Schedule
Friday, November 30: No after-school care for HOOSC students
Wednesday, December 5: PAC meeting
Friday, December 7: Spirit Day
PAC Meeting
The December PAC meeting will be this Wednesday, December 5 at 6:30 in the library. The minutes from last month’s meeting are available here. The agenda for Wednesday will be posted at https://hudsonpac.ca/meetings/ before the meeting.
Activities
Moresports (basketball) & Expressive Arts will be doing in-person registration on Monday, Dec 3 at 8:30 am and 3 pm outside the school office. We hope to have the Term 2 Activities schedule out in the next week or so!
Direct Donation Appeal
Our Direct Donation Appeal has begun and your children should be bringing home the forms in their backpacks, or you can print the form here. Your tax receipt eligible donation to fund required technology for the classrooms is needed to make sure the kids have fair access to needed equipment.
Hot Lunch
Hot Lunch will be starving for volunteers for Term 2. Starting in January, can you, or a family member throw on an apron, Tuesdays 9 AM – noon or 10 – 1 PM? Or Thursdays 11 AM to 1 PM? You will be trained. It’s easy!
Winter Fair
The annual Winter Fair will be on Friday 14th Dec from 3.00pm to 5.00pm in the gym.
Come to enjoy the raffle, cake-walk, kids-only market, food, games, crafts, the Storybooth photo booth and award winning strolling magician Kelvin Ng.
TICKETS: Please make sure your ticket order forms, with payment, are
dropped off no later than 3.15pm this Friday 30th Nov. Also please make sure your child’s name is on the form. Order forms were sent out in back packs last week but you can also pick-up one outside the office or
print one here. Completed forms should be placed in the white PAC mailbox in the office.
The tickets that you’ve ordered will be placed in a ziplock bag with the original order form and returned to you child via their teacher during the first week of December. Please look out for the tickets, keep them safe and remember to bring them on the day of the Fair. For further information contact Stella at
hudsonclassrep@outlook.com.
DONATIONS
Kids-only market: Before you deck the halls, check your halls, closets, cupboards and crawl space for things you can donate to the Winter Fair!
The Kids Only Market – a very popular part of the Winter Fair – where kids (only!) use tickets to purchase gifts for adults and have them wrapped – needs donations. Please donate: new or like-new adult-appropriate presents (men and women please!). Think about moms, dads, grandparents, etc. Some examples are costume jewellery, wallets, home decor, toiletry sets, scarves, novelty items. Dollar stores and discount bins are also great places to pick up inexpensive trinkets to donate. We will also accept kid-friendly presents as some children may wish to buy for siblings etc. but the focus is on adult gifts as they’re harder for children to shop for and keep as a surprise. In good condition books, CDs, DVDs also accepted.
Please drop items to the girls change room in the gym either in the morning around 9.00am and after school around 3.00pm from Monday 3rd Dec onwards.
Raffle: We are seeking donated prizes for the raffle. If you or your company could donate a prize, gift certificate or experience for the raffle please drop it off in the school office with a note stating the value of the prize and your name or the name of the company. For more information contact Nina at
njanepatel@gmail.com.
Cake walk: If you can donate a cake or set of cupcakes or cookies (home made or store bought) for the ever popular cake-walk please contact Stella at
hudsonclassrep@outlook.com for more information.
VOLUNTEER: Many hands make light work, and we still need more volunteers to make this parent-run event a success. We’ll be starting set-up at 12 noon on Dec 14th with shifts running throughout the afternoon ending around 5.45pm after the clean up. If you can spare some time to join the crew for all or part of the time that would be greatly appreciated. It’s fun and rewarding to get involved and we can’t do it without you. The more the merrier!
Volunteer roles include: setting-up (a few folk capable of some moderately heavy lifting are especially helpful here), decorating the gym, foodpreparation, supervising one of the games or the craft table, selling tickets or food, wrapping gifts at the kids-only market, taking a turn directing the cake-walk and of course for the all important cleaning-up at the end. If you would like to get involved please contact Carly at
carlykrug24@gmail.com. Thank you.
Winter Choir Concerts
December 18 – Hudson Choir Concerts with Special Guests from CTV News
The concert is scheduled to start and 6 PM, but at 5:30, the choirs will be taping three segments with CTV Morning Live to be broadcast on Dec 20. Be there to see how TV magic is made.
Clothing Fundraiser Update
We raised $103.25 from our clothing drive donation to Value Village (not including the original sale). Thank you to everyone who donated and volunteered to make the event happen.
