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

  • 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

  • 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…)