Welcome to QMS

Voicemails 2009-2010

March 15th

 

 

There will be a presentation this Wednesday at 6:30 at Quispamsis Elementary School for those adults who are interested in learning about educational opportunities in the area.   This will be of particular interest to those who are seeking ways to improve their skills to advance in their workplace and or to improve life skills.  Please call QES at 847-6207 to register.

 

 

 

March 8th, 2010

 

Hope everyone had a wonderful March Break!

Thank you so much to Marg Constantine for donating our fridge for us, and thank you to McIntyre's for delivering it to us! Thank you so much!

We are looking for a JV Boys Volleyball coach, if you are interested, please call the school.

 

Tuesday, March 9th       

•             Boys and Girls V-Ball Tryouts 3:15 - 5

•             JV Boys host Semi finals 4pm

Wednesday, March 10th           

•             Race Night for the Race Team

•             3:15 – 5:00 Grade 7/8 Band

Thursday, March 11th                     

•             District Science Fair @ Wesleyan

•             Boys and Girls V-Ball Tryouts 3:15 - 5

•             7:45 am JAZZ Band

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Feb 22nd:

 

We are pleased to announce that we have a QMS Home and School (we are calling it more of a parent help group). Their first task is to find some quotes and information about benches for the front of the school. If this project would interest you (it's not really about fundraising, it's about finding the best benches for our school), please call 847-6210 and leave your name and #.

 

We are looking for a fridge. If anyone would like to donate a fridge to us, we would really appreciate it. It would need to be in fairly good condition. Please call us if you have one to donate to us.

 

• Feb 22nd-JV Girls Basketball semi finals @RPS 5pm

• Feb 23rd-Science Fair (8:30-10:30am)

• Feb 23rd: JV Boys host semi finals 4pm

• Feb 24th-Ski Club

• Feb 24-Grade 7/8 Band 3:15-5:00pm

• Feb24th-JV Girls Final Game (TBA)

• Feb 24 PSSC 6:30-7:30

• Feb 24th-School Dance 6:30-8:30pm

• Feb 25th-Jazz Band 7:45am

• Feb 25th- JV Boys Final Game (TBA)

• Feb 25th-Peace Rally

• Feb 26th-Keith Mullins presentation

eb 17th

Midterm reports went home today

 

Feb 15th

What’s Happening @ QMS

 

 

 

Feb 10th

Staff appreciation this week. We have 53 members (not including our bus drivers) on our QMS staff who work very hard for your children every day, so please help us out this week in saying thank you to our 53 staff members and our bus drivers.

This week:Tomorrow Jazz band practice at 7:45am then Boys basketball are playing

in their semi finals after school. The girls basketball played today. On Friday,

Boys basketball practice from 3-5 and Girls practice from 5-6:30pm.

 

Feb 4th

Grade 8 registration forms for high school are due tomorrow
Parent permission forms for the Student Wellness Surveys are due tomorrow

 

Feb 1st, 2010

This week:

Tuesday, February 2nd     

•             Varsity Girls Practice 3-5

•             JV Girls Practice 5 – 6:30

Wednesday, February 3rd           

•             Ski Team (2nd week)-reminder to bring your passes

•             3:15 – 5:00 Grade 7/8 Band

•             JV Boys Practice 5:00 – 6:30

•             V Boys Practice 6:30 – 8

Thursday, February 4th                  

•             7:45 am JAZZ Band

•             JV Boys vs RPS @ 4pm

•             JV Girls vs HMMS @ 6pm

Friday, February 5th                      

•             Varsity Boys Practice 3-5

•             Varsity Girls Practice 5-6:30

 

Jan 27th

 

Thank you to Mrs. McKenna, Sarah Henderson and Karly Roberts in helping the
school raise 1500$ for Haiti!

Grade 9 registration forms for our grade 8s to go to high school have been sent
home. Please send them in as soon as possible! Deadline is February 5th!

Student Wellness Surveys parent permission forms will be coming home in the next
couple of days, please send them back by February 5th.

