Fern Ave. Public School Blog

Hello Fern Families. We hope that you are all staying safe and enjoying a restful break! As communicated on December 21st, 2020, the Ministry of Education has mandated that in conjunction with the province wide shut down, all schools in the province will be closed to students from January 4th - 8th , 2021 . Buses will not be running during this time. Students and staff will be engaged in remote learning from home during the closure. Currently Fern P.S. is scheduled to re-open for face-to-face learning on January 11th, 2021 .  The following information is being provided to our Fern families to outline basic expectations during the r emote learning period of January 4th - 8th , 2021: Virtual School:  For our students enrolled in Virtual learning, online instruction will resume on January 4th according to previously established schedules.  Kindergarten to Grade 8 In-Person School:   Families can expect that their child's teacher will connect with their students u...

This school year we have continued with our focus on character at Fern P.S.  Each month our staff and students focus on a character trait, culminating with a class presentation and recognition of students who have exemplified the trait. We hope to resume our monthly assemblies to recognize our students virtually in the new year and hope that some of our student leaders will take on the responsibility of preparing and presenting at our Virtual assemblies.  For December our focus is on Kindness and Caring.

Fern has a great history of Winter concerts that we will miss this year.  As visitors to the school and field trips are not possible during this time, we are happy to stream a live concert from Casa Loma on Tuesday Dec. 15th at 9:30am for the whole school to participate. Christian Overton is a well established jazz trombone player, arranger and composer in Toronto. It will be an educational seasonal concert geared to students where they will be talking about aspects of music and instruments as well as information and images about historical Casa Loma.  The performances are geared to all grades from JK to grade 8 with activities and questions regarding the performance and about Casa Loma. This 90 minute performance will feature the Casa Loma Orchestra, a 12 piece orchestra consisting of strings, brass, and wind instruments, featuring some of Toronto's best musicians playing festive selections from the Nutcracker, A Christmas Festival, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and many...

We completed our successful Toy Drive to support the Parkdale Food Bank and Community Centre. On Friday, our amazing Grade 8 students from Ms. Cameron's class and Mme Kertesz's class paraded down to Roncy United Church to deliver all the toys.  Thank you to all of our Fern community for your generosity! Your kindness will make many children happy this holiday season!

 

Ms. McGovern and the senior staff will be planning a Student Parliament for the new year. Please encourage your child to get involved!

Thank you to all our Fern Families who have donated new and unwrapped toys for our Toy Drive that supports the Parkdale Community Centre. Please drop off this coming week in the front foyer bins. On Friday, December 11th at 2pm our wonderful grade 8 students will deliver the toys to the United Church down the street for their distribution to the Parkdale Community Centre.  Thank you, your generosity and giving spirit is evident!

If there have been any changes to your contact information, please update your contact information with the school office.  Up-to-date information is important if your child becomes ill at school and needs to be picked up, or in the case of COVID-19, contact tracing needs to occur.  If you have not been receiving emails from the school or TDSB, please check first with the school office to ensure your email contact information is correct.

To request a change from Virtual to In-Person School or vice-versa, please contact Principal Sardella directly by January 29th 2021 for the Feb 16th 2021 start date ( day after Family Day Holiday). Thank you.

Our lost and found will be sorted and displayed in the front foyer. Parents will have an opportunity to stop in before or after school the last week of school December 14-18, from 8:30 am - 9:15 am and from 3:45 pm-4:30 pm when students are not in the building.