• Our Foods students prepared cookie trays to give to Emergency workers!
• A group of PVO students went outside to kneel down and pray to St. Carmichael before their test!
• We heard a student was grounded — by his Science teacher!

• Bannock Bison Burger BBQ was a big hit! Students were overheard saying it’s the best day yet!
• Wonderful school team got the burgers together in record time! Thanks, CB, for setting up and organizing!
• Thanks, KM, for getting the BBQs to work before it was too late!
• Students also reported positive learning at the mini-conference. Thanks, CG, for organizing it!
• When the sky darkened with smoke and everything looked orange, a student was heard calling it comparing it to apple-clips!

• Contracts have been sent to evaluated teachers for next year. Congratulations!
• Success on field trip: KM drove the school bus and the NLC trip went well!
• Students are loving teaching seniors how to use their cell phone features!
• Our first student focus group went over very well—results to be shared at future meeting.

• We welcome WE, who officially joined our staff to work in ESP as an EA! Welcome aboard!
• When a student was told she could not bring her cellphone with her when she went to an isolation room for an exam, the student said that there was no point in going then and sat down in the class to write the exam!
• The next exam, the same student tried to give the teacher a friend’s phone before heading off to the isolation room with her own phone!
• Written by a student for an assignment: “the other 15% of people are going a full day without eating men women and children!” Commas save lives!”

• A teacher yelled at a backpack on the bathroom floor, thinking it was a second student sitting in the cubicle!
• We had great feedback on the HPSD survey regarding breakfast and lunch, with results way higher than ever! 100% say that our breakfast program is a good idea, and 99% said the same for our lunch program!
• Our school secretaries keep staff on track, even reminding them which days they have medical appointments and correcting them when necessary.
• Last classroom renovation has been completed for this school year!

• A student is convinced by a staff member that we only earn $5 an hour at school!
• A miracle-worker-teacher squeezes HCS out of students in the spare time of a different class!
• A teacher accidentally told a student she’s too medicated to laugh.
• We found out a new way to talk about tattling: a tea party!
• We had 39 people attend our Grade 9 parent meeting!
• We heard once again that bathroom woes aren’t only a problem with teenagers: Tolko adults seem to cause just as much mess!
• A rare attender was the only student to attend class the other day… what a great way to catch up!

• One of our students was emailed a list of student names instead of the supervisor of technology. That was a big oops!
• A student went to a sad student’s house to pick him up so that he wouldn’t have to walk alone. How thoughtful!

• Our Grad List went up from 38 to 50! List will be shared soon…
• Our PD committee is looking at ways to include special activities for our awesome teachers!

Great Things Seen & Heard

• Accidentally announced lunch a Bacon’n’Ranch Wing instead of wrap. One person noticed!
• Student tells everyone about a teacher’s trip to the liquor store, but it wasn’t true!
• Kid switched from AC to EC and is confused about why they have the same last name!
• “What now?” That’s the new way to answer the school phone, but surprise surprise, it’s not always the caller expected…
• LST discovered that one of our listed ELL students has English as a first language, but no-one knew!
• Teacher asking for a clicker to operate the monitor when the classroom has no overhead monitor but only a display board…
• Best quote on PD Day: Sometime we feel like we’re trying to vacuum a house that’s on fire!

• Great News: We received a $2000 grant to “Grow and Cook!”
• Overheard in the hallway: a student was moving slower than a herd of toilets!
• Staff commendations at last week’s meeting were most unusual!
• In a discussion about kids smoking pot, someone appropriately said that we have to “weed out the negative influences!”