Our breakfast program starts tomorrow. This program is for students who need a
bit of food before heading off to class and who did not get a chance to grab
something before they head out the door. If your child has had a good breakfast,
it would be nice to leave the food for the others who need it. As we know
breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. Thank you to Mrs.
Buchanan, Mrs. McKewen and our parent volunteers for helping our students have a
great start to the day.

Jan 26th:

Great job by cast, crew, Mr. Finnigan and Mr. Surrette who presented 5 performances of Beauty and the Beast!

This week:

Congratulations to our QMS January special students and staff who were celebrated during our assembly today!

 

Jan 20th, 2010

 

All Schools activities are cancelled for tonight due to weather

 

Jan 18th, 2010

 

We are fundraising for relief efforts in Haiti. If you have any loose change at home, and would like to donate it, please send it in. We will donate it on behalf of QMS.

Ski Club is cancelled again this week as the lift at Poley Mountain is not working.

If anyone would be able to help us out with our breakfast program from 8:15-8:40, please call the school to leave your name and number.

This week:

• Jan 19th-Boys basketball SMS@QMS 4pm

• Jan 19th: Drama rehearsal 3:15-4:45

• Jan 20th-Girls basketball @ RPS

• Jan 20th-PSSC Meeting 6:30-7:30pm

• Jan 21-Boys basketball @ RPS

• Jan 21-Drama Stage crew remains at school to set up (supper provided) Cast to be back at school for preshow preparation at 5pm

• Jan 21-Drama production Beauty and the Beast Curtain Call 6:30pm(5$/adult and 3$/students/children)

• Jan 22-Drama production Beauty and the Beast Curtain Call 6:30pm(5$/adult and 3$/students/children)

• Jan 23-Drama production Beauty and the Beast Curtain Call at 1pm (5$/adult and 3$/students/children)

• Jan 24-Drama production Beauty and the Beast Curtain Call at 1pm (5$/adult 3$/students and children)

 

Jan 12th, 2010

1.       We Care

 

The students and staff at Quispamsis Middle School were very busy fund raising money to support our needy families in the valley area in the month of December. Through many bake sales, candy grams, pictures with Santa, renting the teacher's chair for the day, selling raffle tickets and donations , we managed to raise $2235.72 for the Turkey Drive. Fireman, Ray McCaskill, said that 60 to 70 families benefitted from this money. He was very busy making sure the Turkeys were distributed in time for Christmas dinner.

The students from the We Care Committee send a sincere thank you to all those who helped make this fund raising event such a success. We are very proud of all the Cougars, their families, and Staff at QMS.

We Care Committee,

 

Mary Lou Comeau

Annette McKenna

 

 

2.     The QMS ski team starts this week. They will go to Poley Mountain every Wednesday for 6 weeks. Please bring a helmet, warm clothes, supper or $ for supper. The bus will return to QMS at 9:30pm. Parents, please be at QMS at 9:30pm. IF you haven’t paid your bus fee yet, please bring it in to school as soon as possible.

 

3.     A loss experience, such as death, divorce or separation, can be classified as a crisis that propels us into the grief process.. The Rainbows program educates and builds public awareness about the growing number of children suffering significant loss issues in their lives.

If you feel that your son or daughter may benefit from taking part in the Rainbows program please contact the school office at 847-6210 or the guidance office 849-5722.

 

4.       WE are interested in starting a home and school association here at QMS. We haven’t had one for many years, and we need your help! The main goal of this group of parents would not be fundraising, it would be to do the legwork needed to get some initiatives underway here at QMS (for example: outsourcing information on getting new benches built or bought for the front of the school.) If you have a bit of time for a meeting once a month and a bit of time to donate to do some legwork for us (phone calls, visits, etc), please call the school at 847-6210 and leave your name and number to say that you would be interested in helping us out by being part of our Home and School Association.

