June 27, 2016
Dear Adelaide Families,
Where has this year gone!? It feels like yesterday was just September and we were welcoming your children back to school. Despite the difficult start to the year, we were able to provide your children with high quality instruction and exceptional extra-curricular activities throughout the school year.
This has been a year of many changes. September started with a new administrative team as Mr. Carey and I joined Adelaide as Vice-Principal and Principal respectively. At Christmas, Mr. Carey was promoted to Principal and Miss Snell joined our family as a new Vice-Principal. Mr. Ashley went off on parental leave. Mr. Kirk joined our staff, first to replace Mrs. Avelar, then to replace Mr. Ashley once Mrs. Avelar returned. We have also welcomed Miss Nicolaides, Mrs. Boughner and Miss Pierroz to replace Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Obradovic and Mr. Novakovic. Despite the changes in staff, the students continued to receive high quality educational programming from the talented guest teachers.
We are fortunate to be maintaining most of our school staff as we move into the 2016/2017 academic year. We are bidding farewell to Mrs. Dowson who will be moving to her dream job teaching fulltime Art at Mount Hope School. Although Mrs. Dowson only joined our family in October, her presence will be missed. Mrs. Dowson was a driving force behind our highly successful Art Show at Open House. Mrs. Balardo is moving to a fulltime position at Queen Victoria. We welcome Ms. Simunic. We are also saying goodbye to Miss Thompson in kindergarten. Miss Thompson will be taking on the challenge of being an Early Child Educator at Billy Green School. We will also be bidding farewell to Miss Nicolaides, Mrs. Boughner, Miss Pierroz, Mr. Kirk, Mrs. Hernandez, Mrs. Linger and Mr. Jantz who have all supported our Adelaide family this year. We will also be bidding farewell to Ms. Beasley who has been a faithful member of the FDK team. We wish everyone luck in their new assignments.
We will be welcoming Mrs. Smith to our family in September. Mrs. Smith will be teaching grade 1/2. Mrs. Smith has taught at Ray Lewis, Cardinal Heights and Franklin Road. She is very excited to be part of the Adelaide family. We will also be welcoming Ms. Ridos to our FDK team. Ms. Ridos will be the new DECE to replace Miss Thompson. There will be a few more new faces at Adelaide in September. We will make those announcements once staffing is finalized.
As the 2015/2016 school year draws to a close, I must say it has been my most enjoyable and positive year yet. I was so excited to be chosen to be the Principal at Adelaide Hoodless. Miss Snell and I absolutely love coming to school (not work) every day and working with your beautiful children. Each and every one of them are unique and bring so many positive qualities to the school.
Both Miss Snell and I are looking forward to starting the 2016/2017 school year. We are committed to continuing to work closely with our Home and School Association, under the leadership of the energetic Ms. Nancy Raymond. We are also committed to building an active School Council. A focus for our first full year as an administrative team will be to build community connections and to establish a health action plan to ensure our students are provided with access to sound nutrition education, daily physical education and healthy food. We will also be actively seeking out ways to improve the overall physical environment of Adelaide Hoodless School. Of course providing a safe and inclusive learning environment where everyone can thrive as learners will be the driving force behind everything we do.
Thank you to everyone who has brought such love and joy to our fabulous school. Our school is such a positive and fabulous place to be. Enjoy your summer and we so look forward to working with all of you in September.
Mrs. Nanci Simpson
Miss Lindsay Snell