Mois: septembre 2020
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Thank you for the extra kindness and patience as we organize and reorganize (and reorganize again) to meet our students’ technology needs!
- It was most interesting to see how so many students were distracted by the word “distracting” in the student handbook!
- Our most patient staff member’s name has now evolved from Randy, to Brandy, to Brian. Good thing the poor guy is so good-natured!
- TR’s phone posted the incorrect day for the first time in history—perhaps he shouldn’t be trying to make it to four years before replacing it!
- Some missing slippers have been spotted in the cars outside our wellness coach’s window—please keep an eye out for them!
- One of our English teachers has now been titled “Lady” so we can call her Milady now!
- Monday’s hot lunch was listed on the website as apple burgers with pot!
Bits & Pieces
- Regular biweekly staff meetings will recommence on Monday, September 14th.
- We will discuss dress code, student microwaves, PD, local curriculum reminders (including long term plans and video clips), and Health & Safety at Monday’s meeting after school.
- Anyone interested can join the PD meeting on Wednesday—we will review the survey results.
- We will have a hot breakfast on the September 25th PD Day (to be pre-ordered to meet AHS requirements).
- We will have a riverside social event in the evening on October 1st.
Events This Week
- Monday, September 14th: Week’s hot lunches should be ordered by 10:00 AM.
- Monday, September 14th: Please send list of no-shows and one-shows to the office.
- Monday, September 14th: Staff meeting after school, 3:45 PM in the Learning Commons
- Tuesday, September 15th: Admin Association (AA for short) meeting from 9:00 to 11:00 AM.
- Wednesday, September 16th: Deadline for teachers to complete PD survey, 3:00 PM.
- Wednesday, September 16th: PD meeting at 3:45 PM in the Learning Commons.
- Thursday, September 17th: Sports (ASAA) virtual town hall meeting for registered participants.
- Friday, September 18th: The last day of our first full week of having all students at school!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Thank you to the many helping hands that make the work of organizing and sanitizing light!
- A local police officer showed compassion to one of our teachers that was racing through a school zone to get back to class on time!
- We were glad to hear a teaching colleague pointed out the volume button before the computer tech showed up to fix the sound on a classroom SmartBoard!
- We know we’re under pressure when we rejoice over news that the disinfectant only has to sit for one minute instead of ten! What a relief!
- We have a new staff member named Brandy that has agreed to host safety meetings from time to time!
Bits & Pieces
- Hot Lunch order forms for students and staff (plus the etransfer link) are now available online. Food must be pre-ordered this year due to sanitary constraints. Please add the link to your Google classrooms.
- No further news on the new Chromebooks that had been delayed due to missing parts, but technology will be assigned to classrooms shortly. We have been asked to practice patience to prevent distribution without prioritization.
- Students who bring their own device from home will be assigned a locker.
- Our school has now had a first student out with sore throat and cough.
- Please take some time to complete the online safety training modules as per automated emails sent to staff.
- Our school’s picture day has been postponed to November (or so).
- Nearly all missing passwords have now been created in our shared document.
Events Next Week
- Monday, September 7th: Labour Day—rest up well!
- Tuesday, September 8th: All buses should be running today, so full classes are expected.
- Tuesday, September 8th: Hot lunch program officially commences for the school year with chili and bannock.
- Wednesday, September 9th: Lunch is pork chops, rice and veggies.
- Thursday, September 10th: Lunch is lasagna and tossed salad.
- Friday, September 11th: Lunch is chef salad.
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