 

5.       Just a reminder to keep checking our upcoming events under Cougars Den on our school website qms.nbed.nb.ca. We are really trying to add all special events on that one page so you can fill your calendars, so remember to visit our upcoming events at qms.nbed.nb.ca

 

6. Events of this week include:

·         Jan 12th: Boys basketball HMS @ QMS 4pm

·         Jan 12th: ESJ @ QMS 5:15pm

·         Jan 13th-QMS Spelling Bee

·         Jan 13th-Girls Basketball QMS @ HMMS

·         Jan 13th-JV Boys practice 3-5

·         Jan 13th-Boys Basketball 6:30-8

·         Jan 14th-Boys Basketball game vs HMMS 4pm

·         Jan 14th-JV Boys and girls basketball practices 5-6:30

·         Jan 15th Boys basketball 3-5

·         Jan 15th-Girls basketball 5-6:30

 

Any questions, please let us know, Have a great week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 11th, 2010

I want to inform you that there was an incident with a QMS student over the weekend and an inappropriate message which was posted on Facebook – the incident is being handled by the Rothesay Regional Police. Please be assured that all students are safe, the incident was reported quickly and acted upon by police over the weekend.  I wanted to acknowledge the incident  in case you hear of it in the community.   

I will send another message tomorrow with upcoming events

 

 

Jan 5

We hope you had a great holiday season

Mr. Long's phys ed classes will be going snowshoeing tomorrow and Thursday-so if

you have phys ed with Mr. Long tomorrow or Thursday-dress appropriately!

School clothing will be in on Thursday of this week!

We wish everyone a great week!

See you tomorrow!

 

 

Dec 18: School clothing is in! Stormtech sweatshirts are on back order, and will only come in after the holidays. Sweatpants may come in next week. If they come in next week, Mrs. McCallum will call you and you can pick it up next week at the school. We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season!

 

What’s Happening @ QMS

 

Dec 10th: Great evacuation practice today! Thank you to all staff and students.
Reminder to parents that parent surveys are due tomorrow. Please send them in.
Have a great weekend!

Dec 9th: School Dance has been rescheduled to Dec 16th because of the weather.

Dec 7th: Thank you to everyone who came out for parent/teacher. It was so nice to see so many parents! Lost and Found items are in the front foyer-parents and cougars, please come and take a look to see if any of these items are yours. These items will be donated after Friday of this week. Since September, we have practiced our fire drills. Now, we need to practice our school evacuation this week. (St Mark's Church)
This week:

What’s Happening @ QMS

 

Dec 2: Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences tomorrow from 4-7 and Friday from 9-11:30am.
During Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences, we will be selling school clothing. All orders will be ready for Dec 17th-great Christmas presents!
Snack program starting after Christmas on Tuesdays and Thursdays-8:15-8:30am-any amount of help would be appreciated (even one day a month)
Special Education Plans have been mailed-please return to our resource teachers as soon as possible
Turkey Drive is well under way
Synrevoice voicemails will be sent starting on Monday regarding attendance and regular voicemails will be sent with this system. It will call Aliant, Rogers and email addresses.

November 30th:

What’s Happening @ QMS

 

Celebrate!   The Badminton Team and their 1^st place finish in the districts! 

November 24th: Thank you to parent volunteers who helped us out last Thursday for our H1N1 clinic. Thank you to parent volunteers who drove students from 8 Chapman to join Julia Rans who ran with the Olympic Torch this afternoon in Sussex. We are starting  a small breakfast club from 8:15-8:30 in the morning, if you can volunteer your time during this time frame, please call 847-6210 and leave your name and #.

We Care Turkey Drive

 

 

Dear Parents of QMS,

                                     We are starting our Annual Turkey Drive on December 1, 2008. It will run until Dec.17/08.  We will have many fund raisers going on in our school.  We are working in collaboration with our Regional Fire Department.  All proceeds collected will go to the needy families in the Valley area.  The local Firemen purchase gifts and food for these families.

                                      Please feel free to make a donation and encourage your son/daughter to participate in the fund raising activities. In the past, we have always raised over $2500. Help support this worthy cause.

                                      All classes are in competition to see who raises the largest amount.  For every $20.00 raised an ornament goes on the tree on the bulletin board.  Every class has a different ornament.

                                      We here at QMS appreciate all your help.  Have a healthy, happy, and safe Christmas.

