PAC Meeting – Thursday, September 28th

7-8:30pm

Come to the first PAC meeting of the 2023/2024 school year. Childcare will be provided.
Our new principal, Trevor Wrinch, will be in attendance, and this is a great opportunity to hear from Trevor and vice principal Andrew Coelho about plans for Hastings for the upcoming year.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Spring Fair 2023 Sponsors

The Hastings Spring Fair is made possible by the generosity of our community sponsors!

Join us Friday, May 12th from 3-6pm, rain or shine, for the Hastings Community Elementary School Spring Fair. This is a community event and everyone is welcome.

Activities include: Cake Walk, Jolly Jars, Carnival Games, Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, Glitter Tattoos, Live Music, Food & Drink, and more. Admission is free. Activity and raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the event.

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Community Cares Sponsors

Matrix Production Services	The Learnary	VCC Baking and Pastry Arts
Chard Development	Hill & Harbour Real Estate Group	Dolce Amore – Little Italy
Caliper Print & Signage Solutions	George Vergette Studio	Real Canadian Superstore
Save-on-Foods	Bosa Foods	Templeton Secondary School
Dachi	F45 Training Sunrise East Village	Fresh Slice
Grow Speech and Language Therapy	London Drugs	Iron Dog Books
Karin Davidson Personal Real Estate Corporation	Mindful Brains Learning Support	Lululemon
Makehaus Fabrications	Shopper’s Drug Mart	Pacific National Exhibition
Save-on-Foods	Costco Wholesale	Stong’s Market North Vancouver
Sunrise Health Massage Therapy & Acupuncture	Wally’s Pro Sports Cards and Novelties	Tot 2 Teen Dental
Rio Friendly Meats

Hastings Reads! 2023

We are so excited to announce that we have 16 groups signed up for
the final event! We will be publishing a list of the championed books shortly, and
we are so pleased it includes a wide range of topics, with students
representing almost every division in Grade 6/7!

And the latest tally of our classroom reading competition between all
the grades 4/5 and 6/7 students is in! Division 14F is in the lead for the
Grade 4/5’s with 258 books read, and division 20F is in the lead for the Grade
6/7’s with 88 books read! Way to go! We will be doing a FINAL tally on
Friday, April 28th before morning recess, so KEEP READING! There has been
some great enthusiasm among the students, so we are feeling very excited about announcing
the winners at the final event on May 1st!

Please find all reading lists HERE,
separated by grade tabs.

For logistical reasons, we are unable
to track grade K-3 progress for prizes at this time, but look forward to
welcoming those students to participate once they reach grade 4! We invite
parents to print a copy of the K-3 list and follow along as your children
discover these wonderful titles!

Ask your children to tell you more
about Hastings Reads and let's talk about books!!

On behalf of the Hastings Reads!
subcommittee, the Hastings Anti-racism Committee, and the Hastings PAC

Hastings Reads! 2023

Hello Hastings parents and caregivers!

Hopefully your kids have come home excitedly
showing you their cool new Hastings Reads! bookmark and told you about the
great books the school is showcasing from our very successful diversity Book
Drive! The Hastings Reads subcommittee thought families might like to check out
some of the titles themselves, to read along and encourage their children!

All grade 4-7 students have been
given reading lists, and all K-3 students are being read to by our school
librarian, Chris Donegan. A display in the library features some of the titles
for students to check out on their own, and all the titles are also available
at the Vancouver Public Library, many in various formats including, ebooks and
audiobooks.

Please find all reading lists HERE,
separated by grade tabs.

**Prizes will be awarded to the
students and classrooms from grades 4-7 that read the MOST BOOKS! Winners announced at a special final event on Monday, May 1st in the gym! Stay tuned
for more info in the coming weeks!**

Ask your children to tell you more
about Hastings Reads and let's talk about books!!

On behalf of the Hastings Reads!
subcommittee, the Hastings Anti-racism Committee, and the Hastings PAC

Burger and Bevvie Night is Back!

