École Rudolph Hennig

The May 2012 Bulldog News with updated information is available.

First Aid Kits, Enchanted Garden orders

Enchanted Garden Bulb orders will arrive mid-May just in time for your gardening plans. The first aid kits will arrive likely sooner. Jodi Mumford will let us know.

Next Parent Council meeting is Thursday, May 29th, 6:30 pm.  You can view the April 12, 2012 minutes by clicking on the words. Select on the side menu. 

Hamel's BEEF  JERKEY  ORDERS

Your child will be bringing home an order page to order a tasty treat. Please be sure to fill in all the information and get the order in to the school with payment by Tuesday, May 15, 2012.  Call Jodi Mumford if you have questions at 780-936-7519.

SCHOOL  SUPPLIES  and  NEXT YEAR!

We are getting the lists ready for you to order school supplies through the Parent Council Fundraiser. You won't have to go to the store to make this happen. Stay tuned for the package that will come home for you to see the great deal online.  Call Jodi Mumford if you have questions at 780-936-7519.

Boundary Exemption Request Process Now Complete - April 16, 2012

Principals have completed their 2012/2013 school budgets based on registered student enrolments. Our staffing and resources are set for the 2012/2013 academic year. The boundary exemption process is complete and we cannot accept further boundary exemption requests or appeals.

For more information about this process, please refer to our boundary exemption request process page.

A big THANK YOU to all of the people who showed our school support by judging this year's Science Expo. Events such as this would not take place if it were not for you taking time out of your busy schedules to provide feedback to our budding scientists.

And the winners are:

Grade 7:

1st place: Kyle

2nd place: Adam

3rd place: Shay and Avery, Brayden

Grade 8:

1st place: Justice

2nd place: Gerard

3rd place: Carly

Grade 9:

1st place: Jack

2nd place: Cole

3rd place: Micheal and Josh

Thank you to all the local businesses who have helped sponsor this year's Science Expo. The staff and students at École Rudolph Hennig School are appreciative of your ongoing support and encouragement of this event.

• Twice but Nice
• Keyera
• Staples - Fort Saskatchewan
• Sunridge Ski Area
• McDonalds - Fort Saskatchewan
• Mrs Stewart-Librarian École Rudolph Hennig School
• Dow Centennial Center
• Royal Tyrell Museum
• Boston Pizza
• Fort-in-View Golf Course
• Little Wonders Daycare
• Rabbit Hill
• Denham's Crystal Chrysler
• City of Edmonton community services department
• Harbor Pool
• Dairy Queen- Fort Saskatchewan
• Royal Canadian Legion Branch 27
• Fort Saskatchewan Public Library
• Telus World of Science
• Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
• CBI Horton
• Service Credit Union- Fort Saskatchewan
• Fort Orthodontics
• Government of Alberta- Historic Sites and Museums
• Fort Saskatchewan Fish and Game Association
• Hydro Scotford

A great place to read about the advantages you will have in a French Immersion programme

Will your child be 5 years old on or before March 1st, 2013?  Any child can register, French is not a pre-requisite for this programme and parents are not expected to know or work in French with their child.

You can download a registration form here: Student Registration Form

ERHS is the designated school for French Immersion here in Fort Saskatchewan. If you are from outside Fort Saskatchewan or Elk Island Public Schools boundaries, please call for more information.

A yellow bus is available for noon hour transportation to designated pick up or drop off locations and you can enquire to Transportation at 780-417-8151 with questions about your circumstances.

If you are interested in enrolling your child in our French Immersion Kindergarten but want to know more, speak with parents who have children in the programme.  Please visit the Canadian Parents for French website   http://www.cpfalta.ab.ca  for more information on the benefits. We are fortunate to have a CPF Chapter in Ft. Saskatchewan.  See our website page at http://www.rudolphhennig.ca/index.php?page=1747  

 Give your child a beautiful gift....an opportunity to learn another language!

Rudolph Hennig 7^th Annual Splash Night was a huge success. Thanks everyone for your support of the library. Mrs. Stewart was very happy to see you all there. Stay tuned for a new date for next year.

