeg next Monday!

With very much going on at Northlea, not all our daily totals (runners, laps, kilometers) are as high as last year. To make it across Canada, we need much more than 2000 kilometers in the next five days. So let’s all go out on Monday, grab some friends – and did you know that adults (parents!) can also join the club and get counted?!

May 9 update: Kilometre Club heads for Thunder Bay!

Perhaps scared of by - totally false – forecasts of rain, both the number or runners and the amount of laps run dipped a little on Thursday. Hopefully Friday (weather permitting), we will once again start the promising climb from week 1.

That said, 360 fun run kilometers did get us over Three Thousand Kilometers! On the way from Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay, we arrived in the township of Melgund, in the Kenora District of Ontario.

Weather alert: Today was another superb day for running. So far, Spring has been superb for Kilometre Club. Even as a few millimeters of rain is forecast for Friday morning, the predicted precipitation thankfully has gone way down. That said, please note that there will be no Kilometer Club if it really rains!
We hope to update this message on the website by 7:30 a.m. in the morning if Kilometre Club is cancelled. Otherwise, we’re a go!

May 8 Update: Kilometre Club already past Sault Ste. Marie!

Running, running, running! With much other activities on the go, the number of runners was down a bit on Wednesday, but those present stepped up and combined for a great distance of 395 kilometers!
Powering along the Trans-Canada Highway, we are now 50 kilometers past Sault St. Marie, running along Lake Superior. If we can get a few good days in, we may get near Thunder Bay tomorrow, and approach the Manitoba border after Friday!

Let’s Go For It, Northlea!!!

Weather alert: Today was a superb day for running (or soccer tournaments, or 100 meter run-offs, or Massey Hall repetitions, for that matter). So far, Spring has been superb for Kilometre Club. Even as a few millimeters of rain are now in the forecast for the next days, the predicted precipitation thankfully has gone way down. That said, please note that there will be no Kilometer Club if it really rains!
We hope to update this message on the website by 7:30 a.m. in the morning if Kilometre Club is cancelled. Otherwise, we’re a go!

May 7 update: Kilometre Club runs Halifax-Sudbury in only five days!

Great Job, Northlea! Another excellent total of 450+ kilometers were run, walked, and wheeled by the members of the Kilometre Club on Tuesday. That brings us from Toronto to past Sudbury in only five of the thirteen days!

We have had great weather, and have seen everybody come out: from parents to Kindergartners joining their older siblings – even several kids pushing their injured class mate in his wheelchair.

Please note:

• To make it across Canada again, we need all hands on deck! Most mileage is of course often reached by the older students – so please Intermediates and grade 5/6: help us out?!
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  Weather alert: So far, Spring has been superb. Wednesday is looking great, Thursday likely as well. Friday does have some light rain in the forecast. Please note that there will be no Kilometer Club if it really rains!
  We hope to update this message on the website by 7:30 a.m. in the morning if Kilometre Club is cancelled.

May 3 Update: Kilometre Club runs 1246 kilometres in three days!

With a fabulous Friday total of 470 kilometers, the Northlea students  (and yes, some parents) in the Kilometre Club broke the record for 2013 thus far

In our run across Canada, we have traveled from Halifax, NS through New Brunswick and we are now 5km past Montreal! (see map on the right). According to our rough calculations, that means we need only about 550 more kilometers to make it to Toronto! Can we do that on Monday?!

We have already had a number of distinguished guests. On Wednesday, we were joined by Toronto City Councillor John Parker, and next Monday, we are likely joined by a true Olympian again! Stay tuned, and keep coming out!

Please note that Kilometre Club runs until (and including) May 17, and starts 8 a.m. sharp in the morning, until 8:30. If it rains, there is no Kilometre Club. Please keep an eye out for the weather, and make sure to apply sun screen, and bring water.

May 2 Update: Kilometre Club runs 775 kilometres in two days!

The 2013 Kilometre Club is off to a running start!

• On day 1, May 1, 100s of runners combined for exactly 375 kilometers. Projected on a map of Canada, it brought us from Halifax deep into New Brunswick (halfway Moncton and Frederickton)
• Day 2, Thursday May 2, brought even more kilometers (400!), and sees the Northlea runners arrive at Larivière-du-Loup.

See you again on Friday, and everyday until May 17th!

Thanks to all volunteers (some below):

Join Fix-it-Felix Jr., Venellope von Schweetz and lovable Ralph for a free viewing of family-favourite flick, Wreck it Ralph

Yummy concessions will be sold. Bring your PJs and Pillows
Where: Northlea, South Gym
When: Friday, May 24, Doors open at 6:30

Wreck it Ralph is a tale of the video game villain who, in an attempt to achieve superhero status, brings chaos to the arcade in which he lives.

While the movie is PG, adult supervision of kids is required.  This is not a drop-off event

Capacity is limited

Please email moc.liamgnull@nilsonrehcr if you would like to attend

The children came and conquered today and the 12 other mornings that Kilometre Club “ran” for this year.  An impressive 5651 laps were completed this morning converting into an astonishing 1130 kilometres!  A goal of “Going Across Canada” was set and the Northlea student’s along with siblings and parents ACCOMPLISHED this feat!  6008 kilometres took us from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the British Columbia Pacific Ocean Coast, truly incredible.

