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To the Langley Fine Arts School community:

As I sit here, thinking back on the last 4 years, I struggle to put into words how lucky I feel to have been part of the Langley Fine Arts School experience. I have been shown daily how passion and knowledge in the arts (or in anything, I suppose) can intersect to create something truly special.

It has been my sincere pleasure to work with our kids, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity. I have watched them grow from (sometimes difficult) youngsters to leaders and young adults. I have seen them change from nervous first graders to confident artists and learners. I have watched their artistic voices develop and deepen. I have watched them shift from disengaged to completely engaged. I have seen them grow from utterly dependent to confident and self-sufficient. All of these are privileges that I do not take lightly, and I consider it an honour to have been able to share in their intellectual, emotional, and artistic journeys. I confess I am lucky, too, to be going to a school that is close enough that I'll be able to visit often, and take in the shows, and stay connected to this community that means so much to me. I am excited to be moving onto the next stage in my own career, but sad to leave my second family.

On Friday, I was moved particularly by the number of students who came me to tell me how much they'd miss me, seemingly oblivious to how much I would be (and already was) missing them. LFAS is a place that feeds the mind and the soul, and I can only hope that what I've gained in my time there is something I can pass on, and see grow elsewhere.

I have reflected with some of the students I work with most regularly, that the middle of the year is a great time to go into a school as a new administrator, and a difficult time to leave a school to which one is attached. And this kind of change is part of life in education. I hope to find success as a principal, as many of you tell me I have found as a vice principal, and I hope that each of you finds even greater success in all your endeavours.

Thank you for trusting me with our kids. Thank you for your kind words over the past weeks. And thank you for supporting the school, and the learning journey it is providing.  I will miss all of you: parents, staff, and most of all, students.

Treasure your school, for LFAS, its staff, its families, and its mission are a treasure, indeed.

Mr. Oliver

REMINDER: Collaborartion morning Tuesday Nov 25. LATE START: Gr 1-7 (10:17) Secondary (9:47)

REMINDER! Dismissal for Grades 1 - 5 Friday Nov 21st at 12:12

Remembrance Day performances in the Chief Sepass theatre

1 Weekend Hosts needed for visiting Japanese students to LFAS (Nov 21-23)

We are still looking for families to host visiting Japanese students for the weekend of November 21-24. There is an honorarium paid to host families. If you are interested, please reply to Chantal Chorney in the school office by email (cchorney@sd35.bc.ca) or phone (604-888-3113).

 Program information:

We are pleased to again have the opportunity to host visiting Japanese Shintoku High School students November 21 – 24th this year.  We are looking for homestay families who have students in secondary grades.  Please read the following information and let us know if you can accommodate our Japanese visitors:

Schedule:

November 20 – Japanese students will arrive and stay in Vancouver overnight.

Friday, November 21 – Students will arrive at LFAS for the day.  Their luggage will be stored at the school.  We will have a program of activities for the students and will connect them with their homestay family student.  LFAS students and Japanese students will spend the day together at the school doing various activities and attending a class.  Pickup by homestay families will take place after school.

Saturday/Sunday November 22- 23  Japanese students will be included in family activities for the weekend.  Feel free to take students to your favourite lower mainland spots and include them in regular family life (chores, outings, gatherings, church attendance, etc.)

 Monday, November 24 – Students will need to be back at the school by 8:00 am in order to catch the bus to the airport.

Guidelines:

Students will be placed in pairs.  We have one group with 3 girls – if you’re able to accommodate this trio that would be wonderful.  Students may share one room but need to each have their own bed (this could be a bed plus a mattress or a futon).  Homestay families are expected to provide meals for the Japanese students on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday.

If you are interested in hosting students this year please contact Mrs. Chorney in the office at cchorney@sd35.bc.ca or by phone at 604-3113. A letter will then be sent home with further information to help in planning for our visitors’ stay.

Thank-you,

Ms. Susan Perkins for Ms. Sharon Douglas Langley Fine Arts School

604-888-3113

 

 

Pro-D Day and Collaboration Day Reminder

 

Please remember:

1)      Friday, October 24^th is a Professional Development day – students do not attend.

2)      Monday, October 27^th is a Collaboration Morning.  The start time for elementary and middle years students is 10:17am, and the start time for secondary students is 9:47am.

 

SECONDARY HALLOWEEN DANCE - Oct 30th 6:30 - 9pmat the School.  Tickets on sale during lunch in the CAFETERIA. $4.00 (wirh canned donation for food bank) or $5 without donation.

Fill out a Blue Course change sheet? check at office if its done!!

Hello Secondary students, if you dropped off a Blue course change sheet for Mr. Oliver or Ms. Delittle, PLEASE be sure to check back in the black basket to see if its been completed.

PHOTO DAY is Wednesday, October 1st

Fees, lockers & textbooks

Secondary students can pay their fees (and outstanding fees from last year) and receive their lockers in the MAIN FOYER at lunch time Monday to Friday. 

PLEASE return any outstanding textbooks to the MAIN OFFICE.

MAIN OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:15am - 3:30pm. 

Thank you!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

The School Improvement half day which was scheduled for this Friday, September 26th has been cancelled.  It will be a usual school day.

REVISED SCHOOL START UP INFORMATION

LETTER FROM SUPERINTENDENT SUZANNE HOFFMAN

MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH" Performed by the LFAS Orchestra

The LFAS Orchestra and LFAS Ensembles will be performing Mendelssohn's "Elijah" on Thursday, May 15th at 7:30pm at the Chan Shun Concert Hall.  Tickets are $22.25 each (including Chan Centre facility fee, and are available through Ticketmaster at 1-855-985-5000/www.ticketmaster.ca

GRAD INFO

GRAD STUFF TO REMEMBER

 

LFAS Grad 2014, Yearbook & Commencement Items Check List

Yearbook needs grad quotes and photos by February 24th.  You will have been given a handout from Yearbook and there are copies in the Office.

Hand into the LFAS office (names on everything)

or

Email Yearbook items to paidenstanley@hotmail.com (email title should be LFAS GRAD YEARBOOK) so I don’t delete them by accident and

Send Commencement items to brobson@sd35.bc.ca

 

Application for Local Scholarships

Must be completed in full and handed in to Ms. Delittle by Thursday, April 17^th, 2014 by 3 PM

You can find copies in the latest Grad Newsletter or in the Office.

 

Secondary Funky Monkey Rescheduled

Auditions Tuesday, February 25 and Wednesday, February 26 in the dungeon 3:30 to 5 PM

Sign up for auditions in the front foyer starting

Show Wednesday, March 5 at 7 PM Ticket price $5

 

Grad Dinner Dance

Newlands Golf and Country Club

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6 PM

Ticket price for guests and parents $80

Ticket price for grads based on current grad council fundraising activities $65

 

Commencement

Christian Life Assembly

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:30 PM

Each Grad gets 4 tickets for free, extra tickets cost $10 per person

 

All grads are required to be at Commencement Rehearsal

Chief Sepass Theater

Tuesday, June 10^th 1 PM lunch provided, rehearsal and then gowns are given out to take home.

 

Tickets will go on sale at the Portfolio Day, May 2.  If Grads are not on the Non-Grad list, have paid fees and returned all library books they can purchase tickets from Bridie starting May 2.