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Mark Your Calendars for Fun Fair 2013

The 2013 Allenby Fun Fair will take place on Saturday June 1st, from 12:00 noon until 4:30 p.m. Join us for a delicious lunch, then watch your kids enjoy inflatable rides, games, sports skills, activities, and collect prizes! New this year – look for the haunted house…

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Ward 8 Trustee Update

Howard Goodman’s update this week focuses on some issues that are pertinent to our community: Full Day Kindergarten and efforts to resume co-curricular activities.  Please read his update for more details.

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Lip Synch Is Finally Here!

It has finally arrived, Lip Synch 2013 Thursday and Friday night live at Allenby! All the hard work, rehearsals and more rehearsals will pay off tonight and tomorrow when the performers hit the stage! And don’t forget the Mystery acts. Who will it be, what will they perform? Too rushed to make dinner…this year we […]

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Allenby Loves Spirit Days

With Superhero day this Friday (Feb 22), here’s a reminder of the remaining spirit days at Allenby (coincide with pizza days).  Grade 6 students create the posters and deliver the announcements to spread Allenby spirit across all grades. Go Allenby! Friday March 22 – Twin Day Friday April 26 – Beach Day Friday May 31 […]

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Board Waves Permit Fees

Recently, TDSB trustees voted to support waiving permit fees for parents stepping in to provide extracurricular activities. At Allenby, our APA funds have helped finance the parent-lead extracurricular permit costs for activities initiated so far this year, as supported in individual motions put forward in APA meetings. Thus far, parents have organized hockey, boys volleyball, […]

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New Ministry FSL Framework

The Ministry of Education released a new document for FSL this week:  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/amenagement/frameworkFLS.pdf “A Framework for FSL, K-12 presents a call to action to strengthen FSL programming, promote the benefits of FSL, heighten appreciation of and support for FSL educators, and increase public confidence in FSL education. It articulates the vision, goals, and guiding principles for FSL in Ontario, and […]

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FDK Update

The first PART meeting was held on Feb 13th. This meeting was the start of the official consultations on space pressures due to increasing enrolment and for Full Day Kindergarten (FDK). The PART meeting was predominantly spent reviewing the data that the TDSB provided. To view this data, click on this Ward 8 Program Area Review link. There are […]

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Lunch Clubs

We are very happy that the Glee and Ball Hockey clubs got off the ground this week and are available to the over 200 students who signed up. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped make this happen. The intention of these clubs was to provide ALL grade 1-6 Allenby students with lunchtime […]

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Lip Synch Is Not To Be Misses

The 22nd annual Allenby Lip Synch is only a week away. The Performers have been busy rehearsing and we can not wait to see the show. Music by all your favourite artists are on the playlist, so come and watch your friends, brothers, sisters, sons & daughters, Lip Synch away on the Allenby stage!! Plus you […]

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