It is a beautiful sight to see the children come out with such a positive attitude and the smiles on their faces’ was just proof to themselves that they can participate and achieve their personal goals.  A junior grade student mentioned to me that this was his favourite club because he could do the laps at his own pace and was rewarded the same as his peers.  A child in a wheelchair was so eager to participate, he had his friends push him around for some laps.  There were lots of Junior and Senior Kindergartners who would run 2 kilometres every day.  Grade 5 boys made personal goals every day, and accomplished them.  Classes challenged one another for most participation.  These are just a few examples of Kilometre Club successes.

This Club could not happen without the support of Northlea’s Staff (from Custodial to Teachers) and Administration, thank you (especially to Mr. Kennedy for being our staff sponsor this year).  Thank you to the many students and parents for handing out popsicle sticks, overseeing the charm and chain tables, helping the children if they got hurt, stick collection,  clean up and behind the scene organization!  Special thanks goes out to Kennis Kim (Attendance Table), Jeannie Sit-Lew (Announcements and Map) and Wilmar Kortleever (Web Update).

Thanks Home & School for your funding support!

Also, our Grande Finale was made extra special this morning by the generosity from Tremblett’s Valumart on Bayview who graciously donated the coffee, fruit, granola bars and water so to them – and to Lynda Debono for the idea, arranging, and organization – we say thanks!

Lastly, THANKS Northlea students for participating in Kilometre Club and we will see you next year!! (Home & School funding was approved for next year!!).  Do not forget to visit the Northlea website for all the Kilometre Club daily town visits:   www.northleaschool.ca

Sincerely,
Claudine (Claude) Lukawesky
Parent volunteer for Kilometre Club
“unconditional giving, provides eternal happiness”

Pictures: Yes, the Yearbook Committee still accepts pictures, but only next week (besides specific requests, which we will also post here). Please contact the Yearbook Team a.s.a.p. if you have some pictures to share with the School community (if you have more than a few, please contact us to arrange stick/USB/CD drop-off).

Writing Contest: More than a dozen grade 8 students have enthusiasticlaly come forward to help with the Yearbook. One of the tasks they’ve taken on is launching a writing contest – details have been announced in school (max. 100 words).

Note: Please keep an eye out for the yellow order form – but the electronic version is also available here…

Megan’s novels are gripping, with creative plots and characters that kids can relate to. Her presentation will focus on her Fallen World Trilogy, a dystopian series about the consequences of an epidemic. Megan will talk to the students about her in-depth research on viruses and her consultation with a microbiologist during her process of writing the series. She will speak about the science of viruses, how they spread, and how we combat them. As well, she will offer insight into the challenges and rewards of a life in creative writing.

A selection of Megan’s books will be available for purchase by advance order. Megan will also be bringing a small number of books for purchase on the day of the presentation, but if a student is interested in buying a book, the only way to be sure to get a copy is to preorder. If you are interested, please complete the attached form and return it with the appropriate amount to your child’s classroom teacher by Friday, May 17^th. Megan Crewe will bring the book orders on the day of her visit and if time permits, she will autograph the books.

We look forward to a memorable and exciting learning experience for everyone!  As always, parents/caregivers are always welcome to join us for any special presentation at the school.  Please contact the school should you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Kerry Millar

Teacher Librarian

Download order form PDF here

The Proposals are available for review in the School office or can be downloaded here. The Agenda for the meeting is here.

Home & School members can vote on these at the Home & School meeting, held from 6:45pm in the School Library. Only members can vote, so please check your membership status before May 15th by contacting ac.loohcsaelhtronnull@loohcsdnaemoh.

Science Fair: As you are coming to the H&S/Council meeting anyway , make sure to arrive early, and admire the very impressive work from our Grade 4 Students in the Science Fair. Ever wondered “Does Chocolate Make You Stay Up?”, “How does a Hovercraft Work?”, or want to know how the extinct Dodo can help a Hoiho? It was all eminently researched by Northlea students, along many other subjects like “Effects of Light on Hermit Crabs”, “How Fish Float and Sink”, “Does Temperature affect Rotting”, and perhaps the most important question: “Why is Mom’s coffee cold?”

The 132nd Toronto Scouts are the local Group for North Leaside – operating mostly out of the basement gym at Leaside Presbyterian at Eglinton and Hanna (unless of course they are on hikes, field trips, or camping). The Scouting year runs with weekly meetings from late September/October until May/June, and the Annual fee is $130.

To register, please bring the child’s Provincial Health Card number, Physician’s name & telephone number, and date of last tetanus shot.

In addition to the 132nd’s website (www.132nd.com), more information is here.

Tremblett’s valu-mart have extended their 5% discount at checkout and 5% funds back to our School to the end of the School year!!

Much of the success of this fundraising program is due to the commitment of Tremblett’s valu-mart to offer great value to Northlea families shopping there.

All you need is the red Tremblett’s card created for Northlea families and you can:

Shop at Tremblett’s valu-mart,

Get 5% off, and Tremblett’s will

Give 5% back to our School.

Lost cards can be replaced by contacting ac.aelhtronnull@loohcsdnaemoh.

They now issue a range of fantastic weekly specials which require printable coupons and to take advantage of these offers, AND receive your 5% discount at checkout, visit the Tremblett’s valu-mart site here and sign up now!