On May 15th, the Intermediate Rugby team travelled to Barrie and competed in the area tournament.  The team placed 2nd in round robin play, but lost to Minesing in the playoff game.  Minesing went on to win the overall championship.  Way to go TIGERS!!

Friday, January 27, 2012 is Family Literacy Day. Family Literacy Day is held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family. For some activity ideas please visit http://abclifeliteracy.ca/family-literacy-day. Some students in our school have created a video on the importance of reading please take a few minutes to watch it with your child.

Mr. Chenette’s class have created silent films inspired by their knowledge of the book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick. The book references many silent films and early attempts to create movies. Students were inspired by the book and watching early movies. They created their own short film for a Media/Drama/Language project.

On Thursday, October 6, Tottenham Public School is host to 600 students for the area Cross Country meet at the conservation area. There are fourteen schools from South Simcoe competing with over 600 runners in total. There are 10 races for boys and girls from grades 4 to 8 ranging from 1.9-2.5 kilometres. T.P.S. has a large team of runners who will compete this year. We would like to wish all runners, good luck!

Last Wednesday was Primary Play Day.  The weather was beautiful and everyone had fun!

Congratulations to TPS students on their outstanding performance at Track and Field on Tuesday!  So many students exceeded their personal best on several events. We are also very proud of the exceptionally good behaviour and attitudes demonstrated as students competed and cheered on their classmates. Thank you to Mrs. Blake for putting so much of her time into organizing and running this event. We know she really appreciated the support of the teachers who came early Tuesday morning to help set up.

On Wednesday May 18, Tottenham would like to extend a warm welcome to S.C.D.S.B. Director Kathy Wallace, Superintendents and Dr. Lyn Sharratt from O.I.S.E.  Our guests will be discussing student achievement and gaining insight into the successes we’ve had.  They will visit classrooms and learn about the special projects happening at T.P.S.

Ms. Fowler’s grade 4 class created these claymation videos as a media assignment.

More can be seen on Fowler’s Blog.  Great work grade 4s!

Sybil the Magician’s Last Show from joanne fowler on Vimeo.

Bye Bye Fly from joanne fowler on Vimeo.

T.P.S. participated in a boat building competition at East Bayfield community centre in Barrie.

Students were challenged to create a boat made out of cardboard, string, one paper clip, duct tape, and to see if it would float.

We sent four grade eight students and they represented us well.

The 3rd Annual Circle of Learning Conference is set for Saturday, April 9th from 9am to 1:30pm at the Simcoe County District School Board Education Centre. The Conference brings together parents from all over Simcoe County to share in a great day focussing on how parents can be involved and engaged in their children’s schools and their learning.

This year the Conference features keynote speaker Tom Hierck, from British Columbia, who will speak about ‘Accommodating Learning Differences’. Workshop sessions will also be a part of the day with presentations on the topics of Equity and Inclusiveness, Understanding Provincial Testing: EQAO, and Child, Youth and Family Services Coalition of Simcoe County (Community Connections). A panel discussion will conclude the conference.