                                                                      Yours sincerely,

                                                                      We Care Committee

 

 

                                                                       Mrs. Comeau

                                                                       Mrs.  McKenna

                                              

November 23rd:

What’s Happening @ QMS

 

November 19th: Public Health is holding H1N1 Clinic today. They have just advised us that they will immunize QMS siblings under 5 years old -1st dose ONLY!.

November 16th: Public Health holding our H1N1 clinic on November 19th, please send a note if your child was already immunized. Also a reminder that students have permission to ride their bus only. They cannot take another bus (for example to go to a friend's house after school)

This Week:
Bullying Awareness Week-peer helpers are doing presentations in all classes. This year's theme is "Be The Change"
Monday Boys Baskbetball practice 3:!5-5 and Girls Basketball practice from 5-6:30
Tuesday: Welcome grade 6 band concert 7pm (QMS gym)
Wed: PSSC meeting 6:30-7:30
Thursday: Public Health is holding their H1N1 clinic 8:30-3 for QMS students
Friday: Picture retake day and Science East planetarium presentation for grade 6 students


November 9th: H1N1 Immunization clinic will be on November 19th, please send a note as soon as possible if your child has been immunized at another clinic, so we can change the consent form. We will send more details as we get closer.
This Week:
Basketball Tryouts were today after school
Tuesday: Rememberance day assembly, badminton team and cheerleaders have a practice,
Wednesday: no school for Rememberance Day,
Thursday are basketball tryouts and badminton practice
Friday: 6 French Immersion classes are visiting La Grande Ourse French Book Fair, Strings practice with Mrs. Chase and basketball tryouts

November 7th: UPEI concert is cancelled

November 4th: H1N1 Immunization Clinics will be held at the following locations

In Sussex on Thursday, November 5 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m at the:

Royal Canadian Legion

66 Magnolia Ave.

Sussex, E4E 2H2

 

and in Saint John on Friday, November 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the:

Barrack Green Armoury

60 Broadview Avenue

Saint John, E2L 1Z6

  

These clinics are for the priority groups (as of Friday 30 October):

• pregnant and postpartum women,
• children 6 months to 18 years of age,
• parents of infants < 6 months of age,
• face-to-face Health Care Workers, and
• First Nations communities living on reserve

In addition, the VON will be providing unadjuvanted vaccine to pregnant women at clinics in the zone later this week.

November 3rd:

H1N1 immunization clinic postponed (was supposed to happen on November 5^th)

I will send a voicemail to let  you know when it is rescheduled.

November 2nd:
 The tentative schedule for H1N1 imminization is under Upcoming events under Cougars Den on our website
 Please see below links to a letter that was sent home today with students:
http://www.district6.nbed.nb.ca/whatsnew/H1N1_letter_Dr_Cleary.pdf
http://www.district6.nbed.nb.ca/whatsnew/H1N1_letter_to_parents.pdf
 Midterm reports were just a midterm-not the actual report card. The report cards go out at the beginning of December.
 We have rescheduled our picture retakes to Nov 18th
 Basketball tryouts have been postponed to next week
 Feel free to check our teacher's homework pages for homework if you child is home sick and well enough to do some work...
 Any questions, please let us know.

November 1st:
This week: Please sign and return midterm reports
On Monday: Girls Soccer finals are at Arthur Miller Field
Nov 3rd picture re-takes and 1st badminton practice and final cuts, Cheerleading practice from 5-6:30pm
Nov 5th- H1N1 immunization clinic
No school for students on November 6th as it is a professional development day for teachers
Please check Upcoming Events under Cougars' Den and Achievements/Awards.

October 31st: H1N1 update: weekend clinics have been postponed until a new shipment of vaccines arrive. For more information, go to www.gnb.ca and click on influenza or visit:
 http://www1.gnb.ca/cnb/h1n1event/regionB-e.asp#SaintJohn.
I will send another voicemail tomorrow regarding events and important dates for this week.


October 30th:
H1N1 udpate: as of today, they have identified only 3 priority groups: children, pregnant women over 20 weeks and face to face health care workers. These 3 groups will be done in our school clinics today and this weekend. All others will be turned away.

This is in effect since this morning and for this weekend. When this changes, I will send out another voicemail.

 

Mid term reports went home today

 

Have a good weekend!