We are excited to welcome Apsley Senior Kindergarten - Grade 8 students back to school after Labour Day.  

Junior Kindergarten student visits have been arranged for Wednesday and Thursday.  All students will be back as of Friday, September 9.

Students and families are invited to post a photo of their first day back to school, using the hashtag #KPRFirstDay and tagging @kprschools. Submissions will be entered into a draw for a KPR Prize Pack and one of two $50 Gift Cards to Chapters/Indigo.

Details will be shared on KPR’s Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in the coming days and full contest details and rules are available on the KPR website at: https://www.kprschools.ca/en/news/kprfirstday-photo-contest.aspx

Some important highlights are:
•    Participants may submit one entry per student 
•    Student must attend a KPR school 
•    The deadline for contest submissions is September 13, 2022 at 4:00pm.
•    In order for Social Media Entries to be valid, posts must be public and not private.

There are four ways to enter the contest:
1) Post your photo to Twitter with the hashtag #KPRFirstDay and tag @kprschools (make sure the post is public and not private)
2) Post your photo to Instagram with the hashtag #KPRFirstDay and tag @kprschools (make sure the post is public and not private)
3) Post your photo to Facebook with the hashtag #KPRFirstDay and mention @KawarthaPineRidgeDistrictSchoolBoard
4) Email your photo to kpr_info@kprdsb.ca with the hashtag #KPRFirstDay in the subject line

Students and families should visit kprschools.ca for full contest details. 

Click here for our September 2022 newsletter.

The Terry Fox Run is celebrating 42 years! Our run will be last block on Friday, September 23, 2022. Donations are greatly appreciated! You can support through the following link: https://schools.terryfox.ca/ApsleyCentralPSApsley

Our goal this year is $1000! Thank you, Apsley community, for all the support over the years.

KPR’s Annual Parent Conference is returning this fall as a hybrid event, where you can choose to attend in-person or online!

This year’s conference will focus on Building Skills and Resilience in a Supportive Environment of Risk-Taking, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Colin King.

Join us Saturday, October 15, 9:30am – 12:00pm at Adam Scott CVI, 175 Langton Street, Peterborough or virtually. For more information on the event and how to register for this FREE event, please open the attachment or go to our website. (hyper link: www.kprschools.ca/en/student-and-family-support/parent-conferences.aspx)

Every Child Matters.  We encourage everyone to wear an Orange Shirt on Friday, September 30.  This is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation.  

School Picture Day is Friday, October 28, 2022.

2022 October Newsletter for the Apsley October Newsletter

In partnership with the North Kawartha Community Centre, we are distributing this flyer to our families for their information. Please contact the NKCC at 705-656-4445 with any questions.

In partnership with the North Kawartha Library in Apsley, here is some information about upcoming programming.
-> Songs and Storytime Ages 0-5
Come to the library for story time and songs this October, Wednesdays at 9:30am – 10:00am. Children ages 0-5.
-> Ontario Public Library Week
Drop into the library on Ontario Public Library Week anytime between October 16 – 22 to have your name entered into a draw for a Kobo Digital e-reader! We will also be serving cookies and coffee Wednesday October 19th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm and welcome you to join us.
-> Children’s Movie Night Returns
This October we will resume our monthly children’s movie night at the library. This month our feature film will be Monster House (rated G) and it plays at the library just in time for the Halloween season on Thursday October 27 at 6:30pm-8:00pm. The library will be transformed into a movie theatre. Here you can bring your comfy sleeping bag and a friend to join in on a fun evening at the library!
-> Pumpkin Carving Contest
Our annual Pumpkin Carving contest will take place Saturday October 29th, 2022, 11:00am-12:30pm. Drop into the library and carve a pumpkin. Take it home OR enter it into our Pumpkin carving contest. Judging will take place on Halloween. All entries will be lit and on display Halloween Night. The prize winner will take home handmade chocolate treats from The Chocolate Rabbit. Please contact the library to pre-register so that we can ensure there is a pumpkin for you! mailto:K.tucker@northkawarthalibrary.com/705-656-4333
-> Halloween Night
The North Kawartha Public Library will be handing out treats by the pumpkin display 5:00pm-7:00pm. We can’t wait to see your costumes!
-> Gardening Meetup
The Gardening Meet-up happens at the library each month on the last Wednesday. We and are looking forward to hosting the next meet-up on Wednesday October 26, 6:30-8:00pm. If you love gardening or would like to learn more about gardening, consider dropping into the library. This is an opportunity to casually gather with a small group of like-minded people and share knowledge, tricks of the trade and celebrate each other’s achievements. A drop in event.
-> Kniterary
Please feel free to drop into the library and make yourself comfortable with this casual group of knitters of all levels and ages. Bring along with you whatever you’re working on whether it is knitting, crocheting, or some kind of portable craft. We also have needles and yarn here for beginners who would like to give it a try, Wednesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm

Monday, October 24 is a professional activity day for teacher learning.  There is no school for students on Oct. 24.

