Great Things Seen & Heard

We were honoured to present many long-service awards to wonderful staff members last week!
Staff lunch boxes were a big hit last week! Thanks for organizing that!
The student who just had a baby has the same name as the teacher who had a baby in March, so poor TR was almost accused of memory loss!
Dancing boots are important to have so that the muck on working boots doesn’t fly into your mouth on a deep swing, not to mention the danger of spurs…
The danger of masks: a staff member was accosted by a student at the post office, but it turned out to be a joke!
We have twins in the office. Whose, you say? They’re Bromeliads of course…
The value of working hard: over a 24-hour period, one student went up to 70% from 45% in ELA!
We have all been practicing forgiveness for the pickle thief, but I think it could be like the boy who cried wolf in the future…

Congratulations, BB, on your new teaching position in Nelson, BC! We’ll miss you…
We’ve been duped! The victim of the pickle theft was actually the thief!
Our school placed 5^th in the provincial competition for Skills Canada Robotics! Way to go, guys!
A student was seen vaping during on-line class; the teacher virtually suspended him!
Speaking of vaping, a (joke) suggestion came up at School Council: a vape walk! (instead of a cake walk)
Overheard: a staff member said she’d be a heifer forever…
Upon hearing that my bromeliad had a baby, I was asked who’s Bromeliad?

Many staff will be purchasing their lunches from local businesses as a sign of support over the lockdown period.
The stolen pickle mystery has yet to be resolved, but in the meantime, students are eating pickles in their online classes! Poor NM…
Over the lunch hour, a sleeping student on a hill beside our track suddenly sprang up when other students approached with food. Wish our security cameras caught that one!
We will maintain our current number of teachers with the 2021-22 budget!
We will have another EA next year!

We had great fun with the scavenger hunt on PD Day! Thank you, CB!
One of our staff members wrote that she went to a huge doctor!
Huge excitement for at least one Grade 10 class this past week: pancakes and fruit for breakfast!
Surveys may have a surprisingly good outcome: sometimes you can win a tablet!
New word: a Chromeboom is something like a laptop but explosive!

When leaving for the bus, a student noticed the garbage outside and volunteered to pick it up the next day!
New vocabulary: apparently, shepherd’s pie consists of lamb while cottage pie would be ground beef. Which did we eat the day a lamb visited our school?
More new vocabulary: I discovered that a middle-class white woman that complains all the time and always wants her way is called a “Karen.”
It’s always exciting when a student that hasn’t yet spoken in class starts answering questions!
Our VP’s dog ate his homework! He brought the chewed-up book to school to protect it from further damage…

Our day to remember went over very well with students! Thank you, CB, for all you did to organize, and to all staff that pitched in to make it a success!
In spite of many obstacles, report cards were sent out on April 1^st after all!

We heard many good reports about success stemming from the squeeze for assignments, but the best I heard was that the class average in ELA 30-1 went from 29% to 63% in one day! Wow!
Land-Based Learning was a great success overall, although we’ll need to have extra mitts and boots on hand so that our organizer doesn’t freeze next time he gives his things away.
Student caught with a stash of masks in his hoodie pocket after asking for them all day.
Our noisy plumber fixed the washer: by closing its door!
An EA was assaulted in the Science Lab: someone threw NaCl in his face! (Wasn’t that a salt?)
Call 911! There are four suspicious looking individuals dressed in camo headed towards the school after the alarm went off! (It turned out that they were deer…)
Unexpected delight: three little potties were delivered to the school. (Who ordered those?)
Our secretary was assaulted in the parking lot by the fire chief! (Of course, he didn’t know she was behind that door when he kicked it…)
Our newest teacher found a back way into attendance when Maplewouldn’t for anyone else! (Way to go, FS!)
Our division psychologist was called the EA’s dad by the student in her charge (both are AC). (Masks really don’t help, do they?)

Someone came into the office and said hello to April; I guess we have another new name on staff!
A student was calling the office from his cell phone during class, pretending to be a parent picking up three boys to go skiing in the middle of the afternoon! Good thing we heard other students call his name in the background!
While filling out a form, a student wrote his own name on the line marked “school name,” thinking it was supposed to be what people called him at school.
A parent that regularly communicates with both administrators each week asked our secretary who is admin?
Our canteen oven is finally fixed, for real this time!

Baby Nora was born at 9:30 AM on Thursday; both mom and baby are doing well!
We were alarmed when we heard someone saw an attempted murder over the lunch hour, but then heard that only one crow showed up! (a murder is a group of crows, by the way)
Thank you to those teachers that filled out the intent form so quickly!
Boys in Foods class were excited to hear they would be using Extra Virgin Oil in class!
Alarms are coming to our end-of-hallway doors!
Student’s excuse: “But I’m not wandering the halls; I know exactly where I’m going!”
Our Numeracy Committee has some great plans for increasing student engagement!
A student was scolded for saying “I’m dumb” but he’d actually said “I’m down” meaning he was signing up for something!
Our one and only Art teacher managed to win a push-up challenge by a student, 52 push-ups to 50! Way to go! (The student claims he will call for a rematch soon…)

Mes mots hebdo