Many of you took the time to sign the online petition lobbying the provincial government to release funding for building planned additions at Swansea and Keele Street public schools. We want to let you know that the funds were officially released today and these two additions will be built in our community. Great news all around!

For Runnymede P.S., the addition at Keele Street is particularly significant since it will allow students to stay at Keele until Grade 8. Currently, about 75 Keele Street students transfer to Runnymede for Grades 7 and 8 each year.

Thank you all for getting engaged and lobbying the government. We look forward to your continued interest and involvement as we get ready to accommodate Full Day Kindergarten at Runnymede in September 2014. So, please keep reading these emails and attending Council Meetings!

Click here for further details on the funding release.

We have secured the dates for the Runnymede Swim Club for the rest of the year. The club is a once-a month lifeguard-supervised open and lane swimming at the Humberside C.I. Pool – a really great time to practice your swimming and have some fun as a family.

Here are this year’s swim club dates; all times are 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

• January 22
• February 26
• March 26
• April 23
• May 28
• June 25

To sign up, please complete the attached form and send it back to Erin Carroll. Hope to see you there!

All Ward 7 Parents are invited to a presentation at Swansea Public School on the topic of Tackling Bullying and Other Obstacles to Kids’ Learning and Well Being on February 6, 2013 at 7:00 pm. This presentation is being given by Jennifer Kolari of Connected Parenting (www.connectedparenting.com) and should be an interesting and helpful session on how to help children surmount anxiety, bullying and other barriers to learning.
Please see the attached flyer for more information. Questions concerning the session can be addressed to swanseaps@gmail.com.

The school is open today.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/01/11/ontario-teachers-protest.html

Please sign the petition to show your support formoving forward with the planned school additions in our ward — and find out other ways to help the cause in the flyer at right.

• Portables added to the small play spaces in our schools, leaving little room for children to play outside during recess and lunch.
• Some students could be bussed outside of our Ward to schools where there IS room.
• Gymnasium space could be turned into classroom space, thereby limiting the manner in which our children receive physical education.

We need as many signatures as possible, so please circulate this to your friends, family and neighbours who live in this neighbourhood. Our children deserve better. They deserve the opportunity to learn in spacious classrooms housed in well-maintained buildings, just like other students in the province.