- 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.
À l’écoute
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!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- One of our teachers won a scholarship for attending PD in Calgary!
- PVO-VP’s child and PE teacher’s child got in a fist fight at HPE!
- A student was seen listing prospects for CB!
- We’ve had the fewest students with frivolous reasons for changing classes in at least 7 years!
- Students are moving up streams!
- Student overheard asking permission to run in the hallway because he’s late for class!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Many students picked up the banner for protecting their bathrooms on Friday!
- One student thought his teacher needed therapy this week, but she was just tired!
- Communication from teachers helped bring no-shows into the classroom!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- We had 80 students come to the Corn Maze for our orientation day!
- We have already built connections with many new students!
- Dates are hard after summer break: June 31st for the welcome assembly, and July 31st for first day of school.
- A new name for Maplewood: Wormwood!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Teacher received boxes of things off her online wish list from a total stranger in Ontario!
- New way to save money at our school: if something breaks, print a new one with a 3-D printer like one of our teachers did with a broken keyboard foot!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Student gags cleaning out her locker at the end of the school year!
- Try not to eat with your mouth full…
- If you hear a honk, duck as it may be followed by a can of bug spray coming over the fence!
- After a week on the job site, a student came back to tell a teacher that those marks on the tape measure actually mean something!
- Student said she doesn’t know if her teacher said such-and-such because she never listens to him when he talks.
- Student expressed concern that she would fail her diploma exam because she forgot to put her address on the answer booklet.
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Congratulations to TR for his appointment as School Principal at Prairie River Junior High!
- If you don’t want a sunburn on your teeth, try brushing them with sunscreen!
- 44% of students writing the Diploma exam on the first day incorrectly wrote their mailing address.
- A teacher spontaneously created a new Pink Floyd song, singing, “We don’t need no pro-creation…”
- Two teachers received compliments from a mother, who said that they saved her son!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- With so many staff members going over the top to help our graduating students, our 2022 Graduation Ceremony was a huge success! Thank you for all you did to make it happen!
- Walking with scenery to look at is not only a pleasant pastime, but is also a good way to overcome a boring conversation!
- You know it is teacher brain-fuzz time of year when a teacher admits to talking to a mannequin in a Slave Lake store! (Always better to ask a real person when you need help finding something…)