Fern Ave. Public School Blog

Get ready to Shake it Off in Style ... This year's Spring Fling is gonna be better than your Wildest Dreams ! Drinks, dancing, live and silent auctions - bring your friends and neighbours! Tickets are on sale now! Friday, May 24th 7-11:30pm at St Casimir's Church. All proceeds go towards our fundraising efforts.  

Hello Fern Families:  On Behalf of School Council Equity Committee Around the world, Muslims observe Ramadan by fasting from sun up until sun down as one way to gain compassion for those who are less fortunate. Every evening, families invite friends and neighbours to join in a meal and feed those who have nothing to eat. Eid Al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan and is a time of celebration when communities come together to share food and sweets with people from all walks of life. Please join us in Donating to the Parkdale Food Bank by dropping off any non-perishable items outside the  school office by Friday, April 5th , 2024 . Thank you for your generosity, kindness and support!

Hello Graduating Class of 2024, teachers and parents!   Get ready to mark the end of your middle school journey with a bang! We've secured The Parkdale Hall for our Grad 2024 bash, right after the ceremony at Parkdale Collegiate. It's going to be an epic soirée with delicious food, an awesome DJ, and a bunch of other cool activities lined up for our fantastic grads! Eager to be a part of making this shindig extra special? We're on the lookout for parent volunteers to lend a hand on the big day! If you're up for joining the fun and helping out, sign up here:  Volunteer Sign-up Form https://forms.gle/ 7Yov3eXiHPewbKTT8 Parents and teachers , we're counting on your support to spread the word and encourage our grads to get involved. Let's make sure every single one of them feels included and part of the festivities. Share the excitement and this link with your kiddos:  Student Involvement Form  https://forms.gle/ 5yVpGyBaVQ7iBnat5 Also, if you have any ideas or want...

We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who helped make this year's Dance-A-Thon a massive success - we had so much fun!  The donations have been tallied, and together we raised  over $12,000 !!!!!!  This is incredible, and will go a very long way in supporting our students and our school. Thank you to all the donors for their generosity. Wow.  The winners of the pizza challenge are Mme. Tse, Mme. Oda and Ms. Spinel's classes. Congrats!  Huge thanks also goes out to the school staff, admin & teachers who let us take over the auditorium and helped us get through the event without a hitch!  To our amazing parent and senior student volunteers - we couldn't have done this without your help - thank you so much!  Dance floor vibes were excellent all day, but a special shoutout goes to the kids who memorized every word of I Want It That Way ...absolute legends.  See you next year!  

Congratulations to Fern's grade 8 girls volleyball team for an amazing season this year! Our team players committed to three months of practices with an energy and skill progression that was contagious. By the time we played our first tournament, our team had become really skilled with an amazing set-up and return volleyball game. We had a string of 12 consecutive wins in exhibitions and TDSB tournaments and playoffs games. Our team played at a very high level of volleyball throughout and was well prepared for the south Toronto final against Deer Park. The game went to a third set that was closely contested with many lead changes. The ending was exciting but did not fall in our favour, with a 3 point loss margin. Deer Park, a very good team, went on to win the TDSB Toronto city championship. It is bittersweet knowing that Fern team came that close to winning the City championship, however we feel very proud for our season and bringing back to Fern Avenue the south city finalist...

If you happened to hear a lot of talk about superheroes in the past two months it was quickly brought to your attention that it had to do with the superhero teams battling it out in one of the many dodgeball games at the school’s gym. The dodgeball house league has been a huge annual sporting event at Fern Avenue public school with over 90 of our junior students playing this year. It was a great extracurricular for our students to exercise, practice their skills of throwing, catching, and dodging, and most importantly to have fun and socialize with friends and other students at school! Raising the gold cup with teammates in a commemorative picture was the prize in the final game between the superheroes teams. And yet, this was as big of a prize as it gets for our heroes in the final dodgeball game played between the Avengers and Titans teams. The game itself was one of the most memorable ones ever as the lead changed many times and a tiebreaker was needed to finally have the Avengers n...

Welcome to Joy Week, organized by the Student Leadership Team!  Monday, March 4th - Matching Monday (match with as many friends as you want) Tuesday, March 5th - Silly Hat Day (wear your favourite silly hat) Wednesday, March 6th - Bring Anything But A Backpack Day (instead of  bringing your backpack to school you would bring anything but your backpack (eg you could use your pillow case, luggage etc)  Thursday, March 7th - PJ Day (wear your favourite pajamas)  Friday, March 8th  - Fern Wear Day  (show off your  school spirit and wear your Fern gear)