Week Ahead for Parents

Additional Elementary and Secondary P.A. Days

As a result of provincial labour negotiations, a P.A. Day has been added for all York Region District School Board elementary schools on Friday, May 6, 2016 and secondary schools on Friday, June 3, 2016. You can see the full updated school year calendars on YRDSB’s website.

These additional P.A. Days are mandated by the Ministry of Education. On these dates, teachers will be taking part in professional development on provincial education priorities identified by the Ministry of Education. 

The Week Ahead for Parents January 25 to 29

Field Trips

We would like to extend a thank you to School Council for the wonderful opportunity council is providing for ALL of our students to attend plays at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts.

The students in grades JK to 3-4 will be seeing Aesop's Fables on February 2 and the students in grades 4-5 to 8 will be seeing, The Spirit of Harriet Tubman on February 10. Both plays begin at 10:00 a.m.

The permission forms have already been sent home and if parents are interested in volunteering for these field trips, please fill out the bottom section of the field trip form and return it to your child's home room teacher.  

Please note that in order to volunteer, all adults must have a Vulnerable Sector Screening Check on file here in the school office.  As well, parents are asked to meet the school at the theatre on the day of the play.  Teachers will notify parents if they have been selected to attend the play.

Backgammon at Bayview Fairways

Many of our students have joined the backgammon club at lunch recess. The students are learning how to play this board game which helps to sharpen math skills.  The students are having a great time.  The students get a chance to play with different partners. The club takes place every Tuesday at lunch.

Making Movies at Bayview Fairways

Many of our students our working on creating movies, for media literacy.  One such example consists of the students in the junior grades using the ipad to add in interesting backdrops against a green screen.  In this picture, you can see the green screen on the wall of the classroom and some students working at the computer to create their movie. 

We are planning to create a green screen space in our new Learning Commons so that all classrooms can use these exciting programs to create movies.

Green Screen apps technology allows students to superimpose themselves into many different backgrounds, so students can appear to be walking on the moon or they can appear in their favourite movie.

Year Book

The Yearbook Club has begun at Bayview Fairways P.S. and our intermediate students are hard at work designing and laying out the yearbook. The yearbook will include pictures and events to represent ALL grades. 

More information will be forthcoming on how to purchase a yearbook, so that all the students can have lasting memories of this year, 2015 - 2016.

Week Ahead January 18 to 22

The Week Ahead January 11 to 15

Pizza Ordering On-Line

This is just a reminder to all families that ordering pizza lunch is still open and available on School Cash OnLine.  You can access the link here:

School Cash OnLine

Welcome back to School January 4, 2016

Welcome back to school for January 4th, 2016.  We are looking forward to seeing all of our students ready to learn. In order to ensure that our first day back in the New Year runs smoothly, please take note of the following:

• It will be a chilly Monday morning. Please ensure your children are dressed appropriately for the weather, as all students will be going outside for recess.

• The Kiss N Ride starts at 8:45 a.m.  Please remember our routines to keep our students safe and to keep the Kiss N Ride moving efficiently and quickly:

1.           Students must exit from the passenger side of the car only
2.           Students must exit independently from the car 
3.           Follow the ONE  WAY SIGNS
4.           Cars are asked to move up to the top of loop to drop off students
5.           The driver must remain in the car at all times
6.           Back your vehicle in to use the visitor parking spaces

•  Please plan to be ON TIME for the first day of school.  Supervision in the yard starts at 8:45 a.m.

Please check in with our school blog as we will be up and running again to give you all of our school news. Have a great first day back!!!!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

All the staff at Bayview Fairways would like to wish all of our families a safe and fun-filled winter break.  We would also like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.  Thank you to our families who attended the Winter Concert.  The children performed beautifully.

We look forward to seeing everyone back at school on 

Monday January 4, 2016

Week Ahead January 4 to 8

Clothing Donation

Thank you to all of our families in the Bayview Fairways community who donated clothing to help  with the winter clothing drive for the Syrian refugees, whom we are welcoming to Canada. 

This is a wonderful way for our students to understand, firsthand, the character traits of compassion and empathy.  Just this week, the students in grade 5/6 were discussing the refugee crisis in class. One of the questions the students were discussing in talk partners was, 

"As you see it, how should the world respond to recent events in Syria?  Give reasons to support your response".

This type of lesson, focuses on social justice issues through the lens of the inquiry approach and is part of our social studies curriculum.

Movie Night

We would like to thank School Council for organizing and running a great Movie Night.  The kids had a wonderful time watching movies in their pyjamas and eating popcorn.  

As always, our Bayview Fairways community was very generous in bringing in socks as a donation for the homeless.  We have donated 262 pairs of socks.  

Movie Night at BFPS Thursday December 17

EQAO Dates for 2016

To our families of students in Grades 3 and 6, please note the EQAO dates below for 2016.

The Primary and Junior Assessments of Reading, Writing and Mathematics will take place from:

May 25 to June 8, 2016

Please mark these dates down to ensure that students are at school for the dates and times of the assessments.  Please try and schedule appointments around the dates of the EQAO testing.

Last Day for Food and Clothing Drive

To all our families at Bayview Fairways P.S. we are very thankful for your generosity at this time of year.  The clothing and food drive has been a huge success. The food donations will be picked up on Wednesday December 16 and  the clothing will also be delivered on that same day.  We are asking that all final donations be dropped off at the school on Wednesday morning please.

Please note that the Sock Drive will continue through to the end of the movie night which takes place on Thursday December 17.

Again thank you for so kindly supporting these initiatives.

The Week Ahead December 14 to 18

Modern Learning

Modern Learning is authentic, relevant, deep learning that enables learn​ers to create, to connect, to communicate, to share their learning with the world and be ready for t​he future. 

One of the goals for the York Region District School Board is

to ensure that all our students are receiving the tools that

they need to be ready for their future through a focus on 

Modern Learning outlined in the graphic above through 

Vision, Mindsets, Deep Learning and Skills. 

At Bayview Fairways P.S. we are well on our way to 

providing this modern learning experience to our students 

through our approach on growth mindsets,  our focus on 

social skills in classrooms and in programs provided by our 

Child and Youth Workers, and our use of problem solving 

models to help students make sense of problems in all 

subjects. We are engaging our students by encouraging real-

life learning situations and integrating technology as a 

modern-day learning tool that motivates their interest. 

Our students have been engaging in creating code to design computer programs for minecraft and teachers are introducing our students to a math, "Prodigy" program connected directly to the Ontario curriculum.  In addition, we are working towards turning our Library into a, "Learning Commons" with many exciting spaces for our students to use, such as;  a green screen area to create videos and a makerspace to create items that students are interested in and might form the basis of an inquiry project.  We  are very excited about these opportunities at Bayview Fairways.