News from Around Brown - Nov 2011

Don't forget to circle this date on your calendars!

WINTER FEST ~ IVAL D’HIVER

December 15, 2011 ~ 9:10 to 10:30

Students performing:

AM Kindergarten

All Grade 1, 2 and 3 students

All Junior students involved in the performing arts at Brown: Choir, Strings or Band

Don't Miss the FLING SING on November 17!

Don't miss the FLING SING performance of the grade 6 members of the Junior Choir as they kick off the festivities at Fall Fling.  Performance begins at 6:50 p.m.

Library News/ Nouvelles de la bibliothèque de Brown

The Library is happy to announce that we have received new books purchased in September  from the cataloguing centre. If you would like to see our great collection, please visit the Library!

-- Marie-France Gagnon

Unicorn Day Care

Brown School's next PD Day is November 18th.  Need care?  Unicorn has limited spaces available for any Brown Student.  Please contact the day care for fees and activity schedule for the day. 416 929 6841.

MOvember at Brown

The men at Brown PS have decided to unite and join the distinguished club of Moustachery. Why you may ask? Well, in 2010 tragically more than 4,400 men will die as a direct result of prostate cancer. All the men at Brown will continue to sport our moustaches until the end of Movember.

The students will also get a chance to get involved as we will declare every Monday in November to be "Moustache Mondays at Brown".

The students will be permitted to wear paper or felt moustaches made at home or even draw their own moustaches on with costume make-up, it's up to you!

Students may choose to drop off a small donation($0.25 to $2.00) in the box found in the main office, you can't miss it!

If parents would like to help in the cause to fight prostate cancer please copy or click the link below into your web browser and click on "DONATE TO THE TEAM" as the men at Brown will be very grateful.

Any dollar amount helps. http://mobro.co/BROWNSCHOOL 

Outreach

In October, we asked for your help with a Breakfast Drive for JR Wilcox School. This elementary school ran out of funding for its breakfast program and as a result, many children are heading to school each morning with empty stomachs. Thanks to those of you who have already contributed. We delivered two large boxes to the school today and the administration was extremely thankful. We have decided to extend our Breakfast Drive by another week so that we can send as much food to these children as possible. From November 7-11, Outreach would like to challenge each child at Brown School to bring in one non perishable breakfast item. That would mean we could send about 550 items to JR Wilcox! Some ideas of what to bring are: cereal, granola bars, dried fruit, crackers, jam and fruit cups. Food must of course be nut free and can be left in the boxes in front of the office.

It won't be long before Outreach starts working on their Holiday Hampers!! With this initiative, Brown is able to make a real difference to 25 Toronto families who need a little help during the holiday season. Profiles for each family will be available and distributed to each class by November 28th. Stay tuned!

Invitation from Greenwood College Parents


For parents of Grade 6 students who may be considering private school for Grade 7, Greenwood College wishes to invite you to a gathering hosted by Greenwood College parents.  Please see the invitation below for more information:

http://brownschool.ca/documents/Greenwood%20Comes%20Home%20Invitation.pdf