- Students who have been missing for nearly two months showed up for party on Tuesday!
- A parent said there are too many assignments so we should only assign the few that are necessary to pass the course.
À l’écoute
Great Things Seen & Heard
- A sleeping student was left behind at the bell, not once but TWICE this week!!
- A stinky locker affected the wellbeing of many but a brave soul did a favour to humanity and took out the runny cucumbers.
- We had a staff member who earned 100% on First Aid!
- EV is collecting little M&M packages for prizes in the office if you have any leftovers…
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Our Cree Word of the Day team accidentally all wore black and white plaid one day last week. What a great team!
- A student invited a teacher of another course to come cook in Foods class and it was pleasurable for both of them!
- At a recent workshop, a teacher ended up sitting at the table of a previous student from 1990, now a teacher! What a fun reunion!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- A teacher, joking around, said something about a student’s work looking like it was from someone who was high, and the student asked, “How did you know?”
- The smart phone’s work focus mode caused a teacher to be very late for a meeting!
- A student runs to the far hallway claiming there was a big fight at the school entrance, a fight between teachers of all things!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Rat Root foraging went much better than last year!
- Only two casualties in the Earthquake Drill at PVO!
- Our school passed the surprise health inspection this week, both in the bathrooms and the kitchens!
- Teacher attacked her own nose in her sleep due to a nightmare about bugs overtaking the room!
- We have a new survival game called “Whack-a-mole” with M&M’s for prizes!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- At least one presenter at the division-wide PD day hosted in our school was interested in purchasing student artwork from our Art Gallery!
- Teacher tapes a note with her cellphone number on the front door in case people need to get in for an evening meeting, but the note disappeared before she could take it down. Maybe a student has it now…
- One highly gifted staff member attained a mark of 82% on a certificated course by taking the test without even doing the lessons!
- Class differences: boys’ bathroom stash now contains cognac instead of vodka!
- Student has two adults call in with different reasons for her absence after she calls in to order lunch for herself.
- Student recommends the principal get a taser for bathroom supervision.
- Permission was given to a teacher for kicking a student’s butt even if it means getting fired because graduation would be worth it!
- Student in the library claims he just had a smoke break in the bathroom, and then laughs and says he’s going back for another one but heads to class.
- The most unexpected students come out of the woodwork to say goodbye to NH, even before the last day.
- Volleyball teams came home with consolation final (girls) and silver (boys). Great performance!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- We discovered that PTI stress can cause temporary color blindness, especially when recounting specific details related to events.
- Beware naked teenagers practicing to be massage therapists out in the school yard over lunch hour!
- Some students were surprised that the v word is not a swear word, but a body part.
Great Things Seen & Heard
- Some students had never eaten a fruit containing a choking hazard before this week!
- Student tells the teacher that she needs to brush her hair.
- The bus left an EA behind when she went back into the school to get the first aid kit.
- Over the night shift, an unknown janitor brought flowers in for a staff member on behalf of a secret admirer!
- A teacher tried to usher a street person out of the school only to find out it was a new student!
- Teacher’s tip: don’t make assignments with the answer key on the back! Maybe a substitute teacher wouldn’t notice…
- A teacher accidentally farted in a student’s face when bending down to pick up a pencil off the floor!
- A teacher found out that a fly walking across the classroom ViewBoard screen is enough to take control of the computer!
- A student showed up in class claiming to be the student who had not yet come into class. Fortunately, the teacher figured out who the student really was and escorted him to his actual classroom.
- A student grabbed a staff member’s braids and called out, “Giddy-up, Horsie!”
- Students were asking teachers if their balls would shrink if they kept taking melatonin!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- A student interrupted a teacher to let her know he’s a grown man!
- A teacher tells principal to sex in a text message! Oh, that nasty spell checker…
- There is no such thing as a private print now that we have fobs!
- This week, we heard we have a Floating Clam class!
- Our enrolment is up by 42 since summer!
Great Things Seen & Heard
- We thought it was funny that our ATA rep was no longer an ATA member but then she discovered all HPSD teachers were accidentally knocked off the membership records. Good thing our rep is on the ball!
- We learned why students going to Boondocks for lunch are always late for Block 3 classes!
- Our enrolment is up by 24 students since the end of June. We are squeezing students in!