À l’écoute

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • Bio teacher gets her brain bucket open by herself for the first time!
  • After our emergency evacuation after school last week, we overheard relief that someone else is here first thing in the morning now…
  • We heard how ELA 10 class is getting totally engaged in Shakespeare this year!
  • Question posed in class: why is the Netflix elephant peeing on the CRTC guy?
  • We also heard that CRTC is calling one of our other teachers during class…
  • A student says that the Parmesan wraps (flour-free alternative to tortillas) reminded her of breast implants. Why she knows what they feel like remains a mystery…
  • One of our EA’s has been recommended to wear a can for protection at work, even if it’s not a sport.
  • After being asked what he’d like to do after finishing High School, a student states that he’d like to be in a relationship.
  • Overheard: is that student always high, or is he just low?

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • One of our students hit a hole-in-one at the golf tournament last Monday!
  • A special needs student that often only appeared when our LST was away last year showed up for the first time when PL was away at the golf tournament! Quite the track record!
  • A student was looking for TR to tell him he looks like the principal on Rick and Morty. The boy was really quite excited about it!
  • Overheard: a student telling another student that he missed his chance, anti-mask day was last week.
  • Comments from football players washing uniforms: doing laundry is yucky!
  • You know it’s been a long, tiring week when both administrators wonder where the corn field is at the Corn Maze Fun Day for Grade 10 students!
  • Overheard: a student is pretty tired today because he couldn’t sleep in Math class; that new teacher’s voice is too loud!

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • We were commended for having the highest percentage of staff members with the online safety training completed! Way to go, everyone!
  • Overheard: This isn’t acting like a real website, it’s acting like a picture of a website. It is a picture of a website!
  • Misappropriation of the terms: a boy went in the gender-inclusive bathroom with a girl, but only to talk.
  • Some of our CTS General students have already earned a few credits!
  • Three boys were caught in the main boys’ bathroom in the dark. When lights were turned on, a loud “What are you doing so close to me??” was heard.
  • We heard that police and a SWAT team were at our school arresting students who weren’t wearing masks.
  • Football boys have been reported to be going into the Fitness Room to primp in front of the wall of mirrors.
  • A staff member in the staff bathroom was alarmed to hear what sounded like someone breaking through the wall. It turns out that someone did burst a hole in the wall, but not through!
  • Overheard regarding the protest organizer: “Why would we follow a kid who can’t even spell?”
  • When asked if he had a booboo, the student answered, “Yes, but that’s not what it’s called.”
  • We had the best turn-out ever for a Grad meeting at lunch this past week!
  • Seen: a football player has a teddy-bear in his locker to pump himself up.
  • Our Volleyball teams were able to go on their first road trip in years!
  • Our Football team won their game on Friday night!
  • A total stranger from a town east of Calgary called to encourage us to stand strong after seeing a post about police in front of our school—she said she knew it was a false report and thought we probably needed a positive phone call!

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • We have found some of our lost students! Official Friday’s count was 86 in Grade 10, 96 in Grade 11, and 99 in Grade 12. Let’s see if the predicted bubble of new students coming after the long weekend holds true…
  • Overheard in English class: why are we doing so much reading and writing in here?
  • Have you ever gotten into the wrong vehicle even though someone was sitting in it? We heard about a time when one of our teachers did just that!
  • Who marks papers at football? Got to be an English teacher because there’s always so much marking to do…
  • We were concerned that political parties were using our field behind the school for advertising, but it turned out that it was just the time clock…

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • Parents have passed on gratitude to all those that put together the Grad Ceremony!
  • Our Grads were shining like stars for the ceremony!
  • A HUGE thank you to all who pulled together to make the ceremony go well!
  • Great job organizing EWP’s Indigenous Peoples Day, CG! Many positive reviews!
  • Thank you for organizing two treat days in one week, CB!
  • Our Dual Credit meeting for parents by Zoom last week had the best parent turn-out all year!
  • If you see some big, blue eyes peering out from under a hood in the rain at your door, don’t be alarmed: it could be CB bringing you lunch!

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • Congratulations to our new EA hired for next year, SO!
  • Congratulations to SW on being accepted into a Master’s program! That’s impressive!
  • This week, an accident report came up that was dated 2006-09-21. The website said that there appears to be a problem with the date!
  • One step beyond falling asleep at one’s desk would be reading emails with closed eyes…

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • Our Graduating class valedictorian will be AD, and our Salutatorian, GB. Way to go, girls!
  • Noticed: two students having a swordfight in ELA 20-1 to represent Macbeth and Macduff!
  • Overheard: a staff member telling someone to quit back-seat driving him!
  • What snake measures 3.14m long? A pi-thon, of course!
  • What can you do if your dog keeps you up all night? Fall asleep at your desk, of course!
  • What can you use yellow flour for? The same thing as blue flour, red flour, and orange flour…
  • We have three telephone lines at school for the first time in years!
  • Overheard: a student saying that CB pulls people into her office and forces them to talk!