- Thank you to such wonderful staff who organized different Christmas activities for us this past week!
- Our basketball teams played well in our recent Tonesha Walker Memorial tournament—thank you to all of those who were involved!
- Competition is fierce for food bank donations—the race to top place could be close!
- Student comes to the office saying he’d like a key to the gym because his teacher said he could do whatever he wanted when he was finished his work. Sadly for him, he hadn’t finished and his teacher hadn’t said that…
- Least likely student to be doing homework at a basketball game was recorded doing so just for proof.
À l’écoute
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Thank you to so many teachers and EA’s who covered absent staff last week!
- Staff member corrected a student for swearing in the hallway and is later caught swearing herself by the same student!
- Grade 10 student has already finished Science 14 & Science 24 courses this semester and seems to be starting a trend with other students asking to do the same.
- Student tells teacher she can run her dog today because it’s beautiful out!
- Overheard: We don’t want to solicit parents, just funds.
- Our sports students have been bringing tea in from hotels to supply a classroom known for casual tea time!
- The competitive spirit is kicking in for food bank donations.
- Division Office was reported to have better toilet paper than our school!
- Checking bathroom ceiling tiles: we have to be Y’s for the boys’ room, but we’re wise!
- Recent discovery: a secret room for playing tricks on washroom loiterers… all we need is a remotely controlled speaker system!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Learned a new phrase: “Flip the Bird.”
- Learned the partner phrase: “Go Fishing.”
- One of our teachers is a distant cousin of Tim Hortons (the person)!
- It is rumoured that Tolko has money if we ask for donations!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Thank you to JN for preparing our Remembrance Day online presentation!
- A student thought we got a new Chromebook cart, but he was looking at the ice maker in the Foods Lab!
- Student calls his male ELA teacher Missus because he doesn’t know the difference between that and Mister…
- Oops! A spelling mistake seen in recently shared correspondence: Tip Shits instead of Tip Sheets…
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Student loves the school lunch so much that he asks the Foods teacher to do the same recipe in his class so that he can learn how to make it!
- Student hallway monitor sending notorious hallway wanderer back to his class, saying she doesn’t believe he even has a locker!
- Student who started Science 14 late at PVO already finished the course!
- Job aspirations? No need for a job; the student is planning to live in the forest and hug trees.
- Students have been learning a few words in Chinese in Math 10-3. One was joking around with another teacher and tried to call her “Miss Buttface” but actually said “Prostitute Buttface.” Either way, he was pretty embarrassed to be caught!
- Overheard in hallway: Student feels like a five-dollar hooker in that dress!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- If someone asks how the coffee got on the ceiling in the science lab, we could always say it was a science experiment…
- One of our quietest teachers was reported to have started a scene in a local restaurant before leaving in a huff…
- After the Bio 30 pumpkin dilation exercise, one of the girls said, “That’s what I don’t like about being a girl!”
- La Boom days are very popular, especially with the boys!
- Our new basketball coach has his new shoes ready!
- Student just trying to be a housewife, so she says we’re ruining it for her!
- Wellness Coach enters a class as they are discussing STI’s so she piped up with, “Okay, guys, I’m here for the talk!”
- Was a teacher visiting Mr. Rogers’ house? No, it was someone else.
- Now we know how special NS is: a student brought her dried meat, and neither ate it on the bus on the way nor forgot it on the table at home!
- A student claimed that he is secretly very smart…
- A student learned four things the day he spent it in the office: not to vape at school, how to tell time without a cell phone, how much work he can get done in a day without distractions, and how many kids skip outside the office window!
- New fundraising idea: selling feet on the feet finder?!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Student completed two assignments in the first day of a new class!
- Now special club-member teachers are receiving bootie compliments from other teachers.
- Grade 10s have been the favourite class in PE!
- One of our Humanities teachers will be coaching basketball this year!
- When a teacher was talking about “golf zones” the other day, someone else heard “gall stones!”
- A student refused to say hi to TP because he didn’t know who she is. He guessed she was the librarian, then the principal, and finally guessed she is the “secondary!”
- The bathroom was accidentally called “the drunk room.”
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Boys’ bathroom spy earns free lunches by revealing identity of yogurt slob.
- If snitches get stitches, we need to find a positive rhyming word for whoever reveals the identity of the blueberry crusher. Could it be that snitches get riches?
- In PE class (the one with 50 students), students have an opportunity to win a Golden G award!
- Overheard at PVO: there are two opinions, mine and the wrong one.
Great Things Seen & Heard
- New students are saying they’re having a great time at EWP!
- NS & CB have been invited to speak at a conference!
- Tons of students who never ordered before have been ordering lunches this year!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- We have such an awesome staff who can work together to handle anything that comes our way!
- We have secret watchdog students who are keeping a handful of students in line.
- Students in Foods made cookies for TP when choosing to do whatever they wanted!
- Students in Science 14 reviewed kindergarten class rules on Kahoot!