I'm looking for a after school care for my 2 children – Kindergarten age boy and Grade 4 age girl.

A parent staying home with their children or a nanny share – would be open for either option, as long as it is safe and caring home. We live in Arbutus/15th area, if there is anyone in the neighborhood, would only be a bonus.

Please contact me at 604 771 4325 or by email at ruta.ludgate@gmail.com

Please be extra careful when driving and walking at 10th Avenue and Maple. Improvements to 10th Avenue to make it safer for cyclists are underway and the traffic pattern and intersection rules have changed.

Work to insert a segregated bike lane and make the road one-way for cars from Arbutus to Maple on 10th Avenue  has begun.

• The intersection at  10th and Maple is no longer a 4-way stop. It is now a two-way stop North to South and a through route for east to west traffic. 
  
• You can no longer drive West on 10th Avenue. It is now bicycle only going west.
  

It's all a bit confusing, so please take extra care when walking and driving there  as everyone learns the new layout.

Do you have a connection with Shaughnessy Elementary School? Were you student or staff member at Shaughnessy in the past? Hoping to join us in the future?
 
Please join us to celebrate Shaughnessy Elementary School’s centennial:
Date - Saturday, September 21, 2019
Time - 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location - Shaughnessy Elementary School
                  4250 Marguerite Street, Vancouver
 
Info and tickets - www.shy100.ca

Festivities kick off with the opening ceremony in the gym at 10:30am and continue on-site throughout the day until 4:30pm. Don't miss performances by the Coastal Wolf Pack, Vancouver Police Pipe Band, the Prince of Wales Secondary School Band and Choir, a 'through the decades' fashion show presented by Ivan Sayers, and a vintage car show. Enjoy our student-led school tours, themed decade rooms, 1919 movie house, and hall of archives. Get your centennial swag at our Tuck Shop. Try your hand at carnival and playground games from the past century, have some old-school fun in our soccer/sports day zone. Grab a bite from our food trucks, or at our popcorn and cotton candy stands, and catch up with old friends in our tea room. There's something for everyone, so bring your family and join us as we celebrate the past, present and future of our school!

We are hosting our first 2020 fundraiser of the year and it’s coming up quick!

We are having a PUB NIGHT on September 17th from 6-9pm at Red Truck Beer Company. We are very grateful for their support (all proceeds for the ticket sales are going to Tennyson). Tickets are $25 and include a burger and a beer.

We will be selling tickets before & after school until the event. Please email tennyson2020@lordtennyson.ca if you would like to reserve your tickets as quantities are very limited.

The first day of school is just around the corner. How can that be! If you're still buying supplies,  you might find exactly what you need at one  of these  businesses that have supported Tennyson's fundraising efforts over the last  year. 

Whole Foods   sells great lunch and snack products that are durable, reusable and look really cool. Whole Foods Kitsilano (on 4th) made Tennyson one of their  bag donation charities in the spring and raised an amazing $2.043 for Tennyson PAC last year!

Spud  also has a great range of litterless lunch products including, Eco lunchboxes, Luumi lunchbags (which look so cool!) and GoGo snack bags.  Also, if you're interested in getting produce, Spud will donate 25% of the value of the fundraising produce box you buy to Tennyson. Details are over on the fundraising page.

Perwinkle Designs, make beeswax food wraps which are perfect for  for wrapping sandwiches, cheese, veggies, fruits and snacks  for a litterless lunch. This small business was started by a Grade 4 Tennyson student, Madison Seriosa, and is going from strength to strength. You can buy the wraps online, at Safeway at West King Edward and Oak, at  local community fairs  or from her mum Lisa in the playground.

London Drugs at Broadway and Vine is  a one-stop-shop for back to school staples. You can get everything from lunchboxes to  permanent markers so you can label all your new kit to help keep it out of the lost and found.

And, speaking of keeping your stuff out of the lost and found, you might what to invest in some Mable's Labels to stick on bags, coats, sweaters, lunch kits and water bottles.  Before you start your shopping on their website put Lord Tennyson Elementary in the search box so that 20% of the proceeds  go to the Tennyson PAC.

Thank you so much  Whole Foods  and their customers for raising $2.043 for Tennyson!

Whole Foods made Tennyson one of their second quarter bag donation charities at their Kitsilano store. At the register at the Whole Foods on 4th, customers who didn't use a bag had the option to receive the 10 cent per bag refund as cash back or they could choose to donate it to a designated charity. We were one of the lucky charities.

The money raised will go towards the playground and outdoor education spaces for the new school.

We also need to give a big thank  you to Tennyson parent Katherine, who has coordinated this as well as a number of other fundraising events for the school. We are lucky to have you in the school community!

What an absolutely lovely ceremony! The Grade 7s graduated from Tennyson on Tuesday and they were surrounded by loved ones. Aniko and Karoly (and their team) transformed the 107 year old gym into a tropical paradise. Greg and Karen (and their team) organized the day for the students and the lunch for everyone after the ceremony. Thank you also to the Tennyson administration for organizing the ceremony and the dance afterwards and to Ryo for the wonderful slideshow. Congratulations Grade 7s! Oh the places you will go ...