Community

The YWCA of Regina will be operating a Before and After care program at Ethel Milliken School for children in grades k-4. If your family is interested in registering for the B and A program please click here. We are excited about this childcare opportunity for Milliken families. The YWCA has a long history of empowering women, youth and children in our community.

We will be hosting a Healthy Hunger lunch from Boston Pizza on December 8. Orders must be placed on the Healthy Hunger website by December 3. Click here to visit the site. Healthy Hunger is a national company that runs hot lunches for schools, partnering with local restaurants. The school selects and works with restaurants who are partnered with the Healthy Hunger company to offer optional hot lunches.

Congratulations staff and students of Ethel Milliken school, you raised $1326.00 for the United Way with the principal for a day, staff survivor, staff potluck and staff silent auction. The United Way is the charity of choice in Regina Public Schools and contributes to initiatives such as Summer Success Literacy Camps and Attendance Matters in Regina Public. Well done staff and students and thank you to Mrs. Schneider for co-ordinating our fundraising campaign!

On November 24, the Ethel Milliken students participated in a Metis Dance Day. Teachers and leaders from Kitchener Community School and students from SunTep at the University of Regina gave workshops to all of our students and they got in a good workout learning steps from the Red River Jig, and the Rabbit Dance to name a few! Shout out to Mr. Wright who provided the live fiddle music and Mrs. Desjarlais and Mrs. Korpan who organized the day. We are looking forward to practicing and showing off what we learned in the future!

Hot lunches are back! We will be hosting our first Healthy Hunger Hot lunch on November 10! This hot lunch will be provided by Wok Box. Orders must be placed on the Healthy Hunger website by November 5. See the photo for information on how to create your Healthy Hunger account and place your order. All orders and payment must be done through the Healthy Hunger website. Click here to visit the site and set up or log into your account.

All families are encouraged to sign up for a parent-teacher conference. Conferences will be held on November 15; students will not have school that day. Kindergarten conferences will be held on November 15 and 16, there will not be school for kindergarten students on either of those days. Conferences will be approximately 15 minutes in length and parents have the option to attend in person or virtually.

Remember to leave the Halloween candy and treats at home! Please only healthy lunches and healthy snacks at school this week! Have a safe and happy Halloween!

Congratulations to Nicky who was principal on Friday, October 28. Nicky was a very busy principal and had a great day. Students raised $452.00 for the United Way! Nicky earned money for his contest entries by shoveling driveways in his neighbourhood and asking friends and neighbours if they would donate to the United Way! Thank you to all who participated. Visit the photo gallery to see pictures of Nicky as principal.

Unfortunately, we have a number of parent drivers who are refusing to obey the traffic laws in front of our school putting our students at risk. There are designated drop off areas, the green cones that say "NO STOPPING" mark off places where you cannot stop. Daily, parents stop at the cones and, when our staff or safety patrollers politely ask them to move, they refuse indicating they are just dropping off their child. All motorists in front of our school are dropping off children; this is not a valid excuse to disobey the traffic rules and it blocks sight lines for the crosswalks.

The United Way is the charity of choice in Regina Public. The United Way supports many initiatives in our schools including literacy programming and summer success reading camps. ” To raise funds for the United Way, we are offering a “Principal for a day to support United Way” campaign.