The New Year

As the new year is well underway, it is a good time to mention a few items. First of all, as a staff, we pray for blessings on each family and each student at John Knox Christian School. We also need and cherish your prayers for each student; the work we do, we do to bring glory to God and we cannot begin to do it without his blessing and grace. Secondly, we ask for your support in various school activities that are outlined weekly in this Knox Talks newsletter. Communication is a two-way street and it intends to benefit the sender and the receiver. Please stay in touch both with your student’s weekly work expectations and with the events at the school.

Open House

The Promotion Committee is hosting an Open House at the school on Wednesday, January 25. On offer will be tours of the school, meetings with staff members, goodies/refreshments, videos, curriculum materials, and answers to questions. There will be both a morning and an afternoon session. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please encourage them to come and let the Committee know so a personal invitation may be issued. Call the school or Shelley K. for more information.

Reading Partners

Our annual Reading Partners activity begins next Tuesday. Every week until March Break, an older student will team up with a younger student to share books for fifteen minutes. Yes, it’s been done for many years - but it is also an encouragement to each family to do the same at home. Students enjoy the benefit from being read to and from reading aloud to others. Share the benefits.

March Break

In case there is confusion remaining from the school calendar sent home last June, our March Break is in sync with area schools and will be from March 12-16.

Advertisers and New Businesses

The Promotion Committee is looking for any advertisers or new businesses interested in publishing their add in the quarterly Standard issues. This is an affordable and great way to advertise your business. The adds may be a business card or half-page size. If you are interested, or know of anyone who might be, please contact the Promotion Committee.

Remember to Collect

Remember to collect and bring to school any Campbell labels and Canadian Tire Money. This could be soups, crackers, juice labels...etc. Also, we are collecting Tetra juice pouches. These are the Koolaid Jammer type drinks. The company will take any juice pouches. Just slit the bottoms and rinse out.

Vouchers

Some great news from your voucher committee.  Did you know you may use your NoFrills, Superstore, Independant Grocer gift cards to purchase gift cards from other stores? Each of these grocery stores have on display gift cards for a variety of items.  You may purchase phone cards, fuel cards, restaurant cards, retail store gift cards and many more. So next time you are doing your grocery shopping, check out the other gift cards that are available to buy and save up even more John Knox Tuition dollars. Come visit us on Thursday's from 1:00 -2:30 in the spare classroom, or send your order in via backpack express. If at any time you would like to know your balance on record with us, just send in a note with your order and we may forward that amount to you. Also we are now sold out of the paper gift certificates from Foodland and will now be offering the plastic gift cards in the following amounts: $25.00, $50.00 and $100.00.  If at any time you require more information about this program please feel free to speak to any voucher committee member.

Interested in or Curious About Christian Education at John Knox?

If you would like to know more about John Knox Christian School, please feel free to contact us via email, phone, or in person. Information packages are available and we would be glad to give you a tour of our school and opportunities to check out the curriculum and meet the staff.

"Knox Talks" Online!

Each school week the Knox Talks will be available for download and printing (in PDF format). Perfect for when the paper version comes home soggy, torn or not at all! Click the top link in the left-side navigation for this weeks issue.

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