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On January 14, Roden parent council hosted its first parenting workshop of the year.

More than 30 parents came out to take part in a workshop called Disciplining, With Love, led by community workers Joanne Gallagher and Farzana Yusuf from the East End Community Health Centre. Gallagher and Yusuf lead two workshops; one in English, another in Urdu/Hindi for parents from our South Asian community.

Parents brought important questions to the discussion: how to manage sibling rivalry, dinner time and the effectiveness of giving children consequences.

Due to the success of our January workshop, Roden parent council is happy to offer you a second workshop on March 4, called Raising Sexually Health Children.

If you have ideas for future workshops you’d like to see offered at Roden, send an email to secretary@roden.ca.

Hope to see you in March!

Sarah Rogers, parenting workshop coordinator

To mark the 100th day of school, the students in Ms. Robichaud’s Grade 1/2 class were assigned a challenge: complete ten different activities, all based on the number 100, before the end of the day.

The activities included weighing 100 items of different objects to see which weighed more. For another activity, they counted 100 Fruit Loops and strung them onto a necklace. They also had to successfully build a boat that held 100 objects without sinking. They made colourful “100th Day” hats to celebrate the occasion!

MONARCH PARK COMMUNITY AQUATICS

All Ladies Swim
Tuesdays 7-8PM
Sept 24 until June 10 (no swims on Mar 11, 25)
Fee is $2 per swim

Adult Lane Swim
Wednesdays 8-9PM
Sept 25 until June 11 (no swims Jan 1, Mar 12)
Fee is $2 per swim

Community Swim
Saturdays 3:15PM-4:30PM
Jan 25 until June 14 (no swim on March 15)

Fee is $2 per swimmer or $5 per family

Please enter Monarch Park CI via Pool Doors #2. Enter pool through change rooms.
NB* Change rooms open 15 minutes prior to pool doors opening and close 15 minutes after swim period ends.

Bags are NOT allowed in pool area. Bags/towels may be left in the gallery.
PLEASE DO NOT BRING VALUABLES TO POOL.

Monarch Park Community Aquatics is NOT responsible for lost or stolen articles.

For more info, contact monarchparkaquatics@gmail.com.

Our apologies for having to cancel our Feb 5th event.

We hope you can join us Thursday evening (Feb 6); 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the library.

Childcare will be available.

Meet your school council members, ask questions, share your ideas for Roden and meet other parents in your community. Council would appreciate your guidance in deciding what projects, programs or school equipment to direct funds raised toward. We plan to showcase the projects we’ve been working on such as the Roden.ca website, lunch box ideas and parenting workshops. We look forward to your feedback and communicating ways you might be able to contribute.

Food, music and door prizes will all be waiting for you!

Come have a bite to eat and meet your parent council.

Due to the weather, the TDSB has cancelled all permits at schools this evening.

Our Social for this evening is cancelled. We will let you know if we are able to re-schedule soon. Please check our website for updates.

Stay safe and warm.

Roden School Council