Tickets on Sale NOW!! Saturday February 25th

After a very long 3 year break, the Hastings PAC is very excited to be hosting the very popular Burger & Bevvie Night at The Princeton once again!
When: Saturday, February 25th!
Where: The Princeton Hotel – 1901 Powell Street
What: Adults only social event to bring together the Hastings School parent community
Book the sitter and get your tickets online at EVENTBRITE
Tickets are only $26 each and that includes all services fees. Your ticket gets you a burger, fries, one beverage, karaoke entertainment, and good times!
Doors open at 6pm, and first burgers are served at 6:30pm.
Kitchen closes at 10pm, but event goes until 11pm.
This is a wonderful way to meet other parents and caregivers. While this
event is primarily intended to be a community building event, any
proceeds will go to the Hastings PAC to fund initiatives such as
classroom supplies, dance and phys.ed programs, art supplies, to name a
few! So grab some friends and come out for a fun night while raising
money for the PAC!
Only 100 tickets are available! Get yours now!
We hope to see you there!

Hastings Reads! 2023

Hello Hastings school community!

Many
of you will remember in 2021, Hastings held a library diversity book
drive. It was incredibly
successful, with hundreds of book titles suggested by students,
care-givers, and teachers and over $5000 raised to purchase those books
and more. The intention was to ensure that the books in our school
library reflected the diversity in our school community
and around the world. Since then, much work has gone into purchasing
and cataloguing many of those books, and now we are ready to get going
on a second project…….. HASTINGS READS!

As
the book drive
happened during a time when restrictions were in place and care-givers
weren’t allowed into the school, we want to make sure that all kids (and
adults) know about and take the opportunity to dive into these great
new books! So, using the popular yearly event
CBC’s Canada Reads as inspiration, we are going to have our own ‘Battle of the Books.’ 🎉

Learn about
Canada Reads.

All classes and children will be involved and to kick things off,
everyone will receive their own Hastings Reads! 2023 bookmark. There is a
spot on the back where kids can write their name and division number, to
prevent them getting lost. 😉 Participation for the
different grades will look like this:

Kindergarten to grade 3: The school librarian, Chris Donegan, will read from the new book list to each of the classes during their library time.

Grades 4 and 5: Children will each have their own checklist of
the new books, which they will be able to borrow from the library. Once a
book is read, they’ll check it on their list. Prizes will be awarded to
classes when they reach certain milestones
of books read in total.

Grades 6 and 7: The Hastings Reads! the subcommittee has been very
busy behind the scenes. The librarians on the subcommittee (we are lucky
to have several), have chosen 5 books for each of the 6/7
classes. From those five books, children will be able
to choose which book that they’d like to ‘champion’ as a group. A class
is welcome to have multiple groups championing a book. Children are
welcome and encouraged to read more than just the book they’d like to
champion, as the class that reads the most books
will earn a class prize. Classes have five copies of each of their five
books. While some were purchased through our awesome neighbourhood book
store –

Iron Dog Books on Hastings St – half the books were either donated or heavily discounted by the publishers. And then in May, the final event, our very own ‘battle of the books,’ will take place! Date to be announced soon! As
we would like to make the final event as inclusive as possible, the
logistics of what that will look like are still being determined, but
we are already lining up local personalities from the book community, as moderators.

The grades 6/7 teachers have received their books and checklists, the
grades 4 and 5 children will receive their checklists this week, posters are up, Hastings Reads book
displays are set
up in the library, and
all children will soon be receiving their Hastings Reads bookmarks. So,
everything is ready to go and the challenge is on!

Ask your children to tell you more about Hastings Reads and let’s talk about books!!

On behalf of the Hastings Reads! subcommittee, the Hastings Anti-racism Committee, and the Hastings PAC

Staff Appreciation Breakfast

Monday, June 27th

We are so fortunate to have fabulous teachers and staff at our school! Help the PAC say thank you to them as the year draws to a close. Bring a breakfast item for staff to share. Drop off baking, fruit, cheese, or other yummy treats anytime between 8:30-9:30am. The PAC will be providing coffee from Laughing Bean.

Please label the food item and any dishes or utensils you bring in, and pick up at the end of the day or next morning. Thank you!

Spring Fair Raffle Winners

Congratulations to all the raffle winners from this year’s Spring Fair! And a big thank you to all the generous sponsors for their prize contributions.

View the list of prizes and winners here (pdf).