Update for families of students going to the McLean Farm pumpkin patch tomorrow (October 27, 2022). Please see the attached letter for information about a pumpkin included in the trip price you've already paid. If you paid additional money to purchase a pumpkin, you have two choices indicated on the form. A paper copy of the form will come home with your student tonight.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

As we continue to monitor daily absence trends and work closely with our partners in public health, we are sharing the attached communication from Peterborough Public Health, which includes guidance and updates on COVID-19 as well as the transmission of other illnesses in the community.

Thank you!

In partnership with North Kawartha Library, here are the December Library Events:

Christmas Ornament Craft

Children are invited to the library for this festive crafting event on Thursday December 8th 4:00pm-5:00pm. We will make a keepsake to cherish or give as a gift. If you like reindeer this craft is for you!

Please preregister your child for this free event by emailing their full name and age to k.tucker@northkawarthalibrary.com by December 5th.

Children’s Movie Night 

This December we will feature an original kind of Christmas movie with Rise of the Guardians (G) as our monthly children’s film on Wednesday December 14th, 2022, 6:30pm-8:00pm . The library will be transformed into a movie theatre complete with popcorn. Bring a friend and your comfy clothes and join in on a fun evening at the library!

Gingerbread Decorating

The North Kawartha Public Library is pleased to have our second in-person Gingerbread House Decorating Day! Saturday December 17, 12:30-1:30pm

We ask that children pre-register. Our library elves will be busy baking gingerbread and as an extra special start to the season they will bake 12 gingerbread houses for the first 12 families to register! Never fear, there will be plenty of gingerbread men to decorate and take home for everyone else. We have all the decorating treats to make your gingerbread masterpieces. Please pre-register with your child’s full name and age by emailing k.tucker@northkawarthalibrary.com. All Grades Welcome! Children under 8 please bring your adult.

Christmas Holiday Hours

The North Kawartha Public Library wishes the community safe and happy holidays. We will be closed for the holiday at the Apsley branch from December 24, at Noon, reopening Tuesday, January 3rd. The Woodview branch will be closed from December 22 at 2:00pm, reopening Tuesday January 3rd, 2023.

Christmas Card Collaging Workshop

This Christmas themed adult program will get your creativity flowing in a fun and original way. Come to the library and craft unique and original Christmas cards through the art of collage. Collage materials are provided but you are welcome to bring any material or old cards to use as well. Just bring your creativity and good cheer! Wednesday December 7th, 2022, 4:00-5:00pm

Kniterary
Please feel free to drop into the library and make yourself comfortable with this casual group of knitters of all levels and ages and children are welcome. Bring along with you whatever you’re working on whether it is knitting, crocheting, or some kind of portable craft. We also have needles and yarn here for beginners who would like to give it a try, Wednesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm

ACPS is hosting the Scholastic Book Fair from December 5-8.  The book fair will be open on Tuesday from 3-4pm for family shopping.  It will be open late on Wednesday, from 3-6pm.

Do you, your family or friends have items that are no longer needed?  School Council is looking for donations to support the Trinkets & Treasures event.  Please bring donations to the school office by Wednesday, December 14 at 4:00pm.  Students will visit the Trinkets & Treasures event on Friday.  The School Council letter is attached.

In partnership with the Township of North Kawartha, please see the following message regarding Holiday Hours at the NKCC:

Here is the recipe for Short Bread that is going up for the Cooking Club, Just in case folks are having a hard time figuring out the google classroom.

The Cooking Club voted on Banana Bread this month.  Here is the recipe. A lot of folks have a way of doing this themselves, but by freezing the peeled bananas first, then thawing them before cooking with them, it turns out super moist. 

As always, I love to see how they turned out.  

Mr. Watson

A big thank you to Apsley Home Hardware. They are sharpening all of our school-owned skates for free.
Many, many thanks for this wonderful support!!

Thank you to the Apsley Royal Canadian Legion Branch 381 for a generous donation of $500 towards our skating program!  We will use this donation to purchase CSA approved helmets for our school.  These helmets will be available for students to use during our skating trips to the North Kawartha Community Centre in February.  We are so grateful!

There are two recipes for this one. One is for Shepherd's pie itself and the other to make mashed potatoes. Some folks will have their own way of doing mashed potatoes, this is one you can use as a default.

Click here for the February 2023 newsletter.