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New Summer Library Program
at Laurentia Elementary

As part of our School Success Plan, our school embarked on an exciting new project to offer library services to our students and families during the summer months. A dedicated group of staff volunteers opened the school library several times per week for our school community. This special project supports our school goals of literacy and students involved in their own learning.

This was a great opportunity for our students to have access to all of our English and French books and those purchased through the Library Initiative this year. It also gave our new Kindergarten students another opportunity to visit our school before they arrive officially in the new school year.

Next year, we hope to also offer access to our new media computers. Special thanks to Mrs. O’Keefe, our Resource Teacher, who spearheaded this project, as one of our school success action items through our Governing Board. What a great initiative!

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News from Laurentia Elementary

On April 10th, Laurentia Elementary School celebrated the re-opening of our newly renovated Library. There are many new, interesting books for everyone and the library space is much larger and more inviting for all our students and staff. It’s a great space to do some research, read with a volunteer or relax and enjoy a good book!

This library project has been very special to everyone here at Laurentia and we really appreciate all the support from the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Our staff, students, parents and volunteers have worked diligently since early in the school year to make this project a great success! Well done, everyone!

When the Alouettes came to Laurentia

By Student Reporter Jennifer

On Thursday, April 13th, six of the Montreal Alouettes came to our school. One Alouette went to each of the classes. They talked about respect and responsibility. After the class visits they went to the gym to play a game of basketball against the teachers and some of the students.

If you remember, some time ago, we wrote an essay on why our school is cool. Well, the top 5 essays were written by: Florence Lizotte, Francis Babin, Veronique Averill-Monette, Jennifer Boulanger and Janna Florant. The winner was Florence. She won 2 tickets to an Alouettes game.

Afterwards they gave out signed cards and then they left. We had a very good day!

Laurentia Book Fair

A special thank you to Mrs. White, all the volunteers and all of you who bought books. Our book fair was a great success! We will be purchasing lots of new books with the proceeds and its just in time to be part of our Library Project in the new year.

Handheld Computer Forum

By Florence and Emman

We participated in a focus group session at Rosemere High School. This brings people who are interested in one subject together. We discussed handheld computers and how they can help students to learn.

We researched some information on the topic. We learned that handhelds are tiny computers. One that is very popular is the Palm One. It has a calculator, address book, note book, mail, internet, a dictionary and you can write texts on it. You can also tell the weather and it can be an agenda and a way of communicating with others.

At first we were nervous but at the end we were not. It was very fun and very interesting and we loved it a lot!

A New Jungle Gym at Laurentia!

As some of you may have noticed, our old playground equipment had to be removed because of safety concerns. Fortunately, the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board answered our plea for help and have installed a brand new beautiful set for the students of Laurentia. The children were thrilled and are enjoying it everyday! Thanks SWLSB!