- Our school is receiving an “Eat Well, Be Well” grant of $5800! Thanks for applying, CB!
- Student misinterpreted my thumbs up signal to another student as a sign that he needs to get to work, so he proceeded to accomplish more in 60 minutes than he has this semester!
- After hearing that two boys out on a stroll were on a “missing her” walk, we were confused because we thought they were saying the name of a teacher!
- Students thought we could use vape smoke instead of dry ice for special effects at the graduation ceremony in the gym!
À l’écoute
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Our version of Ryan Reynolds is now a movie star, after conducting his first TV interview. Which staff member is it?
- To compete with that staff member, TR posted a bio using a photo of Brad Pitt and a student believed it was him at a younger age!
- Either fish or cut bait…
- Two students in CALM work at the same time as one another for the first time this year!
- Kids baked up cookies for teacher appreciation and sent them to the staff room!
- Someone accidentally typed her email address as fmail instead of gmail. Was that a hidden message?
- Teacher talked about how her vision changes when she’s high, shocking her students until she clarifies she was talking about sugar levels, highs and lows!
- Student tells teacher she doesn’t look like she has slept in four days.
- Curriculum Director was caught dropping an f-bomb in our school!
- I said good morning to a student in the hallway, and he replied, “Come in,” followed by “Oops, that was a brain fart!”
- Student has a heart after all, seen be the way she organized a Mother’s Day card and flowers for a teacher who always calls her students her babies.
Great Things Seen & Heard
- EWP team did well at the regional Robotics Competition, placing in the top five! Congratulations!
- A student tells his teacher that she is so short that she would be the shortest person at one of his Filipino parties, even shorter than his grandmother!
- A student tells his teacher she has too much smack!
- Now we’ve heard that KJ is a Ryan Reynolds look-alike because he’s so good-looking!
- Speculation has it that there is a trick statement hiding in each Monday Memo…
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Our previous secretary was referred to as “the old lady” by a student!
- Great fun at hand games tournament… planning to do better next year!
- Selling outdated single uniforms generated money for Basketball!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- The new VP position at PVO will be linked to a half-time teaching position at EWP. Interviews begin this week!
- Overheard: We may not always make unanimity, but unanimity is never a guarantee of truth!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- A glowing report was received from a school bus driver regarding how exceptional our basketball teams’ coaches and students. Way to go!
- When a student offered brownies to the teacher, the teacher asked if they were weed brownies before taking a bite!
- Student said his mom didn’t raise him to be rude and apologized for his behaviour the other day. That was so heartwarming!
- A mentorship student was thrilled to be included in the class photo over at the Elementary school.
- The highlight of a student’s day was heard to be “going to jail.” Fortunately, that was in reference to playing with Kindergarten students!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- When a teacher said our EA is no longer with us meaning the EA was working in another class, a student thought that meant the EA had passed away. Oops!
- Our hot lunch cooks from last year were thrilled with their Chargers aprons!
- Our secretary stand-in had a counterfeit call from a Mooshum asking a student to leave school early, but when asked why the voice sounded so young, the caller hung up.
- A student tried to sneak past TR who was looking at his phone in the entry foyer, but CB hollered at him and he had to come into the office to call his mother.
- A student was alarmed that there were the same “two old men” sitting outside in the student parking area every day at the same time, but it turned out that it was a student’s great-grandpa with his driver coming to pick up another student!
- Parents of students are coming forward to let us know their child feels an adult in our school is on their side. Way to go, team!
- A student called one of our teachers a “small woman child.” Please interpret if you can!
- A student’s April Fool’s joke was that she was not returning to school now that she turned 18!
- Our students performed very well at the badminton tournament on Saturday! Many medals!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Student who regularly misses class on test days accidentally missed the wrong day!
- Burnt oven mitts were discovered outside the Foods lab window, reminder of a near-miss on a staff cooking day!
- A teacher was told she looked like a cool mom who would help you with an art project!
- The announcement said that a boy was attached to his lost ring, so a student pointed out that if he had been attached to his ring, it wouldn’t be lost!
- A student spoke of how inspirational a teacher was, to the point of a change in career choice!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Maybe it’s better not to say “I’m going to pick up some girls” when driving off to get students from the other school!
- The girl with the door open and two other girls in the stall asked for privacy!
- Kleenex in classrooms? Much better than going to the bathroom for blowing a nose, I’ve heard!
- English teacher loses the competition because the iambic pentameter comment left her speechless!
- Now that the subject has come up on this platform, it will definitely cost us some pickles!
- We collect as much evidence as a team as the untouchables taking down Al Capone!
- Teacher mistakes student’s real ears for plastic ones and reaches out to touch them to check!
- Student starts a rumour that the teacher faked covid for a weeklong hangover and then was trying to negotiate credit for his missing assignments in exchange for silence.
- An accusation of buying zucchini instead of cucumbers was reversed; check the receipt to be sure!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- After one month in second semester, a student claimed to be far behind in only one class so we checked and found out that the student wasn’t even registered in that class. Now that’s far behind!
- Mentorship students were saying they’ve already broken the rules over at the Elementary school: they’ve each picked a favourite student!
- Overheard: One student was grumbling that it’s impossible to pass a course when it is offered first thing in the morning—way too early!
- Embarassing moment: One teacher inadvertently put a cum project in Gradebook, short for cumulative project at the end of the term…
- The boys in Science 24 sounded like a barbershop quartet this week: such a beautiful sound!