Long time extracurricular piano and violin teacher Lane Hunt is unable to teach at Lord Tennyson this year due to the Covid restrictions. Please call or text her at 778-868-2077 if you are interested in more information about lessons. Lessons are now held online or in her home studio, near the school. All ages and levels are welcome. Thanks!
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**Unfortunately, due to a technical glitch some forms submitted in the last two weeks may not have been received by Funderland. We don’t want anyone to miss out so if you have already registered between Sep1st - Sep10 please register again and send an  email to [email protected]  **

Funderland  Children’s Center  is a flexible after-school program, within a 10-minute walk of Tennyson providing free pick up service for students K-G3. 
Services:
• Free Pick up Service
• Everyday 3:30-5:30 pm classes (you can choose from 1 up to 5 days a week)
• Drop-In Sessions
• Pro-D Day, Winter Break, Spring Break & Summer break Camps 

Register Online 

Philosophy
Funderland is an innovative game-based and child-oriented program that focuses on developing self-regulation and social skills through FUN indoor and outdoor activities. All-in-one program that turns children’s every afternoon to a surprise. Step-by-step projects develop critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, listening and responsibility while open-ended projects encourage self-confidence, creativity, flexibility and communication skills. These fun indoor-outdoor games and activities have no limits: Sculpturing, Wood Arts, Stone Arts, Open studio, Science experiments, Cooking, Gardening, Storytelling, Puppet making, Green crafts, Interesting kid documentaries, group discussions, and lots of free play with game items and 

Pick-Up
Two staff sign out children from school and they walk together through low traffic residential area. Some days, before we start our walk, children will play at school playground to add more fun and physical activities to their days. 
 
Costs
The fee for each session is $ 23. Class registrations are on monthly basis while you can choose from 1 to 5 classes per month.

Educators
All our staff have valid first aid certificates, the relevant education, and years of experience working with children as well as a clear recent background check and immunization declaration. 

• Azi, the director of Funedrland, is an early childhood educator who has been working with children age 1-12 for over 8 years. Her passion is to create an environment that encourages play and creativity for children to develop their social-emotional skills.
• Mary has a bachelor of education and she has been an elementary teacher for 11 years.
• Sorina is studying social work and assists children on a daily basis.
• Dahlia is on-call staff who assist other staff and children whenever needed. 

Safety & Hygiene
We strictly practice the enhanced health and safety protocols prescribed by Public Health to ensure Covid measures are in place when students return to classes. These actions include: daily temperature monitoring, more frequent sanitizing, lower number of children in the classes, separated pick-up and drop-off spaces, and considering social distancing in our activities and room arrangements.
 
For more information about fall registration, costs and reservation please visit
www.funderland.ca email [email protected]  or call 604 345 6259. 

Great news! Randi West has volunteered to be out Technology Manager, thank you Randi, so now we just need a  social media manager to complete  our communications team.

Social Media Manager
As the social media manager you will take the lead managing Lord Tennyson PAC’s Facebook and Instagram presence. Tennyson Social Media consists of 3 platforms: Instagram, Facebook page + Facebook parent group. Typical tasks include:

• Posting suitable content to the Tennyson Facebook and Instagram feeds to keep them fresh and interesting (including holidays, and relevant school info)
  
  
• Responding to Facebook and Instagram messages, answering questions if you can, or passing messages to the correct person
• Coordinating the Tennyson parent Facebook Group; letting in new members, keeping an eye on posts, answering questions and keeping it  fresh and interesting
• BONUS: Monitoring allied organizations and neighbouring school’s Facebook pages and Instagram feeds, responding to and commenting on their posts, and sharing the information with our parents in order to to build community and support each other
  
  

The role works closely with the rest of the PAC Communications team who can help with the transition and answer any questions you have to make it easy to get going. As with all volunteering positions at Tennyson you can make it as big or as small as you like. Please email me at [email protected] if you're interested.