Great Things Seen & Heard

Quoted from staff members: Our new day-cleaner is “amazing, super nice, and great with kids!”
Our new doorbell is coming soon!
A Grade 10 student discovered this week that marks come from handing in assignments and that without handing any assignments in, there is no mark!
A teacher discovered that taking a printer hostage works to obtain quick response time!
Quote from teacher: “Helping each other out makes everyone’s day go better!”
A staff member discovered that no secrets are safe when you share them with everyone!
We found out that the number of days without incident written on the board was for the teacher, not the students!
Heard and oft repeated this week: Better to be six feet over than six feet under!
We learned that accidentally inviting the whole division to our PD day and breakfast is a great way to virtually meet new people!
Our own PE teacher has been asked to chair a new PE committee for the division! Extra-curricular sports activities are soon to be coming!

We made it through our first full week with full student body! Congratulations!
We’ve received many compliments over school organization so far! Keep it up, team!
Orange shirts have arrived—they’re beautiful!
A staff member catching a student in the hallway with no mask realized she had no mask either—now that’s an example of everyone makes a mistake sometime!

Thank you for the extra kindness and patience as we organize and reorganize (and reorganize again) to meet our students’ technology needs!
It was most interesting to see how so many students were distracted by the word “distracting” in the student handbook!
Our most patient staff member’s name has now evolved from Randy, to Brandy, to Brian. Good thing the poor guy is so good-natured!
TR’s phone posted the incorrect day for the first time in history—perhaps he shouldn’t be trying to make it to four years before replacing it!
Some missing slippers have been spotted in the cars outside our wellness coach’s window—please keep an eye out for them!
One of our English teachers has now been titled “Lady” so we can call her Milady now!
Monday’s hot lunch was listed on the website as apple burgers with pot!

Thank you to the many helping hands that make the work of organizing and sanitizing light!
A local police officer showed compassion to one of our teachers that was racing through a school zone to get back to class on time!
We were glad to hear a teaching colleague pointed out the volume button before the computer tech showed up to fix the sound on a classroom SmartBoard!
We know we’re under pressure when we rejoice over news that the disinfectant only has to sit for one minute instead of ten! What a relief!
We have a new staff member named Brandy that has agreed to host safety meetings from time to time!

Troops rallied together to create a registration day before staff returned from holidays on August 24^th! A special thank you to KJa, CB, JN, TR and KJo!
Great willingness and honourable attitude of taking one for the team in switching out a few classes!
Such amazing teamwork this week to finalize our re-entry plans! Thanks to all of you!

Even students that didn’t know them were excited to see the Secondary 5 students come say goodbye!
Students have been collecting caterpillars and naming them.

A daycare parent had quite a scare on Tuesday night when 6 police cars were parked at school and no kids could be seen from the parking lot!
Students are thrilled that they can actually touch Chippy (the chipmunk) out in the yard!
The secret person who brought the bird feeder and houses is NG! Thanks for your special touch!
We saw CT doing cartwheels in the yard! That’s amazing!
RC had the beat and the other teachers were dancing along—what a show!

Students were socially-distant lining up to see Lucie. Cute dog, NG!
Thanks to JP for organizing the flowers and planter outside—they’re beautiful!
Now the secret person who brought the bird feeder and house has brought a humming-bird feeder, too! It’s soooo nice!

Mes mots hebdo