Registrations are now being accepted for the following Summer Youth Camps.  Most camps are open to students entering grades 7 and up in September 2012, as indicated below. Some camps are open to students entering grades 5 and up in September 2012. For full details click here or go to our website eipscontinuinged.ca  

• Forensics/Language Arts (students entering grades 7 to 9)
• A Barrel of Laughs/Language Arts (students entering grades 7 to 9)
• Video Game Design (students entering grades 7 to 9)
• 3D Design & Printing (students entering grades 7 to 9)
• What's Cookin' Boot Camp (students entering grades 5 to 9)
• Crazy for Cupcakes (students entering grades 5 to 9)
• Paper Crafting (students entering grades 5 to 7)
• Summer Slammers Basketball (students entering grades 5 to 9 - split by age into 2 camps)
• Summer Spikers Volleyball (students entering grades 5 to 9 - split by age into 2 camps)
• Sherwood Park Volleyball Camp (students entering grades 6 to 12 - split by age into 2 camps)

Check out all the summer fun opportunities, including inspiration for adults, at eipscontinuinged.ca. 

Proud to be part of Elk Island Public Schools.

February 24th was Carnaval for French Immersion students in the afternoon.  We had a wonderful with the most perfect weather. We had enough snow to make the fields softer for some of our activities.

Bonhomme was in fine form.  See you next year!

The CPF sponsored Family Dance held on February 24th was a great success with at least 52 families in attendance. The evening was filled with prizes and fun activities that were based on dancing.  The canteen and glow toys added a nice touch to those who were running late and skipped supper to get there.

The CPF Chapter would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone involved in the dance on Friday night. It was a huge success which showed in the enjoyment of everyone there. 

              Special thanks goes out to:

Rusty Truck Productions

Sharper Image Salon, Wedding supplies and Services

Lubex

All the parent volunteers

All the kid volunteers

All the families who came out to shake their Bootie

This fundraiser blew past the goal of $3200 and earned $3325. Mme Stewart would like to thank the parents and students for their support. Many more books will be in the library to borrow because of this.

The next School Advisory Council meeting will be on Thursday, April 12th.  All parents are invited and encouraged to attend. 

Library @ 6:30 pm

Heartland Ford General Manager, Alice Kshyk, stopped by to give ERHS a cheque in recognition of our help.  We did use the generous donation to support our French Immersion concert costs. Partnerships with our community businesses help everyone become more aware of what we have to offer. Thank you Alice for doing this.

Re/Max Real Estate in Fort Saskatchewan has graciously provided us with $500 to put toward the cost of the Will Stroet Concert held just before the November Break. The staff there had their annual Pumpkin Giveaway where people choose to have some hot dogs and fun and donate to their favourite cause at the same time. We sincerely thank them for recognizing ERHS this time.  Thank you Jim Westergard and Irene Zucht for selecting our school to benefit from this project this year.

New Version of Powerschool Parent Portal opens February 13, 2012

Parents of Ecole Rudolph Hennig School Jr High students are now able to access the "parent portal" from home. In order to log in, parents need a login id and password. Due to the sensitive nature of the information accessed via the id's/passwords, we are only able to give the log-in information directly to parents. We mailed these out to junior high parents October 6th. If you have not received yours by October 17th, please stop by or call the office. Log in to Powerschool: https://powerschool.eips.ca

To link to a handy PDF file with additional information for logging onto Powerschool: Powerschool Information for Parents

Additional Powerschool information:

• The PowerSchool team has prepared a video to help you sign on as a parent to view information about your child's achievement and attendance.  We have the following links for you to use  
• The video is an instructional video informing/assisting parents with logging into the Parent Portal of PowerSchool. It is presented in two formats, Quicktime and Windows Media Player.
• We have also posted these links on the division site, under the SCHOOLS section.

It is located at http://www.eips.ca/content.php?page=309

To reiterate, you can link directly to our division site at the above address, or link directly to the videos using the urls below.

 The links are as follows:

 http://www.eipscommserv.ca/PowerSchool/ParentLoginWeb.wmv

 http://www.eipscommserv.ca/PowerSchool/ParentLoginWeb.mov

There are 2 versions. The .wmv version is the Windows Media File format, and the .mov is the Quicktime version.

Each year, the Alberta Teachers' Association helps us recognize a local volunteer who supports public education.

Congratulations to Mrs. Lorie Elliot on receiving the Public Education Volunteer of the Year Award!  We presented this award to her at our Junior High Awards ceremony on June 29th.  Mrs. Elliot has been coming to the school faithfully rain or shine to go outside with our youngsters! She is the first to volunteer to do things around the school and is a leader in the work that gets done to support the education of students. Her ready smile and positive demeanour is always welcome.