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!

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!

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 31^st for the welcome assembly, and July 31^st for first day of school.
A new name for Maplewood: Wormwood!

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!

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.

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!

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…)

Our amazing students outperformed all other provincial school’s at the Provincial Track Meet in Medicine Hat on the weekend!
One of our rodeo cowboys, OP, won and is heading to Nationals in Wyoming!
A teacher was offered a safer solution to having her brakes checked at the garage: the student’s dad would do it in exchange for a mickey and a couple packs of smokes!
A student rediscovered that writing an essay is like a hamburger (as learned in Grade 2)!
Proposal writing frenzy: students offer to write a proposal just like that other student when denied permission for a treat!
Walking with scenery to look at sounds like a pleasant pastime…
A student shares that he did not fall for peer-pressure to use drugs, but fell into peer-pressure for playing mini-golf!

Our exceptional staff made our Open House BBQ a huge success! What awesome people we have at our school!
On “Dress Like a Teacher” day, one student said he was dressed as that drippy guy, but he wasn’t dressed like anyone we know!
We heard that some of the seniors live to see our SS teacher run by with her dog: the highlight of their day!
We witnessed a teacher wearing Wonder Woman socks to get more students to hand in assignments!
What’s heard is not always that same as what’s said: cut gloves turned into “a golf club” while a teacher’s name turned into “a ticket to induction!”
To separate two smooching students in class, one student told them to keep room for the principal!
Students brought condolence gifts to an avid Calgary Flames fan staff member after the Oilers won!

Congratulations on receiving long-service awards, to JA, AL, and SO!
A student says it is enough of a reward just to participate in Spirit Days!
Two different people considered our own CB hot two times in the same day!
Speculation from a student that anyone who holds the responsibility of a school principal must surely have partied hard in high school, as you cannot simply develop that sense of responsibility overnight: you have to overcome irresponsibility first!
Wanted: an English teacher who could teach a boy the entire English 30 course in two weeks or less! We have the name to call for any interested applicants…
A student asked his teacher if he would be comfortable calling him “Lightning” from now on!
After hearing his Foods teacher will be working on a Masters’ of Education in Home Economics in the fall, a student tells her that would be a huge disappointment to his parents if they were her parents! Congratulations on your acceptance into the program, NS!

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