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Bits & Pieces

  • Give the Pratt Wellness Bingo a try—you would have received information by
  • Please remember to ask for help contacting students and parents if you are not able to reach them.
  • We have been reminded that any international travel over Christmas is to be followed by a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
  • Our school will be quarantined during Christmas break (only cleaning staff allowed inside).
  • If we get our new key fobs before then, we won’t even be able to open entry doors as they will be blocked electronically.
  • We will put all plants that need water in the staff room (on trolleys) for the cleaning staff.

Events This Week

  • Monday, December 14th: a few staff members are out on a Personal Day.
  • Monday, December 14th: Learning Supports meeting at 11:00 AM.
  • Tuesday, December 15th: a few staff members are out for medical appointments.
  • Wednesday, December 16th: EV at TQS meeting online, 10:30 AM.
  • Thursday, December 17th: Bring plants that will need water down to the staff room.
  • Friday, December 18th: We are going to find a way to make this day extra special since it’s the last day before Christmas holidays!

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • Something creepy to watch out for: an unknown person logged into one of our Google classrooms!
  • Great job, SM & CW, getting your classes to perform on the Wellness Coach Google Classroom Challenge!
  • Our online meeting with the trustees went very well!
  • We have another new staff member: Tretta! Was that Tretta Lewis?
  • When a teacher asked what F.O.B. stood for at a our staff meeting, it was interpreted as “what does S.O.B. stand for?” Oops!
  • Discovered after students started learning at home: a collection of hall passes stuck on the back of a bathroom stall door!
  • In the old days, we used to call it “talking back.” Now we call it, “advocating for self.”
  • One of our students has been staying inside his house because that’s what he thought he was supposed to do. He was sure happy to hear from his teacher that he can go outside!
  • Did you know they use leaky oil in the foods lab? It’s spelled “Lee Kee” oil.
  • One of our custodians has the most well-lit houses on our street: right across from the school!
  • A student asked to be excused from the online class because his cat ate a thumbtack—again!
  • We had visitors coming to school looking for trouble, it turned out that they were already double trouble! (although they themselves said it was more like dumb and dumber…)
  • One teacher had a unique approach to improving engagement with his online class this week: he was singing to himself when he noticed he wasn’t muted like he thought! At least his students loved it!

Bits & Pieces

  • Get ready to take part in some Staff Challenges this week! More to come by email…
  • Please remember to fill in the Wellness Coach’s online form for students about whom you are concerned.
  • We have been reminded that any international travel over Christmas is to be followed by a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
  • Our school will be quarantined during Christmas break (only cleaning staff allowed inside).
  • If we get our new key fobs before then, we won’t even be able to open entry doors as they will be blocked electronically.
  • We will put all plants that need water in the staff room for the cleaning staff.

Events This Week

  • Monday, December 7th: Diploma course meeting online, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM.
  • Monday, December 7th: ATA PD meeting online, 3:45PM.
  • Tuesday, December 8th: Collaboration Team Meetings at 3:20 (except for the Math-Sciences Team).
  • Wednesday, December 9th: EV at TQS Meeting, 10:30 AM.
  • Thursday, December 10th: Webinar on UDL, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
  • Friday, December 11th: Deadline for submitting numbers of students planning to write the optional Diploma exams.

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • One CALM student that took an interactive baby home commented that she’s tired of being a single mom after a long night!
  • A male CALM student that held a wailing interactive baby in the hallway was counselled by a younger student to take precautions next time (but in much cruder language, of course).
  • Overall, the CALM babies were not calm at all: we could hear them crying from the office!
  • Overheard: isn’t Cuba close to Cape Breton?
  • You know you’ve got too many students vaping when you see a chocolate on the floor and think it’s a vape…
  • New vocabulary: shack-whacking means “stir crazy” (being cooped up inside at home too long)
  • We have a new code word for announcements: code “buzz” means come help, it’s a work bee!
  • Another new staff member: Bernard (or is that just a previous staff member with yet another new name?)

Clips & Tips

Jigsaw Learning isn’t the only organization calling on continuity, seeing support for students not as a lineal “point A to point B” trajectory, but more circular, as a continuous cycle: The National Council for Special Education in Ireland illustrates it a bit differently than what we saw on our last PD day, but the different language could help us understand more. Check it out here: