Shop the Scholastic Book Fair & Support the Runnymede P.S. Library!

The fair is your one-stop shop for the holidays! Great books and awesome stocking stuffers await you. There’s no better way to thank your family, friends and teachers than by giving them the gift of reading.

The fair will be held in the library, and is open to students and their families from Thursday, November 26th to Monday, December 7th. Students can shop the fair during their regular library time. There will also be opportunities to shop during recess and every day after school until 3:45. We accept cash, cheques, debit and credit.

A large percentage of sales made at the fair go back into our school library. With last year’s sales we were able to purchase innovative teaching resources in both French and English and a multitude of new fiction and nonfiction for our students.

We look very forward to seeing you at our Book Fair!

If any parents are able to volunteer, please email Ms. Edgar

New Council Calendar

We have switched to a Google calendar! You can print it, synch events with your personal digital calendar and you can help us keep it up to date. Do you know about an upcoming tryout, club sign-up or important school event? Email runnymedeps@gmail with dates and details and we will post to the calendar.

Check out our awesome YouTube video for more info on the calendar’s features:

Use this iCal code to subscribe to the calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/runnymedeps%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

The Centennial Playground Project

Check out the Centennial Playground plan diagrams (in 2 & 3D!) The plan incorporates leading-edge playground design with many different types of active play zones that will benefit the varying ages of students and the different modes of play.

The active play zones for the overall front yard include:

An “Active Zone” that is provided by the artificial turf field/track installed by the TDSB*. The area provides space for soccer, baseball, running, cartwheels and more
A “Climbing Zone” with three Parkour-style playground climbing structures
A “Basketball Zone” with a brightly painted full basketball court and an additional practice court for a total of three hoops
A “Wall-ball Zone” with bright targets painted on a building wall where kids can practice their throwing and catching skills
A “Games Zone” that includes two triple hoop games and a variety of brightly painted schoolyard games; four square, tic-tac-toe, hopscotch and a 100 chart
A “Fun Trail” of painted circles that lead children throughout the entire new playground space
“Quiet Zones” within the Centennial Grove of trees with a picnic table and seating boulders with engraved game boards, along with added benches for seating including a Buddy Bench.The plan incorporates leading-edge playground design with many different types of active play zones that will benefit the varying ages of students and the different modes of play that our kids have.

Click here to donate now via Canada Helps. Donate to help put our Centennial Playground plans into action by Summer 2016. Invest in your children, your school, your community and play!

* The artificial turf/track area was paid for by TDSB and the Centennial Playground area is being paid for via fundraising.

Parent Rep List

Please see the attached Parent Rep List.

Reps help distribute handouts into backpacks, send emails to class parents, and encourage parents to attend and volunteer at Council Events.

Runnymede Pizza Lunch Program

Mark these Pizza Lunch dates in your calendar for Grades 1-8:

Friday, October 2 Friday, February 26
Thursday, October 29 Thursday, March 24
Friday, November 27 Friday, April 29
Friday, January 29 Friday, May 27

*Please note – Pizza Lunches are not scheduled in December and June*

ONLINE ORDERING! Secure online orders. Order at www.sagoto.com/rpsc/pizza.

EXTENDED Order deadline for the first Pizza Lunch is 11:59 p.m. on September 28^th.

This year there will be two options for Pizza lunch

Pizza, juice box, fresh veggies and apple slices.
Pizza, fresh veggies and apple slices (NO drink) **Please note if you do not order juice please have your child bring their own water bottle that day.Didn’t receive your order confirmation? Please check your junk folder.Questions or concerns? Contact Allison Madigan at runnymedepizza@gmail.com

Last year, a great team of parent volunteers made Pizza Lunch a success! If you would like to help out this year, please contact Maggie Galloway at maggie.galloway@rogers.com Babysitting (& free pizza!) provided for younger siblings.

Thank you for supporting our quick, easy and secure online Pizza Lunch process!

New this year – Kindergarten Pizza Lunches – We are excited to be introducing pizza lunches into the JK/SK classes – they will be able to experience pizza lunch in their own classrooms. Dates will be different from the Grade 1-8s.

-Please check your kindergarten child’s backpack for the information form and manual enrollment form.

-Kindergarten pizza will NOT be available for online ordering this year.