Mary Queen of Peace News

The February Newsletter is now available for your reading pleasure. February Newsletter

Ice Cream Days occur this week. In January we will be having two days, one for kindergarten students, and a second one for everyone else. Kindergarten students will be missing the regularly scheduled Ice Cream Day due to a kinderstart session on Friday, Jan. 25th. This month's ice cream is a delicious Polar Bar!

Due to a Kinderstart session on Friday there will be no class for regular kindergarten students. They will return on Monday, Jan. 28th, which will be Day 7.

Congratulations to  MQP Chess Club  students  Nolan Ash  (Grade 5),  Meadow Kennedy  (Grade 5),  Jasper Kennedy  (Grade 1) , and  Mateo Weymouth  (Grade 2) for participating in the Vanier Open Chess Tournament on Sunday, February 20 th .  And a special congratulations to  Frank Chen  (Grade 6) who won Third Place in the Elementary (Grades 4-6) category!  (The next School Chess Tournament is the  Canadian Chess Challenge Eastern Regional Tournament , taking place at the  Justina Centre, Logy Bay, on Saturday,  February 16, 2019 .  Winners will move on to play in the  Canadian Chess Challenge Provincial Finals Tournament  held this year at  Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Corner Brook on Saturday, March 16, 2019 .)

MQP Winter Soccer program starts this evening! Please check the MQP Soccer website linked below to check your team mates and schedules. Please use the exterior gym entrance to get into the building. Students will not be able to return to their lockers to retrieve shoes or other items, so please ensure that bring all required equipment and apparel with you. MQP Soccer

Due to the icy conditions Mary Queen of Peace will have a delayed opening of 2 hours today. Bus runs to pick up students will start at 9:40am, the school doors will open at 10:00am, and instruction will start at 10:20am.

If you have a student interested in signing up for Micro:bit Club or Scratch Club, send them to the library this week and ask for a permission slip from Mr. Walter. Micro:bits are small circuit boards created for the purpose of physical computing education. They can be coded with block coding, and have various senors and radios that allow them to interact with the user, other micro:bits, and the world around them. Scratch is a block based coding system designed at MIT to help foster computer science education. Students can code a large of variety of things using it, from music, games, and telling stories. Both activities will take place at lunch time in the library. See the attached images for dates and times. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Walter.

The January Newsletter is now ready to read! Take a look through and see what is happening at Mary Queen of Peace in the new year. Also, be ready for our big auction fundraiser in March! January Newsletter

MQP Soccer starts this Friday! If you are want to confirm your game times and team mates, make sure you check out the MQP Soccer page. You can find it under the Resources section of the school website, or you can click the link below. MQP Soccer

You may have made a resolution to work out more, but no one needs to carry a tuba on leg day. Make sure you time your band instrument carrying by checking out the January Band Schedule. January Band Schedule